HVBA Events

Event 

Title:

A Day of Bluegrass - Gene Lowinger at Barnes & Noble

When:

10/03/2009 12.00PM - 03.00PM

Where:

Barnes & Noble - Poughkeepsie

Description

I Hear a Voice Calling
A Bluegrass Memoir
GENE LOWINGER

Join us for a concert by C.B. Smith, Red Dirt Road, GrassRoots (Terry Ghee, Mary DeBerry, Dave Cobb, & Dave Angell - with special guest, Jerry Oland) and Wickers Creek (Peter Paden on banjo and mandolin, Charlene Paden on fiddle, George Morrow on guitar, Andy Bing on mandolin and dobro, and Rob Bradley on upright bass).  Gene Lowinger will be joining Wickers Creek for several songs.  The music will be followed by a question and answer period by the author, a book signing and a community jam!!!!  All FREE!!!

The HVBA presents A Day of Bluegrass at Barnes & Noble in Poughkeepsie.  Be there to hear local bands, with an emphasis on the music of Bill Monroe.  Then stay on for a discussion with Gene Lowinger, a former Blue Grass Boy, who has written "I Hear a Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir."

Following the Question and Answer Session, Gene will sign his books and then everyone is invited to join in a good old bluegrass community jam.  We need YOU, your voices and your instruments to show the general public what fun jams can be.

During the final years of Bill Monroe’s life, bluegrass fiddler Gene Lowinger took a series of on- and off-stage photographs of Monroe on the road— preparing for shows, performing, interacting with fans and audiences—and in informal settings with family, friends, and fellow musicians. As a bandmate, Lowinger was given unique access to Monroe’s private life, and this book presents these photos as well as other photos documenting Lowinger’s involvement with the bluegrass scene beginning in the early 1960s.

Lowinger also tells his own story of a New Jersey boy obsessed with folk and bluegrass music, and he recounts college trips to country music parks in Pennsylvania to see Monroe and other bluegrass masters; his stints as a
fiddler for the New York Ramblers and Blue Grass Boys; and his memories of playing at the Grand Ole Opry and music festivals. A photographic reflection on Bill Monroe’s public and private life, I Hear a Voice Calling also testifies to the bluegrass master’s profound mentorship and guidance.

“I’ve known Gene Lowinger since our early days in the urban bluegrass scene of the sixties. His photographs have always offered unique perspectives on unique subjects. Now they are skillfully melded with personal
remembrances of his own singular career as a ‘Jewish Blue Grass Boy.’”
—David Grisman, mandolinist and composer

“A vivid, emotional, and poignant look at a unique era in bluegrass music, captured in words and photographs by a man who not only studied the music, but performed it and toured with the master as a member of his band.”
—Douglas B. Green (Ranger Doug), guitarist and vocalist of Riders in the Sky and author of Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy

GENE LOWINGER is a freelance photojournalist based in New York and New Jersey. The first “Northern”
fiddler to join the ranks of the Blue Grass Boys, Lowinger is also the author of Bluegrass Fiddle, one of the first books to accurately capture the bluegrass fiddle style in standard musical notation.

Below is a voucher for Barnes & Noble to be used on October 3, 2009.  
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Venue

Venue:

Barnes & Noble   -   Website

Street:

2518 South Road

ZIP:

12601

City:

Poughkeepsie

State:

NY

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