[Triangle Folk] Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz concert

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Who: Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz
When: Sat. Apr 7       8:00 pm
Where: Durham Friends Meeting
Contact: 286-7963 or www.trianglefolk.org

Come and celebrate the arrival of Spring with us by attending what promises to be a fine concert, which will also be the finishing event of our 2006/2007 season.
 Although Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz have been singing together only 16 years, their strong, soul-stirring singing makes you feel their devotion to the place from which their music springs. As they wrap their songs in stories of the people and the places of the music, audiences are transported to another time when life was more real and families were held close. Their harmonies are hair-raising and representative of the finest American traditional music.

Home for Ginny and Tracy is the small village of Tanner, West Virginia in the heart of Appalachia. Ginny is a native of Halifax County, Virginia where she grew up in a large extended family of singers and musicians. Tracy grew up in New jersey and New England where his strongest memories are of days spent on the neighbors' farm in southern Vermont. Ginny and Tracy met in 1988 when both were on staff at the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp near Woodstock, NY. They soon discovered that, despite their differing childhoods, they shared a deep understanding of and love for the music of the rural south. It was Ginny's birthright and Tracy's lifetime devotion.

Some comments about their music:

"...If you listen to Tracy Schwarz and Ginny Hawker, you'd think you were listening to a pristine copy of the Smithsonian's field recordings made in the early 20th century." Monterey Country Herald, 1996

"...unrestrained power and passion...will make you shiver on a bright sunny day!" SEBA Breakdown, 1998 

"...the versatile voice of Ginny Hawker with its low, sultry tones...sounds like a honky-tonk torch singer on the slow-dance numbers...gets lowdown and gutsy on the gospel...has mastered the art of the baritone part...the secret to bluegrass singing." Bluegrass Unlimited, 1999



So come and enjoy their music with us and bring the whole family. There will be refreshments as usual.
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