John Elwood & Sally Burkhart |
Our First Thursday Concert in the Attic for this month of March will feature two of the Palouse area's real treasures, John Elwood and Sally Burkhart. John, a native of Albion Washington, is a luthier, musician, teacher and songwriter who earns his living as a piano service technician. With his wife Sally Burkhart, he lives beside the Palouse River in beautiful Elberton, one of the many ghost towns of the region, where he builds dulcimers, mandolins, banjos & other, sometimes nameless creations. John and Sally are familiar to a variety of audiences well outside of the usual folk music venues such as coffee house concerts, taking their vocals and John's instrumental contributions deep into the sometimes bewildered but ultimately appreciative mainstream, to schools, grange halls, senior centers and street corners. John and Sally will play and sing a variety of traditional tunes from North America, Scandinavia and the British Isles. You'll definitely want to take this opportunity to hear this engaging duo, their wonderful musicianship, and to experience the beauty of John's instruments. |
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| Thursday March 5 : FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT series with in the Attic at 314 E 2nd St in Moscow, 7:00 PM. | |
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Elwood's instruments feature an individual approach to the tastes and requirements of each client, usually including carvings and inlays of birds and other life forms, and use locally grown woods, seasoned over the thirty five-plus year span of his work and art. His instruments have traveled to England, Belgium, El Salvador, and Antarctica, and have been praised by Doc Watson, Mike Seeger, and himself. |
He has released one CD, "Retrospective 1988-2005" and his work has been performed and recorded by others. |
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John and Sally have two sons, and two grandchildren with seven teeth between them. |
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