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The Harmony Sisters -Reunion
Saturday Sept 22 at 8pm
Traditional singing, fiddle, banjo, & mandolin
The group grew out of long time friendships, and love of traditional music. All three sing and play the fiddle. Alice Gerrard plays guitar and banjo, Jeanie McLerie plays guitar and Irene Hermann plays the mandolin and cello
Toured extensively throughout US and Canada, delighting audiences with music, recipes, unusual harmonies, arrangements and personal style
Recorded two albums between 1979-1985, Harmony Pie and A Second Helping. CD has been released, called The Early Years, with the best of these 2 albums
Expect rocking Cajun music, NM Spanish songs, Alice Gerrard's wonderful originals, unusual harmony fiddle music from the Tohono O'odham in Arizona, and much more
Three reunion tours in last seven years, including Sept 2007 tour of Bay Area
Alice Gerrard lives in Virginia, having played with Tommy Jarrell, Bill Monroe and countless others. Works on the Old-Time Herald. Jeanie McLerie has lived in Paris, California, Lousiana and New Mexico, learning music first hand from musicians in the community. Member of Bayou Seco (7 CD’s), along with husband Ken Keppeler. Musical tastes vary from Southwest-Cajun to old Spanish songs of border area. Irene Herrmann divides her musical talent between classical piano and cello, and traditional music, having recorded with Joe and Antoinette McKenna, R. Crumb’s Cheap Suit Sereendarers, and mandolin in several Italian trios.
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