BLACK AND GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
PRESENTS
Friends of Alice Concert with Tatiana Hargreaves and Reed Stutz 3/30/21 at 5pm
For donations paypal [email protected]
For donations paypal [email protected]
Along with his American Idol competition , Mason has joined the Old Crow Medicine Show! He will be performing with them on tour this summer.
Friday December 4, 8pm Cat's Cradle
Mason Via is currently competing on American Idol! See the musicians tab under media for more information.
Wednesday September 18, 2019
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Nightlight Bar and Club. Doors 7 PM, Music Starts at 7:30
7:30 PM Fiddlin' Al ad Friends - Fiddlin Al McCanless, Cary Moscovitz, Jon Newlin
8:30 Ben Paley
TICKETS: $15
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE OR AT THE DOOR
With the help of folklorist Cece Conway, we're excited to present a solo fiddle performance from Ben Paley (son of Tom Paley of the New Lost City Ramblers) who is visiting the club from the UK for the first time. We're also glad to welcome our good buddy and man of legend Fiddlin' Al McCanless who, along with his friends will kick things off with an opening set.
Born in London, Ben Paley was surrounded by traditional music from the outset: his father (Tom Paley, one of the great figures of the American folk revival), mother (singer Claudia Gould) and step-father (Ron Gould, writer on jazz, country and folk music) were all enormous influences.
Sponsored by Black and Global Roots Concerts: Appalachian State University, (08/01/17-7/31/2019) National Endowment for the Arts, and our hosts and listeners.
Black n Global Roots Concerts Fundraiser,
Intimate Conversations, and Music
w/ Lady Chef Andrea, Farmers Flo and Portia,
Fiddling Al McCanless and Honored Guest, UNC Fellow, and Singer & Musician
Abby Washburn.
Schedule:
5:30-5:45 Andrea
5:45-6:15 Fiddling Al
6:15-7:30 Family Style Supper
Conversation with Cece, Flo and Portia;
Fiddling Al; Honored Visiting Musician and UNC Fellow Abby Washburn;
Music with Abby
Sept 5, Thursday, 5:30-7:30
Intimate Conversations, and Music
w/ Lady Chef Andrea, Farmers Flo and Portia,
Fiddling Al McCanless and Honored Guest, UNC Fellow, and Singer & Musician
Abby Washburn.
Schedule:
5:30-5:45 Andrea
5:45-6:15 Fiddling Al
6:15-7:30 Family Style Supper
Conversation with Cece, Flo and Portia;
Fiddling Al; Honored Visiting Musician and UNC Fellow Abby Washburn;
Music with Abby
Sept 5, Thursday, 5:30-7:30
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
Black and Global Roots PRESENTS
Lady Chef, Farmer, and Musician Dinner/Fundraiser
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION:
Abigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo-player based in Nashville, TN. Pursuing her fascination with Chinese language and culture, Abigail has regularly toured China for over 20 years, including a month-long tour of China's Silk Road supported by grants from the US Embassy, Beijing. Abigail’s musical projects range from her string band, Uncle Earl, to her bilingual releases Song of the Traveling Daughter (2005), City of Refuge (2011), to the mind-bending “chamber roots” sound of the Sparrow Quartet (featuring Béla Fleck, Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee), to Afterquake, her fundraiser album for Sichuan earthquake victims. Washburn’s most recent record with her husband, Béla Fleck, won a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album and she was a featured collaborator on Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble’s 2017 Grammy-winning record, Sing Me Home. Washburn’s upcoming album is a collaboration with Wu Fei, a composer, singer and virtuoso of the guzheng, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. Celebrating their bicultural sisterhood, Washburn & Wu's banjo-zither duo seamlessly weaves together traditional Appalachian and Chinese folk tunes, with vocals in both English and Mandarin (to be released Spring 2020, Smithsonian Folkways).
