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Fall 2010 Series
Jennings & Keller
September 25, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Fusion Folk Americana
Laurie Jennings Oudin and Dana Keller an acoustic duo based bring a wealth of experience to their collaboration, from the Broadway musicals of New York to the honkytonks of West Texas. Their music is called "Fusion Folk Americana' - a blend of many different elements that comes from their vast and wide-ranging musical backgrounds. With the release of their debut CD, 'Susan's House', Jennings and Keller are quickly gaining recognition throughout the country. In 2007 alone, they were finalists in five songwriting contests across the nation: South Florida Folk Fest, Suwanee SpringFest, Susquehanna, SolarFest, and Falcon Ridge Folk A former Shakespearean actress, Laurie has been a singer and songwriter for many years. Dana Keller is a veteran pedal steel, dobro, and guitar player has spent years performing on stage or in the studio with such luminaries as Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Stevie Wonder, Larry Graham, Marvin Gaye, Dave Mason, Johnny Rodriguez and The Allen Brothers, to name a few. He has opened for, among others, Spirit, Pure Prairie League, Gordon Lightfoot, Waylon Jennings, and Buck Owens.
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Ernie Hawkins Blues Guitar Workshop
October 23, 2010 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
$30
Join Ernie Hawkins for a guitar workshop before the concert at the Chincoteague Island Senior Center. Minimum class size is three participants.
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Ernie Hawkins - concert
October 23, 2010 7:30 p.m.
The Blues
For many years Ernie Hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, blues and folk festivals, workshops, colleges, museums, and celebrations in the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe. At every stop in the road from A Prairie Home Companion to Antone's to the Madrid Jazz Festival, Ernie Hawkins has thrilled his audiences. He has played with blues greats including Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis and many others. 
In 1973 Ernie moved to Dallas for graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in phenomenological psychology. Again he managed to find the blues scene and hooked up with players all over the southwest - learning some Lemon Jefferson, Funny Papa Smith, Henry Thomas and Lightnin' Hopkins. With Ph.D. in hand, Ernie wandered back into music.
In the early '80's he recorded his first solo album of ragtime guitar," Ragtime Signatures". His second CD "Blues Advice" was dedicated to the memory of his teacher, Reverend Gary Davis on the occasion of the centennial of his birth.
Ernie Hawkins has been featured in Sing Out!, Finger Style Guitar, Dirty Linen, Acoustic Guitar, Blues Revue and Vintage Guitar magazines. He has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour and XM Radio. Ernie appears on Maria Muldaur's Grammy and Handy nominated and Indie Award winning album Richland Woman Blues and was the guitarist for the national support tour.
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Maggie Sansone & Andrea Hoag
Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Celtic-Christmas Duo
Maggie Sansone brings a unique beauty and vision to the ancient music of the Celts. Her albums ring with a Renaissance spirit, Celtic melodies, and a jazzy new crossover into what she calls "cool Celtic." It's a fusion of ancient sounds and modern sensibility, fueled by the innovative use of old and new instruments. And at the center of it all, there are the percussive yet melodious sounds of Maggie's wooden mallets dancing across the dulcimer's seventy strings.
Maggie is known throughout the U.S. as a performer, producer and teacher of the hammered dulcimer. She has recorded nine albums including AFIM Indie winner, MIST AND STONE, and is author of eight music books (published by Mel Bay). Maggie is founder and president of the Maggie's Music record label www.maggiesmusic.com.
For her November concert Maggie will be joined by Grammy Nominee, Andrea Hoag on fiddle. The concert will present both her standard repertoire as well as holiday music.
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Spring 2011 Series
Eric Taylor
Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:30 p.m.
Contemporary
Growing up in Georgia, Eric Taylor learned blues guitar stylings from Mississippi Fred 
McDowell and Lightnin' Hopkins. Later, after finding his own voice as a guitarist and songwriter he moved to Texas.
Taylor would probably be as well known as his more celebrated Texas contemporaries Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett and Nancy Griffith if not for a sporadic recording career. Both Lovett and Griffith have recorded his songs and Griffith has called Taylor "the William Faulkner of songwriting in our current time."
A winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival, Taylor has also headlined the prestigious Newport Folk Festival.
Taylor has been described as "one of those songwriters that has the ability to plop you down in the middle of a story or a situation and make you care that you're there." Arthur Wood, founding editor of Folkwax wrote, "simply said Eric Taylor is an American Treasuree."
