Black Mountain Center for the Arts
presents
The Second Annual
Acoustic Corner
Instructors’ Concert
Saturday Nov 7th 7:30 pm
For the second time Black Mountain Center for the Arts, located at 225 W. State Street in Black Mountain’s old City Hall, brings the Instructors of Acoustic Corner to the stage. As solos, duos, and full ensembles, they will perform a wide range of musical styles, from traditional old time and Celtic to bluegrass, jazz, and swing.
Cost is a $10 donation at the door with no advanced sales or reserved seats.
Acoustic Corner’s six music instructors cover a wide range of styles, instruments, and approaches to playing and teaching music. Most are full-time working musicians who have appeared in local and regional venues, both as headliners and sidemen.
With a strong background in jazz and classical guitar, instructor Matt Kinne’s repertoire also includes folk, Celtic, and rock and roll. He performs regularly with the band Ménage. Equally versatile, guitar instructor David Zoll has performed in New York and Florida since 1991, currently performs with Cajun band Bayou Diesel, and focuses on fingerstyle, songwriting, and improvisation. While concentrating on fiddle instruction at Acoustic Corner, multi-instrumentalist Laurie Fisher is well known for her high-energy fiddling and dance calling with contra dance band The String Beings and other traditional and classical music groups. Fiddle and violin instructor Natalya Weinstein trained for fifteen years as a classical violinist before switching her focus to bluegrass, country, swing, and oldtime fiddling. She performs with a number of local and regional bands including Red June, the Kari Sickenberger Band, and Polecat Creek.
In addition to Matt, David, Laurie, and Natalya, who form the core of Acoustic Corner’s instruction staff, Andy Pond, of Snake Oil Medicine Show, provides bluegrass banjo instruction with an eclectic twist, while Will Straughan, regionally popular sideman and member of the Americana band Red June, rounds out the teaching staff with bluegrass mandolin and dobro.
Singly and together, they will take you on a musical journey from traditional mountain music rooted in the Celtic tradition, to American blues and bluegrass, to modern jazz and swing. This is musicianship at its most professional, most diverse, and most compelling.
Located just around the corner from the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in downtown Black Mountain, Acoustic Corner provides musical instruction as well as instrument repair, rentals, and sales. Co-owners Tom Fellenbaum and Stephanie Wilds are pleased that BMCA provides such an intimate and acoustically pleasing venue for their instructors to demonstrate their musical talents.
For Concert Information
call 828/669-0930,
or Acoustic Corner at 828/669-5162.
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