LITTLE ROCK — The Little Rock Folk Club will present the trio Legacy as its first show of fall, at 7 p.m. today in Thomson Hall at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1818 Reservoir Road, Little Rock.
Past Event
Legacy
- Friday, October 3, 2008, 7 p.m.
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 1818 Reservoir Rd., Little Rock, AR
- All ages / Free - $10
Admission is $10; $5 for students with ID cards; free for accompanied children under age 12. Call (501) 663-0634.
Legacy, whose base is Jackson, Miss., is returning to Little Rock, this time with a guest, uilleann piper Tim Britton, filling in for Legacy member Justin Murphy, who is unable to make the trio's Little Rock show. The other membersof Legacy are fiddler/singer Valerie Plested and guitarist/ singer/bodhran player Don Penzien.
Past Event
Legacy
- Friday, October 3, 2008, 7 p.m.
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 1818 Reservoir Rd., Little Rock, AR
- All ages / Free - $10
The show will be followed by a session to honor the 50th birthday of central Arkansas fiddler Judi Warner.
Guest piper Britton, a Philadelphia native, has been touring, recording and teaching for nearly 30 years.
He has recorded with Eileen Ivers, Johnny Cunningham, Bela Fleck, John McCutcheon, Patrick Ball and Mick Moloney. Since 1997, he has toured with Paddy O'Brien and Pat Egan as the band Chulrua. Whennot touring, he makes pipes and produces and engineers recordings in Fairfield, Iowa.
Legacy has performed at the North Texas Irish Festival for 15 years.
Plested is originally from San Antonio, where she was a member of the band St. Jane's Gate. She moved to Mississippi to get her master's degree in anthropology. Penzien, a Michigan native, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
The group's latest CD, Not Making Hay ..., was released in July.
Weekend, Pages 59 on 10/03/2008