Eric and Suzy Thompson and Rafe Stefanini performed a fun variety of bluegrass, gospel, Cajun and blues songs at this month's Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music concert in Newark. Eric and Suzy live in Berkeley, California, and Rafe lives in Elkins Park, so they don't get to play together very often. Suzy mentioned wryly that the audience "might see the creative process at work" during one song they hadn't rehearsed very much.
One song was about Aunt Caroline Dyer, an African-American woman who offered both hairdressing and fortune-telling services to her clients. Another was about the romantic adventures of Lord Bateman, Americanized as "Lloyd Bateman" because, as Suzy explained, "in the United States we don't have lords and ladies." Even in the American version, though, he still owned a castle.
The audience for these concerts skews toward the AARP demographic (there are a lot of gray beards), so it was good to see a young girl with her parents at the show.
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