Monday January 8, 2024

7:30pm

From China To Appalachia - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian and special guest Becky Hill

Co-presented by the Institute of Musical Traditions and the Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University. Supported in part by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. GRAMMY Award winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer join with Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian in a show that combines music from China to Appalachia and beyond. Instrumentation includes yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), gourd banjo, five-string banjo, ukulele, guitars, dumbek, cello-banjo and mandolin.

Chao Tian

Instrumental, Classical, Storytelling, Other Folk/Traditional
is a distinguished Chinese dulcimer instrumentalist, inheritor and advocate of Chinese traditional music.