Charlie Zahm Opens Lime Kiln Season 4/17

Lime Kiln's season opens on Saturday, April 17th with and evening of Celtic and American music, featuring Charlie Zahm, joined by fiddler Tad Marks. Special guests Dave Eakin and Steve Hoke from Rockbridge County will open the concert, which starts at 7:30pm.

Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular soloists at Celtic music festivals, Maritime and Early American music events anywhere east of the Mississippi. With a baritone voice some have described as "coming along once in a generation," Zahm has become one of the most successful performers on the Celtic festival circuit, weaving magical moments of Scottish and Irish history for the listener and viewer, with passion for the performance and a chosen repertoire pleasing to all members of the family.

As one of the most sought-after Celtic singers on the East Coast (he is one of the few singers in the world to be invited to sing live with Scotland's "Black Watch"), Zahm performs regularly from concerts and festivals to television shows and Celtic-themed Caribbean cruises. He has released two DVD projects: "Out of the Mist" was released in 2002 and was entirely filmed in Scotland; "Charlie Zahm: An Evening of Classic Melodies" is a live concert DVD with Charlie and his band.

Zahm performs period North American music from the 18th and 19th centuries, including music of the War Between the States, and is often asked to appear at Civil War re-enactments and concerts, as well as Colonial and Early American-themed events. He also appeared as a singing soldier in the film "Gettysburg-Three Days of Destiny."

Zahm is often joined by Baltimore fiddler Tad Marks, who has toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe with top-name groups and is considered one of the finest fiddlers on the East Coast. His down-home charm and easy-going style have made him friends across the country, and his fine fiddling on stage with Zahm ranges from hard-driving jigs and reels to the most expressive accompaniment for vocals you will ever hear. Marks' solo CD releases have received great praise from traditional Celtic and bluegrass fiddle-music lovers alike.

If there were a natural soundtrack to the comfortably worn hills of Rockbridge County, Dave Eakin would sing and Steve Hoke would pick lead. Eakin grew up in Rockbridge County, singing and playing around Virginia in a variety of country, rock and acoustic groups. His distinctive voice is an assortment of contradictions: worn but smooth, expressive but understated, lonesome but hopeful. The soulful and virtuosic playing of multi-intrumentalist Steve Hoke comes from a lifetime of playing. As a performer and instructor Steve is responsible for a generation of musicians in Rockbridge and beyond. For years he played nearly any instrument in the country rock band Ironhorse, and later he helped form the experimental bluegrass Walker's Run, who also perform at Lime Kiln on September 4, 2010.
This performance is presented with assistance from a lover of live music and longtime supporter of Lime Kiln. Gates and concessions open at 6:00pm. For more information, go to theateratlimekiln.com. Tickets are on sale at the Lexington Visitors Center at 106 East Washington Street, online or by calling the Lime Kiln Office at 540-463-7088.

Upcoming Theater at Lime Kiln 2010 Performances

Saturday, April 17 Charlie Zahm Celtic & Early American Songs

Saturday, May 1 Belleville Outfit Emerging Americana

Saturday, May 8 J D Crowe & The New South Bluegrass Legends

May 20-23 The Fantasticks 50th Anniversary

Monday, May 31 FAIR at Lime Kiln A Celebration of Arts and Culture

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