The O’Shea Sisters and Kansas fences
One of my favourite things about the state next door, Kansas, is its fences - particularly the barbed wire variety. It comes from cycling.
On Saturday, March 31, 2007, Emporia State University professor Ellen Hansen is giving a lecture about fences, their history in America and how Americans define fences at 6:30pm, in the Paola Community Center auditorium.
Then at 8:00pm, the O’Shea Sisters, the very young teen sister duo from Lawrence, Kansas, are performing folk, old-time, bluegrass, and whatever is meant by Celtic music. I always feel patronising when I say somebody is very good, so let me say that the O’Shea Sisters are very, very good.
Great fiddle, guitar and harmonies, you can listen to a couple of tunes on their music MySpace page, namely Wagon Wheel and Little Rabbit.
Shannon, 14, has been playing the fiddle for a decade now, first learning in the Suzuki Method from Dorothy Risebigg and then later taking Bluegrass Fiddle lessons from Kansas Fiddling and Picking Champion and Fiddler for the Topeka band “PASTENSE” Diane Gillenwater.
Erika, 16, took up the Guitar three years ago, also taking from Diane Gillenwater, and just recently has also been attending lessons with Rick Faris SPBGMA Guitar Performer of the Year and part of the award-winning family band “The Faris Family”.
The lecture is in connection with the Smithsonian Institution’s Between Fences traveling exhibit at the Miami County Swan River Museum in Paola, Kansas which will be on display until April 29. Read MORE in the KC Community News.
Rock me Mama like a wagon wheel.
See Also:
• Cork Duo for Kansas City, Missouri
• Celtic Woman in Kansas City, Missouri
• Malachy McCourt at the Kansas City Literary Festival
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