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Feel the Monday Blues Comin’ On?
Hang in there just 5 short days – Lancaster’s Music Friday is just around the corner. At Chestnut House Concerts there is room for a few more audience members at the Adrien Reju | Brad Hinton show....
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Kickstarter: Another way to support musicians
Kickstarter is a way to fund creative projects. It’s an all or nothing campaign. An artist (musician, filmmaker, designer) sets a goal with a specific deadline and encourages people to pledge. The...
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Artist Updates
Updates from two of the bands that played at Chestnut House Concerts in 2012-2013. The October 29th issue of Bluegrass Today has an article about Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, and a recorded...
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Seed of a Pine: Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer
We first communicated with Mandy Fer (Ferrarini) and Dave McGraw about their upcoming November show at Chestnut House Concerts 10 months ago. Since that time we’ve built an online friendship with...
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In Search of Musicians
Many times we book bands at Chestnut House Concerts that we have heard live, but other times we simply trust recordings and recommendations and we’ve never regretted that method. We listened to Dave...
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Music & Fashion…
In addition to showcasing songwriting & performing skills at Chestnut House Concerts, these Roots/Americana musicians bring style and fashion. Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton will be...
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Announcing One More Show in 2013
The Tanasi Ramblers are 3 well-known musicians performing just four shows while away from their regular band tours. Hope you can join us for this unique listening experience.
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December 18, Chestnut House Concerts
“When you want genuine music – music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole...
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The Americana Agency
Our first house concert was The Barn Birds (Jonathan Byrd/Chris Kokesh). Tim knew Chris from Portland, Oregon and heard her perform many times with the Misty River Band and with other musicians over...
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Upcoming Show – Tanasi Ramblers – 2 days after Christmas
Tanasi = A Cherokee village that’s best known as the source of the name for the state of Tennessee. Rambler = a person who takes long walks in the countryside. Tanasi Ramblers = Cruz Contreras, Shelby...
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When Bluegrass goes Red & Green for the Holidays
Some of you will remember our 2013 Memorial Day house concert with The Barefoot Movement. Here is the band featured on The Bluegrass Situation with “It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas”. We...
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The Ger Mandolin Orchestra
The Ger Mandolin Orchestra is a memorial project of reviving the Jewish Mandolin Orchestra that was active in Gora Kalwaria (or as it’s known in Yiddish, “Ger”), Poland between 1920 to 1930. In 2010,...
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Things That Used to Shine
On December 19, 1926 my grandmother Alice wrote to her betrothed, “I don’t know of any boy that I would rather have had than you. I really don’t believe we could have been any better satisfied if we...
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Beauty and the Bass
charcoal of Telisha Williams by Candace Butler, Sugar Grove, Virginia While traditional bluegrass bands were (some still are) limited to male musicians, female bass players are fairly common in...
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A Healthier You? More Music!
Last night The Wild Ponies gave us the perfect combination of original tunes, story telling, quality musicianship and humor. In this morning’s paper Dr. Anthony Komaroff, in his column “Ask Dr. K”,...
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Laney Jones & the Lively Spirits
Tim and I were able to attend Grey Fox for the first time in 2013. While we appreciated the High Meadow Stage with big names like Tim O’Brien, the Del McCoury Band and the Carolina Chocolate Drops,...
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Artist Updates
It’s time for another artist update; bringing you news from artists that have played at Chestnut House Concerts. Adrien Reju recently signed with Big Hassle Management in Philadelphia and her tour...
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