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St. Patrick's Celebration with Music from Eight Point Star
Venue: Meadowbrook Public Library, Shawsville
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Eight Point Star
Date: Sunday, March 18, 2018
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Miscellaneous
Cost: Free

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Description:
Meadowbrook Public Library presents a St. Patrick's Celebration with Music from Eight Point Star on Sunday, March 18, 2018.

Enjoy live music by Eight Point Star and light refreshments as we celebrate all things Emerald. Even if we are a day late we will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day with some Irish music.

Eight Point Star is a New River Valley-Roanoke collective gathered around old-time and improvisational fiddler Mike Gangloff and bluesy fingerstyle guitarist Matt Peyton that draws on traditional and international roots to create a sound all their own.

With hardanger fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, banjos, gongs, singing bowls and lots more, this is a mostly acoustic sound, but with Matt's theremin and other electronics occasionally rising to the surface sometimes from the Golden Age jazz or Great American Songbook classics that Cara grew up singing, sometimes from the urgent, raw blues that Matt has pursued and sometimes from pure, free improvisation aimed at creating an in-the-moment symphony. This is extended Appalachian music with a story of its own to tell.

Solid, bluesy fingerstyle guitar and soaring, scratchy hardanger fiddle combine for duo explorations; a search for beauty.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Eight-Point-Star-Band-2115905332014152/

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meadowbrook-Public-Library/207765498326 or call 540-268-1964.