[Triangle Folk] House concert Sankofa Strings - Sunday, October 16th at 4:00 pm

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Friends,
 
We are very excited to be able to host Sankofa Strings in our home in Durham.   Sankofa Strings is a very talented young band playing in the African American string band tradition.   
 
If you were at the Peggy Seeger show last month, you already know the amazing singing talent of Rhiannon Giddens.  Rhiannon gave a spellbinding performance for two songs.  In addition to her vocal abilities (did you know that she also sings opera?), she also plays fiddle and banjo.  
 
Rhiannon has joined with Sule Greg Wilson and Dom Flemons to form Sankofa Strings.
 
Before the Blues-and electricity--turned the world of popular music upside-down in the early 20th Century, communities made their own music, playing for parties, dances, corn shuckings, funerals, baby namings and you-name-it.  The power to create was in the people's hands.  Black string bands-a nearly forgotten legacy--played for frolics, parades, square dances, and were vital parts of their people's lives, into the 1950s. 

In the spirit of independent, community-based music comes Sankofa Strings, a trio of African American artists in love with self-made music.  Armed with fiddles and 'jos, bones and drums, Sankofa Strings is taking that "Old Time" sound and using it to bring the people together again. Young and old love this music-it is deep in our collective memory.  Come back, and let's go forward together.

Sankofa Strings draws upon the string and vocal traditions of the Americas, Africa and Europe: string band standards, blues, hokum tunes and anonymous folk songs slide next to new interpretations of Afro-Pop, sea shanties and Celtic ballads

You can learn more about them at http://www.sankofastrings.com
 
Please join us for a wonderful event in at our house.
 
Who: Sankofa Strings
When: Sunday, October 16th at 4:00 pm
Where: Home of Clarke and Alice Thacher
How:  $10 at the door.  Please RSVP via email (folk at trianglefolk.org) or by telephone 286-7963
 
Of course, this is a non smoking event.  We look forward to hearing from you.
 
Clarke Thacher
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Booking Coordinator
Triangle Folk Music Society