String Band Music from the Carolina Piedmont October 11, 2009

FREE Concert Presented by PineCone and NC Museum of History.
A performance featuring North Carolina Heritage Award winners and other Piedmont musicians and celebrating the upcoming release of Going Down to Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North Carolina Piedmont 1976-1998, a two-disc anthology of field recordings of North Carolina Piedmont stringband artists. Musicians confirmed to date include Marvin Gaster, Evelyn Shaw, Gerry and Glenda Overton, Rich Hartness, Margaret Martin and Wayne Martin. Going Down to Raleigh highlights the distinctive music traditions of the Piedmont region, including fiddlers, banjo players and other instrumentalists and singers who learned their music from family and friends. The anthology includes full liner notes and documentary photos, and it was produced by PineCone in collaboration with the NC Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts