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DOUBLE BILL: Old School Freight TrainCarolina Chocolate DropsThursday, JANUARY 10 • 7 pm Click to download PROGRAM NOTES Old School Freight Train, a Virginia-based quintet with “the chops to dazzle” (Chicago Tribune), blends pop-fueled bluegrass with soulful jazz improvisations and Celtic and Latin rhythms. OSFT plays crowd-pleasing standards, musically daring originals and even funky Stevie Wonder covers. They share a bill with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a trio of young musicians reviving the rich African-American string-band tradition of the rural North Carolina Piedmont, once in danger of dying out. Performing with joyous abandon, the Chocolate Drops reinvigorate these age-old tunes.
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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 “If this is the future of bluegrass, the old music is in for some very exciting times.”
“The hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades.”
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINERELATED EVENTSPost-performance discussion with the musicians, Spaulding Auditorium Pre-performance Discussion: Download Old School Freight Train & The Carolina Chocolate Drops Study Guide Adobe PDF 1.2 mb |
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