In the news ...
6/27/08 —DMH mourns the passing of Jay Votel, a musician with Allegheny Uprising, a wordsmith extraordinaire, and a good friend to our band. Jay, 52, died Wednesday June 25 of cancer, at home in Sterling. We'd wager that the picking in heaven is a little bit sweeter today for his mandolin playing, and we take comfort in something he wrote on his blog earlier this year:
"Music is very temporal, a pretty good metaphor for life. Nothing gold can stay, as the poet said, and the music is something to enjoy while it is there."
Rest easy, Jay. You are missed by us and so many others. |
| 4/22/08 —Attention all University of Rochester alumni! Caryn (class of '84) and the band are profiled in the current issue of Rochester Review. |
| 2/10/08 — Both of our CDs are for sale at CD Universe. Get 'em now! |
| 1/14/08 — Check out this glowing review of the Nick Lowe tribute from Wolf Trap's official blogger, Carter Rawson. |
After the Civil War, saloons, pawn shops and houses of ill repute dominated the Arlington, Virginia end of the old aqueduct bridge leading into Washington, DC. Law-abiding citizens had to travel in well-armed groups if they wished to pass unharmed. They called this place "Dead Men's Hollow".
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"One of our area's most talented traditional acts."
— The Washington Post |
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| Thanks to those of you who came out for our show on March 6 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. It was a beautiful evening in a wonderfully warm room. We even debuted a few songs off our forthcoming CD. Here we may be seen rehearsing with all six pickers!
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| Sat. 7/26/08 |
Music By the Lake — Hagerstown, MD |
7:00 PM
Free admission |
Last summer, our time in the beautiful bandshell got cut 10 minutes short by a massive thunderstorm; this year we're hoping to play the whole durned two hours!
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| Sun. 9/7/08 |
Eastern Market — Washington, DC |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Free admission |
We return to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation's outdoor summer concert series. So early, so early, so early in the mornin'.
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| Mon. 9/22/08 |
Lincoln's 200th Birthday Celebration —Washington, DC |
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6:30 PM |
We provide musical accompaniment to a celebration of the bicentennial of the 16th president's birth at the Department of the Interior.
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| Sun. 11/2/08 |
Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia — Fairfax, VA |
7:00 PM
$10 |
We return for our second Bluegrass Night at the JCC. Mazel Tov!
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"Two-Timin' ... matches its predecessor's brilliance by combining top-notch instrumentalists with stunning vocals. The six members prove to be equally adept at both interpreting and writing songs that reflect our country's unique acoustic heritage ... but you would be hard pressed to pick [out the original compositions] from their traditional counterparts without looking at the writing credits in the liner notes. This is extremely high praise for a group that takes so much inspiration from the music of the past."
Greg Yost
Music Monthly Magazine
November 2006
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"With the beautiful simplicity and harmony of the Carter Family,
the passion of Ralph Stanley, the eccentric quirks of Dock Boggs
and instrumentalism of John Jackson,
this group of 6 un-grizzled, un-calloused musicians ... has single-handedly
restored my dream of old Virginia."
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Dave Terpeny, Editor
KyndMusic
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