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TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, and the St. Lawrence University Music Department invite the community to join virtuoso wooden flute player Chris Norman and fiddler David Greenberg for an open jam session including Maritime, Celtic, French Canadian, and Cape Breton music styles on Wednesday, September 20 from 7:00-8:30pm. The jam session will take place at Peterson-Kermani Performance Hall on the St. Lawrence University campus. All skill levels are welcome, and jam leaders Chris and David will demonstrate and teach tunes and coach players on how to join in.

Born in Halifax, Chris developed an early passion for traditional forms of Maritime, Celtic, and French Canadian musical styles. As a performer and composer, he is a champion and standard-bearer for these forms while also exploring their boundaries and fusing them to classical styles. Chris makes not only flute music, but flutes themselves, specially designing instruments for each customer. His contribution to the music community also includes the Boxwood Festival and Workshop, a weeklong celebration of traditional music that has taken place in Canada and beyond for the past 21 years. As founder and director of the festival, Chris unites and inspires musicians, teachers, academics, and flute-makers and engages a multi-generational, multi-disciplinary community – an achievement that is the subject of a documentary film set for release in 2017. David Greenberg is a baroque violinist and fiddler in the Cape Breton and 18th-century Scottish styles. He grew up in Maryland, learning violin from age four and exploring various fiddling styles early on. David is also a prolific composer of tunes in the Cape Breton style, having penned many that have been widely recorded, played and admired. These two extraordinary performers have played together as sparring partners for more than 20 years on the concert stage and in the recording studio. Find more info and videos of the duo at: http://www.chrisnorman.com/booking-cn-dg-duo

The jam session is free and open to the public. Norman and Greenberg will be in the area for a 3-day residency at St. Lawrence University Wednesday through Friday, September 20 – 22. They will also give a concert on Friday evening at 8pm in Peterson-Kermani Performance Hall on the St. Lawrence University campus.

TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people understand and appreciate the folk traditions and local culture of everyday life—present and past—in the North Country. To do so, TAUNY seeks to research and preserve a record of diverse groups, customs and traditions; to recognize and empower traditional arts and artists; to identify and promote regional identity; and to provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn about folklore and culture. More information is available at tauny.org.

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Photo: Chris Norman (wooden flute) and David Greenberg (fiddle) play music of the Canadian Maritimes.

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