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Address: 50 Main Street
City: Belfast
State: Maine
Mining old phonograph records for gold is the current joy of two Maine musicians, Dave Peloquin, of Windsor, and Bob Webb, of Phippsburg. They have been singing traditional folk songs for more than 40 years. Two years ago, they discovered their common interest in the earliest commercial recordings of folk and "country-western" artists. The result of their collaboration is a compact disc album, "Sounds Like Old Times," which will be debuted at the gallery concert.
Peloquin and Webb take a faithful, but retro look at commercially recorded rural music from the 1920s to the early 1950s, including songs by Jimmie Rodgers, Alton and Rabon Delmore of the Delmore Brothers, Woody Guthrie, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Hank Williams. Using guitars, five-string banjo and occasionally a mandolin, they offer a new sound that is actually decades old. They sing songs for good times and hard times that honor, without slavishly recreating recordings they and their parents and grandparents once enjoyed on 78-rpm records.
Both men are seasoned presenters. Each has performed solo, as well as in a variety of musical groups. They are well-known around New England and in Europe for their presentations of traditional music of the sea, but the concert won't feature shanties or sailors' songs. "We enjoy singing and teaching about songs under sail," Webb said. "But we're playing a different sort of music. It was astonishing to discover that Dave and I share a real affection for early rural recordings. We've been listening to those songs, separately, since the 1950s." Bob is an accomplished five-string banjo player. He gave a standing-room only concert of solo banjo tunes and songs at Åarhus Gallery during 2009. For more information about Dave and Bob, long on to www.richmondwebb.com
The new CD, "Sounds Like Old Times" will be available at the concert.
A $10 suggested donation will be collected at the door. Refreshments will be served.
Aarhus Gallery is located at 50 Main Street, Belfast, Maine. For more information visit www.aarhusgallery.com or call 207-338-0001.
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