[Triangle Folk] Upcoming Triangle Folk Music Society Concert - Joe Thompson & The Carolina Chocolate Drops

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Dear Members and Friends:
 
Triangle Folk Music Society presents a concert by Joe Thompson and The Carolina Chocolate Drops.  Please join us for an evening of traditional Piedmont music performed by very talented musicians from our area.
 
Joe Thompson should be regarded as one of the most historically important American traditional performers active today.  A North Carolina native, Joe, at the age of 86, has upheld and represented a tradition of Afro-American country fiddling now all but vanished.  The Carolina Chocolate Drops (banjo players Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons, and fiddler Justin Robinson) strive to carry on the Piedmont musical heritage embodied by Thompson and other musicians.  This is a rare opportunity to hear Piedmont traditional music at its best!
 
Details for the concert are:
 
WHAT:  Triangle Folk Music Society presents Joe Thompson & The Carolina Chocolate Drops
WHERE:  Durham Friends Meetinghouse, 404 Alexander Ave., Durham, NC
WHEN:  Saturday, February 25th,  8 PM
TICKETS:  $12
RESERVATIONS:  (919) 308-9497 or email folk at trianglefolk.org
INFORMATION:  http://www.trianglefolk.org  , www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/thompson.htm , 
www.sankofastrings.com/ccd/index.html
 
Additional information:
 
It is always good to hear that something rare and worthwhile is "making a comeback" --- "undergoing a revival".   Joe is 86 and may well be the youngest of the bearers of the black Piedmont string band tradition.  His friends are some under thirty something folks who are re-learning a lost art, are very talented and having an ecstatic time of it.  This is some seriously energetic and exciting old time string band stuff, like you probably ain't quite heard yet.
 
A photo of our performers is attached.
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