| Our exciting week concludes with a rousing concert
featuring some of the region's top musicians. Once again, Goldenseal
editor John Lilly emcees the evening, bringing his own inimitable
yodeling, singing, and guitar playing to the stage.
The Herald Angel Band – In the tradition of the Coon Creek Girls, this all-female string band features bluegrass pioneer Alice Gerrard and musician/singers Gail Gillespie and Kay Justice. The group's name is drawn from the Old Time Herald magazine, which Alice edits, and the gospel traditions that these musicians love. They will perform an eclectic mix of old-time string band music, early bluegrass, and gospel. Get ready for a wonderful blend of vocal and musical styles that is sure to satisfy. John Jackson – Meet the Virginia blues master whose gentle, acoustic guitar picking and warm, rich baritone voice earned him a National Heritage Fellowship in 1986. His East Coast Piedmont blues, ragtime, folk, old-time hillbilly songs and ballads transcend race, class and intellectual backgrounds as if barriers did not exist. Over the years Jackson has befriended, in his words, "just about everybody that's a guitar picker." Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Luther Allison, Junior Wells and Son House have all shared stages and swapped songs with Jackson. Carl Sandburg and Alex Haley, even Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) counted themselves among Jackson's close friends. He's gone from playing on his front porch to playing at President Jimmy Carter's Labor Day Picnic at the White House, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, and all over the world. At 76, John Jackson is a national treasure. Visit his website for more information: http://www.alligator.com/artists/42/bio.html "A fingerpicking country blues and ragtime guitar master . . Delightful, charming music." — Washington Post |