Date: Friday, May 11
Time: 7:30 PM
Event: Emily and Al Cantrell with storyteller Auntmama in Concert
Location: Puget Ridge Cohousing, 7020 18th Ave. SW
All ages are welcome

The Seattle Folklore Society joins with Puget Ridge Cohousing in West Seattle to present an evening of story and song with Seattle’s favorite storyteller, Aunt Mama and joyous music from Al and Emily Cantrell.

The Cantrells cast a magical spell with their airy, joyful acoustic songs. Emily uses her voice as an instrument on soaring vocals like a country Joni Mitchell, while Al plays off her Martin guitar with spirited fiddling and a dazzling mandolin technique; his music weaves through her words as if the two were locked in an intuitive dance. The duo puts a pop spin on acoustic folk and bluegrass music, with occasional detours into Celtic, western swing and traditional American tunes.

Auntmama gathers audiences up in tales of the Blue Ridge Mountains at dusk, rolling and misted sweet. These stories are conversations with memory that leap into the here and now. As Seattle’s Entertainment reviewer once said, Auntmama whips up silver, spit-shined tales.” The stories Auntmama tells follow Virginia’s Famous Crooked Road, home of roots music in the Old Dominion. With cousins and aunts and kissing cousin hailing from Roanoke, through Franklin County, up to Floyd and all the way over to where you can see tomorrow and North Carolina from a ridge top, these are mountain born and booming in the 21st century.

A donation for this house concert is $15, $13 for SFS members. For information, directions and to make a reservation go online to www.seafolklore.org or call 206-528-8523.