Concert: Critton Hollow String Band

Doors Open: 5pm

Jan Gillies: 6pm

Cost :$18.00

Critton Hollow String Band: 7pm

Since 1975, Critton Hollow has brought traditional American music to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Ireland, and Scotland. With fiddle, hammer dulcimer, banjo, and guitar, the band tends a stable of songs from the first settlements of Appalachia to the best of contemporary American folk music. Songs that express a range of experience that can make you laugh or make you cry and occasionally do both at the same time, ballads that tell stories of bad men and disappointed lovers. Instrumentals that will make you want to get up and dance or sit back and listen.

Jan Gillies grew up in the swamplands of northern Indiana, became a sailor, scientist, SCUBA Diver, storyteller and songwriter. Since first picking up a guitar at the age of 14, during the upheavals of the Vietnam War, she uses music to laugh, cry, scream and whisper about all twists and turns life has thrown at her. Developing her initial Travis-picking style in coffeehouses from the Chicago area and Kangaroo Island, Australia to Miami, Florida, she has played in swamps, on shipboards, music festivals, and a wide range of usual and unusual venues. Her story-songs and performances have been described as both educational and ‘mesmerizing.’ She has won awards in the Mid Atlantic Song Competition and ZETA 4 Miami radio station’s “Search for Sound” competition for new songwriters. She currently has 8 CDs, covering a lifetime of experience as a scientist, naturalist, geologist, sailor, SCUBA diver, teacher, and much more.