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Black Banjo Gathering Reunion Concert

Presented by The Charlotte Folk Society

March 28, 2010

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The Charlotte Folk Society is partnering with the Harvey B. Gantt Center to present the Black Banjo Gathering Reunion Concert. This concert will enable the musicians who perform to make the trip to NC to attend the Gathering Reunion in Boone. We have raised $1500 through patron donations to help support the concert. We're selling general admission tickets to the concert in the 500-seat church sanctuary for $15. Reserved seating in the front of the church is available for $25. Tickets can be purchased online at www.folksociety.org and at the door.

Performers will represent the continuum of music inspired by the banjo and its ancestors, from West Africa to New Orleans:

Cheick Hamala Diabate, from Mali, in West Africa, is a world-renowned master of the ngoni, a stringed lute — one of the banjo‘s ancestors. 
The Ebony Hillbillies, one of the last black stringbands in the United States and the only one based in New York City, is a four-piece band, led by fiddler Henrique Prince and banjo and dulcimer player Norris Bennett.
Don Vappie, jazz banjoist extraordinaire, was born in New Orleans and is descended from a long line of New Orleans musicians that goes back to the nineteenth century. 

Rounding out the bill will be Tony Thomas, from Miami, Florida. He is an African-American banjoist, scholar, and the convener of the 2005 Black Banjo Gathering.

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    Dilworth United Methodist Church

    605 East Boulevard
    Charlotte, NC

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    Tickets: $15. Reserved seating in the front of the church is available for $25. Tickets can be purchased online at www.folksociety.org and at the door.

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    Dates:
    March 28, 2010

    Times:
    4 PM

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