spring 2013

Our spring season will be kicking off with an Old-Time Music Concert Series.  Tickets are $15 apiece or $25 for both.  WKU Students may purchase tickets for $10 each or $15 for both.  Please remember that seating in the cabin is limited, so please reserve your seat in advance!

These concerts are sponsored by the Kentucky Folklife Program and the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology.

 

February 27

Tom Carter and Tom Sauber

Time: 7:00 PM CT
Location:  Pioneer Log Cabin
Reservation information: email cabinconcerts@wku.edu

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Artists summary:

Tom Sauber and Tom Carter have been playing old-time southern fiddle and banjo together since the early 1970s. Both first learned of the music from the New Lost City Ramblers, but each in their own way pushed further into the music. Sauber grew up and lives in Los Angeles. In addition to playing in numerous bluegrass and old-time bands--current bands include Loafer's Glory with Herb Pedersen and his son, Patrick, and Tom, Brad, and Alice, with Brad Leftwich and Alice Gerrard--he received an MA in folklore from ULCA where he researched and recorded the fiddle and banjo music of southern transplants like Earl Collins and Eddie Lowe. Tom is an excellent fiddler and singer, and teams here with his banjo playing friend, Tom Carter. Carter took more of an academic route through the music. After leaving his native Salt Lake City for college in the East, he ended up studying the traditional string band music of the southern Blue Ridge while a graduate student in folklore, first at the University of North Carolina and then Indiana University. He produced a number of field recording LPs in the 1970s. Carter now lives back in Salt Lake City, but the two Toms get together and make music whenever possible. They are featured musicians at this years Nashville Old Time Stringband Association's Breaking Up Winter Gathering.

 

March 3

Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman

Time: 3:00 PM CT
Location:  Pioneer Log Cabin
Reservation information: email cabinconcerts@wku.edu

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Artists summary: 

Fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjoist Ken Perlman present a program of Appalachian tunes, featuring most prominently the music Alan learned in the 1960s from his mentor, West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed. Stories that evoke the lives and cultural milieu of Reed and his contemporaries add an extra dimension to the presentation. 

Alan and Ken have redefined that great American invention, the fiddle-banjo duet, and brought it to new heights of complexity. Alan's powerful fiddling style, with its syncopated bowing patterns and lyrical texture, is offset perfectly by Ken's inspired approach to clawhammer banjo, which explores chord inversions, harmony lines, voice leading, note-for-note playing, and counter-melody. Their performances testify to the grace, beauty, and power of Appalachian music, and their joint CD, Southern Summits: 21 Duets for Fiddle and Banjo, has been widely reviewed as a benchmark oldtime music recording.

Alan and Ken will also be giving a free lecture on old-time music, Monday, March 4th, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center, Rm. 249, 4:00 pm.