Bob Bovee & Gail Heil

at: Rochester Art Center Grand Lobby

2/16/2006 6:30 PM

The series continues in February with old time traditional folk artists BOB BOVEE & GAIL HEIL (www.boveeheil.com) on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 6:30 PM in the Rochester Art Center Grand Lobby. Since 1980 Bob and Gail have traveled the country together taking old time music to audiences of all ages at festivals, fairs, concerts, dances, schools, libraries, music camps, radio and TV programs. This is rural music as played in homes, at dances and for earlier entertainments such as minstrel shows and country radio. Along with a repertoire including dance tunes, ballads, cowboy songs, humorous and sentimental numbers, blues and rags, they spice their shows with stories, history and folklore. They both sing (Bob yodels, too and play fiddle, banjo, guitar and harmonica). Bob Bovee and Gail Heil play American traditional music with a faithfulness to the vocal and instrumental styles typical of vintage country recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. Their repertoire is large and varied, interspersed with anecdotes, stories and poems that are sometimes poignant and often hilarious.