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Abaca String Band to perform at Earl Warren
Topics: Abaca String Band, Earl Warren Jr. High School, Concerts
Posted by pscott999 Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:26:55 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments The Abaca String Band has played at the White House. Next on their itinerary: a local school house.

On Thursday, Oct. 5, the Abaca String Band will perform for students at Earl Warren Junior High School.
 
Abaca String Band has been presenting music education programs in the New York City public schools under the auspices of the Carnegie Hall Education Department since 1996.

The group has also conducted music workshops and lecture/demonstrations in many other schools, from the elementary to the university level, during this time.
 
The instrumentation of the Abaca String Band makes it particularly suitable for demonstrating the repertoire and history of stringed instruments: the guitar; mandolin; violin; viola; and double bass encompass the three basic types of stringed
instruments: plucked (guitar); bowed (violin, viola, double bass); and plectrum (mandolin).
 
The Abaca String Band was founded by guitarist Andrew Schulman. This unique group, consisting of eight-string guitar, mandolin, violin, viola and double bass, began in 1991 by performing for membership events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

They have appeared as featured artists on the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series since 1995.

The Abaca String Band tours throughout the United States, and has been presented in concert in Lincoln Center, the Newport Music Festival, Chautauqua Institution, Troy Music Hall and the Levitt Pavilion. They have performed for special events at The White House and the Library of Congress.

Their debut CD, “Live From Chautauqua,” was broadcast nationwide by Public Radio International during July 1999, and “Live From Chautauqua, Vol. II,” was also nationally broadcast by PRI in July 2004.
 
This school performance is funded by the Student Outreach Program of the Bakersfield Community Concert Association. Abaca String Band  will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert at the Rabobank Theater also on Thursday, Oct. 5.

For more information, phone 326-0838.

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