5th annual Celtic Music Series kicks off Saturday with Cooking With Turf
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 1:14pm
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October 20, 2018 - 7:00pm The 2018-2019 Celtic Music Series at the Brewery Arts Center opens with the traditional Irish and Scottish music of Cooking With Turf, an acoustic trio from California’s Central Valley. This season opener happens at the Brewery Arts Center’s Performance Hall Theater this Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM.
Cooking With Turf formed in the late 1990's. They started as the house band for the Palo Alto Ceilí Dance where they played for Irish social dancing similar to New England Contra Dance. When that dance ended in 2000, they became the house band for Irish Set Dancing at Scruffy Murphy's in Sunnyvale, CA, playing for the Irish equivalent to American Square dancing. In 2007, Cooking With Turf reformed in the Santa Cruz. Now they are based in Modesto, CA, and, as fiddler, Steve Kenworthy points out, “all of us are products of the wonderful music programs our public schools used to promote.”
“Turf” is blocks of peat once widely used in Ireland for heating and cooking. The name of the band, “Cooking With Turf,” derives from an incident while flute player, Richard Ferry, was playing at a ceilí dance. After having finished a tight set of tunes, someone piped up with, “Now you’re cooking with gas!” to which another replied, “No—that's cooking with turf!”
It is in an inspired way they present the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland, from rollicking jigs and reels to touching airs, and songs, both comic and sad. Cooking With Turf features a variety of instruments: flute, whistle, fiddle, various mandolins, dulcimers and guitar.
The Celtic Music Series presents local, regional, and internationally-recognized traditional, acoustic Celtic music artists every third Saturday of the month from October through May, except December. Shows start at 7:00 PM, Tickets are available through breweryarts.org. Prices at $15 for BAC members, seniors, and students, $18 in advance, and $20 at the door. Season tickets are still available.
For further information on the Cooking With Turf performance or the Celtic Music Series, please contact Gina Hill at Brewery Arts Center. (775) 883-1976 or email at gina@breweryarts.org
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