Concert Series
Special performances are planned for the year, including those associated with the Upper Potomac Music Weekends. Those performances will be announced here, on our home page, via email, and on the Upper Potomac Music Weekends site. Been here, done that — watch for video clips of these past concerts.
Fiddle Retreat Concert This annual concert presents some of the finest fiddlers from a variety of traditions into a showcase concert. This year, our special guests include klezmer fiddler, Lisa Gutkin who has toured internationally with the Grammy Award winning Klezmatics as well as being a founding member of the Celtic band Whirligig among others as well as writing and performing for theater, radio and television productions. Amy Cann combines lively fiddle rhythms in New England style with more delicate English dance melodies. U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, Elke Baker, whose lyrical melodies combined with driving dance rhythms characterize her energetic fiddling, has just completed a recording with hammered dulcimer virtuoso and fiddle player Ken Kolodner, and his son, Brad Kolodner on banjo. Cleek Schrey (performing in this video clip from an earlier Fiddle Retreat) is a gifted performer of Irish music on the fiddle and combines elements of his mentor, Brendon Mulvihill with stylistic elements from some of Ireland's finest fiddlers, he plays regularly with the Kitchen Quartet and the old-time string band, Hammer and String. No fiddle retreat would be complete without old-time fiddler, Joe Herrmann, who toured as the fiddler for West Virginia's own Critton Hollow String Band. Co-sponsored with Upper Potomac Fiddle Retreat. At the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church in Shepherdstown, WV at 8 PM. Admission is $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 SMD members, $8 students, Free to Shepherd Students with Rambler ID. For more information call Joanie at (304) 263-2531 or email updf@earthlink.net.
Squeeze the Bag! Bring a new warmth to a cold winter's night as you experience th magic of the bellow-blown bagpipes played by some of the finest masters on these unique instruments. Kinder and gentler cousins of the great highland pipes, they are designed for playing indoors with other instruments and are mellow and expressive. Jerry O'Sullivan has been widely hailed as America's premier uilleann piper and his technical skill and melodic mastery of this subtle and expressive instrument are unsurpassed. Performing and appearing on over 90 recordings, he maintains historic traditions on the instrument while expanding its range into new genres and media. Multi-instrumentalist Dick Hensold is an undisputed master of the Northumbrian smallpipes and plays lively dance repertoire associated with these tiny pipes. EJ Jones performs Scottish music on the highland, Scottish smallpipes and border pipes with the international touring group Clandestine as well as medieval and renaissance music on historically inspired bagpipes with the groups Brizeus and Istanpitta. John Skelton (performing in this haunting video clip) returns with his magical Irish flute and a variety of pipes including the Spanish gaita, the Breton veuze and the binou koz. Bob Mitchell returns as our host piper on Scottish smallpipes and border pipes to round out a magical evening where all will be accompanied by percussionist extraordinaire, Matthew Bell. At Shepherd University's Reynolds Hall on the corner of King and German Streets in Shepherdstown, WV at 8 PM. Admission is $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 SMD members, $8 students, Free to Shepherd Students with Rambler ID. For more information call Joanie at (304) 263-2531 or email updf@earthlink.net
Flory Jagoda and Trio Sefardi Get into the mood of joyous celebration with some time travel into the past with National Heritage Fellow and "living legend", singer Flory Jagoda accompanied by Trio Sefardi with Howard Bass on lute, Tina Chancey on viola da gamba and Susan Gaeta on guitar and accompanying vocals, in a lovely afternoon concert. They perform music from the centuries-old Sephardic tradition, brought by the Jews of Spain as they migrated throughout Europe, after their expulsion from Spain in 1492; a rare brew of music with influences from a variety of cultures from Europe, Africa and the Middle East and songs sung in the Ladino language. The concert will be held in the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, on the corner of King and Washington Streets in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $10 for SMaD members and $8 for children and students. For more info call 304.263.2531 or email Joanie at updf@earthlink.net. |