In addition to her musical career, Abigail is a TED Fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach titled “Building US-China Relations…by Banjo” where she told her true personal story of shifting from becoming a lawyer in Beijing, to a life-long pursuit of musical bridging. NPR voted Abigail's 2012 commencement speech at her alma mater, Colorado College, as one of the best 300 in US history. In March of 2013, Washburn was commissioned by New York Voices and the NY Public Theater to write and debut a theatrical work, Post-American Girl, which drew from her then 17-year relationship with China and addressed themes of expanding identity, cultural relativism, pilgrimage, and the universal appeal of music. Abigail is currently a DisTIL Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, and the first US-China Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Abigail’s efforts to share US music in China and Chinese music in the US exist within a hope of bridging hearts and minds through cross-cultural collaboration, and the universal language of music.
www.abigailwashburn.com
In addition to her musical career, Abigail is a TED Fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach titled “Building US-China Relations…by Banjo” where she told her true personal story of shifting from becoming a lawyer in Beijing, to a life-long pursuit of musical bridging. NPR voted Abigail's 2012 commencement speech at her alma mater, Colorado College, as one of the best 300 in US history. In March of 2013, Washburn was commissioned by New York Voices and the NY Public Theater to write and debut a theatrical work, Post-American Girl, which drew from her then 17-year relationship with China and addressed themes of expanding identity, cultural relativism, pilgrimage, and the universal appeal of music. Abigail is currently a DisTIL Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, and the first US-China Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Abigail’s efforts to share US music in China and Chinese music in the US exist within a hope of bridging hearts and minds through cross-cultural collaboration, and the universal language of music.
www.abigailwashburn.com
BLACK AND GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
PRESENTS
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SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2019 7:30 PM
NIGHT LIGHT 405 ½ West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill NC www.Nightlightclub.com A NIGHT OF OLD TIME MUSIC Ash Devine Jon Newlin Fiddlin’ Al McCanless Tickets $15 at the door Sponsored by Black and Global Roots Concerts: Appalachian State University, (2017-7/31/2019) National Endowment for the Arts, and our hosts and listeners. |
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ANDREW AND ASH SMALL & FIDDLIN' AL McCANLESS
SUNDAY JULY 28, 2019
7:30 PM
$15 AT THE DOOR
CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM
CARRBORO, NC
TICKETS: catscradle.com/event/old-time-fiddlin-al-mccanless-friends/
SPONSORED BY: BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OUR TOWN, CHAPEL HILL AND CARRBORO
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
SUNDAY JULY 28, 2019
7:30 PM
$15 AT THE DOOR
CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM
CARRBORO, NC
TICKETS: catscradle.com/event/old-time-fiddlin-al-mccanless-friends/
SPONSORED BY: BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OUR TOWN, CHAPEL HILL AND CARRBORO
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
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Tuesday, June 18, 2018
Cat's Cradle Back Room, 7pm
$15
Fiddlin' Al McCanless & Friends
Al McCanless (ballads, banjo songs, old time, bluegrass, Irish and more)
James Leva of Lexington, VA (ballads, original songs, fiddle, Tommy Jarrell play piece)
Jon Newlin (ballads, old time fiddle, guitar)
Amy Davis (songs and banjo)
SPONSORED BY:
BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OUR TOWN, BOONE, CHAPEL HILL, AND CARRBORO
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (2017-2019)
BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
OUR TOWN, BOONE, CHAPEL HILL, AND CARRBORO
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (2017-2019)
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Blues and Cajun Concert
April 29, 7pm
MoBo 609 Trent Drive, Durham, NC
presented by Black & Global Roots Concerts
Suggested Donations for Musicians $10-$15, as able
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Bluesman Jeffrey Scott
(nephew of NEH Fellow John Jackson)
Blues singer Eleanor Ellis of Washington, DC
eleanorellis.com
with Fiddlin' Al McCanless (Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish, Blues)
Followed by Cajammers!
(nephew of NEH Fellow John Jackson)
Blues singer Eleanor Ellis of Washington, DC
eleanorellis.com
with Fiddlin' Al McCanless (Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish, Blues)
Followed by Cajammers!
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Black & Global Roots Music Presents
Libba Cotten Concert
Sunday April 28, 2019
Carrboro Century Center
2:30-4:30 pm Free & Open to the Public
Donations for Musicians Welcome
Special Guest National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow
& Elder 90-year-old Bluesman John Dee Holeman
Bluesman Jeffrey Scott (nephew of NEA Heritage Fellow John Jackson)
Blues singer Eleanor Ellis
"More than copying one artist or another, Ellis distills the elements of the originals and transmits them, intact, in her own expressive way...beautifully sung and thoroughly believable."
Bob Burtman, WHUP FM, Hillsborough, N.C.
with Fiddlin' Al McCanless (Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish)
and Jim Watson (founding member of Red Clay Ramblers)
Sponsors: Appalachian State U, Our Town, Carrboro, National Endowment for the Arts
Libba Cotten Concert
Sunday April 28, 2019
Carrboro Century Center
2:30-4:30 pm Free & Open to the Public
Donations for Musicians Welcome
Special Guest National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow
& Elder 90-year-old Bluesman John Dee Holeman
Bluesman Jeffrey Scott (nephew of NEA Heritage Fellow John Jackson)
Blues singer Eleanor Ellis
"More than copying one artist or another, Ellis distills the elements of the originals and transmits them, intact, in her own expressive way...beautifully sung and thoroughly believable."
