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Vance Gilbert: it's all in one seemingly impossible package. His spellbinding live show. His deliriously virtuosic singing. His accomplished guitar style. His outrageous, edgy humor. And the songwriting – a perfect mix of lyrical eloquence and musical accessibility. Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 90's when the buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-jazz singer who was knocking 'em dead at open mikes. Now after releasing nine CDs, he is that rare performer for whom people lean forward in their seats as eagerly between songs as they do during them.
Opening for Vance is the Welsh singer songwriter Martyn Joseph who has been in demand in the UK for over two decades and is developing a following on this side of the Atlantic.
www.vancegilbert.com/

Sam Weiser is a multiple award winning violinist, and the 2008/2009 Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin Recipient. Daniel Pearl was a journalist and musician murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Luthier Jonathan Cooper crafted and donated The Daniel Pearl Memorial violin, which is awarded each year to outstanding young musicians by a committee. All profits from Sam's first CD, Sam I Am, will go to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and FODfest, supporting the mission of the Daniel Pearl Foundation to use the power of music to promote tolerance and inspire respect for differences.
Joining Sam on stage will be Grammy nominee and world music artist, SONiA of disappear fear, vocalist/violinist Phoebe Hunt of Belleville Outfit, Seth Kibel on clarinet and saxophone, Laura Cerulli on percussion, Saso Sver on guitar and mandolin and Nathaniel Smith on cello. www.myspace.com/samweisermusic www.myspace.com/soniaanddisappearfear bellevilleoutfit.com

Si Kahn is joined by John McCutcheon, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer for an incredible Standing for Justice farewell concert for the greater DC area. On May Day 2010, nine days after his 66th birthday, Si will retire from his position as Grassroots Leadership's Founder and Executive Director. Fees from his performances on this tour will go to support Grassroots Leadership's national Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, the appalling new practice in which children as young as infants are imprisoned together with their parents.

To help celebrate Si’s retirement:
• Strictly Country Records will release Si’s 16th CD, Courage, featuring the superb production and playing of Jens Krügerof the Krüger Brothers, with harmonies and liner notes by country music legend Kathy Mattea. Si’s prior Strictly Country release, Thanksgiving, was recognized as the #1 CD, #1 song and #1 artist for November 2007 by theFolk-DJ list, which measures international airplay.
• Berrett-Koehler, the San Francisco publishing house, will simultaneously issue Si’s new book, Creative Community Organizing, A Strategy Manual for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice based on his 45 years as a community, civil rights and labor organizer. Berrett-Koehler previously published The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy, co-authored with public philosopher Elizabeth Minnich.

With America's balladeer, John McCutcheon, and the Grammy award winning duo of Cathy & Marcy, this will truly be a very special concert.
www.sikahn.com
www.folkmusic.com
www.cathymarcy.com

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For the first time ever - together in concert – two bands that explore the boundaries of the music of the British Isles and beyond: IONA is unabashedly and joyfully pan-Celtic, traditional and acoustic! Mixing and matching tunes and songs from the broad spectrum of Celtic cultures from Asturies to Appalachia, Cornwall to Cape Breton and far beyond, on fiddle, flute and feet, banjo, bouzouki, bodhrán and bass guitar, with high powered songs in many of the Celtic languages, IONA covers a whole lot of ground. The musical and humorous interplay between band members is enhanced by the stunning visual dimension of Kathleen Larrick's dance steps, providing a delicious feast for the senses. World travelers, together for 24 years, IONA will pull you irresistibly into their exuberant, whirlwind tour…
http://www.ionamusic.com
Composer/ensemble leader Jennifer Cutting directs an ensemble of the Washington, DC area's finest Celtic and pop musicians in her newest production, Ocean. Ocean is an acoustic-electric symphony celebrating the Mystery and Magic of the Sea in both song and spoken word. The program combines Cutting's trademark arrangements of Irish and British traditional music with themes from classical music and her award-winning original compositions. Ocean runs the gamut from ethereal and other-worldly electronics to energizing fiddle and accordion jigs backed by a rocking rhythm section.
http://home.comcast.net/~jcutting/

The Weathered Road (TWR) is an on-going, constantly evolving, project of guitarist/singer-songwriter Christopher Bell, vocalist/fiddler Libby Eddy and lead guitarist/vocalist Stephen Geruschat. Libby’s rich, distinctive voice calls to mind a young Emmylou Harris. It's enhanced by Bell and Geruschat’s warm harmonies. The trio’s music blends the genres of singer-songwriter, folk, traditional, celtic, and newgrass to create a sound all their own, a sound they call AmeriCeltic Newgrass.

www.myspace.com/theweatheredroad/

IMT's Concert and Jam shows provide a unique opportunity to enjoy a concert performance and then participate in or watch as the musicians from the band and audience get together to play, swap tunes and talk about the tradition.

See the band, then take out your instruments and join in the music along with the band the band. Or just watch, listen and enjoy the live jam/session. Watch for a Concert and Jam show on the first Saturday of every month. Each show will feature a local or out-of-town band from a musical genre that includes a strong jam or session element--bluegrass, old time, Irish and Scottish.

8 pm at THE LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE
7117 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD

Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble presents a uniquely American story: an exuberant fusion of live music, comedy, singing, and a dazzling array of percussive dance forms rooted in different cultures. Since 1979, Footworks has represented American culture internationally, including a Smithsonian Institution tour of Japan, and as guest artists with Riverdance in London, under the guidance of Founder and Artistic Director Eileen Carson, who is an NEA Choreography Fellow.
IMT is excited to partner with the City of Rockville on this concert which makes it possible for Footworks to return to Rockville after a long absence. Note that tickets are also available at the Theatre Box Office 240-314-8690
8 pm at
THE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THEATRE
Rockville Civic Center Park
603 Edmonston Dr
Rockville, MD
www.footworks.org

Laura Cortese and Jefferson Hamer bring a unique blend of traditional and modern folk and pop music to IMT's Next to the House Concert and Jam--the first show of the new year now in a new location. Come enjoy the concert, then stay and join the performers in the jam, or just sit back and enjoy as the musicians play together.

Laura Cortese is known in the Washington area as a long-time member of Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, for her appearances with old time band Uncle Earl and as one of the "Four Fabulous Fiddlers" quartet that included Hanneke Cassel, Jeremy Kittel and Jake Armerding. Laura's musical talents are without bounds, ranging from bluegrass and old-time, through traditional Scottish fiddle (she's a Scottish fiddle champion) to modern pop. She recently recorded with Tao Seeger in his Anarchist Orchestra.

Laura had a busy 2009. She was at Madison Square Garden as part of Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration with Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) and Michael Franti (Spearhead) and toured Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the US under her own name. In June, Laura played with indie rockers Band of Horses on a short run that included a sold out Carnegie Hall show, and she joined them again for their sold out New Years shows in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jefferson Hamer is a respected singer and instrumentalist in several musical circles: singing traditional ballads and playing mandolin, guitar, and banjo at traditional Irish sessions, playing acoustic guitar and singing tenor with Old-Time fiddlers and bluegrass ensembles, bending tele-strings with electric country and rock bands, and playing solo as a singer-songwriter. Jefferson most recently appeared in Washington on tour with Kristin Andreassen.

Traveling from Boston to New Orleans on what they are calling their Mardi Gras tour, Laura and Jefferson will play original songs in quirky and energetic arrangements. Their live shows include a wild cover of Feist's "I Feel It All", played with unique rhythmic fiddle accompaniment dubbed "drum and chop indie pop."

www.lauracortese.com/ www.jeffersonhamer.com/