| Date: | June 20, 2013 |
| Time: | 6:30 - 8:00 PM |
| Venue: | Historic Smithfield |
| Description: |
The Blacksburg Historic Lecture Series will hold their June event at the Historic Smithfield Plantation Pavilion on Thursday, June 20th. The lecture is entitled "Musical Roots". Jack Hinshelwood will play a variety of traditional music including blues, bluegrass and Celtic styles on guitar and fiddle and talk about the origin of the songs. This lecture will also feature Kareem McCullough, a Radford student, guitarist and flutist playing traditional spirituals. Jack Hinshelwood began playing traditional music, much of it Appalachian and Bluegrass fiddle tunes, on the guitar in 1972. He won the Knoxville World’s Fair Guitar Championship, the Galax Fiddler’s Convention Guitar Contest and the Wayne Henderson Guitar Championship. Jack also fed his passion for traditional music in the 1970's as the guitarist for Olen & Frances Gardner & the Appalachian Ramblers bluegrass band. His recording “Dark Run” featured a wide variety of folk and traditional music as well as original compositions, leading Bluegrass Unlimited to call him “a fine quick-picker with a weathered welcoming voice.” Jack has also contributed to the rich heritage of traditional music through his instrumental and vocal compositions, many of which are included in his recordings. These compositions include ballads based on regional historical events such as the 1912 courthouse shootout in Carroll County, Virginia and the 1946 mine disaster in the Great Valley Mines in McCoy, Virginia. He performs regularly with Celtibillies, a four member acoustic group playing a mixture of high energy Celtic and Appalachian music. Jack is also the Executive Director of The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. The Historic Lecture Series is cosponsored by the Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation and Historic Smithfield Plantation. For more information, call 540-558-0746 or email at museum@blacksburg.gov. |