Bob Burtman, WHUP FM, Hillsborough, N.C.
with Fiddlin' Al McCanless (Old Time, Bluegrass, Irish)
and Jim Watson (founding member of Red Clay Ramblers)
Sponsors: Appalachian State U, Our Town, Carrboro, National Endowment for the Arts
On Friday, January 5, 2018,
Carrboro, North Carolina Mayor Lydia Lavelle issued a proclamation that made
January 5th
Libba Cotten Day.
Here's a copy of the Proclamation.
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TUESDAY APRIL 16, 2019
SANFORD HALL, 3RD FLOOR LOUNGE APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY 7 PM - 9 PM BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA OLD TIME CONCERT FEATURING: FIDDLIN' AL MCCANLESS, JIM WATSON and JOSEPH DECOSIMO FIDDLE, GUITAR, and BANJO SUGGESTED DONATION $10 SPONSORED BY: BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OUR TOWN, BOONE, CHAPEL HILL, AND CARRBORO THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS |
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Sunday, March 24, 2019 CAT's CRADLE BACKROOM CLAUDINE and THE LADS and ME and DAVE featuring Rebecca Newton and Dave Burley |
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SPONSORED BY:
BLACK & GLOBAL ROOTS CONCERTS APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OUR TOWN, CHAPEL HILL AND CARRBORO THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS |
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Claudine & the Lads: Irish/Appalachian Band
“Claudine Langille can really cook on mando-lin and flat picked tenor banjo, and her lead and harmony vocals were a highlight.” – Boston Globe. Claudine is best known for playing with Touchstone, Triona NiDhomhnaill’s highly ac-claimed Irish-Appalachian fusion band based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the 80’s. Triona just won an all-Ireland traditional award; she is one of her country’s most influential vocalists. Touchstone recorded two award-winning albums on Green Linnet, The New Land and Jealousy. The title track, “Jealousy,” was written by Claudine: it’s a powerful song which has been recorded by other groups and continues to be played internationally. “The band’s prime asset must be Claudine Langille-surely one of the great voices in folk.”- Leicester Mercury, England.
Fiddlin Al McCanless is one of the most versatile fiddlers on the North Carolina music scene who plays old time, bluegrass, and now intense Irish music. A founding member of the New Deal String Band, he often plays with friend and incredible vocalist Leroy Savage. Al spent years as fiddler for the Bluegrass Experience, and they won the World Champion Bluegrass prize at the Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Convention in l972. Al appeared on the Folkways Records, “The Red Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin’ Al McCanless”, as well as recordings by the Bluegrass Experience, his Irish Band Celtic Jam, Contentment Is Wealth, Mike Cross and Alice Gerrard. He now fiddles with the Bluegrass Band Hindsight, The Merry Gadflies, Stellar Bluegrass with Leroy, Jim Watson, NC Heritage Fellow Tony Williamson, Tommy Goldsmith, and the Irish group Claudine and the Lads. Al spent many years as a part time pharmacist around Star, NC. He divides his time being a fiddler, potter, and banjo maker.
Colin Shoemaker took up fife as a child accompanying his father to Revolutionary War reenactments. He developed a passion for all varieties of Celtic music and became a virtuoso whistle and flute player with forays into Breton bombarde. His repertoire spans everything from Medieval to modern Celtic. He combines incredible speed with flawless execution which creates a breathtaking experience.
Bob Vasile is a guitarist and virtuoso bouzouki player, steeped in Irish tradition but able to explore many other traditions woven together in his own compositions. Until recently, he was part of the Pratie Heads, a duo with Jane Peppler. According to Steve Winick in Dirty Linen, they “created some of the best Celtic, English, and early American folk music available in recorded form.” Bob has taught guitar at the Augusta Heritage Irish Week and won a signed Wayne Henderson guitar at his 1996 Music Festival and Guitar Competition. During the 90s, Bob joined forces with Freyda Epstein and Ralph Gordon in the group Acoustic AttaTude and toured with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Will McCanless took up guitar when he was six years old and started backing up his dad, Fiddlin’ Al, at fiddlers conventions. He began playing Celtic music while still a teenager and a week at the Augusta Heritage Celtic week with lessons on DADGAD guitar and cittern with Zan McLeod got him hooked on Celtic music. After majoring in Classical guitar in college he came back to the family pottery business and now operates McCanless Pottery Gallery in Seagrove, NC. Will’s hard driving guitar, tenor banjo and cittern give Fiddling Al and the Lads their unique sound.
