Live at The Fold with Harp, Hart & Bones

Next up on June 4th is another Marquette local favorite Harp, Hart & Bones, featuring the lively tunes of the cajun south with Bill Hart, Fast Eddie and Randy Seppala.

The traditional blues trio Harp, Hart & Bones consists of ‘Fast Eddie’ Consolmagno on harmonica and slide guitar, Bill ‘Dock’ Hart on resonator guitar, and Randy ‘da Bones Man’ Seppala on drums and folk percussion. Each has a varied background in music performance, and the three had known each other for many years before playing together for the first time several years ago. What they have in common is an abiding love of traditional blues music.

Harp, Hart & Bones (H2B) draw their material largely from the blues tradition that dates to the 1920s and extends barely into the early 1950s. It was a time when bands of two or three people were common, playing on record, at dance parties, traveling shows and clubs. Unlike the urban blues and rock music that followed, it was a study in the essentials…acoustic-based music set against steady and syncopated rhythms with music responsibilities shared evenly to create one sound.

Techniques applied by H2B include those of Mississippi Delta and Hill Country music, ragtime and early jazz, Piedmont blues and Muhlenberg country & blues music. All of this is just shorthand for a number of styles and techniques that developed and sometimes overlapped in the heyday of acoustic blues music. And if all this is unfamiliar to you, it should be noted that the trio is careful to share with its audience where each song actually comes from and how it reflects the events and sensibilities of the period.

This is a FREE concert series! Donations can be made to musicians and to Hiawatha through the Donation page on this website – or by going to:
https://hiawathamusic.org/general-donation/