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Traditional & Original
Music and Dance

PO Box 363
Greenfield Center, NY 12833
(518) 581-0255

Lively fiddle tunes together with fancy footwork and folksongs are featured in a concert from John Kirk & Trish Miller. Highlights of their program include John's fiddlin' and Trish's dynamic clog dancing. Selections are traditional folksongs & fiddle tunes, originals, historical, sentimental & funny pieces. Some tunes are toe-tappin' barn-burners!

John & Trish are a married couple from the foothills of the Adirondacks. They work together full time, playing music and singing in concerts, festivals, schools, and both call dances. John is lead singer and a versatile instrumentalist on mandolin, guitar & banjo as well as fiddle. Trish plays banjo and guitar. Sing Out magazine said,"John Kirk is a fine player on all his instruments and he sings quite well. With such a widely varied repertoire, there's really something here for everyone. These folks are worth seeking out." The duet has the drive of an old-time stringband, the depth of moving ballads and show-stopping clog dances to boot!

Since 1988, they have toured throughout the U.S. and abroad, from a school down in the Grand Canyon to Barbados, from the local Dance Flurry Festival to a concert at the Academy of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia. They are in demand as arts-in-education specialists, participating in several residence programs at schools and colleges throughout the United States. They have been featured on two WMHT-Public TV specials; "Songs from the Heart of the Adirondacks" and "Christmas in the Adirondacks". Together they have several recordings available and both John and Trish teach at Skidmore College and John also teaches at Bennington College. (photo by Richard Walker)

John Kirk has always made his living as a musician. In addition to his work with Trish, he fiddles with an old-time stringband called the Woodshed Allstars, and ocassionally works with the Vanaver Caravan, an International dance troupe, and the Susquehanna Stringband, and is on the music faculty at Bennington College, VT. He was part of the national touring band,Walt Michael & Co. in the 1980's. John can be heard along with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason on the Ken Burns-PBS television series called, The West, and he appeared at Carnegie Hall in concert with the Catskill Conservatory Chamber Players. He has his own recordings and has played as a studio musician on many more. In addition to his musicianship, John is a dynamic workshop leader, teacher (Bennington College and Skidmore College), clog dancer, dance caller, and joke collector.

Trish Miller has been teaching and performing Appalachian clogging since 1981. She calls square and contra dances, plays old-time clawhammer banjo and guitar. The groups she has danced with include, The Back Creek Cloggers from Richmond, VA.; The Green Grass Cloggers, a professional touring troupe from Asheville, N.C.; and occasional appearances with the Vanaver Caravan from New Paltz, NY. Trish is office manager for Quickstep Music, choreographs and arranges traditional American music & dance programs for schools, concerts & workshop settings and teaches banjo at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.
(photo by Richard Walker)

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