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Blair School of Music’s Appalachian Celebration 2013

Posted by on Monday, April 8, 2013 in Archives, News.

Blair School of Music’s Appalachian Celebration 2013

Soulful country singer Elizabeth Cook will headline the Blair School of Music-€™s Appalachian Celebration 2013, scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Blair School-€™s Ingram Hall. She-€™s joined by Tim Carroll on guitar, Bones Hillman on bass, and Blair professor Matt Combs on fiddle and mandolin. Acoustic guitar phenom David Grier opens the show.

-€œElizabeth Cook is what happens when the cover of  Vogue Magazine meets moonshine and dynamite,-€ said Combs, the director of the Blair School-€™s fiddle program and of the Appalachian Celebration. -€œWe-€™re proud to bring her version of modern outlaw country to the Blair School stage.-€ 

The Appalachian Celebration is an annual concert event showcasing the Blair School-€™s folk and instrumental performance faculty, featuring top-level folk and country guest performers.

Cook is currently touring in support of her 2012 EP  Gospel Plow, a seven-song recording of her favorite Southern Gospel songs (plus a cover version of Velvet Underground-€™s -€œJesus-€). She made her third appearance on  The Late Show with David Letterman on March 14, 2013, and she hosts  Elizabeth Cook-€™sApron Strings on Sirius XM Radio-€™s Outlaw Country station (10 a.m.-1 p.m. Central Time Mondays-Fridays on Sirius XM Radio Channel 60). 

The Appalachian Celebration is sponsored in part by the David Schnaufer Fund, and is a benefit for the Jerome -€œButch-€ Baldassari Precollege Scholarship Fund at the Blair School, which provides partial tuition for precollege students studying mandolin, fiddle or dulcimer.

The concert is free and open to the public. Donations for the Baldassari Fund will be accepted at the door, but are not required. 

Contact Kristin Whittlesey, (615) 322-7656 or  kristin.whittlesey@vanderbilt.edu, for more information.