Bust out with the Dust Busters Monday night….
Posted March 7, 2011 at 2:01 am by Ian Byington
Playing tonight!
This is happening tonight, and it’s a great chance to see traditional music – as well as to attend workshops tomorrow – here’s the scoop from Jan at The Community Theatre (see ya there!):
Folk Music Legend John Cohen Joins The Dust busters on March 7
It’s a musical voyage to Appalachia when noted artist, filmmaker and folk music legend John Cohen stops in Friday Harbor for a rare Monday concert at San Juan Community Theatre on March 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Cohen (a founding member of American folk’s New Lost City Ramblers and the brother of San Juan Island’s own Mike Cohen of The Life and Times of General George Pickett fame) brings with him the New York-based band, The Dust Busters, an old-time string band trio inspired by the direct fusion of Scots-Irish and African music that took place in Appalachia, the Western states and the Deep South.
To make way for the acoustic and free-wheeling concert, the evening will start with showing one of Cohen’s documentaries, Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky, that explores the life, philosophy and music of an Eastern Kentucky banjo player and was the winner of the Best Short Documentary Prize in the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival. An Albuquerque Journal columnist noted that “Cohen’s gift is not only to find what is unique about his subjects, but to dig beneath the surface and discover unexpected links between culture, music, art and religion – and the rest of the world.”
Cohen and the band will also share their musical knowledge during a guitar, banjo and fiddle workshop open to islanders on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Theatre. Registration ($12 per person) is required: contact the SJCT box office.
The Business Partner for the concert is Hillside House Bed & Breakfast. Tickets are $12 for adults, $7 for student reserved and $5 student RUSH at the door. The Box Office is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to2 p.m. or tickets may be purchased online at www.sjctheatre.org
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