If you go
What: Random Acts of Music presents White Orchid
When: 7:30 p.m. today
Where: Oxford Community Arts Center, 10 S. College Ave.
Cost: Free
More info: (513) 524-8506 or www.oxarts.org
OXFORD — If you’ve ever wondered about the difference between a jig and a reel, or a fiddle and a violin, White Orchid is ready to provide enlightenment.
The trio — Amy Roark-Oblak on flute, Lindsey Duncan on Celtic harp and Laura Hazelbaker on fiddle — will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at the Oxford Community Arts Center for its Random Acts of Music series, in collaboration with the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra and funded with a grant from the Ruder-Beau Foundation. They’ve been playing together since 2008, but each had already come to Celtic music and met through their classical music connections.
Roark-Oblak has performed extensively as an orchestral flutist, chamber music performer and steel drummer and has been associate principal and piccoloist for the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony and the Middletown Symphony.
In 2001, Duncan was the Scottish Harp Society of American’s National Scottish Harp champion and placed first as a soloist at the North American Festival of Wales Eisteddfod.
In addition to being a trained classical violinist, Hazelbaker has fiddled with bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley, the legendary western swing fiddler Johnny Gimble and as a band member for Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys.
But it was playing for a “Christian/Celtic” rock artist Ric Blair that she became acquainted with Celtic music.
The Random Acts of Music program is designed to be an educational concert.
“We’ll present tunes showing the diversity of the repertoire and from different areas of the Celtic Lands,” Hazelbaker said. “We will introduce the musical selections and give some info about the pieces, and at some point, take audience questions.”
And if you don’t get enough, Hazelbaker said the group will be playing lunch and dinner on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, at Ryan’s Tavern in Hamilton.
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