The Schmidt Family Center for the Arts has announced a special pre-festival concert featuring David Holt and Josh Goforth on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 7 p.m. at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton, Florida.
Tickets, available now by phone at 561-368-8445 or leave a message at info@festivaloftheartsboca.org are $30 per person (general admission) and $20 for students with valid ID.
Audiences of all ages will be treated to a show exploding with creative energy, fun and amazing musicianship.
Four-time Grammy Award winner, Holt, and rising acoustic music star and Grammy nominee, Goforth, come together to bring to life the joy and spirit of old-time mountain music and stories.
Together they combine the virtuosic sounds of guitar, banjo, fiddle, slide guitar, mandolin, and a world of exciting rhythm instruments from hambone (body slapping) rhythms, to spoons, slump-fiddle, rhythm bones, jaw harp and even paper bags.
Holt is well known for his television and radio series. He is host of public television’s Folkways, a North Carolina program that takes the viewer through the Southern Mountains visiting traditional craftsmen and musicians. Holt also currently hosts the PBS series Great Scenic Railway Journeys and has hosted The Nashville Network’s Fire on the Mountain, Celebration Express and American Music Shop. He has been a frequent guest on Hee Haw, Nashville Now and The Grand Ole Opry. David can also be seen as a musician in the popular film, O Brother Where Art Thou.
A native of the mountains of North Carolina, Goforth started playing piano at the age of four. A performance at his middle school by David Holt and Sheila Kay Adams caused him to start thinking about the musical heritage of his native Madison County. A couple of years later, he began to learn guitar from his great-uncle. The great-great-great-grandson of Madison County fiddler Asbury McDevitt was launched on a career in traditional and acoustic music. Over the next few years he learned to play at least ten different instruments by ear, learning from such local masters as Gordon and Arvil Freeman.
After high school, Goforth went to East Tennessee State University to study music education, and to be a part of ETSU’s famous Bluegrass and Country Music Program. In 2000, he played fiddle for the movie “Songcatcher,” both onscreen and on the soundtrack. He has performed all over the United States as well as Europe and Asia. In 2000,2003, and 2005, he was named Fiddler of the Festival at Fiddler’s Grove making him the youngest ever three-time winner. This secured him the title “Master Fiddler.” He just released his first band album entitled, I Feel Fine.
The 8th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca will be presented March 6 – 15, 2014 by the Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts at the Mizner Park Amphitheater, 500 Plaza Real and Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton, Florida. The diverse, multi-cultural Festival will once again bring 10 days of culture, world-class talent and “awe” to South Florida.
For more information call 561-368-8445 or visit:
Website: www.festivalboca.org
Facebook: FestivalBoca
Twitter: @FestivalBoca
Comments