April 7, 2023, 7 pm
Matthew Seabury & Friends, and Anke Summerhill with Special Guest Accompanists Kate MacLeod & Matthew Seabury
IAMA Acoustic Music Concert Series
Intermountain Acoustic Music Association
Various Salt Lake Locations
Heber Valley hosts one of the nation’s largest Cowboy Poetry gatherings, the Heber Valley Western Music and Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Performers from all over the United States travel to Utah to perform in front of audiences that embrace Western culture.
October (Week 2) Annually
Multiple Events/Times
Western & Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Wasatch High School, Heber
September (Week 1) Annually
Multiple Times/Events
Peach Days
Hurricane City, Utah
IAMA presents the Utah State Instrument Championships USIC with ten different competitions. Each of the five different contests has a Novice Division (for beginners) and an Open Division (for advanced players) contest. The five contests are Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, Flatpick Guitar, and Fingerstyle Guitar.
June 11, 2022, 9 am
June (Week 2) Annually
Utah State Instrument Championships
Intermountain Acoustic Music Association IAMA
Enjoy free, informal, hour-long concerts at beautiful Brigham Young Historic Park on Friday evenings throughout June, July, and August. All ages are welcome. Limited seating is provided; blankets and lawn chairs are allowed.
The Brigham Young Historic Park is on the southeast corner of State Street and 2nd Avenue (North Temple), one block east of Temple Square.
Friday Nights, 7:30 pm
June-August 2022
Brigham Young Historic Park
50 West North Temple Street, Salt Lake
Music in the Box welcomes the celebrated and sought-after performer, Kate MacLeod for her CD release concert “Blooming”.
Kate is an accomplished studio musician and singer, who is best known for her original songs and her unique fiddling style. Her song writing style and live performances display an unbreakable link between traditional music and cutting-edge contemporary song writing. She has been hailed as one of the “Ten Acts to Watch” by the editors of the MusicHound Folk Essential Album Guide. Join Kate along with musicians Mark Hazel, Steve Keen, Robert Dow and special guest author Teresa Jordan.
Returning to Ogden to open the 2009-20 Cultural Affairs season are Irish fiddle virtuoso, Martin Hayes, and American guitarist, Dennis Cahill. The duo has garnered international renown for taking traditional Irish music to the very edge of the genre, holding listeners spellbound with slow-building, fiery performances.
Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents to emerge in the world of Irish traditional music. His unique sound, his mastery of his chosen instrument – the violin – his acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music, combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. He is the recipient of major national and international awards: most recently the prestigious Gradam Ceoil, Musician of the Year 2008 from the Irish language television station TG 4; previously Man of the Year from the American Irish Historical Society; Folk Instrumentalist of the Year from BBC Radio; a National Entertainment Award (the Irish ‘Grammy’); six All-Ireland fiddle championships – before the age of nineteen – and cited by the Irish Sunday Tribune as one of the hundred most influential Irish men and women in the fields of entertainment, politics and sports in the year 2000, as well as one of the most important musicians to come out of Ireland in the last fifty years.
Works Progress Administration takes its name from FDR’s 1939 New Deal initiative, which put millions to work making buildings, bridges, theater, art and music. The original WPA was rooted in the values of community and creativity, and helped to keep the fire of human dignity burning through the darkest years of the Great Imposters.
WPA was born out of the musical community surrounding the legendary LA club, Largo. The members of the band had known and admired each other for years, and found themselves with a strong batch of unrecorded songs, a little down time, and a collective feeling that it might be a good idea to put something on tape.
Murray Acoustic Music Festival, Produced by IAMA. Featuring Danny Stark, Second Hand Band, Ridin’ the Faultline.
http://www.murray.utah.gov/CurrentEvents.aspx?EID=174
Join Utah folk artists Anke Summerhill and Kate McLeod, both highly acclaimed instrumentalists, singers and songwriters, for an evening featuring their combined talents on fiddle and guitar.
The Music in the Gardens Summer Concert Series is a joint production of the Central Utah Gardens and the Orem Arts Council.
http://www.centralutahgardens.org/events.html
