The Bach's Lunch Series, running from November through June, offers free, informal lunch-hour lectures the first Thursday of every month and a related concert the following Thursday in the Concord Community Music School's recital hall, 23 Wall St.
On Jan. 7 David Surette, folk department chair, will present a lecture entitled “Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: The Evolution of Old-time Music.” The following Thursday, Jan. 14, David will be joined in concert with fiddler Isa Burke for “Fine Times at Our House: Old-time Music with David Surette and Isa Burke.” Both the lecture and concert begin at 12:10 p.m. and end by 12:50 p.m.
On Jan. 7, David will explore the roots and branches of traditional American folk music taking the audience on a tour of the highways and byways of old-time music, with scheduled stops in the 1920s for the birth of the recording industry, the 1960s for the folk revival and the 2000s for the current state of affairs.
Expect detours along the way. Crooked tunes, cross-tuning, ballads and blues, with fiddle, guitar, mandolin, cittern, ukulele and banjo will be the order of the day when David is joined by his fiddling daughter, Isa, for a batch of fiddle tunes and a few songs on the 14th.
The Bach's Lunch Series is sponsored by The Duprey Companies and The Timothy and Abigail B. Walker Lecture Fund. For more information, call 228-1196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.
