Lucille Reilly to be featured in Folk School Concert

Autoharp and hammered dulcimer champion Lucille Reilly will be featured in a free concert at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. on Friday, August 11 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Festival Barn, but those attending are urged to park near Keith House or the Dining Hall and walk to the Festival Barn where there will be only a limited number of handicapped parking spaces available. In the barn there is hay bale seating, so audience members may wish to bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfort. Admission is free. The Folk School Craft Shop will be open until 7:30 p.m..

Lucille Reilly is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ and an award winning performer on both autoharp and hammered dulcimer. She won first place in autoharp twice

(2003 and 1995) and first place in hammered dulcimer once (1997) at the prestigious Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield Kansas. Ms Reilly has performed throughout the country in venues as varied as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas and Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. In 2002 she provided communion music for church services celebrated in Denver by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She appears on the multiple CD set ?Autoharp Legacy? which features top autoharp players from around the world.

The Folk School concert schedule is available on the world wide web at http://www.folkschool.org

For further information, call the Folk School at 837-2775 or 1-800-FOLK-SCH.