Making Connections: The Celtic Roots of Southern Music

April 27-29 at Emory's Cannon Chapel (Atlanta, Georgia)

Join an internationally renowned group of performers and scholars for a weekend of performances, presentation and conversation exploring the connections between the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and the American South. Through lectures, demonstrations, workshops, panel discussions and concerts, we'll examine the role of folk music as an ongoing, living tradition and its impact on "community," past and present.

Participants will include: Henry Glassie, Fintan Vallely, Joun Moulden, Paul Wells, Alan Jabbour, Sheila Kay Adams, Irish ensemble Atlantic Fringe with Cathy Jordan and Rick Epping, Jamie Laval and the Buzzrunners and the Vega String Quartet.

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