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| Folk music legend John McCutcheon returns to Grove Theater |
| Saturday, March 27, 2010 | | Event Time: | 7:30 pm |
| Description: | Folk music legend John McCutcheon returns to the Grove Theater. McCutcheon is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller, and master hammer dulcimer player. Proceeds will help build a wheelchair ramp at the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge. |
| Fee: | $18 advance, $23 door |
| Lead Organization: | Children's Museum of Oak Ridge [More Events] |
| Other Organizers: | Cumberland Music Association |
| Sponsored By: | Anderson County Visions Magazine, The Ferrell Shop, WDVX |
| Location: | Historic Grove Theater [Directions] |
| Locale: | Anderson County |
| Main Website: | http://www.cumberlandmusic.org/ |
| Event Webpage: | http://cumberlandmusic.org/john.php |
| For More Info: | Contact Allen McBride at (865) 567-1415 or e-mail info@cumberlandmusic.org |
| More Information: | Scroll Below for Directions and the Long Description of this event |
| Category: | Arts and Culture -- Concerts [More Events] [Similar Events] |
Long Description or Press Release:
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon will perform at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge on Saturday, March 27th. Proceeds will benefit wheelchair accessibility at the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge.
McCutcheon's concert at the Grove Theater in spring of 2008 was his best-attended performance ever in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville area. It was also a benefit for wheelchair accessibility at the Children's Museum. The proceeds from that concert started a fund to build a wheelchair ramp between the first and second levels of the Museum. With help from Pat McMillan, the Frances Alexander Foundation, the Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation, and Wal-Mart of Oak Ridge, this ramp was completed in December 2009. Proceeds from this year's concert will help raise funds to build ramps between the other three levels of the Museum.
John McCutcheon was raised in Wisconsin and traveled throughout East Tennessee as a college student earning a degree in American folk studies. While McCutcheon was living in Knoxville in the early 1970s, famed folk musician and civil rights activist Guy Carawan introduced him to the hammer dulcimer. The dulcimer quickly became McCutcheon's signature instrument, on which he is universally acclaimed as a master. McCutcheon's skills with the banjo, guitar, autoharp, piano, and occasionally fiddle are just as integral to the wide popularity of his concerts and recordings.
All of these instruments are tools for what the Washington Post calls "storytelling that has the richness of fine literature." McCutcheon's songs often combine themes of love, childhood, and parenting with stories of working-class life in the United States and political liberation around the world.
In November of 2009, McCutcheon released his latest album, Untold. A double-CD, it marks an important event in McCutcheon's recording career. Though he has long been lauded for his storytelling skills, his recordings have focused on his music. By contrast, the entire first CD of Untold features live recordings of stories McCutcheon told at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where he has been a regular headliner for decades. The stories are interspersed with a few of McCutcheon's best-loved songs. The second CD on Untold features some of the best new songs that McCutcheon has written in years.
The concert will be produced by Cumberland Music Association on behalf of the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge. According to CMA board member Jason Herrera, “After John's concert in 2008, we heard from a lot of people who had never seen his show, or had only seen his family shows. We got a great response about his full-length adult concert, and we hope even more people come to this year's event.” The concert is sponsored by the Ferrell Shop, WDVX, and Anderson County Visions Magazine.
The concert will begin at 7:30pm at the Grove Theater on March 27th. Tickets are $18 in advance and $23 at the door, and can be purchased at www.cumberlandmusic.org, by calling 865-482-1074, or at the Ferrell Shop in Jackson Square in Oak Ridge. Contact Allen McBride at 865-567-1415 for more information. |
Directions:
If you're coming from Knoxville via Pellissippi Parkway, you will enter Oak Ridge on Illinois Avenue. Turn right at the intersection with the Oak Ridge Turnpike. Then turn at the first left onto Robertsville Road. Then take the second left onto Randolph Road, into Grove Center. The big, blocky building is the Grove Theater.
If you're coming from somewhere else, Mapquest or Google Maps should work fine.
The address is 123 Randolph Rd., Oak Ridge, TN 37830. |
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