Friday evening we headed down to Newark to hear a concert by Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains as part of the Brandywine Friends of Old-Time Music series. They played fiddle, guitar and banjo and drew a crowd of knowledgeable fans who were avid to hear about the origins of the songs and how the two learned them. The two spent a lot of time tuning their instruments between songs. Howard joked that he really didn't need to use his electronic tuner, all he needed to do was look at whether Tricia, his wife, was smiling or wincing. Tricia and Howard, who live in Kansas, were spending the weekend in Oxford, giving a Texas Tune music workshop.
The concert was held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship church, and there's a inspirational phrase written on the wall in big letters (the runic kind you'd see on a "Lord of the Rings" calendar). The last part is something about enacting change in the world and thus being changed ourselves. A light pole was in front of the final "changed" and depending on which way I leaned, the word could have been "changed," "charged," "charted" or "chanted." I kind of liked the latter.
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