Magpie Consort Cornucopia

with the 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 choral classics by Moses Hogan, Florence Price, and Randall Thompson, Appalachian folk songs, gospel hymns, blues, spirituals, and other Americana. The singers of the Magpie Consort will be joined by members of the 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. 

Fife solo from Revolutionary War times (Lowlands Awa)
Pretty Saro - traditional, after Jean Ritchie 
Poor Rosy - African American 

Northfield - early American hymn by Jeremiah Ingalls (1800)
Shall We Gather at the River - Robert Lowry hymn (1864)  
The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes (poem, 1920)
Deep River - African American spiritual arr. Moses Hogan 

Old Joe Clark - banjo solo
Two Clogging Songs:
Cindy (with audience)
Shady Grove (after Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson) (with audience)

Hallelujah - hymn by William Walker (1867)
John Brown’s Body - civil war song (1861)  
Alleluia - Randall Thompson     

Blue Allelu - a short blues
Resignation - Florence Price (1930s)    
De Colores (Full of Color) - traditional, after Joan Baez

That Music Always Round Me - Walt Whitman (poem)  
Amazing Grace - with audience
I’ll Fly Away - with audience
The Gospel Train - with audience

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