02/19/2012
02/10/2012
01/22/2012
Bluffton hosts Phil and Ann Case for the Town Hall Concert Series
February 14, 7m, Third Floor of the Town Hall (handicap accessible), Main Street, Bluffton. We take donations for the musician at the door.
Summary: The perfect Valentines Date: sweet old time songs with Phil and Ann Case, the exquisite folk singing duo from Kettering, Ohio.
Content: Ann and Phil Case have been singing and playing music together since 1990. They specialize in singing old-time Appalachian duets, old-fashioned parlor songs and Depression-era tunes as well as performing old-time instrumental duets. Ann sings with a rare natural sweetness and plays back-up guitar and fiddle. Phil plays guitar, clawhammer banjo, mandolin and harmonica, and provides harmony vocals. Their sound draws upon the influences of the Carter Family and their contemporaries, early country blues, ragtime, and traditional ballad singing.
They have recorded four CDs in just over 10 years: The Springtime of Life, Never Grow Old, Why Should We Be Lonely?, and The Old Step-Stone. These recordings have all received enthusiastic support from public radio programmers across the U.S. and overseas. The favorable reviews they have received in magazines such as Bluegrass Unlimited, Dirty Linen, Tradition, and Sing Out! have earned them a listing in the Music Hound Folk buyer's guide, as well as a feature article in the Summer 2004 issue of The Old-Time Herald. Together, Ann and Phil Case continue to bring reverence, freshness, and vitality to some fine old songs.
Sing Out! magazine, Spring 2000
"...Ann and Phil Case have earned a link on the
chain of groups keeping this tradition alive."
Tradition Magazine, March-April 2000...
“a ‘true’ rendition of what old-time music is all about.”
Dirty Linen, April/May 2000...
“their arrangements take account of the old masters without being imitative.”
Contact: Wendy Chappell-Dick, Cultural Affairs Committee of the Village of Bluffton
wendy@mennofolk.org
419-303-9769
01/02/2012
Jesse Henry tells his life story this way:
When I was born Feb. 1978 I didn't stop screaming for 54 and a half hours. Mama said "Aw Jesse's got a sweet holwin' moan and a set of pipes that will someday break pint glasses and shatter pin-up girls." I never intended on letting mama down. Now I sing and write for the Spikedrivers, a Yankee Country Rock Band, play saxophone and anything that rings with the Royal Tycoons, and occasionally do the singer/songwriter sets wherever someone thinks.
January 15, 7m, Bluffton hosts Jesse Henry for the Town Hall Concert Series
Jesse Henry is coming home for his first solo gig in years. Henry is the founder of the awesome Spike Drivers and Royal Tycoons, both popular acts in Bluffton and as tour bands through the Midwest. But on this special night, the Town Hall audience will hear Jesse unplugged and raw.
Jesse Henry may be playing on his own, but he is not playing for himself. Henry is raising money to go on a trip to Africa where he will work with orphans with AIDS. He recently got the attention of the Columbus Rotary Club, after he played at a benefit concert for the Rafiki Program, an AIDs Orphanage in Nairobi which they sponsor. They selected Jesse to become an Artist in Residence at the orphanage for a week. At the end of his time there he will perform with the children as well as local Nairobi musicians in a celebrative concert. The Columbus Rotary Club has already sponsored a school building, a community garden, a fresh water well, but they realized that music was part of the life-blood of the local culture, and they decided that encouraging music was as essential as survival basics.
They couldn’t have chosen a better representative than Jesse Henry, one of the most charismatic and accomplished musicians in the Columbus region. Not only has Jesse been the front man for multiple bands and gospel, rock & Jazz ensembles, he has been teaching private lessons in his studio for eight years, working with kids, old folks and anyone in between.
Don’t miss this rare chance to hear Jesse Henry up close and personal!"
11/30/2011
What is a Dulcimer?
dul·ci·mer (d l s -m r)
n.
1. A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four strings and a fretted fingerboard, typically held flat across the knees while sitting and played by plucking or strumming. Also called Appalachian dulcimer, mountain dulcimer.
(influenced by Latin dulcis, sweet) of Middle English doucemer, from Old French doulcemer, doulcemele, probably from Latin dulce melos, sweet song : dulce, neuter of dulcis, sweet + melos, song (from Greek melos)
