{"id":7133,"date":"2013-01-03T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/fiddling-poet-comes-to-kent-with-musical-troupe\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:00:35","slug":"fiddling-poet-comes-to-kent-with-musical-troupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/fiddling-poet-comes-to-kent-with-musical-troupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling poet comes to Kent with musical troupe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ken Waldman, Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, makes his first Seattle-area appearance in two years, playing Friday, Jan. 25, at Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center for the Kent Spotlight Series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Waldman joins eight stellar musicians for the 7:30 p.m. show, “From Kent To Kodiak.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He will host an evening of variety that connects the grandeur of Puget Sound to that of Alaska. Waldman combines old-time Appalachian-style fiddling, original poetry and mostly Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely his. The Denver Post calls his mix of words and music “Renegade Americana.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The show also includes: Seattle old-time string-band, The Tallboys, featuring Charmaine Slaven, Charlie Beck, John Hurd and WB Reid; two Massachusetts clawhammer banjo players and Irish flute players, Mark Roberts and Andrea Cooper; southern Oregon fiddler, piper and storyteller Kevin Carr; and Portland banjo player, guitarist, singer and percussive dancer Leela Grace.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n