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Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society
4/10/2010 7:30 PM at Music from the Crooked Road: Mountain Music of Virginia
Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Cost: $38 (advance), $43 (door), $20 (student rush)
This tour, supported in part by the National Council for the Traditional Arts, celebrates the living musical culture of Virginia, which today not only survives but thrives. The outstanding artists on this tour link the past, present and future of mountain music. Featuring Kirk Sutphin & Eddie Bond (old-time banjo and fiddle at its best), Wayne Henderson (Appalachian guitar master, National Heritage Fellow), Amber Collins Band (hot young bluegrass band), Sammy Shelor (banjo virtuoso,member of Lonesome River Band), The Whitetop Mountain Band (Southwest Virginia’s most popular family string band), Elizabeth LaPrelle (young keeper of mountain ballads and song). Don’t miss this special celebration of traditional music.
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