Calendar a signature event by four decades to the preservation and dissemination of traditional folk music, particularly maritime songs and shanties from the ‘Great Age of Sail,’ 1815-1915. He is also an accomplished instrumental musician, performing on the five-string banjo, concertina, and guitar. Bob is one of fewer than a dozen musicians in North America who performs on the rare MacCann-duet concertina, an instrument once popular in the halcyon days of the British music hall before World War I. From New Zealand to Poland, audiences have gathered to enjoy his authentic sound, and to join with him in singing choruses. His concerts typically include anything and everything, from deepwater ‘shanties’ to Southern Appalachian ballads and fivestring banjo tunes, plus country blues on guitar. Singing’s the thing; all voices are welcome, good, bad or indifferent!
NIAM Chamber Music Benefit Concert
Barbara Podgurski & Greta Feeney 5-6pm, First Congregational Church
(see description on page 2.)
Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts
Site Installation & Celebration
5-6:30pm 66 Washington St. across from NISDA’s Harbor Cottage Artist Colony Join visiting artist-in-residence sculptor Nantz Comyns in the creation of a FLOCK OF EGRETS site installation at Land Bank Property, 66 Washington St., across from NISDA’s Harbor Cottage Artist Colony. A participatory hands-on event for artists, community, and Arts Festival guests. Drop in or stay to help weaving Nantucket Arts Council’s 2011 ARTS FESTIVAL
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