John Flynn
May-20-2005, 7:19pm
For those of you who are in the St. Louis area or can get there next Tuesday evening (May 31), there will be a mando-related concert to benefit a non-profit mando-related organization. The concert will be at the wonderful Sheldon Concert Hall, starting at 7:30 PM.
The concert is called "Down From the Hill," which is a twist on "Down From the Mountain" and a section of St. Louis called "The Hill." The concert is to benefit the St. Louis Folk School, which is dedicated to teaching and promoting acoustic roots music, including old-time, bluegrass, blues and Celtic. Each term, they teach about 60-80 students, from beginners to advanced, of all ages, how to play roots music in ensembles. Thier website is:
http://www.folk-school.com/
For only $10 a ticket, you will get to see "Lonesome Pines," with the incredible fiddler/mando player/singer Thayne Bradford, "The Ill-Mo Boys," with the incomparable Curtis Buckhannon, "The Gordons," who use a couple of mando players, but I don't who they will have with them this time, Tom Hall, who is one of the best fingerstyle blues guitarists anywhere and an ensemble of select Folk School students. A poster for the concert is here:
http://www.folk-school.com/poster.html
It will be a great evening of music, in a great venue, for a great cause. I hope to see you there.
The concert is called "Down From the Hill," which is a twist on "Down From the Mountain" and a section of St. Louis called "The Hill." The concert is to benefit the St. Louis Folk School, which is dedicated to teaching and promoting acoustic roots music, including old-time, bluegrass, blues and Celtic. Each term, they teach about 60-80 students, from beginners to advanced, of all ages, how to play roots music in ensembles. Thier website is:
http://www.folk-school.com/
For only $10 a ticket, you will get to see "Lonesome Pines," with the incredible fiddler/mando player/singer Thayne Bradford, "The Ill-Mo Boys," with the incomparable Curtis Buckhannon, "The Gordons," who use a couple of mando players, but I don't who they will have with them this time, Tom Hall, who is one of the best fingerstyle blues guitarists anywhere and an ensemble of select Folk School students. A poster for the concert is here:
http://www.folk-school.com/poster.html
It will be a great evening of music, in a great venue, for a great cause. I hope to see you there.