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Kevin Carr Barn Dance

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The Bayside Grange is pleased to present multi-instrumentalist & storyteller Kevin Carr, Sunday, January 9, 2011.  This extravaganza event includes a fiddle workshop, family concert with stories, and a dance.  All events will take place at the Bayside Grange, corner of Jacoby Creek & Old Arcata Roads, Bayside California.

 At 11 am, Kevin will be teaching a Fiddle Workshop, featuring tunes from Quebec & Galicia (in Northern Spain)

The Kevin Carr Family Concert, at 2:30 pm,  will feature “Stories from the Musical Realms - Concerning Inspiration, and the music between the notes”. Kevin will present stories and music from around the world.

There will be a Barn Dance at 6:30 pm, featuring the talents of The Family Carr (Kevin Carr—fiddle, Josie Mendelsohn—piano, & Daniel Carr—guitar) playing lively and live dance music with Mike Mulderig calling contras, squares & social dances.

Tickets will be available at the door: the Fiddle Workshop is $15-$25 per person; the Family Concert  is $15-$25 per adult, $5-15 per child, $35 for 2 adults & 2 kids (each additional child $5.00), kids under 6 free with paying adult; admission to the dance is $7.00, $6.00 for seniors & students(with ID). All members of the Bayside Grange are eligible for $1.00 discount per event. Package admission is $30-$55, sliding scale, for all 3 events. For more information on this event please call the Bayside Grange at 707-822-9998, or go to www.baysidegrange.org.

“Stories from the Musical Realms - Concerning Inspiration, and the music between the notes”

During his trips to such diverse territories as the former Soviet Union, Spain, France, Quebec, Ireland and from Alaska to Mexico, Kevin has played with and learned from traditional musicians, gathered stories to share and connected with folks through the ecstatic medium of music. Join us for an enthralling evening of storytelling and music that weaves in the often supernatural sources of inspiration that give music its magic. This performance will please all ages. Kevin will also give us a taste of his CD in progress, “Fiddle Fables”, as well as a new story based on a Czech Opera from the thirties entitled, “Schwanda the Bagpiper.”
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Kevin Carr is a phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and storyteller who plays with the Hillbillies from Mars, Wake the Dead, and /Les Têtes de Violon. His solo concerts generate enthusiastic responses and rave reviews. For this show, Kevin will be playing: Fiddle, Irish (Uilleann) pipes, Slovakian Duda (pipes), Galician Gaita, and French Cornemuse. He is also an engaging & extraordinary teacher, as well as a dance musician of reknown. He may be found every summer in Port Townsend, at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, helping with the music tutorial program, and at the Lark In the Morning camp in Mendocino, playing many types of bagpipes and studying the socio-recreational milieu of ecstatic music making.

Quote from Patrick Ball, internationally known Celtic harpist:
” Kevin Carr is one terrific musician: fiddles, bagpipes, whistles, drums, you name it. He also has one of the most engaging stage presences I have ever seen. As long as he doesn’t start playing the harp, I should be okay.”

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