Jacqueline Schwab in Concert

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Pianist Jacqueline Schwab will perform her solo program Making Magic with Ken Burns at the Central-Hall Commons in Dover-Foxcroft, on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., presented by the Maine Highlands Council for the Arts. Jacqueline has been heard for many years on Ken Burns’ Civil War and numerous other of his documentaries. Jacqueline will feature pieces from her Burns soundtrack performances and will also share some of her own work celebrating cultural diversity, inspired by her work with Ken. You will hear Jacqueline’s interpretation of Jay Ungar’s well-loved Ashokan Farewell, along with well-known vintage American standards, such as Be Thou My Vision, Tenting on the Old Campground, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, as well as traditional Celtic, French Canadian, and vintage Latin tunes. Jacqueline will speak about the tunes and Ken’s unusual way of working with music—how he inspires emot ive performances and uses music to amplify his messages and shed historical light on today’s world. This will be Jacqueline’s first Dover-Foxcroft appearance. Jacqueline spins musical stories out of the many strands in the American quilt, with community music-making at their heart. Her signature playing features in over a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and his recently-released Benjamin Franklin, as well as in other PBS documentaries, such as The Irish in America—The Long Journey Home. She has performed at the White House, and (twice) on national PBS with the American Pops Orchestra, and she has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. She is well-known to the traditional dance world for her groundbreaking playing with the Bare Necessities ensemble. Her recently-released solo album I Lift My Lamp—Illuminations from Immigrant America celebrates vintage music from American immigrants. Jacqueline’s Saturday, September 28, 2024, 6 pm performance Making Magic with Ken Burns will be at Central Hall Commons, 152 East Main St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. Admission is: $10. Tickets may be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/Jacqueline-Schwab For more information: arts@centralhallcommons.org or 207-598-6398