upcoming events

"Dick Hensold is a master piper with an exquisite touch." -City Pages, Minneapolis, MN

Dick Hensold is the leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, and for the past 20 years has performed
and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States.
The concert will feature Hensold on Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England), reel
pipes (an indoor version of the Scottish Highland pipes intended for Scottish dance music), seljefløyte
(Norwegian willow-flute), säckpipa (Swedish bagpipes), pibgorn (Welsh hornpipe), and several other instruments.
He will play music in several traditional and historical styles, with particular emphasis on Cape Breton, early
Scottish, and Northumbrian, but also including Scandinavian, medieval, Irish, and original music. The program
also includes a couple of songs, neither of them in English, and a limited amount of dancing while seated. Join us
for an intimate musical evening with one of America's finest and most unusual traditional bagpipers.

After working on her debut album Nell Robinson in Loango, John Reischman & the Jaybirds offered to back
Nell. Thus was born the All-Star Band, providing smokin' backup for Nell's distinctive vocals and fresh new
bluegrass and country music.

Al & Emily Cantrell put a pop spin on acoustic folk and bluegrass, with detours into Celtic, western swing and
Americana. Chosen by Robert Redford to appear playing fiddle tunes in his hit movie A River Runs Through It,
The Cantrells cast a magical spell with Emily's soaring vocals and Al's spirited fiddling and dazzling mandolin.

Bill has played here many times as both a duet and solo artist. This time he brings a plethera of banjo's with him
to tell the history of the banjo in America. He always draws a crowd so come early.

"Tracing the banjo from its West African roots to the New World, Evans performs musical examples from the
1700's to the present day on a variety of vintage instruments, explaining how the banjo has been at the
intersection of African- and Anglo-American musical and cultural exchange for over 250 years. From an 18th
century African dance tune to the music of the Civil War, and from early 20th century ragtime to folk and bluegrass
banjo styles, The Banjo in America informs while it entertains, exposing audiences to over 200 years of American
music."

"Bill Evans is an internationally recognized five-string banjo life force. As a performer, teacher, writer and
composer, he brings a deep knowledge, intense virtuosity and contagious passion to all things banjo, with
thousands of music fans and banjo students from all over the world in a music career that now spans over
thirty-five years."