Fw: Free Celtibillies Concert!

[Pat & John O'Neil]

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From: Reese Bull 
To: reeseb at rica.net 
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:33 PM
Subject: Free Celtibillies Concert!


>From the Bridgewater College website, www.bridgewater.edu 

Celtibillies, a band from the Roanoke, Va. area, that blends traditional Celtic and Appalachian old-time music, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College. 

The group, formed in 1994 as a contra dance band, has expanded beyond dance tunes to an energetic mixture of duet vocal arrangements and spirited jigs, reels, waltzes and breakdowns. 

The band features Becky Barlow on hammered dulcimer, keyboard and bodhran, Jack Hinshelwood on fiddle and guitar, Tim Sauls on banjo, bouzouki and guitar and Jeff Hofmann on bass. 

In 2003, Celtibillies was selected to represent the best of music from Appalachia at the 37th Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the largest annual cultural event in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the festival has featured performers from all over the world that embody the creative vitality of community-based traditions. 

Their music was featured in the soundtrack of "In the Company of Strangers," an independent, full-length motion picture that won Best Dramatic Feature Film in the 2002 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The group's music also appeared in "Down in the Old Belt _ Voices From the Tobacco South," a full-length documentary on the history of the tobacco economy and culture in Virginia and North Carolina. 

When not performing as a group, Barlow is a historical interpreter, Sauls is a teacher and Hofmann works for a co-op. Hinshelwood tours with best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb, performing a program of her writings and ballads to promote her Ballad Series novels. 

The concert, co-sponsored by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, is open to the public at no charge. 

Bridgewater College, a private, four-year liberal arts college, enrolls more than 1,500 students. Founded in 1880 and located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it was the state's first private, coeducational senior college. 

 
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