(For more information on the Time Travelers : Virginia Harmonies 2008 program; Click Here)
Think of all the music you hear every
day - jingles on tv commercials, songs on the radio, hymns in church - now
imagine the music your grandparents listened to each day.
Opening April 12th and running through May 24, 2008, the Appomattox Regional
Library will host New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, a
Smithsonian Institution exhibition that will consider the "roots" of the music
we sing along with today, music that developed when your grandparents were
young.
New Harmonies will explore the distinct cultural identities of American
roots music, from blues to bluegrass and country to cajun, with recordings,
photographs, instruments, lyrics, and artist profiles.
The Library will present two original exhibits in addition to New Harmonies.
The first, titled Old Friends: Music of the Southside from 1900-1930
details the histories of the Tubize Royal Hawaiian Orchestra, the Dinwiddie
Colored Quartet, and ex-slave performers from Hopewell and Petersburg. The
second, a youth-oriented exhibit, is called Transmission: Songs from Then to
Now, and will trace the "roots" of popular songs today to their earliest
roots music origins.
In addition to the exhibit, the library will host a Grand Opening on April 12th
complete with music from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, a Saturday Music Series every
Saturday until the close of the exhibit, and a Thursday lecture series. For
information on these events and many more, please visit
www.arls.org or call
804.458.6329.
Special Thanks to: