Yorkville Music Weekend, November 19-20, 2004
Historic York, South Carolina
Instructional workshops for Old-Time Fiddle, Hammered Dulcimer, and Mountain Dulcimer
Lots of jamming on Friday and Saturday.
Saturday evening concert featuring dulcimer and fiddle virtuoso Ken Kolodner.
Park your car and walk to all events on Congress Street in beautiful historic York.
(PRWEB) September 27, 2004 -- Fiddle and dulcimer master, Ken Kolodner returns by popular demand to the Yorkville Music Weekend to teach old-time fiddle and lead the big jam on Friday night, Nov 19.
Saturday, Nov. 20, Ken will teach two - 2 hour workshops for hammered dulcimer, adv-beginner thru experienced players. Award winning mountain dulcimer wizard John Renwick is coming to us from Charlotte, NC to teach a two hour workshop for mountain dulcimer.
The Schedule:
Friday night fiddling workshop - 7:00 pm - sponsored by Woody's Music
This workshop will be adapted to various levels of players and will focus on styles of bowing, and left hand ornamentation for playing old-time tunes. Several tunes will be taught. Thanks to our sponsor it's FREE!
Friday night jam 8:30 pm at Woody's Music, 17 N. Congress St., York, SC. All acoustic instruments welcome! Come meet the YMW guest artists, Ken and John, and jam with us! It's FREE!
HD Session I - 10:00am-12:00pm - This workshop will focus on identifying basic chord structures, finding arpeggios, and a multitude of arranging ideas. Bring a recording device!
HD Session II - 1:30pm-3:30pm- This workshop will focus on arranging one or two somewhat more complex pieces with a nearly endless supply of ideas! Bring a recording device!
Mountain Dulcimer - 1:30-3:30 pm - This session will be adapted for both beginners and more advanced students alike. John will concentrate on the basics of the instrument and its ease of playing. Topics will include holding the pick, strumming, tuning, and finish with learning a tune or two. Bring a recording device!
3:30 - 7:00 - Jamming, dinner, free time, sight seeing/shopping in downtown York
Saturday evening reception and concert featuring Ken Kolodner - 7:00pm
One workkshop: $35.00
One workshop, concert: $40.00
Two workshops: $65.00
Two workshops, concert: $70.00
Concert tickets: $10.00 ($12.00 at the door)
Who is Ken Kolodner?
Ken is recognized as one of one of today's most accomplished, musical hammer dulcimer artists...A hammer dulcimer player of great taste and sophistication,” (Elderly). Ken is well known for his improvisational and expressive style that has been described as "nothing short of astonishing" (The Connection) and virtuosic” (Audio). A recent review described his playing as stunning in its musicality” (Dulcimer Player News). And Folk Tales Magazine writes, …without a doubt, Ken Kolodner is one of the hammer dulcimers top exponents, playing with a dexterity which would stun many a would-be hammerer.”
As a member of the trio Helicon (with Chris Norman and Robin Bullock) and Greenfire (with fiddler Laura Risk) and in solo appearances, Ken has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has been featured in nationally broadcast concerts on NPR, German National Radio, The Thistle and the Shamrock, the CBC, and on the Voice of America (with a listening audience of over 90 million), as well as countless television and radio broadcasts around the U.S. Ken has been featured at numerous major festivals and performing arts centers in the U.S., was the first American to be featured at the International Hackbrett Festival in Germany and has performed with major symphony orchestras. His appearance as the featured soloist with a combined chorus (The Baltimore Choral Arts) and chamber orchestra from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was broadcast in an Emmy-nominated CBS-TV Christmas special.
Kens first solo release of Celtic music in 1997, Walking Stones, has been a huge critical success. The CD hit the top of the World Music charts and was a top seller for BMG in their Classical/World Music category. In addition to solo performance, Ken is maintaining a busy recording schedule in recent years (four CDs in five years for the Dorian label). With Helicon alum Robin Bullock and Cordelias Dad fiddler Laura Risk, the trio recorded the CD Greenfire in 1998. Helicon recorded A Winter Solstice in 1999. In May of 2000, this recording became the first release for Dorian Recordings to win a coveted Indie” (akin to a Grammy for thousands of Independent labels) for Best Seasonal Recording. Ken recently completed his eighth CD, A Roof for the Rain with Laura Risk, cittern-wizard Joseph Sobol and Keith Murphy (of Nightingale), again on the Dorian label. Ken contributed an original work to Mel Bays Anthology of Masters of the Hammer Dulcimer and is now writing a book for Mel Bay on playing the hammer dulcimer and will release his newest recording Journey to the Heartland in November 2004.
For more information and to download the official YMW brochure or register on-line, visit www.SusanSherlock.com/YMW.htm or email SVSherlock@aol.com or call Susan Sherlock at 803-628-0543 (evenings/weekends) or 803-981-7138 (weekdays).
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