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Savannah Music Festival | March 22-April 7, 2012

Bluegrass

Bluegrass shows for SMF 2012

GEORGIA GROWN GOSPEL & BLUEGRASS: SWEET SINGING HARMONY HARMONEERS/IIIRD TYME OUT

Charles H. Morris Center
March 22
5:30PM, $30 buy tickets

Led by the incomparable bluegrass tenor Russell Moore, winner of the IBMA's (International Bluegrass Music Association) Male Vocalist of the Year award for the last two years, North Georgia's IIrd

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GEORGIA GROWN GOSPEL AND BLUEGRASS: SWEET SINGING HARMONY HARMONEERS/IIIRD TYME OUT

Charles H. Morris Center
March 22
8:00PM, $30 buy tickets

Led by the incomparable bluegrass tenor Russell Moore, winner of the IBMA's (International Bluegrass Music Association) Male Vocalist of the Year award for the last two years, North Georgia's IIrd

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BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP

Trustees Theater
March 22
8:30PM, $55, 45, 35, 25 buy tickets

For the first time in 20 years, the original Flecktones puts pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside banjoist/composer Béla Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/drumitarist Roy "Futureman"

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NOON30: IIIRD TYME OUT

Charles H. Morris Center
March 23
12:30PM, $15 buy tickets

Led by the incomparable bluegrass tenor Russell Moore, winner of the IBMA's (International Bluegrass Music Association) Male Vocalist of the Year award for the last two years, North Georgia's IIrd

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AMERICAN LEGACIES: THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND WITH DEL MCCOURY BAND

Trustees Theater
March 23
8:00PM, $60, 50, 40, 30 buy tickets

Boasting a direct lineage from the earliest incarnations of New Orleans jazz, the current roster of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band features some of the Crescent City's finest and most

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NOON30: SLAVE SHOUT SONGS FROM THE GEORGIA COAST: MCINTOSH COUNTY SHOUTERS

Charles H. Morris Center
March 24
12:30PM, $20 buy tickets

National Heritage Fellows, the McIntosh County Shouters are foremost practitioners of a very unique segment of Georgia's musical history, the "ring shout." The ten-member ensemble consists of the songster, stickman,

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MIKE MARSHALL & EDGAR MEYER

Charles H. Morris Center
April 1
6:30PM, $40 buy tickets

Acoustic music virtuosos Mike Marshall on mandolin and Edgar Meyer on bass have been playing music together for twenty years. During this time, they have developed a fully realized concept

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CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN

Charles H. Morris Center
April 3
8:00PM, $35 buy tickets

Mandolin master and composer Chris Thile returns to SMF, this time in a solo context, in which he'll perform a mixture of Bach and his own original works. Whether leading

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NOON30: ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Charles H. Morris Center
April 5
12:30PM, $20 buy tickets

If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one's model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition.

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BLAZING BANJOS: TONY TRISCHKA & BRUCE MOLSKY/ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Charles H. Morris Center
April 5
6:00PM, $35 buy tickets

This SMF original double-bill features the formidable duo of Tony Trischka and Bruce Molsky. In a career that has now encompassed four decades, acclaimed banjo innovator Tony Trischka has created

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BLAZING BANJOS: TONY TRISCHKA & BRUCE MOLSKY/ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Charles H. Morris Center
April 5
8:30PM, $35 buy tickets

This SMF original double-bill features the formidable duo of Tony Trischka and Bruce Molsky. In a career that has now encompassed four decades, acclaimed banjo innovator Tony Trischka has created

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BRUCE MOLSKY, FIDDLE/BANJO

Charles H. Morris Center
April 6
1:00PM, $20 buy tickets

Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on

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STRINGBAND SPECTACULAR FEAT. MIKE MARSHALL, TONY TRISCHKA, JULIAN LAGE, BRUCE MOLSKY/ACOUSTIC MUSIC SEMINAR FINALE

Lucas Theatre for the Arts
April 6
6:00PM, $35, 25, 15 buy tickets

This major concert represents the culmination of a week of workshops, masterclasses and rehearsals dedicated to advancing American acoustic music. Curated by AMS Associate Director Mike Marshall (mandolin, mandocello), it

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