Philadelphia’s Brad Hinton joins Adrien Reju for House Concert on October 18th
Lovesick & Heartbroken Every day’s a struggle since you’ve been gone Every day’s a struggle since you’ve been gone I’ve got love to burn, when you return Every day’s a struggle since you’ve been...
View ArticleFeel the Monday Blues Comin’ On?
Hang in there just 5 short days – Lancaster’s Music Friday is just around the corner. At Chestnut House Concerts there is room for a few more audience members at the Adrien Reju | Brad Hinton show....
View ArticleKickstarter: Another way to support musicians
Kickstarter is a way to fund creative projects. It’s an all or nothing campaign. An artist (musician, filmmaker, designer) sets a goal with a specific deadline and encourages people to pledge. The...
View ArticleSeed of a Pine: Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer
We first communicated with Mandy Fer (Ferrarini) and Dave McGraw about their upcoming November show at Chestnut House Concerts 10 months ago. Since that time we’ve built an online friendship with...
View ArticleIn Search of Musicians
Many times we book bands at Chestnut House Concerts that we have heard live, but other times we simply trust recordings and recommendations and we’ve never regretted that method. We listened to Dave...
View ArticleMusic & Fashion…
In addition to showcasing songwriting & performing skills at Chestnut House Concerts, these Roots/Americana musicians bring style and fashion. Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton will be...
View ArticleAnnouncing One More Show in 2013
The Tanasi Ramblers are 3 well-known musicians performing just four shows while away from their regular band tours. Hope you can join us for this unique listening experience.
View ArticleDecember 18, Chestnut House Concerts
“When you want genuine music – music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole...
View ArticleThe Americana Agency
Our first house concert was The Barn Birds (Jonathan Byrd/Chris Kokesh). Tim knew Chris from Portland, Oregon and heard her perform many times with the Misty River Band and with other musicians over...
View ArticleUpcoming Show – Tanasi Ramblers – 2 days after Christmas
Tanasi = A Cherokee village that’s best known as the source of the name for the state of Tennessee. Rambler = a person who takes long walks in the countryside. Tanasi Ramblers = Cruz Contreras, Shelby...
View ArticleWhen Bluegrass goes Red & Green for the Holidays
Some of you will remember our 2013 Memorial Day house concert with The Barefoot Movement. Here is the band featured on The Bluegrass Situation with “It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas”. We...
View ArticleThe Ger Mandolin Orchestra
The Ger Mandolin Orchestra is a memorial project of reviving the Jewish Mandolin Orchestra that was active in Gora Kalwaria (or as it’s known in Yiddish, “Ger”), Poland between 1920 to 1930. In 2010,...
View ArticleThings That Used to Shine
On December 19, 1926 my grandmother Alice wrote to her betrothed, “I don’t know of any boy that I would rather have had than you. I really don’t believe we could have been any better satisfied if we...
View ArticleBeauty and the Bass
charcoal of Telisha Williams by Candace Butler, Sugar Grove, Virginia While traditional bluegrass bands were (some still are) limited to male musicians, female bass players are fairly common in...
View ArticleLaney Jones & the Lively Spirits
Tim and I were able to attend Grey Fox for the first time in 2013. While we appreciated the High Meadow Stage with big names like Tim O’Brien, the Del McCoury Band and the Carolina Chocolate Drops,...
View ArticleOne thing I know…
I’ve never been good with trivia questions. I can remember my birthday, the first boy I kissed, how many quarts are in a gallon and that the notes on the bass clef between the lines from low to high...
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