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Regina Carter's "Southern Comfort"
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Gold: $40.00 Silver: $35.00 Student: $17.50

Description:
The Lyric Theatre presents violinist Regina Carter's "Southern Comfort" on Friday, April 12th.

For Regina Carter, the violin isn’t merely an improvisational vehicle. It’s a passport to unexpected realms, a Rosetta stone that unlocks the door to a myriad of cultures and worlds. Since emerging from the Detroit scene in the late 1980s, Carter has recorded a series of dazzling albums, joining forces with piano giant Kenny Barron on Freefall, celebrating her hometown on Motor City Moments, and breaking new ground with a legendary violin on Paganini: After A Dream. An intrepid musical explorer, Carter has greatly expanded her violin odyssey since being awarded a coveted 2006 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. She began researching the African roots of the violin, which resulted in her acclaimed 2010 album Reverse Thread, an entrancing sojourn exploring compositions by artists from Kenya, Mali, and Senegal.

A transition from the exploration of her African ancestry to her family history marks the premiere of her new Reverse Thread program, Southern Comfort. Trading the West African kora for a slide guitar, she has collected songs redolent of her father’s roots in Alabama for a celebration of the joyous music that infused her early childhood.

For more information on Regina Carter, visit: http://www.reginacarter.com/ReginaMain.html

Tickets are $40 for Gold Level seats and $35 for Silver level seats. A limited number of student tickets are available at the box office for $17.50. Limit one student ticket per ID.

To purchase tickets online, visit: http://thelyric.com/live/

A cash bar will also be available.

For more information on The Lyric, visit: http://www.thelyric.com/live/ or call: 540-951-4771.