BRATTLEBORO \u2014 Under the Maple will host two Brattleboro House Concert this month<\/p>\n
Silverback Swing will perform this Sunday, Oct. 5, at 4 p.m., and Rod MacDonald with Mark Dann will be featured on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Silverback Swing performs vintage jazz of the 1920s and 1930s in the style of Django Reinhardt, the great Gypsy guitarist. This style of jazz was popular in France, where they adapted American jazz into their own form, eliminating horns and using accordions, clarinets and violins. Silverback Swing has been performing as an acoustic jazz quartet in New England for over eight years, with Mark Anagnostopulos on rhythm guitar and vocals, Alton Lathrop on lead guitar, Gus Hollingsworth on accordion and vocals and Steve Frankel on bass.<\/p>\n
MacDonald was a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village, where he headlined the local clubs, co-founded the GV Folk Festival, and wrote “American Jerusalem,” \u201cEvery Living Thing,\u201d \u201dWhite Buffalo\u201d and \u201cA Sailor\u2019s Prayer,\u201d among his songs recorded by Shawn Colvin, Jonathan Edwards, Happy Traum, The Crimson Pirates, and many more. With Mark Dann as bassist since 1977, they have co-produced 13 of his 14 albums, including his latest \u201cRants And Romance.\u201d Dann has also produced more than two hundred other artists and played bass on dozens of albums and tours.<\/p>\n
Weather-permitting, the concerts will be held outdoors. Suggested donation $20-$30 at the door (100 percent goes to the performers). Any amount welcome, no one turned away.<\/p>\n