SWBMAI is excited to bring banjo player Bill Evans and fiddle champion Megan Lynch to the Wil-Mar Center, 953 Jenifer St., Madison, on April 25, 2009 for a full day of instruction and entertainment. Bill and Megan will each give three-hour workshops on banjo and fiddle, respectively, a two-hour jam workshop for players of all bluegrass instruments, and an evening concert. Bill C. Malone, host of WORT89.9FM’s Back to the Country, will emcee the concert.
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Advance tickets for the concert only are $13. Concert tickets for students with ID are $10; children under 12 admitted free. Tickets will be available in early February at locations to be announced on www.swbmai.org. Advance concert tickets can be ordered by contacting Julie Cherney at 608-260-2675 or cherney@uwalumni.com. Contact Julie for more information about the event.
Teaming up as a duo for a year and a half, Albany, CA and Nashville, TN bluegrass mainstays Bill Evans & Megan Lynch have been performing and leading workshops throughout the United States, the U.K. and Ireland. A 35-year veteran banjo player and Banjo For Dummies author, Bill Evans has performed with Dry Branch Fire Squad, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, Hazel Dickens, Laurie Lewis, Jody Stecher, Kathy Kallick, Bluegrass Intentions and his own Bill Evans String Summit. His CDs Native and Fine (Rounder Records) and Bill Evans Plays Banjo (Native and Fine Records) topped critics’ lists and the Bluegrass Unlimited charts. He hosts the annual NashCamp Banjo Retreat with Sonny Osborne and teaches at almost every important music camp in the U.S and the U.K., including NashCamp, California Bluegrass Association’s Music Camp, Midwest Banjo Camp, and Sore Fingers Bluegrass Week.
A six-time National Fiddle Champion and regular performer at the Grand Ole’ Opry, Megan Lynch has played with country star Pam Tillis, 3 Fox Drive, Due West, Dale Ann Bradley, Tony Trischka, Chris Jones, Roland White and Jim Hurst. She is also the founder and director of FiddleStar Youth and Adult Fiddle Camps and is in high demand as an instructor for bluegrass camps across the country. “Fiddlers come out of the woodwork when they hear that Megan is leading a workshop,” states Bill Evans.
While they are virtuosos on their instruments, it is the outstanding lead singing of Megan and the pair’s rich duo vocal sound that captivates. The two create music that is intensely intimate but truly difficult to categorize. While rooted in bluegrass tradition, Bill Evans and Megan Lynch display a natural and unassuming sophistication that reflects their wide-ranging interest in many kinds of contemporary and popular music. Learn more about BEML by visiting www.myspace.com/billevansandmeganlynch.