Common Ground Downtown presents Critton Hollow and Benny Bleu/Dakota Karper
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Celebrating 50 years, Critton Hollow has brought traditional American music to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, Ireland and Scotland. The band tends a stable of songs from the first settlements of Appalachia to the best of contemporary American folk music. Songs that express a range of experience that can make you laugh or make you cry and occasionally do both at the same time, ballads that tell stories of bad men and disappointed lovers. Critton Hollow (Joe Herrmann, Sam Herrmann and Joe Fallon) have played at festivals and venues including the Birchmere Music Club, the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Folk Festival and Clearwater's Hudson River Revival, as well as television shows including Live at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Music from Home and the Today Show.
Benny Bleu and Dakota Karper are an acoustic folk duo weaving music from the high mountain ridges of West Virginia and the deep lakes of upstate New York into a shared soundscape. With blended vocal harmonies and meditative grooves between banjo and fiddle, their music offers a fresh, present-day perspective grounded in the traditional roots that shaped their sound. Drawing on Dakota’s Appalachian old-time lineage and Benny’s Finger Lakes banjo tradition, the duo creates intimate, transportive performances that celebrate place, community, and the ongoing story of folk music.
Find out more about the bands: Critton Hollow, Benny Bleu and Dakota Karper.
Common Ground Downtown is a partnership of Common Ground on the Hill and the Carroll Arts Center.
