October 15 @ 12:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Berea College 48th Celebration of Traditional Music (virtual)
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Berea College 47th Celebration of Traditional Music (virtual)
October 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
The 47th annual Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music will take place virtually Thursday October 15 through Sunday October 18. Concerts will be presented online Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. and can be viewed at the Berea College Event Production page.
The Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music seeks to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region, and the musicians who play it.
Friday and Saturday night concerts will feature West Virginia icon Alice Gerrard, who will perform with Kay Justice. Gerrard will be honored for her decades of contributions to traditional music with this year’s CTM Lifetime Achievement Award. The concerts will also feature legendary blues guitarist and Grammy nominee Guy Davis (L. Allen Smith performer); Clifftop winners The Big Possum String Band; the Gibson Family and their repertoire of religious song from Richmond, Kentucky; banjo player Kevin Howard from Eastern Kentucky; and storyteller Shelia Arnold from Washington D.C.
The Sunday concert at 3 p.m. will feature some of Berea College’s diverse array of traditional music ensembles in the college’s first Traditional Music Showcase. The Bluegrass Ensemble, Black Music Ensemble, Folk-Roots Ensemble, Country Dancers, and members of Mariachi Berea will perform.
For more information, call 859-985-3472, email disavinoe@berea.edu, or consult the CTM website. Updated information can be found on the organization’s facebook page.
The Celebration of Traditional Music is supported by a grant by the L. Allen Smith Memorial Fund and is presented by the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, the Celebration of Traditional Music Committee, the Music Department, and the members of the Berea College Folk-Roots Ensemble.