Appalachia in the Bluegrass Concert Series, sponsored by The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the UK College of Fine Arts
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition. Sparky Rucker has been performing over forty years and is internationally recognized as a leading folklorist, musician, historian, storyteller, and author.…
On Saturday, September 14, UK Choirs will proudly host the annual Bluegrass Choral Music Festival! This event is historically one of the largest high school choral festivals in the southeastern US with over 500 singers from schools throughout the region participating; Featuring acoUstiKats, Paws and Listen, Blue Note and various High School Choirs.
A free concert will take place at 5pm to cap off the day!
To register, singers…
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Carla Gover is an eighth-generation Kentuckian who hails from a small coal town in Eastern Kentucky, and her rural sensibilities permeate the work that she does and the music that she plays. A veteran of the folk scene, she has performed and recorded with such artists as Jean Ritchie, Mark Schatz, Dudley Connell, Stuart Duncan, Dirk Powell, Jesse Wells, Bruce Molsky, and many more. Her two…
PROGRAM:
Larsen: Trio in Four Movements (2005)Yuchun Hu: The Remnant Souls (2024, world premiere)Zhou Tian: Hidden Grace (2023)Takemitsu: And then I knew ’twas Wind (1992)Debussy: Sonata (1915)Formosa Trio
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TDH4 a/k/a Tall Dark and Handsome-- Karen Jones on fiddle, Bev Futrell on guitar, George Neel on mandolin and Nathan Wilson on bass. Karen and Bev, also members of the Reel World String Band, teamed up with long time friend George Neel, an accomplished jazz musician to form this trio in 1993. Nathan Wilson joined in 2021 on bass. Dust Devils On Our Heels, was…
UK Chorale presents Bach’s Magnificat with UK faculty orchestra
Faculty Recital
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Andrew Finn Magill has been featured on PBS, NPR, TEDx and MTV-U. Finn is a Fulbright fellow, North Carolina Arts Council fellow, and South Arts Emerging Traditional Artist. He has performed with John Doyle, Rising Appalachia, Charm City Junction, Open the Door for Three, Greg Ruby, The Paul McKenna Band, and Peter Mawanga among others. Finn grew up studying…
Join us for the 2024 American Eurhythmics Society National Conference! Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a playful, experiential approach to teaching and learning music through movement. It is a process for awakening, developing, and refining innate musicality through rhythmic movement (often called eurhythmics), ear-training, and improvisation.
The conference is free for full-time CFA students, contact Dr. Vasil for the code at martina.vasil@…
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Mash Grass is a 6-piece American Bluegrass Band from Versailles, KY. The band formed in 2022 from a collection of music loving folks who met from jam sessions and just couldn't get enough Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, and Del McCoury. Their unique brand of entertainment fuses old-times music with wonderful harmonies that will get you out of your seat and have you dancing all night!
