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Upper Ohio Valley Festival of Books: Ballad Novelist Sharyn McCrumb, Words and Music Program with Violinist Jack Hinshelwood

November 08, 2014
1:00pm - 1:00pm

Upper Ohio Valley Festival of Books: Ballad Novelist Sharyn McCrumb, Words and Music Program with Violinist Jack Hinshelwood

Upper Ohio Valley Festival of Books: Ballad Novelist Sharyn McCrumb, Words and Music Program with Violinist Jack Hinshelwood

Words and Music: The Ballad Novels of celebrated Appalachian Novelist Sharyn McCrumb and the music of Jack Abingdon are combined for an entertaining event. This internationally acclaimed program brings together the ballads that are woven throughout Sharyn's novels with Jack performing the ballads as Sharyn reads and discusses her work.

The program highlights the following titles:
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
She Walks These Hills
The Rosewood Casket
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
The Songcatcher
Ghost Riders
St. Dale

“That was the best book-reading I've ever been to, I just love that they have the music. …(It) was nice if you've read her books to see how the music is tied to her writing.” —Debbie Bloom, Richland Public Library, The State, Columbia, SC.

Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, including the New York Times best sellers The Ballad of Tom Dooley, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, and She Walks These Hills. Her current novel, Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past was published in October by Abingdon Press.

She has been awarded the Frances Hobson Award for Achievement in Southern Literature, a Library of Virginia Award for St. Dale, the Chaffin Award, the Plattner Award and 3 Best Appalachian Novel awards for Appalachian literature, and in 2008 she was named a Virginia Woman of History for Literature by the Library of Virginia.
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Sharyn McCrumb has taught a writers workshop in Paris, and served as writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee, and at the Chautauqua Institute in western New York. A UNC graduate, with an M.A.(VA Tech, McCrumb was writer-in-residence at King University in Tennessee . In 2005 she was the Writer of the Year at Emory & Henry College.

Jack Hinshelwood is an accomplished musician who began playing Appalachian and Bluegrass music on the guitar in 1972. He has won numerous music competitions including the guitar championship at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN.

In addition to playing and singing for the Words and Music Programs, Jack arranged and recorded "If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O: Appalachian Ballads from the novel by Sharyn McCrumb." He also recorded "The Battle on Shiloh's Hill" for the Ghost Riders CD, which features a reading by Sharyn McCrumb.

Bluegrass Unlimited described Jack as "a fine quick-picker with a weathered, welcoming voice" for his 1992 recording Dark Run. Since 1994, Jack has been playing guitar and fiddle with Celtibillies, a four member group that has released three recordings, Come Dance and Sing, praised by Bluegrass Unlimited as "a masterful work of art that transcends all musical genres," Greenwoodside, and, their newest release, The Shoemaker's Child. Celtibillies performed at the 37th Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

 


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