
Throughout history flowers have been an inspiration, an expression of mankind's many emotions. American popular and traditional music from the mid 19 th to early 20 th Centuries overflows with song titles mentioning flowers. Floral metaphors and poetic imagery appear in literature and folk tales dating to the dawn of human history.
Drawing from their many years of research into music and literature collections Suzanne and Jim present...Flower Strum Song. The duo promises an entertaining and fascinating program of traditional and historic songs and tales with flowers as the centerpiece.
The program traverses genres from an Irish ballad, Red is the Rose to a cowboy yodel When the Cactus are in Bloom; from a legend of tulips being the cradles of fairy babies to examples of Victorian flower language (proper Victorians could conduct a courtship, conversing with exchanges of blossoms yet never speaking a word).
With 5 string banjo, guitar, flute, and courtship dulcimer, duet singing along with a smattering of spoons, storytelling and home-grown humor Suzanne and Jim have arranged a bouquet of unforgettable listening pleasure.
Drawing from their many years of research into music and literature collections Suzanne and Jim present...Flower Strum Song. The duo promises an entertaining and fascinating program of traditional and historic songs and tales with flowers as the centerpiece.
The program traverses genres from an Irish ballad, Red is the Rose to a cowboy yodel When the Cactus are in Bloom; from a legend of tulips being the cradles of fairy babies to examples of Victorian flower language (proper Victorians could conduct a courtship, conversing with exchanges of blossoms yet never speaking a word).
With 5 string banjo, guitar, flute, and courtship dulcimer, duet singing along with a smattering of spoons, storytelling and home-grown humor Suzanne and Jim have arranged a bouquet of unforgettable listening pleasure.