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Fiddle Banjo Duo play
‘Southern Summits’
at The Theatre Dec. 3
By Wendy Weinberg
Special to the Rappahannock News
On Saturday, December 3 at 8 p.m., Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman return to the Theatre at Washington, Virginia to give their second concert here playing old time fiddle and banjo music of Appalachia and beyond.
Jabbour became interested in folk music and folklore while he was a graduate student in North Carolina in the 1960s. Traveling throughout the mountains of North Carolina, West Virginia, and Virginia, he recorded instrumental folk music, folksong, and folklore on tape. He regards fiddler Henry Reed of Glen Ly, Virginia, as his mentor, and credits many of the tunes which are now well loved among the devotees of fiddle playing to , Reed. The collection which Jabbour assembled as a student later formed part of the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress, where Jabbour worked for many years before retiring to take up full time his love of old time fiddle playing. His early training as a classical violinist is put to
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