Sat. Sept. 26 at 8 PM: Shadyrill, Tom MacKenzie and Patti Casey: Tickets $10 for all at the door, kids free!
Music from the Heart of Vermont: bodacious Singing and brilliant playing that is Tom MacKenzie and Patti Casey. Everything from French Canadian dance tunes, to Tin Pan Alley, to Old Time Country, to their own impressive originals is likely to be on the musical menu. Great harmonies and wonderful instrumentation are the hallmark of these two much traveled musicians.
Patti is a prolific songwriter and has perfected her own New England-flavored bluegrassy style, one that shines equally with welcome, familiar sounds as well as undeniable originality. She has recorded four solo albums. Her career has taken her to many places along the way : she has appeared live on "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor, has won Texas’s prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriter's competition, and was a winner of the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at the legendary Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. She has been part of Woods Tea Company and the Bluegrass Gospel project. She plays guitar, flute, and does foot percussion. More can be found about her at www.patticasey.com.
Tom MacKenzie has been a musician for most of his life, starting with the obligatory piano lessons then on to marching band in high school and finally into the world of traditional music on the Banjo, Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, Keyboard and recently the Ukulele. Everything from French Canadian to American Old Time to Scandinavian to Ragtime to Classical is fair game for Tom. Clarinet Polka on the Dulcimer, why not? Hall of the Mountain King on Banjo, Sure! A common fixture at hundreds of New England Contra Dances over the years, Tom has recently been composing songs and tunes at a blistering rate. Tom was a member of the Woods Tea Company for many years, but now keeps busy working with a number of other musicians and will probably appear in a town near you.
See more at http://tommackenzie.com.
More about Shady Rill can be found at http://shadyrillmusic.com
The Music Box, a 501 C 3 Nonprofit Arts Organization
Lisa Sammet
147a Creek Rd
Craftsbury, VT 05826
802-586-7533
www.themusicboxvt.org
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