ME and WILL
Rebecca Newton cut her musical teeth on show tunes and vaudeville as a young child in the late 50s and early 60s. Her first LP was a 78, which her Grandmother bought for her after a birthday dinner in Seattle, Wa. at 'Steve's Gay 90s.' At the age of 4, she witnessed Barber Shop Quartets of banjo and ukulele-playing, pinstriped suit-wearing men with straw hats singing impeccable harmonies. The record was a 78rpm of Sophie Tucker, which Rebecca still owns.
Rebecca's music career began in 1975 with the band, "Mother Country" - a bluegrass, country band based in North Carolina. In 1978 she played in a 4-piece swing band (un-creatively) named "Rebecca & Friends." Mid 1981 she and co-writer Keith Guile put together "Rebecca & the Hi-Tones," a North Carolina institution for 30+ years. The Hi-Tones were a 7-piece swing/jazz/r&b band containing the "core four" members from 1981.
Rebecca has been commissioned by National Public Radio to write and produce feature music for "All Things Considered," and was mentored by many great musicians including Tony Award winning playwright Jim Wann (Diamond Studs, Pump Boys & Dinettes). Rebecca composed the music for "Napoleon's China ©", a play with music, which premiered at Salt Lake Acting Co. in 1995 and also composed the book for the musical "At Home with Carson Taylor," by playwright Jon Courie.
Since 1987 Rebecca has performed as half the famous duo 'Pinky Wyoming and Duke LaCrosse', with Jim Watson, founding member of the 'Red Clay Ramblers' and current member of 'Watson, Craver, Hicks and Newberry" (also known as "The Law Firm").
“Claudine Langille can really cook on mando-lin and flat picked tenor banjo, and her lead and harmony vocals were a highlight.” – Boston Globe. Claudine is best known for playing with Touchstone, Triona NiDhomhnaill’s highly ac-claimed Irish-Appalachian fusion band based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the 80’s. Triona just won an all-Ireland traditional award; she is one of her country’s most influential vocalists. Touchstone recorded two award-winning albums on Green Linnet, The New Land and Jealousy. The title track, “Jealousy,” was written by Claudine: it’s a powerful song which has been recorded by other groups and continues to be played internationally. “The band’s prime asset must be Claudine Langille-surely one of the great voices in folk.”- Leicester Mercury, England.
Fiddlin Al McCanless is one of the most versatile fiddlers on the North Carolina music scene who plays old time, bluegrass, and now intense Irish music. A founding member of the New Deal String Band, he often plays with friend and incredible vocalist Leroy Savage. Al spent years as fiddler for the Bluegrass Experience, and they won the World Champion Bluegrass prize at the Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers Convention in l972. Al appeared on the Folkways Records, “The Red Clay Ramblers with Fiddlin’ Al McCanless”, as well as recordings by the Bluegrass Experience, his Irish Band Celtic Jam, Contentment Is Wealth, Mike Cross and Alice Gerrard. He now fiddles with the Bluegrass Band Hindsight, The Merry Gadflies, Stellar Bluegrass with Leroy, Jim Watson, NC Heritage Fellow Tony Williamson, Tommy Goldsmith, and the Irish group Claudine and the Lads. Al spent many years as a part time pharmacist around Star, NC. He divides his time being a fiddler, potter, and banjo maker.
Colin Shoemaker took up fife as a child accompanying his father to Revolutionary War reenactments. He developed a passion for all varieties of Celtic music and became a virtuoso whistle and flute player with forays into Breton bombarde. His repertoire spans everything from Medieval to modern Celtic. He combines incredible speed with flawless execution which creates a breathtaking experience.
Bob Vasile is a guitarist and virtuoso bouzouki player, steeped in Irish tradition but able to explore many other traditions woven together in his own compositions. Until recently, he was part of the Pratie Heads, a duo with Jane Peppler. According to Steve Winick in Dirty Linen, they “created some of the best Celtic, English, and early American folk music available in recorded form.” Bob has taught guitar at the Augusta Heritage Irish Week and won a signed Wayne Henderson guitar at his 1996 Music Festival and Guitar Competition. During the 90s, Bob joined forces with Freyda Epstein and Ralph Gordon in the group Acoustic AttaTude and toured with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.
