January 15, 2005:  For any of you interested , this coming Saturday I will appearing at the Cowpens National Battlefield in South Carolina as part of the 224thAnniversary Celebration. I'll be playing a program of 18th and 19thcentury music in the Visitor's Center at 1:00PM.
    Since it's an 18th century event I'll be doing this in the same uniform I wore at Unicoi last November. I'll be playing two types of bagpipes, bowed dulcimer (of course!) and several other period instruments as well;. usually use the Coliscione, which is very similar to the bouzouki (Greek).It is sort of an Italianized saz.  I may include the English guitar which is really a cittern and tremendously popular in the 18th century. Of course, there is the one instrument that goes everywhere, the human voice. I haven't really decided exactly what I'm going to play but I usually include some version of Over the Hills and Far Away, Heart of Oak, the Claudy Banks, Neil Gow's Lament for his Second Wife, some O'Carolan tunes,  and something from Jan Jakob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lusthof. There is always someone who wants to hear Arthur McBride.

March 6, 2005 Sunday:  Afternoon Highland Festival in Whiteville, NC. Music and military activities

March 12 & 13, 2005:   Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Greensboro, NC- Mostly revolutionary war activities. Music in camp.

March 26, 2005: Historic Brattonville, near Rockhill, SC; Music program for children