Our monthly musical variety show continues! After taking the month of October off to celebrate and then to recover from our North Georgia Folk Festival, we are back with a very special Hoot! Matuto - "Appalachian Brazilian" band based in NYC, which features fantastically dance-able music! Featuring vocals, accordion, guitar, violin, bass, drums, and various Brazilian percussion instruments. Kenney-Blackmon String Band - Beautifully played fiddle tunes, old time ballads and original songs, this band mixes up traditional melodies with their own spirit of rhythm, harmony, improvisation. Susan Staley will open and host the evening. This promises to be a stellar night of music! And as always, a free show, so please come out and show your appreciation for these musicians who generously share their talents! The Athens Folk Music and Dance Society Present: The Hoot Monday November 12 @ The Melting Point 8-10pm admission is FREE Our monthly musical variety show continues! After taking the month of October off to celebrate and then to recover from our North Georgia Folk Festival, we are back with a very special Hoot! This months Hoot will feature: Matuto (http://matutomusic.com/) "Appalachian Brazilian" band based in NYC, which features fantastically dance-able music! Featuring vocals, accordion, guitar, violin, bass, drums, and various Brazilian percussion instruments: the alfaia (a large, wooden, rope-tuned bass drum), the pandeiro (a Brazilian tambourine), the berimbau (a single-string on a bow struck with a small stick), and the agogô (a pair of small, pitched metal bells.) They are in town for a seminar on Brazilian culture at UGA and agreed to play The Hoot that evening! Not to be missed and please bring dancing shoes! Kenney-Blackmon String Band (http://www.kenneyblackmon.com/) Beautifully played fiddle tunes, old time ballads and original songs, this band mixes up traditional melodies with their own spirit of rhythm, harmony, improvisation. A fairly new band, they have been making a splash here in Athens and beyond, recently playing WUGA's "Once In A Blue Moon" They recently released their first CD, The Singing Tree. Susan Staley will open and host the evening. This promises to be a stellar night of music! And as always, a free show, so please come out and show your appreciation for these musicians who generously share their talents! more >>>