Common Ground Downtown presents Critton Hollow and Vandalia
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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.
Vandalia is dedicated to exploring the depth and breadth of American String-band music. Informed by tradition, but not chained to it, the group has found a niche inside of the old-time community as well as in the wider arts world that offers audiences a forward-looking take on traditional acoustic music. Formed from a chance encounter at the 2024 Baltimore Old-Time Festival, fiddler Dakota Karper, cellist Ellen Gira and guitarist Gabriel Furtado met in a late-night afterparty jam session. The three musicians bring something all-their-own to the trio – West-Virginian born and raised, Dakota is steeped in the West Virginia fiddling tradition as the protege of master fiddler Joe Herrmann. A seasoned veteran of the both the D.C. and Glasgow music scenes, Ellen has made a reputation herself as one of the most versatile cellists in the trad world, adding her hallmark chop to countless ensembles and recordings, and stretching the boundaries of style with elements of the Scottish, Irish, American, Scandinavian and Canadian traditions. A classical-to-bluegrass guitar crossover, Gabriel is well known for his front-of-the-beat rhythm playing and driving pocket, heard at countless square dances, bluegrass festivals and jazz clubs in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond.
Find out more about the bands: Critton Hollow and Vandalia.
Common Ground Downtown is a partnership of Common Ground on the Hill and the Carroll Arts Center.
