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Linda specializes in presenting programs of songs specific to many eras in our country’s past. Playing guitar, hammered and mountain dulcimers, penny whistle and limberjack, she appears either as a solo performer or with her ensemble, Linda Russell and Companie. |
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Linda Russell’s repertoire spans 200 years of American song! |
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Songs of 18th Century America |
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Through ballads, broadsides, love songs, marches, drinking songs, dance tunes and Revolutionary War anthems, Linda brings the 18th Century to life. |
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Music of the Lewis and Clark Era |
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Linda explores the importance of music on the Lewis and Clark expedition as evidenced in the journal entries that talk of fiddling, singing and dancing on the trail. With instruments of the era she brings to life some of the tunes the men would have known. |
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Songs of the West |
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Excerpts from diaries of those who made their way on the Oregon Trail are interwoven with the ballads, minstrel tunes, love songs, hymns, dance tunes of the settlers. |
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Music of the Civil War |
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Union and Confederate campfire songs, the ballads sung in the parlors back home, all bring the Civil War era vividly to life. |
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Additional programs include: |
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Songs of the Historic Hudson |
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Memorial Day or Veterans Day |
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American Campaign Songs |
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200 years of Popular American Music |
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Songs of Nature and the Land |
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Circus Songs |
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