Fiddler Donna Hébert to Perform at Folk School

Massachusetts fiddler Donna Hébert will perform at 7:30 pm on Friday, January 12 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. The public is welcome to enjoy a public exhibition of Folk School student crafts from 6:40 - 7 p.m in the Keith House Community Room, where the concert will be held.

Donna Hébert is an extraordinary fiddler, able to find the rhythmic heartbeat of any piece. She has shared concert and festival stages with musicians such as David Bromberg, Sweet Honey in the Rock and James Cotton, and has fiddled, sung, and written for her own bands, which have included seminal contra dance band Yankee Ingenuity, award-winning women's group Rude Girls, and the Franco-American cultural group Chanterelle, now in it's 12th year.

Adept at helping others to find their musical groove, Donna teaches fiddling to individuals and groups at schools, colleges, conferences and festivals. She joined the faculty at Mark O'Connor's 2006 Strings Conference and directed The Great Groove Band of school-age musicians at the Old Songs Festival in Altamont NY.She is currently at work on a CD featuring the tunes of her late Franco-American fiddling mentor Louis Beaudoin.

Upcoming Folk School concerts include hammered dulcimer virtuoso Ken Kolodner (January 19) and folksinger Madeline MacNeil (Thursday, January 25) The Friday night concert schedule is available on the world wide web at http://wwwfolkschool.org.

For further information, call the Folk School at 828-837-2775 or 1-800-FOLK-SCH.