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By Wendy Weinberg
Special to the Rappahannock News
Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman, playing fiddle and banjo respectively, will present a program of Appalachian and “Down East” music at the Theatre at Washington on Saturday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m.
The performance will feature most prominently the music Jabbour learned back in the ‘60s from his mentor, West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed. Jabbour has a jaunty, lyrical fiddling style that is offset perfectly by Perlman’s inspired approach to clawhammer banjo.
History and anecdotes on the tunes, and on the lives of oldtime fiddlers and banjo players, such as Reed and his contemporaries, round out the presentation.
While a graduate student at Duke University in the ‘60s, Jabbour became interested in folk music and folklore, and made extensive trips throughout North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia to record instrumental folk music, folksong, and folklore on tape.
The collection Jabbour amassed at that time is now in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress. The materials he collected were particularly rich in traditional fiddle tunes from the Upper South.
See THEATRE, Page B2
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