Music
Written by Admin Monday, 29 June 2009 02:57
The Old West Festival provides music through-out the day. A little something for everyone, from Country to Bluegrass to period music that you can sin-a-long to, you'll find yourself clapping to the music. The Old West Festival provides two stages for music during the day, and the Ragamuffins perform family period music four times daily.
Some of the musical entertainers you can hear at The Old West Festival:
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Changing Tymes http://www.myspace.com/changingtymes2 |
| A popular crowd pleaser, Changing Tymes relives American history through traditional folk songs and original ballads. It’s not uncommon for audiences to request old time favorites, and even sing along as the costumed band plays the guitar, upright bass, fiddle and banjo. Listen carefully to the original tunes written by Changing Tymes’ Tommy Lee Pressley as they tell the tales of sailing ships and war veterans. His own personal memories are intertwined in songs of the coal fields and lumber camps of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. From the southern cotton mills to the steel industry, the paper mills of Ohio Miami Valley, the times are changing for Changing Tymes. | |
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Gunpowder Creek |
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| Forrest Utley and Ben Pedigo, the talented duo of Gunpowder Creek, combine the down home flavor of the Stanley Brothers with the sounds of contemporary American acoustic music. Visitors to Covington, Kentucky’s Strauss House will remember Forrest. He plays the guitar and harmonica, and sings with a soulful voice reminiscent of the old time flavor of Carter Stanley. Bluegrass fans will remember Ben as a performer on the Julia Belle Swain excursion boat. He has performed and recorded with Norman Blake, and toured with Bill Monroe. Ben's mandolin playing and singing are a great compliment to Forrest's vocals and guitar work. Ben also picks five string banjo. | |
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Ragamuffins |
| The Ragamuffins are a dynamic duo of singers featuring Beth Ford and Janice Finkle. They are commonly seen performing across the midwest with singer and storyteller Bob Ford at such venues as the Dublin Irish Festival, Cleveland Tall Ships, the Michigan Renaissance Festival, concerts, private parties, and more. Playing an unusual range of instruments from the cello and electric bass to the flute and a basket full of puzzling percussion, they bring fresh fun to the hits from the 1570’s to the 1970’s. Recorded with Bob Ford, their CDs are truly family fun. Their first CD, Changes, showcases Irish songs to sing all year long, and their newest CD, Traveller’s Tales, features family favorites from the Western Frontier. The Ragamuffins will be performing family sing-a-longs to old time favorites at the Old West Festival so come prepared to chime in. | |
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Raison D’Etre www.raison3.com |
| Violet Rae Downey, Vickie Ellis, and Roberta Schultz are three women who live to sing together. A background in musical theater drives Violet's dramatic sense of song and fuels her incredible range as her percussive guitar pounds out the heart beat for the trio. Vickie combines classical piano training, a passion for folk instruments (banjo and banjuke) and her background in radio and theater to add spice and nuance to arrangements and homey chat to performances. Roberta’s finger-picking guitar styles, soulful song writing and Native drums (including a few that she made) craft Raison D’Etre’s Americana feel. Described by one critic as “divinely stirring,” their singing defines Raison D’Etre. According to Mike Breen of Cincinnati CityBeat, this folk trio offers “some of the finest three-part harmony singing you’ll likely ever hear.” Traditional folk songs, a capella swing tunes, and Shaker hymns round out their versatile repertoire, all delivered in their pure Kentucky blend. From 2000-2006, Raison D'Etre hosted the popular COFFEE CUP CONCERT SERIES in Northern Kentucky's Behringer-Crawford Museum, Covington. Outside of Kentucky, this folk trio appears at arts venues and festivals from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. They are MOVA Song Writing Festival (Guntersville, AL) finalists for 2007 for “Legacy” and “This Kind of Rain.” Violet Rae went on to win her category (Children’s/Humor) with “Legacy” while Roberta took third place honors in Folk/Bluegrass with “This Kind of Rain.” “Be True” by Roberta Schultz won an Honor Award from the Great American Song Contest in 2006 and appears on SouthernArtistry.org’s first CD compilation which was distributed at Performing Arts Exchange in Baltimore, 2006. | |
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