An afternoon of Ballads, Old-Time Music and Storytelling - FREE to attend

962 Mount Jefferson Road,West Jefferson NC 28694

21 June, 2022

Description

Join Mountain Home Music for the return of our afternoon matinees! Kicking off the 2022 Matinee season are two North Carolina folklorists carrying on the traditions of our region. Derek Piotr is a folklorist, researcher, and performer whose work focuses primarily on the human voice. His work covers practices including fieldwork, vocal performance, preservation, and autoethnography; and is primarily concerned with tenderness, fragility, beauty, and brutality. He has collaborated with artists including Scott Solter, Bobby McMillon, and Thomas Brinkmann across various disciplines. His work has been supported by the North Carolina Folklife Institute, The Traditional Song Forum, and The Danbury Cultural Commission, and has been featured on Death Is Not The End and BBC. William Ritter is a native of Bakersville, NC, and an alum of Western Carolina University. He graduated with a degree in Technical Theatre, but spent most of his time in school studying the musical folk traditions of Western North Carolina. In 2017, William received his MA in Appalachian Culture and Music from Appalachian State University. William plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and other “string-ed things.” He is particularly interested in old mountain folkways, foodways, humor–ever eager to swap lies, half-truths, tales, and seeds. Our matinees are always free with a suggested donation to Joe Shannon's Mountain Home Music