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Blair Global Music Series bring Dust Poets for Feb. 28 concert

Posted 2/26/2008

The Dust Poets, a five-piece acoustic folk-pop group with roots deep in the Canadian prairie, will perform for the Spring 2008 Blair Global Music Series in the school's Turner Recital Hall on
Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. in a free concert.  

The band pokes affectionate fun at themselves while spreading their own irreverent brand of small town angst. Since forming in 2001 in Manitoba, they have released three albums and performed extensively across Canada and the United States, and are well known for their infectious spirit, powerful stage presence, genre-bending original songs, hot instrumental chops and juicy harmony singing.

This musically restless group creates arrangements that wander easily among different styles - from folk to bluegrass, through swing, pop and circus freak ragtime. Featuring an all-acoustic
line-up, the band includes guitar, upright bass, accordion, mandolin, clarinet, unusual percussion and extraordinary four-part vocal harmonies.

For more information about the Dust Poets, including more about their 2006 DC release Lovesick Town, visit their Web site at www.dustpoets.com.

Contact: Cindy Steine, (615) 322-7656
cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu

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