Family Concert Series - Magpie Consort Cornucopia

with Cbus Jammers

Cornucopia: an all-American program marking the 250th anniversary of the USA. Join us for choral classics, Appalachian folk songs, gospel hymns, blues, spirituals, and other Americana.

Cornucopia: an all-American program marking the 250th anniversary of the USA. Join us for Appalachian folk songs, gospel hymns, blues, spirituals, and other Americana. Twelve singers from the Magpie Consort will be joined by nine instrumentalists from Cbus Jammers, a group affiliated with the Columbus Folk Music Society.  In Magpie tradition, we’ll be encouraging audience participation in a number of songs. 

The Moon and Seven Stars Fife tune from the revolutionary wars

Jennifer Bell – fife solo

Pretty Saro 18th c. English ballad and Appalachian folk song

Marie Boozer – solo

Poor Rosy African American song from South Carolina (1860s)

Mimi Rose – solo

Shall We Gather at the River Robert Lowry (1826 – 1899)

Dan Clarke – solo

The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes (1901 - 1967)

David Simmons – reader

Deep River

African American spiritual arr. Moses Hogan (1957 – 2003)

Old Joe Clark Traditional (early 20th c.)

Jack Halada – banjo solo

Old Joe Clark Traditional arr. Greg Gilpin

Cindy Traditional (early 20th c.)

Shady Grove Traditional (early 20th c.)

Phil Adams – soprano recorder

Skip to my Lou Traditional (1840s)

John Brown’s Body Traditional (civil war era)

Final verse by Julia Ward Howe (1861)

Dan Clarke – harmonica solo

Wayfaring Stranger Traditional (early 19th c.)

Jack Halada – banjo and vocals

De Colores (Made of Colors) Traditional Mexican

Jennifer Bell – flute

Eagle Poem Joy Harjo (b. 1951)

Christina Moore – reader

Amazing Grace Traditional (19th c.)

Words by John Newton (1725 – 1807)

Jennifer Bell – Native American flute

Over the Rainbow Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck) (1905 – 1986)

Words by Yip Harburg (1896 – 1981)

Kathryn Ehle – solo

Lift Every Voice and Sing J. Rosamond Johnson (1873 – 1954)

Words by James Weldon Johnson (1871 – 1938)

She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain Traditional (late 19th c.)

The Gospel Train African American (1870s)

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