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Barry & Holly Tashian
Saturday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
Country
Barry & Holly Tashian are duet singers, songwriters and touring musicians. The Tashians have recorded 7 albums with producer Jim Rooney since 1989. In 1994 the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (NAIRD) awarded their album "Straw into Gold" Country Album of the Year. In 1998 their album, "Harmony" was nominated for Bluegrass Album of the Year by the Nashville Music Awards. They have performed together on numerous TV and radio shows and festivals worldwide
As songwriters, Barry and Holly have written for Kenny Rogers, Solomon Burke, Ty England, Daniel O'Donnell, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Roland White, Kate Brislin and Jody Stecher, Niall Toner and many others. They also offer workshops on song writing and harmony singing wherever they perform.
Barry first won national attention with his legendary rock group, Barry & The Remains, recording an album on Epic Records at age 19 and the band appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and Hullabaloo.
The Remains toured with the Beatles, as the opening act on The Beatles' North American tour in 1966. Barry wrote a book about the tour, Ticket to Ride: The Extraordinary Diary of The Beatles Last Tour, which was published by Dowling Press, Inc. in 1997.
From 1980-1989, Barry was a member of Emmylou Harris' Hot Band, appearing on countless television and radio shows as vocalist and guitarist. He recorded 10 albums with Emmylou Harris during this period. Before that , he recorded with country rock innovator Gram Parsons on Gram's debut album "GP".
Barry and Holly have recorded with Tom Paxton, Charlie Louvin, Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, Suzy Bogguss, and Delia Bell.
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Listen to Barry & Holly Tashian in a live performance at the Grande Ole Opera
Sarah McQuaid
Saturday May 21, 2011
Singer/Guitarist & Songwriter
Madrid-born Sarah McQuaid was raised in Chicago, studied philosophy in Strasbourg and spent many years in Ireland before pitching up in Penzance, Cornwall, in 2007. Drawing on the traditions of Ireland, America and the UK, her music is sublime and compelling, characterized by warm, velvety vocals and a distinctive acoustic guitar style.
Whereas her acclaimed debut album album When Two Lovers Meet was a feast of Irish music, 2008’s I Won’t Go Home ’Til Morning is an enchanting celebration of old-time Appalachian folk, with Sarah’s arrangements punctuated by her own fine compositions and a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s classic ‘Ode to Billie Joe’. Sarah is also the author of a highly-regarded guitar tutor, The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book.
Crow Coyote Buffalo, an album of songs co-written by Sarah with fellow Penzance resident Zoë (author and performer of 1991 hit single ‘Sunshine On A Rainy Day’) under the band name Mama, has also been garnering rave reviews since its January 2009 release; one critic described the pair as “Two pagan goddesses channeling the ghost of Jim Morrison”. Photo by Ronald Rietman
Sarah’s third solo album, provisionally titled The Plum Tree And The Rose, focuses both on early music (including Elizabethan material as well as songs in Old French, Old Occitan, Italian, Middle High German and Latin) and on originals inspired by such topics as Bess of Hardwick and the garden created at Kenilworth by Robert Dudley for Elizabeth I. Its release is expected sometime in 2010.
“Sparkling guitar and compelling alto voice ... reminiscent of Pentangle’s best efforts ... a gentle and magical recording that I will return to time and again.” — Tom Druckenmiller, Sing Out!
“Likely to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.” — Aled Jones, BBC Radio 2
“Her singing has shades of Baez minus the operatic warble and Gillian Welch without so much Nashville twang.”
— Spiral Earth
“Beautifully spare ... a melancholy but somehow celebratory collection.” — The Irish Times
“One of those rare things, a very lovely personal album but also an incredibly good introduction to Appalachian folk music. Highly recommended.” — Americana UK
“Quietly expressive and supremely affecting performances ... Not a weak link anywhere in earshot ... This is a truly lovely record.” — NetRhythms
“Truly spine-tingling ... A touching album from a genuine artist.” — Hot Press
“A rare beauty of an album.” — FATEA Magazine
“Pure magic!! We are running our folkclub for 16 years now but I never experienced such a thrilling interaction between artist and audience who rewarded you with three encores!! You have the ability to create an intimate atmosphere with your stories, songs and guitar playing and make the audience part of the gig.” — Piet Snellen, De Fookhook, Sevenum, Netherlands
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