IONA
and Kolodner, Bullock & Risk , St.Patrick's Day Celebration
Monday, March 15, 8:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring
$14 advance/$17 door
IONA's music is a high-energy weave of the traditional music
of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, 
Brittany
(France), the Isle of Man, Galicia and Asturies (Spain), and their transplants
in the New World. Conceived in 1986, IONA was the musical offspring
of lead singer, guitar, bouzouki and bodhrán player Barbara Ryan
and flutist Bernard Argent. With piper Ian Lawther, and bass guitar
player Chuck Lawhorn, IONA has become the leading pan-Celtic
group in the Mid-Atlantic region. They are all seasoned performers:
entertainers who involve their audiences with the history and cultural
backgrounds of the music, with teaching words to the songs -- even those
sung in a Celtic tongue, with leading simple Breton dances, with humor,
and with every emotion in the spectrum. Their newly released CD, Branching
Out has met with nothing but superlatives.
• www.ionamusic.com
Ken
Kolodner, Laura Risk and Robin Bullock's approach to Celtic music reflects
both a deep respect for the tradition and a healthy spirit of creativity.
Hammer dulcimist, Ken Kolodner and guitar/cittern/mandolin/fiddle player
Robin Bullock have performed together in the seminal band, Helicon
since 1986.
After meeting at a session in Winnipeg in 1996, Ken joined forces with
fiddler Laura Risk who worked on Ken's solo dulcimer CD, Walking
Stones in 1997. Walking Stones was subsequently voted Allegro
Corporation's #1 World MusicTitle for over three months and was named
one of BMG's Top 15 Bestsellers in 1998. At tonight's performance, these
three giants of Celtic music pool their talents in a magnificent celebration
for St. Patrick's Day.
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www.dulcimerfiddle.com
• www.flatpicker.com/bullock
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