Will McCanless took up guitar when he was six years old and started backing up his dad, Fiddlin’ Al, at fiddlers conventions. He began playing Celtic music while still a teenager and a week at the Augusta Heritage Celtic week with lessons on DADGAD guitar and cittern with Zan McLeod got him hooked on Celtic music. After majoring in Classical guitar in college he came back to the family pottery business and now operates McCanless Pottery Gallery in Seagrove, NC. Will’s hard driving guitar, tenor banjo and cittern give Fiddling Al and the Lads their unique sound.
ME and WILL
Rebecca Newton cut her musical teeth on show tunes and vaudeville as a young child in the late 50s and early 60s. Her first LP was a 78, which her Grandmother bought for her after a birthday dinner in Seattle, Wa. at 'Steve's Gay 90s.' At the age of 4, she witnessed Barber Shop Quartets of banjo and ukulele-playing, pinstriped suit-wearing men with straw hats singing impeccable harmonies. The record was a 78rpm of Sophie Tucker, which Rebecca still owns.
Rebecca's music career began in 1975 with the band, "Mother Country" - a bluegrass, country band based in North Carolina. In 1978 she played in a 4-piece swing band (un-creatively) named "Rebecca & Friends." Mid 1981 she and co-writer Keith Guile put together "Rebecca & the Hi-Tones," a North Carolina institution for 30+ years. The Hi-Tones were a 7-piece swing/jazz/r&b band containing the "core four" members from 1981.
Rebecca has been commissioned by National Public Radio to write and produce feature music for "All Things Considered," and was mentored by many great musicians including Tony Award winning playwright Jim Wann (Diamond Studs, Pump Boys & Dinettes). Rebecca composed the music for "Napoleon's China ©", a play with music, which premiered at Salt Lake Acting Co. in 1995 and also composed the book for the musical "At Home with Carson Taylor," by playwright Jon Courie.
Since 1987 Rebecca has performed as half the famous duo 'Pinky Wyoming and Duke LaCrosse', with Jim Watson, founding member of the 'Red Clay Ramblers' and current member of 'Watson, Craver, Hicks and Newberry" (also known as "The Law Firm").
Saturday, March 23 3:30 PM
at Katy's Great Hall on Chicken Bridge Rd.
Claudine Langille and the Lads:
Bob Vasile, Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Colin Shoemaker
at Katy's Great Hall on Chicken Bridge Rd.
Claudine Langille and the Lads:
Bob Vasile, Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Colin Shoemaker
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Sunday, January 13, 2019. The Blue Note Bar and Grill, Durham NC
5-7 PM
Stellar Bluegrass, featuring:
Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Leroy Savage, Jim Watson, Tony Williamson, Stan Brown, Tommy Goldsmith
ORANGE COUNTY LOCALFEST
Carolina Chocolate Drop Hubby Jenkins
Contentment is Wealth
John Dee Holeman
JigJam
Green Level Entertainers
Old Jonny Booker Band
Contentment is Wealth
John Dee Holeman
JigJam
Green Level Entertainers
Old Jonny Booker Band
Libba Cotton Festival
Saturday September 29, 2018
Libba Cotten Stage, Carrboro Farmer's Market
Carolina Chocolate Drop Hubby Jenkins
Fiddling Al McCanless and Leroy Savage w/ Tommy Goldsmith, Buck Peacock, Gene Knight
Claudine Langille of Touchstone and Cora McGovern w/ Bob Vasile of Pratie Heads
Font D'Culottes: Matt Haney, Sara Ploense, Trent Van Blaricom
JigJam
Sponsored by Black & Global Roots Concerts, Appalachian State University, Our Town (of Carrboro & Chapel Hill), and the National Endowment for the Arts
LIBBA COTTON FESTIVAL
LIBBA COTTON FESTIVAL
September 28, 2018
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center
Wayne Henderson and Helen White
Claudine and Cora and the Lads
Hubby Jenkins
Leroy Savage, Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Stan Brown, Buck Peacock, Tommy Goldsmith
JigJam
September 28, 2018
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center
Wayne Henderson and Helen White
Claudine and Cora and the Lads
Hubby Jenkins
Leroy Savage, Fiddlin' Al McCanless, Stan Brown, Buck Peacock, Tommy Goldsmith
JigJam
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