In what has become a favorite tradition, the Concord Community Music School invites you to usher in the holiday season with its annual Christmas Folk Concert featuring David Surette, Susie Burke and Kent Allyn. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 pm, Saturday, Dec 13, in the Music School’s Recital Hall at 23 Wall Street in Concord.
The concert includes new, and often humorous, renditions of traditional holiday tunes. Burke and Surette perform regularly throughout New England and have toured nationally. They have more than half a dozen CDs between them and have collected numerous awards.
Surette’s technique on guitar, banjo and other instruments is “impeccable, and his touch and phrasing are immediately recognizable,” according to Acoustic Guitar. Burke “possesses one of the finest, purest ballad sopranos heard in folk music today,” reported The Boston Globe. Allyn, called “everyone’s favorite sideman,” has played piano, bass and guitar in numerous recordings and with a host of performing artists from around the country.
Surette and Allyn are members of the Concord Community Music School faculty. This year’s folk department concerts are sponsored by Sanborn, Head & Associates.
Get your tickets soon, as this performance frequently sells out. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, and may be bought at the door or in advance at the Music School. For more information, call (603) 228-1196 or visit http://www.ccmusicschool.org.
David Surette & Susie Burke have made a name for themselves as one of the finest acts on the lively New England folk scene. Together since 1988, Susie and David have built a steady following for their own blend of contemporary, traditional, and original folk and acoustic music. Burke’s vocal style is at once stunning and heartfelt, and is matched by Surette’s fluid fretwork on guitar, mandolin and bouzouki. Recipients of Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 1993, Susie and David are also on the Council’s Touring Arts Roster. They have also released five albums since 1990, including their most recent release, Sometimes in the Evening. David is the chair of the folk department at the Music School, where he teaches guitar, mandolin, bouzouki and folk ensembles.
Kent Allyn is widely considered to be everyone’s favorite sideman by both audiences and performers. In addition to his work with Susie and David, his long list of recording and performing credits includes Ben Baldwin & the Big Note, Cosy Sheridan, Brooks Williams, and The Night Heron Consort, to name just a few. Kent is on the faculty of the Music School and also teaches at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine.