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Crazy Weekend: Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman Concert

Life is full. The last five days or so have been just a whirlwind of activity.

The story begins last thursday when Jen and I checked out the Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman concert at Rasputin’s. It was a full house, not surprising given the high profile of Jabbour (former director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in the states), and Ken Perlman’s banjo prowess. The concert went very nicely, and I stayed for an hour or so afterwards talking to Dean.

Jabbour played many numbers by his mentor Henry Reed. Perlman backed him up, and the material was mostly old-time American tunes. Southern tunes to us. Perlman did one excellent solo in his “melodic clawhammer” style (in which he plays cape-breton-style violin parts on his banjo).

Both performers were consummate musicians and the evening was thoroughly enjoyable.

This concert also set the stage for the people we were going to be hanging out with all weekend. With three folk concerts in three nights we were just getting started.

more on this weekend is to follow…

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