A&I Continues Season with “Alaska's Fiddling Poet”
Edwardsville, IL (PRWEB) February 10, 2012
Ken Waldman—Alaska’s “Fiddling Poet” whose show has been compared with a “Ken Burns movie”—will continue the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Arts & Issues series Feb. 22, in SIUE’s Meridian Ballroom.
“Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass” is set for 7:30 p.m. that Wednesday as the group transports the audience to the grandeur of Alaska through poetry, storytelling, traditional music and dance.
The concert is co-sponsored by the SIUE Department of English Language and Literature. Waldman will also be doing outreach on campus through the department and its creative writing program.
This one-time only concert will include the North Carolina duo Appalachian Roots, featuring Ira Bernstein and Riley Baugus; East Tennessee banjo player and singer Allison Williams; Nashville mandolin player, David Long; Cajun fiddler, David Greely; Austin, Texas, banjo player and fiddler Jerry Hagins; as well as Chicago fiddler, guitarist and banjo player Jordan Wankoff.
For more than 25 years, SIUE’s Arts & Issues series has brought great performers and distinguished speakers to Southwestern Illinois.
The official media sponsors for A&I are the Edwardsville Intelligencer and KWMU-FM, while the series official hotel sponsor is Hampton Inn and Suites. The 2011-12 Arts & Issues season is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Arts & Issues Director Grant Andree said Waldman and his friends bring an exciting presence to the stage. “I think the 'Anchorage Daily News' said it best,” Andree said. “They called the evening haunting and melodic.”
Waldman will introduce the opening sets with a brief poem, then he will let the musicians take off. For his own concluding set, Waldman promises a full-blown Edwardsville music party, complete with Ira Bernstein's clogging. Andree said the evening of variety will appeal to anyone who enjoys traditional music, powerful singing, exciting dancing, smart poetry, acclaimed storytelling or Alaska.
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