Sandglass Theaters Presents BALLADS AND CRANKIES, 4/21

Sandglass Theaters presents Ballads and Crankies: A night of traditional music, collected stories and illustrated songs, with Anna & Elizabeth and Katherine Fahey and special guests Tony Barrand, Carole Moody Crompton and Val Mindel, on April 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, $12 kids. To reserve tickets call
802-254-8684.

Old time fiddler Anna Roberts-Gevalt, ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle and shadow puppeteer Katherine Fahey combine forces to present an innovative show that combines mountain stories, music, and illustrated scrolls called crankies, handmade of quilted cloth, of ink and linoleum prints and of candlelit paper cuts.

Three Vermont musicians will share stories and songs-- Val Mindel, Tony Barrand and Carole Moody Crompton.

Baltimore artist Katherine Fahey is a shadow puppeteer, singer, and printmaker, whose recent collaborations have brought shadow puppetry to the independent music scene, most notably her music video for Wye Oak, on YouTube here.

Anna & Elizabeth, from Virginia, present sparsely arranged ballads, hymns, lullabies and rousing fiddle and banjo tunes that are deeply rooted in the stories and kitchen music of the mountains they call home. They have spent the past year collecting songs and stories of music and the mountains, which they have been sharing across Virginia and the US, recently focusing on the stories and music of ballad singers Addie Graham of East Kentucky and Texas Gladden of Virginia.