In the Québec fiddle workshop, David Boulanger will teach different bowing techniques and ornamentations as well as how to “swing” — things that makes Québec fiddling one of a kind.
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Billy Strings and Don Julin play traditional American string band music with energy levels usually associated with extreme sports. A typical set includes haunting Appalachian songs, righteous gospel standards, and
As middle-age crisis vanity projects go, this takes the biscuit for sheer quixotic misguided willfulness. The Dysfunctionells, struggling mightily to play above their skill level, will challenge today’s youthful audience’s
Mama Edie Armstrong is a bilingual storyteller (Spanish/English), published writer, percussionist, speech/language pathologist, and voice-over artist who has provided international storytelling performances and workshops to parents, teachers, children, social workers,
The Spudhunters specialize in the traditional dance music of rural Ireland–jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, waltzes, marches, and more–with a few songs thrown in for good measure. The band features Leandra Baker
Fusing elements of folk, blues, honky-tonk country, straight ahead rock, and jazz, Bucky Halker has recorded a dozen albums since the 1980s, including his recent double-CD, The Ghost of Woody
Pop Wagner has quite the reputation as a singer, picker, fiddler, lasso twirler, poet and downright funny guy. He appeared quite frequently on Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion during the
Get your two-step and waltz moves ready for dancing to the Cajun Strangers! From Madison, Wisconsin, The Cajun Strangers have twice won the French Cajun Music Association of America’s Prix D’hors
The Volo Bogtrotters are have been a Midwestern favorite since their first gig at the actual Volo Bog in Lake County, Illinois in 1985. Their music is inspired by the
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Don’t Ask plays Klezmer music in the spirit of early Eastern Europe’s Jewish village string bands, with Middle Eastern and Balkan influences and other surprises thrown in the mix. Members