Program

The Melting Pot of American Music

with Marylou Ferrante and Robin OHerin

This musical and interactive program explores early American instruments, songs and songwriters: where they come from, the songs and the people who made them. Instruments explored will range from Appalachian dulcimers, banjos and diddlybows to resonator guitars and mandolins.

Music will range from Appalachian and old time music, all the way to Delta and Piedmont blues with a focus on the men and women who created this seminal American heritage. There will be time for questions and people to see and try out some of the instruments themselves.