Join as we welcome Ken Waldman & The Wild Ones to The River House!
Ken Waldman combines Appalachian-style string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely his. He has twenty books (including sixteen full-length poetry collections), twelve CDs, and since 1995 has appeared at the widest range of concert series, festivals, and clubs, from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to the famed Dodge Poetry Festival to the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia. Reviewers have compared his stage show to John Hartford and Garrison Keillor. He'll be joined by Pittsburgh multi-instrumentalists, Mark Tamsula and Barbara Rosner who'll also perform during the evening as a duo. Mark Tamsula plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin, and has performed and taught in Southwestern Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. His six CDs of music from the research of musicologist Samuel Bayard have received accolades. Barbara Rosner plays bass and guitar, and has been in bands from California to Appalachia. She also has spent a year as an apprentice to master Kentucky fiddler John Harrod.
www.kenwaldman.com for more about Ken Waldman.
Mark Tamsula & Barbara Rosner BIO (The Wild Ones)
Mark Tamsula has been performing and teaching fiddle, banjo, guitar, and mandolin in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region for over 30 years. www.appalachianmusic.net. He has produced six albums of fiddle, banjo, and fife tunes from the Samuel Bayard collection of Southwestern Pennsylvania music.
Barbara Rosner has been performing and teaching upright bass and old-time guitar from California to Appalachia for the past twelve years. Current projects are with Mark Tamsula in Snappin’ Bug, and Cajun band Mon Krewe based in Pittsburgh. She was a Kentucky Arts Council fiddle apprentice with master John Harrod in 2019-2020.
Tickets: $18 in advance, $22 at the door/day of
Doors open at 5pm