Next Fridays at Noon performance to feature Jane and Gordon Scott
Post Published On:Arts for the Community at Thomas University’s next Fridays at Noon performance on April 23 will feature traditional music with fiddle, banjo, guitar and voices performed by Jane and Gordon Scott of Tallahassee. The event will be livestreamed starting at 12 p.m. at www.facebook.com/actu31792/live. No Facebook account is required to view.
The Scotts have been performing and teaching Irish, old-time and bluegrass music in the Tallahassee community since the 1990s at Gordon’s String Music. Jane teaches fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, guitar and piano. Gordon teaches guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, dulcimer, ukulele, autoharp and harmonica. They have hosted sessions and jams regularly as well as playing for dances, parties and weddings. Jane was the recipient of the 2019 Florida Folk Heritage award for her work with old-time and Irish fiddling. The Scotts have an old-time CD titled “Old-time Duets.” Gordon recorded two CD’s with the Greasy String Band, which included fiddler Lindsey Smith and guitarist Roger Eudy.
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about this and other ACTU events, visit www.facebookcom/actu31792 or www.thomasu.edu/actu, call 229-227- 6964 or email actu@thomasu.edu.
