Red Barn Radio
Calendar
2008
New Performance Season!
Season 7!
New Show time - 7:00 PM
Arts Place
161 North Mill Street
Lexington Kentucky
OCTOBER 2008
October 1, 2008 Whiskey Bent Valley Boys
The Whiskey Bent Valley Boys include Mason Dixon, five- string banjo, Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar; JR - Fiddle, Lead vocals; Johnny Whippermule, mandolin, vocals, Spoons; and Casey Jones, four-string bass, shouting. Now these boys will take you back through the hills of old Kentucky. Performing at any street corner, county fair, flea market, or festival, You name it, they’ll pick it. You can find ‘em pickin’ from sunup to sundown, pounding out the swing dancin’ foot stompin’ hard drivin’ tunes that’ll tickle your innards.
October 8, 2008 Jim Hurst
Jim Hurst was born in Middleboro, Kentucky into a musical family and was raised with a guitar in his hands . Multi- award winning guitarist in Bluegrass, as well as contest winner in Country, Bluegrass, and other acoustic music genres, his talents of singing, multi-intrumentalist abilities and well-rounded stylings have garnered him support positions and recording sessions with some of the best artists in Country and Bluegrass music such as Trisha Yearwood, Sara Evans, Holly Dunn, Claire Lynch, Travis Tritt, John Cowan, Mark Schatz, Tim O'Brien and more.
October 15, 2008 Lonesome Meadow
Lonesome Meadow is a young bluegrass band from Central Ohio. Members include Anne Marie Jackson, 16, she plays the fiddle and mandolin; her brother, Gary Jackson, 12, who plays banjo; and her brother John, 14, who plays guitar. They all sing lead and harmony and Dad plays bass. Lonesome Meadow likes a lot of the older bluegrass tunes and some new stuff too - Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, The Country Gentlemen, Alison Krauss, Lonesome River Band, Blue Highway, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and more.
October 22, 2008 Downtown County Band
Downtown County Band members are Wes Petzinger (guitar), Keith Clifton (banjo), Sam McWilliams (fiddle), Dave Hawkins (mandolin) and John Atha (bass). The DCB play music from the turn of the 20th century, as well as some contemporary original songs. They celebrate the old Jug Band music born out of the Ohio and Mississippi River ways of life, as well as blues with origins spanning from the Mississippi Delta to the Carolina Piedmont.
Denice Franke
Opening For The Downtown County Band
Frankes plays her acoustic guitar with a musical eloquence that is uncommon in this era of bang 'n' strummers. The guitar, the voice and all else work in service to songs populated by seekers and wonderers. “A lot of the characters in her songs, their lives are associated with the gulf and the water and those surroundings, and the gulf coast ties them all in.” Franke said.
October 29, 2008 McCoy Grass
Kelly and Katelyn McCoy are two sisters from Fairborn, Ohio, that together form the band, McCoy Grass. Kelly, age 16, and Katelyn, age 13, started playing about five years ago and ever since then they have played at many shows with many musicians. Both sing lead and harmonies. Kelly plays mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. Katelyn picks guitar, mandolin, and clawhammer banjo. Why, they even write songs too! In January of 2005, they decided to form their own band. Brian Ehlers plays the banjo and Jim Chatfield plays the bass.
NOVEMBER 2008
November 5, 2008 Adam Hager and Friends
Adam spent much of his preschool years strumming on a toy guitar and singing hymns he learned at church. When he was six, his parents decided to give guitar lessons a try. Now he stays busy playing his “Martin” guitar traveling around competing in contests, playing on the radio and on stage, appearing on TV, and playing gospel music in church occasionally. Currently he is teaching his first two guitar students, as well as recording a CD, which he hopes to release soon.
November 12, 2008 Henhouse Prowlers
The Henhouse Prowlers center their sound on that of the early, formative years of bluegrass, while they keep their pulse on today by covering contemporary topics in a largely original repertoire. Members include Guitarist Ben Benedict; fiddler, Ryan Hinshaw; dobro player, James Weigel; five-string banjo picker Ben Wright; and upright bassist Jon Goldfine.
