{"id":40105,"date":"2011-02-04T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40105"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:49","slug":"freewill-folkfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/04\/freewill-folkfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk fest features fiddler Erica Brown, Celtic fusion band the Bridgebuilders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/erica-brown-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/erica-brown-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewiston fiddler Erica Brown, the Boston-area folk-fusion band the Bridgebuilders, and local and Bates College performers appear at the Bates Community Folk Festival starting at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Following the festival in Chase Lounge at 8 p.m. is the college&#8217;s regular second-Friday contradance, featuring caller Chrissy Fowler and the bands Playgroup and Perpetual e-Motion. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society, a student organization at Bates, the festival is open to the public at no cost. Suggested donation for the contradance is $6. For more information, please contact kwebber@bates.edu.<\/p>\n<p>The festival begins with a slate of performers from Bates and the region, including Leafy Greens, Grace Glasson, Raspberry Jam, Brendan Davidson, Antonio Dominguez, Nicole Singer and the Bates singing ensembles Northfield and TakeNote.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 p.m., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericabrownonline.com\/\">Brown and the Bluegrass Connection<\/a> appear. Brown, who has performed since age 7, is a musician celebrated across the region for a style that combines classical technique with the freewheeling spirit of bluegrass.<\/p>\n<p>The Medford, Mass.-based sextet the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Bridgebuilders\/11767618881?v=info\">Bridgebuilders<\/a> perform at 6:30. Fusing traditional Celtic folk music with funk and rock, the Bridgebuilders create a distinctive blend of timeless melodies and innovative arrangements that incorporate multiple fiddles, bouzouki and Hammond organ.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Greg Boardman, a prominent Maine fiddler and member of the applied music faculty at Bates, the folk band Chase the Fiddlers provides the tunes for an open waltz beginning at 7:30. The session includes a beginner&#8217;s contradance workshop with caller Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>From the Midcoast, Playgroup kicks off the 8 p.m. contradance, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perpetuale-motion.com\/\">Perpetual e-Motion<\/a>, a Maine duo that enhances traditional songs and instruments with state-of-the-art technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewiston fiddler Erica Brown, the Boston-area folk-fusion band the Bridgebuilders, and local and Bates College performers appear at the Bates Community Folk Festival starting at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. Following the festival in Chase Lounge at 8 p.m. is the college&#8217;s regular second-Friday contradance, featuring caller Chrissy Fowler and the bands Playgroup and Perpetual e-Motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,130,133,31],"tags":[522,2574,3591,3688,10830,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-40105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-creativity","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-a-cappella","tag-contradance","tag-folk-festival","tag-freewill-folk-society","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87096,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}