Carolina Chocolate Drops - Ithaca, United States

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Carolina Chocolate Drops
With their 2010 Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig—which garnered a Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy last year—the Carolina Chocolate Drops proved that the old-time, fiddle and banjo-based music they’d so scrupulously researched and passionately performed could be a living, breathing, ever-evolving sound. Starting with material culled from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, they sought to freshly interpret this work, not merely recreate it, highlighting the central role African-Americans played in shaping our nation’s popular music from its beginnings more than a century ago. The virtuosic trio’s approach was provocative and revelatory. Their concerts, The New York Times declared, were “an end-to-end display of excellence… They dip into styles of Southern black music from the 1920s and ’30s—string-band music, jug-band music, fife and drum, early jazz—and beam their curiosity outward. They make short work of their instructive mission and spend their energy on things that require it: flatfoot dancing, jug playing, shouting.”

Location of Venue:State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca, NY Event Type: town Dates:26/9/2012 to 26/9/2012

Contact Telephone:607-277-8283
Event Website: http://stateofithaca.com/carolinachocolatedrops/index.html

Admission Fees:24.50-29.50

Admission Times: 8:00PM

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