November 19, 2008 Kerry Varble -- Ohio Fiddle Champ
Kerry Varble holds a B.A. in music from the University of Toledo where she studied violin performance with Rico McNeela. She was the concertmaster of the University of Toledo Symphony Orchestra for three years and has played with the Toledo, Adrian, Firelands and Perrysburg Symphonies. Kerry consistently places in fiddle contests across the Midwest and plays for local bluegrass bands as needed.
NOVEMBER 26, 2008
No Show This Wednesday
Happy Thanksgiving!
December 2008
December 3, 2008 Art Mize and Roanoke
and Special Guests:
The Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble
Roanoke began at a patio jam one night with Art, Al White and Travis Reynolds at Cumberland Dance Camp, where all three were on staff providing music for traditional dance classes. They were immediately inspired by the rich and ready harmonies and the passionate hot picking. The following summer, when Homer Ledford was too ill to make an engagement at the Woodland Jubilee, they were asked to fill in and were delighted to have the occasion to bring the ensemble together. Their center of gravity floats somewhere between Monroe, the Stanleys and Muleskinner. The lineup is Al White on guitar, Travis Reynolds on banjo, Elmer Burchett on bass and Art Mize on fiddle.
The Berea Bluegrass Ensemble:
Al White and his Blue Grass Ensemble are making news with their down home music, fun performances, and talent. But these are no ordinary musicians; they are the best of the best, carefully selected for the quality of their music and performance skills. Last, but certainly not least, is Al White himself, the founding father of the group at Berea College, and a member of the band. He plays every instrument. Al is a professor at Berea College, where he gives Appalachian String Instrument lessons.
The group has been at Berea College since 2000, where Director Al White started with 5 band members. Today it has grown to 6; two fiddlers, one banjo player, one singer/mandolin player, a bassist, and White himself on guitar.
Previous performances include a two week tour of Ireland, Berea Forum performances, private parties, college performances, and performances with other Colleges, such as East Tennessee State University. In October of this year, the Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble toured Hokuto City as part of a cultural exchange program sponsored by the American Committee for KEEP [Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project] and the Madison County International Committee.
December 10, 2008 Tommy Webb & Tom The Tommy Webb Band
The band members are Tommy Webb (Lead Singer/Guitarist), Chris Goble (High Tenor/Banjo), Kenny O'Quinn (Vocals/Mandolin), and Tadd Huff (Baritone Vocals/Bass). His 2007 CD project honors his bluegrass home, music, and other artists in the genre. The importance and significance of bluegrass in Tommy’s life are reinforced in the title cut on “ Eastern Kentucky” that refers to the priceless, timeless, and comforting songs of his state. The band has good emotionally-charged material, and it’s presented with distinguished vocalizing and consummate musicianship. Tommy first started jamming and singing as a teen and over the years, Webb’s bands have included the Pine Top Ramblers, South Creek, Onlyne, Clyde Bowling and the Southern Bluegrass Boys, and now his own Tommy Webb Band (since 2005)
December 17, 2008 Annual Holiday Concert!
Backroom Bluegrass Band
Alluring Handbell Ensemble
And
Special Guests
Friendship and fun are the foundation of the Lexington, KY, band that “came together accidentally” in a backroom of Crestwood Christian Church during a talent show in October 2000. The Backroom Bluegrass Band is comprised of six principal members: Bill Johnson, who plays several instruments in addition to his banjo; his spouse and bass player Jane Johnson; dobro player and tenor Dan Pence; mandolin player Pat Soister; and guitarist and lead singer Walt Johnson, all of Lexington. Their choice of music has been a natural outgrowth of the group’s personality and features traditional bluegrass, gospel tunes, and unique arrangements of traditional and original songs.
Alluring Handbell Ensemble:
Michael Rintamaa is the director and founder of the Central Kentucky Community Handbell Ensemble, “Alluring,” which had its beginnings in 2002. The music produced by this ensemble is amazing and a perfect way to begin the Holiday Season!
Red Barn Radio will have no performances
December 24 or December 31
Happy New Year!
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