Published: Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Hear bluegrass at annual Maltby jam; fiddler to perform in Everett
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The 18th annual Maltby Bluegrass Concert, Auction and Jam, featuring three bands who are among the top in the Northwest, is Saturday.
The three bands are Roundhouse, The Howdy Boys and Runaway Train.
The concert is a homecoming of sorts because Kim Jones Leavitt, a graduate of Snohomish High School, will perform with Roundhouse.
Bluegrass is American music that inspires hand-clapping and foot-tapping and derives from a rich, ethnic mix of sounds, jazz, Southern gospel, pop, folk.
On Saturday, audiences will hear hot licks, gentle waltzes and lots of vocal harmony singing.
Runaway Train, from south Puget Sound, plays hard-driving traditional bluegrass music and features a 17-year-old banjo player who won the Rockygrass banjo contest in Colorado when he was 14, according to press material.
The Seattle-based Howdy Boys brings a combination of bluegrass, honky-tonk and old-time country, and highlights one of the top fiddlers in the area, Doug Bright.
Roundhouse, from Salem, Ore., performs an eclectic collection that includes bluegrass, folk, southern and classic rock and gospel music.
Audiences can also participate in down-home silent and live auctions, spiced with a professional auctioneer enticing everyone to bid. Auction items are always a last-minute surprise and you could be bidding on tickets to festivals and other events, or gift baskets, tools, crafts, instruments and restaurant dinners.
The 18th annual Maltby Bluegrass Concert, Auction and Jam starts with open jam sessions at 3 p.m. Saturday; the concert starts at 7 p.m. at the Maltby Community Club, 8711 206th Ave. SE, Snohomish.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 years old and older, $10 for youth 12 to 18 years old, and free for children under 12 when accompanied by an adult with a concert ticket.
For more information, directions or tickets, call Jan Jones at 360-568-3685.
Folk Music: If you didn't get your fill of fiddlers on Saturday, Sarah Comer will play at Everett Public Library on Sunday.
Comer is a member of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association and recently became a Certified Champion Old Time Fiddler, taking first at the Washington State Fiddlers Contest in the Young Adult division. She also teaches fiddle and plays in contra-dance bands, according to her biography.
This will be her second appearance in the Everett Public Library as part of the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society concert series.
The free concert starts at 2 p.m. Sunday in the main library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. For more information go to pnwfolklore.org.
Herald staf
The three bands are Roundhouse, The Howdy Boys and Runaway Train.
The concert is a homecoming of sorts because Kim Jones Leavitt, a graduate of Snohomish High School, will perform with Roundhouse.
Bluegrass is American music that inspires hand-clapping and foot-tapping and derives from a rich, ethnic mix of sounds, jazz, Southern gospel, pop, folk.
On Saturday, audiences will hear hot licks, gentle waltzes and lots of vocal harmony singing.
Runaway Train, from south Puget Sound, plays hard-driving traditional bluegrass music and features a 17-year-old banjo player who won the Rockygrass banjo contest in Colorado when he was 14, according to press material.
The Seattle-based Howdy Boys brings a combination of bluegrass, honky-tonk and old-time country, and highlights one of the top fiddlers in the area, Doug Bright.
Roundhouse, from Salem, Ore., performs an eclectic collection that includes bluegrass, folk, southern and classic rock and gospel music.
Audiences can also participate in down-home silent and live auctions, spiced with a professional auctioneer enticing everyone to bid. Auction items are always a last-minute surprise and you could be bidding on tickets to festivals and other events, or gift baskets, tools, crafts, instruments and restaurant dinners.
The 18th annual Maltby Bluegrass Concert, Auction and Jam starts with open jam sessions at 3 p.m. Saturday; the concert starts at 7 p.m. at the Maltby Community Club, 8711 206th Ave. SE, Snohomish.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 years old and older, $10 for youth 12 to 18 years old, and free for children under 12 when accompanied by an adult with a concert ticket.
For more information, directions or tickets, call Jan Jones at 360-568-3685.
Folk Music: If you didn't get your fill of fiddlers on Saturday, Sarah Comer will play at Everett Public Library on Sunday.
Comer is a member of the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association and recently became a Certified Champion Old Time Fiddler, taking first at the Washington State Fiddlers Contest in the Young Adult division. She also teaches fiddle and plays in contra-dance bands, according to her biography.
This will be her second appearance in the Everett Public Library as part of the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society concert series.
The free concert starts at 2 p.m. Sunday in the main library auditorium, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett. For more information go to pnwfolklore.org.
Herald staf
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