An Evening of Old Time Adirondack Music
On Saturday, May 23, 2009, the historic Edwards Opera House was the site for a concert that was the culminating event of the weekend that celebrated the launch of TAUNY’s website “W is for the Woods”: Traditional Adirondack Music & Music-Making.The concert featured six of the musicians who are profiled on the website. Each of them grew up with music in their families and began young to sing and play, at home and in their communities. Each has been recognized with TAUNY’s North Country Heritage Awards, for mastery of their music, maintaining their musical traditions, and sharing their art with others.
The concert was possible thanks to generous support from Northern Music and Video and Cabot Creamery Cooperative.
Concert participants included:
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Ermina Pincombe, whose roots—both biological and musical--go deep into Adirondack soil. Coming from Benson, near Northville, she sings and plays a variety of instruments, including the guitar, fiddle and mandola, her favorite. As the Town of Benson Supervisor, she is well known for both her political skills as well as for her music. Her public performing is usually for s

Dave Ruch Introduces Ermina and David Pincombe
Lumberjack's Alphabet
When the Bees are in the Hive
The Dying Soldier
The Old Wooden Rocker
Lumberjack's Alphabet
When the Bees are in the Hive
The Dying Soldier
The Old Wooden Rocker
Don Perkins & Phyllis Ezero, brother and sister from Plattsburgh, grew up in the heart of the Adirondacks, near Lake Placid. Their grandfather Perkins was a logger and fiddler, father Francis Perkins was known as the best dance caller in the a

From Brant Lake in the southern Adirondacks, Colleen Cleveland brings to us the centuries-old tradition of ballad singing, particularly from her own family’s Irish and Scottish roots. Colleen’s grandmother, Sara Clev

Almost an icon of the Adirondacks himself, Bill Smith travels far to share his stories and music with audiences ranging from kindergartners to centenarians. Growing up in a woods family in The Featherbed section of Colton, he learned early from his father and mother about the rich oral traditions of the woods. While he learned some of the lumbermen’s songs as a

While Don Woodcock first learned to play piano to accompany his father Howard’s fiddling, by age 14 he himself took up the fiddle. Like his father, he played for dances in Grange halls and community centers and also started competing in local fiddle contests in the early 1970s. More than thirty years later, Don now holds the title of Grand Champion Fiddler of New York State, having won the state championship contest three times. From nearby Kendrew Corners, Don frequently plays at shows and exhibitions in the Northeast, and has been known to fiddle in country, bluegrass and jazz/swing groups as well. Don is widely known for his amazing repertoire of old music and for his technical proficiency on both the fiddle and the piano.
Dave Ruch Introduces Bill Smith and Don Woodcock
Dad's Reel, Reel in D & Trume's Reel
Logger's Breakdown & Mitten's Hornpipe
The Ballad of the Fifty-Cent Piece
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Grand Finale!
Dad's Reel, Reel in D & Trume's Reel
Logger's Breakdown & Mitten's Hornpipe
The Ballad of the Fifty-Cent Piece
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Grand Finale!
