Monday, November 7, 2011

Gloria Loves Music (Nov 7, 2011)

Gloria on Facebook

www.gloriasmusic.blogspot.com AND www.glorialovesmusic.blogspot.com

Ken Perlman & Alan Jabbour South Tampa House Concert (STHC)


Tues Nov 8. 7:30 Doors. 8:00 Concert. $20 suggested donation (100% of which goes to the artists)


Send me your RSVP & I’ll provide the address, etc. (my cell – 813-625-2688)


GOOD NEWS: Some space still available for the Perlman/Jabbour concert. Mr Ethnic is planning to attend. Please come join him. (You can listen to Mr Ethnic’s latest Old Time Music Show from this past Saturday on the WMNF archives. )


[Ken & Alan's Picture] KEN PERLMAN & ALAN JABBOUR

Per English Dance & Song: .... Jabbour and Perlman together play as if controlled by two halves of the same brain....

Per Sing Out!: .... Jabbour and Perlman are among the most articulate musicians that old-time music has to offer.... Aside from their own distinctive talents as musicians, the fact that both have spent much of their careers as field collectors and observers enables them to understand the tunes as a vital part of the culture that produced them, and not just as cool pieces of music....

KEN PERLMAN has been performing on the folk circuit since the late '70s. He has toured internationally and is a pioneer of the 5-string banjo style known as Melodic Clawhammer. He is considered one of the top Melodic Clawhammer players in the world! Ken is also a master fingerstyle guitarist.

Per Bluegrass Unlimited: Ken's significant contribution to acoustic guitar styles should not be overlooked. He is adept at old-time blues, ragtime and just plain folk. His specialty is Celtic and Southern U.S. fiddle tunes arranged for fingerpicking. These tunes are played with a sparkling attack and active bass line, which gives them a sound that has been described as being reminiscent of Renaissance- and Baroque-era lute music.

ALAN JABBOUR was born in 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida. A violinist by early training, he put himself through college at the University of Miami playing classical music. While a graduate student at Duke University in the 1960s, he began documenting oldtime fiddlers in the Upper South. Documentation turned to apprenticeship, and he relearned the fiddle in the style of the Upper South from musicians like Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia, and Tommy Jarrell of Toast, North Carolina. He taught a repertory of oldtime fiddle tunes to his band, the Hollow Rock String Band, which was an important link in the instrumental music revival in the 1960s.

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1968, he taught English, folklore, and ethnomusicology at UCLA in 1968-69. He then moved to Washington, D.C., for over thirty years of service with Federal cultural agencies. He was head of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress 1969-74, director of the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts 1974-76, and director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress 1976-99. Since his retirement, he has turned enthusiastically to a life of writing, consulting, lecturing, and playing the fiddle.

KEN PERLMAN & ALAN JABBOUR: A NOT TO BE MISSED CONCERT!

**************************************************************************************************

THERE’S STILL SPACE AVAILABLE FOR THE BUTCH HANCOCK STHC ON Tues NOV 15TH. http://www.butchhancock.net/

Also – please don’t forget the Maddie MacNeil concert at the UU Dome on Thurs Nov 17th ( Queen of the Dulcimers & Songbird of the Shenandoah )

www.uutampa.org (click on concerts)

***************************

the end


No comments: