Common Ground on the Hill's

2009 Roots Music and Arts Festival

 July 11 & 12, 2009

Carroll County Farm Museum, Westminster, Maryland


Saturday Schedule 
To learn about our performers, CLICK HERE.

Stage Pavilion Stage Blues Stage Pine Grove Stage
Amphitheater Stage
10:00  a.m. Highland Pipes Welcome
Wayne Morrison
Mountain Dulcimers
Lois Hornbostel
Susan Boyer Haley

Songs of Peace from Vietnam
Richard Fuller
 
Bob Fish
Autoharp


Oldtime & Celtic Band
The Martin Family

Mike Atherton & Friends
Music from the Common
Ground Studio
11:00  a.m. Hammered Dulcimer Summit
Bill Troxler, Joe Healey,
Lindsey Family,
Ting Ting Su,
Dan Landrum,
Stephen Humphries

 
A.J. Bodnar & Liza DiSavino
 Catskill Songsters

Derrick McQueen
Songs of the Movement
Father & Son:
Ken & Ryan Koons

Celtic & Nordic Music
Port Righ
Celtic Harp & Pipes
Songs & Spoken Word from
the Rock Garden

Dan Collins, Lee Francis, Lost in Holland & Friends
12:00 p.m. Folkloric Group San Jos é
Mexican
Folkloric Dance

Isabel Sosa, Director
Lost in Holland
Josh Hisle &
Michael G. Ronstadt
World Music
Paul Austerlitz
Flutes, Whistles, Recorders, Panpipes & Didgeridoo
Frank McGuire, Bill Troxler, Liza DiSavino, Jeanne McDougall, Ken Koons, Tom Chess, Barry Sager, Pitz Quattrone

Banjos on Fire!
Bill Vanaver,
Howie Bursen
  Lydia Martin,
Bob Lucas,
Sule Greg Wilson, 
Andy Cohen

 1:00 p.m. World Music & Dance
Bill & Livia Vanaver,
Tom Chess,
Steve Bloom,
Jon Seligman

Shelley Ensor
Gospel & Jazz

Harry Orlove
Musical Director
Scots Abroad
Paul Creighton, Frank McGuire,
Brian Connolly, Jean McDougall

Howie Bursen
New England Folk
2:00 p.m.  Father & Son:
Bob & Austin Lucas

Singer Songwriters from the Heartland
Eastman String Band
Alt-Grass
Venissa Santi & Patricio Acevedo
Cuba, Brasil & Chile in Song
Mountain Dulcimers
Lois Hornbostel & Susan Boyer Haley
Rod MacDonald
Singer Songwriter
3:00 p.m.  Footworks
Percussive Dance Ensemble
Eileen Carson, Director
Mother & Son:
Lea & Jonathan Gilmore
Gospel, Blues & R&B
Father & Daughter:
Bob & Skye Zentz

Singer Songwriters
Scandinavian Music
Masters
Peter Puma Hedlund
G
öran Olsson
4:00  p.m. Santa Cruz River Band
Troubadours of the Great Southwest
 Professor Louie
Music from Woodstock
 Squeeze Boxing & Free-Reeding
Professor Louie, A.J. Bodnar,
Bob Zentz, Wayne Morrison,
 Dave Burkitt, Rhonda Rucker
 Ken Bloom
World Stringed Instrument Master

5:00 p.m.  Walt Michael & Company
Roots Chamber Ensemble

Alexander Mitchell, Ralph Gordon,
Tom Wetmore
Sparky & Rhonda Rucker
Tennessee Folk
Balinese Gamelan Ensemble
Michael Rohrbacher & Friends
Slim Harrison Sunnyland Band
The Barnstormers, Tom Jolin,
Rock Candy Cloggers
Dan Landrum
Stephen Humphries

Hammered Dulcimer Innovators
 6:00 p.m  Guy Davis
W.C. Handy Award Winner
Acoustic Blues

The Survivors:
Music of Post-Katrina New Orleans

Henry Reiff,
Chris James,
Professor Louie,
Jon Seligman

 
Pitz Quattrone - Didgeridoo
Ting Ting Su -
Chinese Hammered Dulcimer- Yangqin
Dave Burkitt -
Harmonica Virtuoso
Andy Cohen
Acoustic Blues Master
w/Archie's Barbershop's Mike Baytop, Tim Porer, Joe Selly & Friends
 7:00 p.m

Ralph Stanley
&
The Clinch Mountain Boys

Grammy Award Winning
Oldtime Bluegrass

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 8:30 - 11:00 p.m Dance at the Ag Center      

 

RALPH STANLEY and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Saturday, 7 p.m. on the Pavilion  Stage

 

 

Sunday Schedule 
To learn about our performers, CLICK HERE.

Stage Pavilion Stage Blues Stage Pine Grove Stage
Amphitheater Stage
10:00  a.m.  Sacred Songs in the Morning
Walt Michael, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, Derrick McQueen,
Susan Boyer Hayley, Andy Cohen, Sakim and others
 Hammered Dulcimer
From the Heartland with 
The Lindseys
Celtic & Beyond with 
Bill Troxler & Joe Healy
 World Drumming Circle
Jaqui MacMillan, Laurie Precht, Jumoke Ajanku,
Jon Seligman, Frank McGuire,
 Mike Atherton & Friends
Music from the Common
    Ground Studio
                             Here's to the Long Haul
Music, Songs & Stories of
Mountaintop Removal
11:00  a.m.  Sacred Songs
continues
 Suzanne & Jim
Oldtime Song & Dance

 Scottish Song
Paul Creighton ,
Frank McGuire,
Linda Rice-Johnston

 

 Songs & Spoken Word
from the Rock Garden

Dan Collins & Friends
12:00 p.m.  Red Hen
New Old Time Music
 Martin Family Band
Oldtime Music in the Family Tradition
Bob Fish
Autoharp & Song
 Slim Harrison Sunnyland Band
The Barnstormers
Tom Jolin
Rock Candy Cloggers
 Native Flute
Story & Song

Sakim, Robin Tillery
Jeremy Wright, Lee Francis IV
 1:00 p.m.  D.C Bluegrass Union
Randy Barrett, Dede Wyland,
Tom Gray, Tara Linhardt,
Jimmy Heffernan,
Alexander Mitchell,
Dave Kiphuth Tom Adams
Oldtime Music Masters
Dave Bing
& Earl White
 
Wherligig  
Traditional
Celtic & Nordic Acoustic Music
 
 Port Righ
Scottish Harp & Pipes
2:00 p.m.  Scandinavian Music Masters
Peter Puma Hedlund
G
öran Olsson

 Andy Cohen
Blues Master

 Just Beat It!
Hammered Dulcimer Workshop

Jeanean Martin
Bill Troxler, Joe Healey,
David Lindsey, Tom Jolin
 Bluegrass Banjos
on Fire!

Randy Barrett,  Dave Kiphuth, Kyle Tuttle,
Tom Adams
  Tom Gray
3:00 p.m.  Sankofa Dance Theater
West African & African American
Dance & Drumming

Kibibi Ajanku, Director
Guy Davis
W.C. Handy Award Winner
Acoustic Blues
 
 Dede Wyland
Randy Barrett

Singer Songwriters

 Oldtime Banjos on Fire!
Dave Bing, Lydia Martin,
Dave Kiphuth, Jim Hale,
Andy Cohen,

Brian Connolly,
Ben Townsend,
Joe Overton,
Willie Dodson

4:00  p.m.  Walt Michael & Co.
Folk Roots Chamber Ensemble
 Celtic Session
Paul Creighton,
Frank McGuire,  Port Righ,  Brian Connolly,
Linda Rice-Johnston
 Fiddling Around
Dave Bing, Earl White,
Jane Rothfield,
Claude Martin,
Ben Townsend,
Joe Overton,
Ryan Koons, G
öran Olsson
 Guitars Galore
Andy Cohen,
Tom Adams,
Mike Atherton,
Jimmy Heffernan,
Guy Davis
5:00  p.m.  Tim O'Brien
Grammy Award Winner
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Grammy Award Winner

   Tim O'Brien

Sunday, 5 p.m. on the Pavilion  Stage

 

At the close of the festival, those who are enrolled in Traditions Week II will go to McDaniel College, Big Baker Chapel, to register and attend orientation at 8 PM.  Instructor orientation is at 7 PM.