80th American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour
Maggie’s Music celebrates over 30 years in the music industry. It features contemporary, acoustic and early music instruments in new and innovative settings from ancient to modern times with special focus on Celtic and Holiday music.
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Too Hot! Acoustic music as you’ve never heard it –redefining American roots music on the accordion.
Main Stage | 3pm Sunday, October 7
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Jazz pianist turned roots musician, Sam Reider is redefining American music on the accordion. He has been featured at Lincoln Center and on NPR, and performed alongside pop stars, virtuosos, and folk musicians around the world, including Jon Batiste and Stay Human, viral YouTube sensation CDZA and T-Pain, Americana singer Jim Lauderdale, and Grammy Award-winning Venezuelan musician Jorge Glem. Reider’s debut record, Too Hot To Sleep, presents his distinct compositional voice alongside an ensemble of top-drawer musical collaborators and compadres called The Human Hands.
Sam Reider and The Human Hands are a collective of virtuoso jazz and bluegrass musicians from Brooklyn, NY. Along with Sam, they include violinist Alex Hargreaves (Turtle Island Quartet, Sarah Jarosz, Béla Fleck), mandolinist Dominick Leslie (Michael Daves, Tony Trischka, The Deadly Gentlemen), guitarist Roy Williams (Stephane Wrembel), and bassist Dave Speranza (Jim Campilongo).
Reider grew up in San Francisco, the son of a musical theatre composer and klezmer musician. He began performing at a young age, and was interviewed on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” on NPR when he graduated high school. At Columbia University, he fell in love with American folk music. While writing his senior thesis comparing the songwriting of Woody Guthrie and Ira Gershwin, Sam began studying bluegrass and old-time music, transcribing the fiddle melodies for the accordion and learning to sing the songs.
This set him off on a journey that has taken him from back porches and dive bars to concert halls and major festivals in practically every state in the country. Representing the U.S. Department of State as a musical ambassador, Sam has travelled to China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Turkey and Azerbaijan, carrying his accordion on his back everywhere he goes and collaborating at every opportunity with international artists.
Now he’s surrounded himself with a crew of some of the most in-demand young acoustic musicians on the scene in Brooklyn. The Human Hands have developed a dedicated following and a reputation for mind-bending sets of high-energy, improvised music.
“Dashes of folk influences from around the world are sprinkled into its string band aesthetic. Reider’s accordion is the unyielding anchor, giving a dose of soulful, raw timelessness, but with a modern crispness and confidence.” – The Bluegrass Situation
Not to worry! If you didn’t catch Sam at the Fair — or if you just need more! — see Sam and the Human Hands at a special concert at the Old School in Waterford on November 1!
Click here for more info and tickets.
Legendary autoharp player credited with introducing the instrument to new generations of musicians.
Main Stage | 3pm – 5pm Saturday, October 6 &
12pm – 2pm Sunday, October 7
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For over five decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression and professionalism.
Bower’s creativity and talent have won inductions into Frets Magazine’s First Gallery of the Greats. This distinction put Bowers alongside other luminaries such a Chet Atkins, David Grisman, Stephan Grapelli, Itzhak Perlman, Tony Rice, Rob Wasserman, and Mark O’Connor. He is the first living member inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame after Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter.
He has a remarkable ability to connect with an audience with his music and stories; “ …what radiates from the instrument under his touch is not flash but warmth and brilliance…You get a good feeling being a member of [the] audience” –Philadelphia Folk Song Society.
Master of the Autoharp singer/songwriter, and riveting storyteller, Bryan has teamed up with two über pickers, Danny Knicely (world class Virginia mandolinist, guitarist, mandocellist, and Virginia Folklife master) and Geoff Goodhue (New England based singer and multi-instrumentalist) to create American folk and mountain music at its finest.
An “absurdly talented banjoist” –Bluegrass Today
Main Stage (Schooley Mill Field) | 1pm – 3pm Saturday, October 6
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Gina Clowes’ innovative and unique musicianship and songwriting is based in traditional music, yet makes a new musical statement. She is a nominee for the International Bluegrass Music Asociation (IBMA) Banjo player of the year.
Gina (perhaps better known under her birth name, Gina Furtado) was born and raised in Front Royal, Virginia, began touring up and down the east coast in her tween years with her siblings wining awards in fiddlers conventions, dominating banjo competitions for 20 years, and earning a strong reputation in the regional bluegrass scene, and a stamp from Bluegrass Today as “absurdly talented”. She later played in a number of regional acts (Blue Light Special, New Girls Nite Out, On the Run, Bud’s Collective) and has made her international touring exposure with Chris Jones and the Night Drivers soon after joining the group. She is sought after as a teacher privately and at camps across the country. Her new album, True Colors, which was released in September 2017, debuted on bluegrass Billboard Charts at #13, had a number one hit on Roots Music Report, has appeared on Bluegrass Today’s Grassicana Charts, and has received sparkling reviews from critics. Gina and her tune “Saylor’s Creek” was featured on the cover of Banjo Newsletter.
Gina will be joined by her sister Malia Furtado who is an amazing fiddle player.
Video courtesy of Visit Loudoun.
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Video courtesy of JC Silvey.
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A traditional cake passed down through the years in the village of Waterford, little is known about the origins but it may be pictured in this old photo of the Waterford Country Store.
Try the Waterford Cake at the ChefScape tent during the Waterford Fair. ChefScape is located in the Schooley Mill area near the Wine & Beer Meadow. They will also be serving other gourmet desserts, appetizers and entrees.
See the Food & Libations page for details and prices.
