GUITARISTS PERFORM AT HENRY STREET CENTER FEB. 26

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 20, 1993                   TAG: 9301200128
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GUITARISTS PERFORM AT HENRY STREET CENTER FEB. 26
Piedmont guitar music - being performed Feb. 26 at the Henry Street Music Center - is believed by some scholars to date back to the West African lute, which was allowed on some slave ships to encourage African captives to dance and exercise and be more likely to survive their trans-Atlantic passage.
More readily verifiable information places the first Piedmont adaptations of banjo music to guitar around the late 1800s.
The five guitarists and one harmonica player appearing in the Virginia Piedmont Guitarists Tour are widely recognized as masters of the genre. They are Daniel Womack playing sacred music; father and son Turner and Lynn Foddrell doing pre-blues and blues; National Heritage Fellowship award winner John Jackson spanning rags and reels, blues, country and gospel; and two-time W.C. Handy award winners John Cephas and Phil Wiggins doing acoustic blues.
The performance will begin at 7 p.m. The $5 tickets are available in advance through the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke. Call 345-4818.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB