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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lee Enterprises

Friday, October 10, 2008 8:36 PM CDT
Gary Harrison to hold concert, music workshop

CHAMPAIGN — Garry Harrison and the New Mules will be leading old-time fiddle, banjo and clogging workshops, and performing in concert on Nov. 1.

The music workshops and concert will take place at Techline, 24 E. Green St., Champaign. The clogging workshop will be at the Phillips Recreation Center, 505 W. Stoughton Ave., Urbana.

The New Mules’ ballads, songs and fiddle tunes are native to the downstate Illinois home of fiddlers Garry and daughter Genevieve Harrison. This music was learned first-hand from senior players at their homes, just as those folks had learned it years before.

The Harrisons joined with clawhammer banjo player Smith Koester, guitar player Andy Gribble, and bass player/clogger Abby Ladin to form the New Mules only just more than a year ago.

They were invited to perform at Trad Fest, a well-known festival held at Chicago’s Old Town School, in January. In August, they won first prize in the Traditional Band competition at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, W.Va.

Garry Harrison, who grew up in Charleston, and several friends began learning fiddle tunes from senior fiddlers across downstate Illinois in the 1970s and 1980s.

He and his friends released some of this material in three recordings as the Indian Creek Delta Boys. That group was designated the Official Illinois Old-Time String Band in 1981.

The workshops will take place from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and cost $25-$35. The concert will take place at 8 p.m.

Concert tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Call 352-5570 or visit http://www.techline-cu.com/ for more details. This program has been organized by the Urbana Country Dancers and is partly for supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

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