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The writing of award-winning author Sharyn McCrumb and the music of Jack Hinshelwood will combine for an entertaining evening Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Tusculum College.<\/p>\nThe writing of award-winning author Sharyn McCrumb and the music of Jack Hinshelwood will combine for an entertaining evening Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Tusculum College.<\/p>\n
\u201cWords and Music: A Soundtrack to the Ballad Novels\u201d will be presented at 7 p.m. on Sept. 29 in the Behan Arena Theatre in the lower level of the Annie Hogan Byrd Fine Arts Building. The program is part of Tusculum College Arts Outreach\u2019s Acts, Arts, Academia 2009-10 performance and lecture series.<\/p>\n
The internationally acclaimed program brings together the ballads that are woven throughout McCrumb\u2019s novels with Hinshelwood performing the songs while the author reads and discusses her novel. The program features the novels, \u201cIf Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, \u201cThe Hangman\u2019s Beautiful Daughter,\u201d \u201cShe Walks These Hills,\u201d \u201cThe Rosewood Casket,\u201d \u201cThe Ballad of Frankie Silver,\u201d \u201cThe Songcatcher,\u201d \u201cGhost Riders\u201d and \u201cSt. Dale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hinshelwood and McCrumb have toured the United States with the program, and their collaboration has resulted in a recording by Hinshelwood of the ballads from \u201cI Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O.\u201d Hinshelwood, who began playing traditional music in the 1970s, is a member of the Celtibillies.<\/p>\n
Early in his career, Hinshelwood found success in numerous guitar contests, winning the Knoxville World\u2019s Fair Guitar Championship, the Galax Fiddler\u2019s Convention Guitar Contest and the Wayne Henderson Guitar Championship. He has also contributed to the rich heritage of traditional music through his instrumental and vocal compositions, many of which are included in his recordings.\u00a0 The National Park Service Blue Ridge Music Center featured him in their Blue Ridge Masters showcase concert series.<\/p>\n
McCrumb is best known for Appalachian ballad novels, set in the North Carolina\/Tennessee mountains. The New York Times Best Sellers \u201cShe Walks These Hills\u201d and \u201cThe Rosewood Casket,\u201d deal with the issue of the vanishing wilderness. \u201cThe Ballad of Frankie Silver,\u201d is the story of the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina. \u201cThe Songcatcher\u201d is a genealogy in music, tracing the author\u2018s family from 18th century Scotland to the present by following a Scots Ballad through the generations. \u201cGhost Riders,\u201d an account of the Civil War in the mountains of western North Carolina, won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society.<\/p>\n
In 2008, McCrumb was named a \u201cVirginia Woman of History\u201d for achievement in literature, and she was a guest author in the 2006 National Festival of the Book in Washington, D.C. She has also received the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Appalachian Writers Association Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award, the Chaffin Award for Southern Literature and the Plattner Award for Short Story.\u00a0 A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, with an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech, McCrumb was the first writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee. In 2005 she honored as the Writer of the Year at Emory & Henry College. A film of her novel \u201cThe Rosewood Casket\u201d is currently in production, directed by British Academy Award nominee Roberto Schaefer.<\/p>\n
McCrumb\u2019s great-grandfathers were circuit preachers in North Carolina\u2019s Smoky Mountains a hundred years ago, riding horseback over the ridges to preach in a different community each week.\u00a0 It is from them, she says, that she gets her regard for books, her gift of storytelling and public speaking, and her love of the Appalachian Mountains.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy books are like Appalachian quilts,\u201d McCrumb says. \u201cI take brightly colored scraps of legends, ballads, fragments of rural life, and local tragedy, and I piece them together into a complex whole that tells not only a story, but also a deeper truth about the culture of the mountain South.\u201d<\/p>\n
For her latest two novels, NASCAR provides the setting. \u201cSt. Dale\u201d is a \u201cCanterbury Tales\u201d type story of a group of ordinary people who go on a pilgrimage in honor of racing legend Dale Earnhardt. \u201cOnce Around the Track\u201d examines the need for larger-than-life heroes while chronicling the adventures of an all-female race team that hires a \u201cpretty\u201d male driver.<\/p>\n
Admission is $6 per person.\u00a0 For more information about the performance, contact Tusculum College Arts Outreach at 423-798-1620, e-mail jhollowell@tusculum.edu or visit http:\/\/arts.tusculum.edu.<\/p>\n
The Acts, Arts, Academia performance and lecture series is supported by Dr. Sam Miller in memory of Mary Agnes Ault Miller, Tusculum College Arts Outreach, Society of Cicero, Hearts for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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