The Hogwire String Band FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 4, 2018
In honor of the City of Bloomington’s bicentennial, the Bloomington Early Music Festival will bring together leading instrumentalists, singers, dancers and speakers in a concert, May 20, to celebrate old-time, rural-style folk music and dance traditions in the community. In addition, the festival will offer a workshop and presentation of local old-time music field recordings on May 19.
The three events are part of the upcoming Bloomington Early Music Festival, which runs from May 18-27 in multiple performance locations, in multiple Bloomington locations. For information on the complete festival of 20 events (all free to the public), visit http://blemf.org.
THE CONCERT
Old-Time Music and Dance in Bloomington: Past & Present
When: Sunday, May 20 at 7pm
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington
2120 N Fee Ln, Bloomington, IN 47408
Featured bands from the Bloomington area will be Brad Leftwich and the Hogwire Stringband (with Sam Bartlett, Abby Ladin and Linda Higginbotham), The Nailbenders (Grey Larsen, Mark Feddersen and Cindy Kallet) and Jamie Gans & Friends (with Brad Leftwich, Sam Bartlett and Grey Larsen). Special guest Dillon Bustin will perform traditional old-time folk songs of Bloomington and the region. Tamara Loewenthal will call and demonstrate a contra/square dance with selected dancers. Abby Ladin, Tamara Loewenthal and Malke Rosenfeld will add their percussive dancing talents to the program.
The evening will include The Nailbenders’ tribute to Joe Dawson (1928-2012), a Bloomington fiddler who for decades passed along his traditional Monroe/Brown County old-time musical legacy to members of the community.
Several speakers, including Dillon Bustin, Teri Klassen and Alan Burdette, will shed light upon local old-time music traditions, resources, and tradition-bearers such as fiddlers Lotus Dickey (namesake of the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival) and Strawberry McCloud.
The evening is supported in part by the Bloomington Old Time Music and Dance Group.
May 4, 2018
In honor of the City of Bloomington’s bicentennial, the Bloomington Early Music Festival will bring together leading instrumentalists, singers, dancers and speakers in a concert, May 20, to celebrate old-time, rural-style folk music and dance traditions in the community. In addition, the festival will offer a workshop and presentation of local old-time music field recordings on May 19.
The three events are part of the upcoming Bloomington Early Music Festival, which runs from May 18-27 in multiple performance locations, in multiple Bloomington locations. For information on the complete festival of 20 events (all free to the public), visit http://blemf.org.
THE CONCERT
Old-Time Music and Dance in Bloomington: Past & Present
When: Sunday, May 20 at 7pm
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington
2120 N Fee Ln, Bloomington, IN 47408
Featured bands from the Bloomington area will be Brad Leftwich and the Hogwire Stringband (with Sam Bartlett, Abby Ladin and Linda Higginbotham), The Nailbenders (Grey Larsen, Mark Feddersen and Cindy Kallet) and Jamie Gans & Friends (with Brad Leftwich, Sam Bartlett and Grey Larsen). Special guest Dillon Bustin will perform traditional old-time folk songs of Bloomington and the region. Tamara Loewenthal will call and demonstrate a contra/square dance with selected dancers. Abby Ladin, Tamara Loewenthal and Malke Rosenfeld will add their percussive dancing talents to the program.
The evening will include The Nailbenders’ tribute to Joe Dawson (1928-2012), a Bloomington fiddler who for decades passed along his traditional Monroe/Brown County old-time musical legacy to members of the community.
Several speakers, including Dillon Bustin, Teri Klassen and Alan Burdette, will shed light upon local old-time music traditions, resources, and tradition-bearers such as fiddlers Lotus Dickey (namesake of the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival) and Strawberry McCloud.
The evening is supported in part by the Bloomington Old Time Music and Dance Group.
Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen THE WORKSHOP
Old-Time Music – The Legacy of Joe Dawson
led by Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, and Mark Feddersen
When: Saturday, May 19, from 10am-12pm
Where: Monroe County History Museum
202 E 6th St, Bloomington, IN 47408
Bloomington fiddler Joe Dawson (1928-2012) carried and shared a treasured repertoire of traditional Monroe and Brown County old-time music. He learned these fiddle tunes from his grandfather, as well as other family members and neighbors, while living on the Elkinsville-area family farm, which is now beneath the waters of Lake Monroe. The workshop leaders will explore his legacy, introduce his music, and teach some of his tunes to all who would like to learn them. Bring your musical instrument. Audio recording is welcome, for personal use only (no posting online please).
For more on Joe Dawson, see https://greylarsen.com/resources/joe-dawson/.
