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The acclaimed duo of Alan Jabbour, on fiddle, and Ken Perlman, on banjo, return to the Theatre at Washington, Virginia on Saturday, February 10 at 8 p.m., with a new lineup of classic Appalachian tunes, plus selections of folk music from Scotland and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Jabbour and Perlman have redefined that great American invention, the fiddle-banjo duet, and brought it to new heights of complexity.
Alan Jabbour is one of America's foremost exponents of Appalachian fiddling. His Hollow Rock String Band, founded in the mid-1960s, served as a prototype for the old-time string-band revival and was a major source for today's repertoire of Southern old-time music. Jabbour learned to appreciate the music of Appalachia back in the Sixties when he collected tunes and stories from the region. An early mentor was the fine West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed. A renowned folklorist, Jabbour was director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for 23 years. Since his retirement from the Library of Congress, he is
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