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Live Music: Folk

Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:45 p.m.

The Acoustic Brew live at WPSU-TV! Join us for this special St. Paddy's Day Celtic concert with Kevin Burke and Cal Scott. The concert will be broadcast live on WPSU-TV as part of the Spring Fundraiser.
Irish fiddler, Kevin Burke, and guitarist/composer, Cal Scott first met while working on a documentary about "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. Cal was commissioned to compose the score and he engaged Kevin as a consultant on the project. They enjoyed working together so much that when it was completed they continued to spend time together, playing, recording and exchanging musical ideas.

Since the early 1970’s Kevin has been a well-known figure in the Irish music world. His 30 years of recordings and performances have made him a highly influential figure both as a soloist and as a member of such esteemed groups as the Bothy Band, Patrick Street and The Celtic Fiddle Festival. In 2002 Kevin was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in acknowledgement of his valued contribution to traditional music.

Cal Scott is a native Oregonian who has played in folk, rock and jazz ensembles for three decades. He has recorded and produced over twenty CDs including nine with The Trail Band, an eight-piece American Roots folk group. Cal is also a composer for film having scored over thirty documentaries for PBS. In 2006 his soundtrack CD from the film, Scotland’s Lighthouses, took fourth place in the Celtic Instrumental Album of the Year category in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards.

[Kevin Burke is] "a superior instrumentalist in any idiom... impressively virtuosic"
"Burke’s fiddling is one of the high spots of the current Irish musical scene" -- Irish Times

Details

COST: $14 online, $16 at the door or local vendors
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Acoustic Brew Concert Series
WEBSITE: http://www.acousticbrew.org