Old-Time Music – The Legacy of Joe Dawson
led by Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, and Mark Feddersen
When: Saturday, May 19, from 10am-12pm
Where: Monroe County History Museum
202 E 6th St, Bloomington, IN 47408
Bloomington fiddler Joe Dawson (1928-2012) carried and shared a treasured repertoire of traditional Monroe and Brown County old-time music. He learned these fiddle tunes from his grandfather, as well as other family members and neighbors, while living on the Elkinsville-area family farm, which is now beneath the waters of Lake Monroe. The workshop leaders will explore his legacy, introduce his music, and teach some of his tunes to all who would like to learn them. Bring your musical instrument. Audio recording is welcome, for personal use only (no posting online please).
For more on Joe Dawson, see https://greylarsen.com/resources/joe-dawson/.
Joe Dawson FIELD RECORDING PRESENTATION
The Legacy of Fiddler Joe Dawson
presented by Alan Burdette (director, Archives of Traditional Music) and Grey Larsen
When: Saturday, May 19, 1pm
Where: Hoagy Carmichael Room, IU Archives of Traditional Music
Morrison Hall, Indiana University
The presenters will describe and play samples from the large collection of Joe Dawson field recordings that Larsen made, curated and donated to the Archives. The collection also includes photos, video and other documents, and represents one of the most important collections of local traditional music in the Archives’ holdings.
For more on Joe Dawson, see https://greylarsen.com/resources/joe-dawson/.
Postlude: We are excited to also announce that, in the fall of 2018, Grey Larsen and Cindy Kallet will be partnering with young violinists within the Monroe County Public Schools and pedagogues from the Bloomington area to teach Joe Dawson’s local traditional fiddle music.
About the 2018 Bloomington Early Music Festival
Marking its 25th year, the Bloomington Early Music Festival is grateful to a number of key partners, including the Historical Performance Institute (HPI) at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and Early Music America, which brings to town its innovative series of performances by emerging artists and college ensembles across the United States and Canada. This year’s festival overlaps with the third annual conference on Historical Performance: Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity, presented by the HPI, under the guidance of its director, Dana Marsh. For more information, please visit http://blemf.org. Sponsors for the festival include WFIU Public Radio, the City of Bloomington, and the IU Arts and Humanities Council.
Information about performances and activities surrounding the Festival this year can be found online via blemf.org and on social media. For more information, please contact the festival organizers at office@blemf.org.
FESTIVAL PARTNERS
The Legacy of Fiddler Joe Dawson
presented by Alan Burdette (director, Archives of Traditional Music) and Grey Larsen
When: Saturday, May 19, 1pm
Where: Hoagy Carmichael Room, IU Archives of Traditional Music
Morrison Hall, Indiana University
The presenters will describe and play samples from the large collection of Joe Dawson field recordings that Larsen made, curated and donated to the Archives. The collection also includes photos, video and other documents, and represents one of the most important collections of local traditional music in the Archives’ holdings.
For more on Joe Dawson, see https://greylarsen.com/resources/joe-dawson/.
Postlude: We are excited to also announce that, in the fall of 2018, Grey Larsen and Cindy Kallet will be partnering with young violinists within the Monroe County Public Schools and pedagogues from the Bloomington area to teach Joe Dawson’s local traditional fiddle music.
About the 2018 Bloomington Early Music Festival
Marking its 25th year, the Bloomington Early Music Festival is grateful to a number of key partners, including the Historical Performance Institute (HPI) at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and Early Music America, which brings to town its innovative series of performances by emerging artists and college ensembles across the United States and Canada. This year’s festival overlaps with the third annual conference on Historical Performance: Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity, presented by the HPI, under the guidance of its director, Dana Marsh. For more information, please visit http://blemf.org. Sponsors for the festival include WFIU Public Radio, the City of Bloomington, and the IU Arts and Humanities Council.
Information about performances and activities surrounding the Festival this year can be found online via blemf.org and on social media. For more information, please contact the festival organizers at office@blemf.org.
FESTIVAL PARTNERS
- Bloomington Early Music supports, encourages, and produces historically informed performance arts in Bloomington and South Central Indiana.
- Early Music America serves and strengthens the early music community in North America through grants, scholarships, and resources that help everyone in the field at any level to explore, engage, and connect with early music and one another.
- IU Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music offers students the highest standard of instrumental and vocal training along with a thorough grounding in the academic reference tools of the profession – comprehensive theoretical, critical, historiographical and practical skills: to study, interpret, and perform period-specific music of the past millennium through to the early twentieth century.
- WFIU Public Radio serves south-central Indiana with cultural programming and NPR News. WFIU also extends the educational mission of Indiana University across America and beyond as the producer and distributor of programs including Harmonia. For more than two decades, Harmonia has been a chief destination for early music on dozens of U.S. broadcast outlets, and online at harmoniaearlymusic.org.
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