At the Mansfield Public Library, Hope Street in Mansfield MA. From Noon to 2:00 P.M.
Guided Saturday Afternoon Jam Session
At the Mansfield (MA) Public Library, from Noon to 2:00 P.M.
Guided Saturday Afternoon Jam Session
At the Mansfield ( MA) Public Library, February 12, 19 and 26, from Noon to 2:00 P.M.
South Shore Folk Music Club, Kingston, MA
Lorraine and Bennett in concert at the Beal House
222 Main Street, Kingston, MA
Folk Song Society Concert, 1st Parish, Watertown MA
Lorraine and Bennett perform for the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston, at First Parish in Watertown MA
Lorraine teaches mandolin at the John C. Campbell Folk School
Lorraine teaches beginning mandolin
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, North Carolina
https://www.folkschool.org/
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Lorraine presents her Appalachian Dulcimer lecture/demonstration
in the Musical Instrument Gallery at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.mfa.org/
Cambridge Center for Adult Education Term Starts
Lorraine and Bennett start classes
SAMW Gathering and Jam Session
UMass, Boston Campus. Starts at Noon
For details, call Dick Pleasants, 617/287-6901
Jingalo Gypsy
Jingalo Gypsy is a warm, enveloping, well-thought-out recording of four traditional and nine contemporary compositions rooted in the folk tradition. Seven of the cuts are instrumentals and range from a delicate, sparkling guitar solo, “Emerald Necklace”, penned and performed by Bennett Hammond, to a fine guitar/harp/mandolin/whistle rendition of Turlough O’Carolon’s “She Beag She Mor” to a solid, fiddle-free duet interpretation of the fiddle tune “Rye Whiskey”, spotlighting the Hammonds playing their primary instruments, Bennett on guitar and Lorraine on Appalachian dulcimer.
Songs include Bennett’s cowboy version of “Gypsy Davy”, here titled “Her Husband, Gypsy Dave.” and Lorraine’s title track, which is her take on the same classic. It’s a lengthy and intriguing chronicle sporting a full but not busy accompaniment with Lorraine playing both banjo and harp, plus three backing vocalists, fiddle, whistle and mandolin.
Most selections feature two to five instrumentalists. Two other original songs, “My Mother’s Face” by Lorraine and Bennett’s “No Eyes So Clear”, both about parents and generations, are of a more contemporary nature, yet fit hand-in-glove within the traditional folk setting of this beautiful CD.
-Al Reiss, Buffalo, NY