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Three Performer Concert with Amelia Empson & Elsa Howell, Mike Gangloff and Kaily Schenker
Venue: Newport Community Center, Newport
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Amelia Empson, Elsa Howell, Kaily Schenker, Mike Gangloff
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: $10.00

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Description:
Newport Community Center presents Three Performer Concert with Amelia Empson & Elsa Howell performing as a duo, Mike Gangloff and Kaily Schenker on Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Amelia Empson plays a variety of Indie-Folk and Americana covers and originals from the Appalachian Mountains with talent far beyond her years.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/ameliaempsonmusic
• https://www.instagram.com/ameliaempson/

Elsa Howell is a traditional Appalachian ballad singer and songwriter and old-time guitarist from Roanoke, VA.

Elsa Howell took an early interest in old Appalachian ballads, a tradition rich with wild stories and haunting melodies. Her voice and attention to musical detail have won her ribbons at folk song competitions in the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and her native Virginia. She spent more than a year learning the style from ballad master Elizabeth LaPrelle through the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, and Elsa has been featured at the Richmond Folk Festival, Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art, the Floyd Country Store, on the Inside Appalachia podcast/radio show, and she was a resident artist at the 2024 MidMountain Festival.

She has also carved her own path as an acoustic guitarist and songwriter, writing personal songs that meld with her more traditional material.

Links:

• https://elsahowell.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/elsa.howell.507
• https://www.youtube.com/@elsahowellmusic
• https://www.instagram.com/elsahowelllart/

Fiddler Mike Gangloff (Ironto) plays free Appalachian music that weaves together improvisation, melodic composition, and traditional tunes learned from older players in a region around his home in Southwest Virginia. He often performs solo on hardanger-style and octave fiddles, as well as in duos, including this year with UK guitarist C Joynes, with Prices Fork cellist Kaily Schenker, and with fellow Black Twig Pickers guitarist and banjoist Isak Howell. Besides the Black Twigs, Mike is a founding member of Pelt and Eight Point Star.

Links:

• https://mikecaragangloff.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/MikeCaraGangloff
• https://www.instagram.com/gangloffmike/

Kaily Schenker is a cellist who studied cello at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is now based in the New River Valley.

Links:

• https://solarhex.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/solarhexwitchhut/

The cover is $10.00 per person.

All ages are welcome.

This is a sober event.

Doors open at 6:00 PM and the music starts at 7:00 PM.

The Newport Community Center is located at 434 Blue Grass Trail (Route 42) in Newport, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/6pxbdmPM/image.png.

For more information on the concert, visit: https://www.instagram.com/solarhexwitchhut/ or https://www.instagram.com/p/DOKnFlGDYm9dvZZYbmSikcg1OhRtPY9RKeT5Fk0.

For more information on the Newport Community Center, visit: http://www.newportrecreation.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/newportcommunitycenter.