Old time Ballads, Stories and Fiddle Tunes of the American West
Skip Gorman is a prodigiously talented musician - an exquisitely nuanced singer, versatile guitarist and fiddler and one of the best Monroe-style mandolin players around. But his real forte is bringing to life the workaday songs and tunes of the cowboys and pioneers of the American West. In addition to his superb musical skills, Gorman is also a scholar with an encyclopedic knowledge of the cowhands? Celtic, Ango, Spanish and African-American roots, gained from years of listening and study, but also his experience as a working cowboy on Wyoming ranches. He?s one of the best of the West.
Skip was raised in Rhode Island, where he took to traditional music at an early age. He was an accomplished mandolinist by the age of twelve, when he met his hereo, Bill Monroe. He majored in Spanish and history at Brown University, while moonlighting with the likes of Frank Wakefield?s bluegrass band.
In 1973 Skip went off to Utah to graduate school, and soon joined up as a charter member of the Deseret String Band, one of the best of the 70s Old Time ensembles, and the first to focus in a serious way on Western music. He also collected recordings of the olod time cowboy singers such as Carl T. Sprague and Romaine Loudermilk, honing a vocal style that has made him one of our finest singers in the genre. He recorded his first solo album on the Old West label and slew have followed on Folk Legacy and Rounder, several of which have won awards. Gorman has appeared on ?A Prairie Home Companion? on more than one occasion, and is a featured musician on Ken Burns?s documentaries ?Baseball and ?Lewis and Clark.?
A few years back Skip moved back eastto New Hampshire, but he still tours extensively all over the U.S. as well as Europe and Latin America. He?s a regular at Cowboy Poetry Gatherings, and is sought after in schools and music camps for his deep knowledge and instrumental skills.
This concert is likely to fill up early so reserve your space early!
For reservations and directions email : andy.sondra@verizon.net, or call 301-324-7311.
