Performances
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Katydids, Fireflies and other insects
SARAH GOSLEE REED Children’s Concert and artmaking activities @ Park space, Friday May 2, 5-8pm Folk singer and songwriter Sarah Goslee Reed comes to Coshocton to get us all dancing and playing. The Pomerene Center will have supplies and volunteers on hand to make Shekeres, Guiros and Kazoos to add to the fun. It’s all free and part of Dogwood Festival 2014 and May’s First Friday Celebration. WHAT is a SHEKERE? “The shekere is an instrument from Africa made out of a hollow gourd. Outside the gourd is a netting that holds seeds or bead so the instrument makes a wonderful rattling when played.” Daria World Music for Children WHAT is…
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PETE SKJOLD & FRIENDS, first time out of the stable
Pete Skjold on bass, Ed Zinkon on guitar and Erinn Simmons on drums Friday, April 4, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com JOIN Pete Skjold, Ed Zinkon and Erinn Simmons April 4, 7-9pm. Music arranged for the indoor acoustic space of the Pomerene Center. Nice mixture of blues, jazz and some rock. Expect amazing. Reserve your table, bring your own beverage and help keep the lights on. WHAT IS A RENT PARTY? At the time of the Great Migration north (1910-1930), blacks emigrating from the south settled the problem of Harlem’s inflated rents by throwing parties. Furniture was moved to the outside walls, musicians…
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Wayfarers Perform New “Old Music” + some of their old favorites
THE WAYFARERS Friday, March. 7, 7pm @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table | 740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com We had a request for Irish music for the March Rent Party–obviously made in honor of St Patty’s Day–and thought of THE WAYFARERS. Admittedly we made the mistake of over-emphasizing the effect of Irish Traditional Music on American Mountain Music which like so much of what is truly American is a total mashup, in this case of Anglo – African – German – Scotch-Irish and maybe a little Irish music. (Read about the Scotch-Irish here.) Though not Irish, the high energy mountain music as interpreted by the Wayfarer’s will draw a…
