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Carolina Chocolata Drops

  • - June 08, 2012
  • Producer: Pittsburgh JazzLive and the Three Rivers Arts Festival
  • Event Category: Music
  • Location: Point State Park- Dollar Bank Stage

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The GRAMMY Award winning trio has proven that the old-time, fiddle and banjo-based music they have so scrupulously researched and passionately perform can be a living, breathing, ever-evolving sound. Starting with material culled from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, they pursue fresh interpretation, not merely recreation, of the work, highlighting the central role African-Americans played in shaping our nation’s popular music from its beginnings more than a century ago. The virtuosic trio’s approach is provocative and revelatory