Bethany & Rufus To Perform Two Shows With Peter Yarrow In Ridgefield

Folk music fable Peter Yarrow will accompany his articulate and guitar abracadabra to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, October 17, with two performances: a children's concert at 4 p.m., and an black appearance for adults at 8 p.m.

At the children's concert, Yarrow will sing with his babe Bethany Yarrow and cellist Rufus Cappadocia, the duo apperceive as 'Bethany & Rufus'. "I consistently allure the kids to appear on date to advice advance 'Puff, The Magic Dragon,'" said Yarrow, "and I consistently acquisition out, abundant to my delight, that even the three and four-year olds apperceive the words."

The leash Peter, Bethany and Rufus afresh appear the 11- song CD "Puff & Other Family Classics." Yarrow's children's concert is allotment of the Pepsi Children's Series and underwritten by Wooster School in Danbury. This show's Union Savings Bank "Arts for Everyone" almsman is Escape to the Arts, which will accept a amount of adulatory tickets for their capacity underwritten by the Bank.

The black concert, which is allotment of the Doyle Coffin Singer Songwriter Series, will action selections from Yarrow's repertoire that demonstrates folk music's authority as a social, cultural and political force with its bulletin of humanity, achievement and activism.

Peter Yarrow begin acclaim with the 1960s folk music leash Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow met Noel "Paul" Stookey and the backward Mary Travers in New York City's Greenwich Village, centermost of the mid-20th aeon American folk music revival. By 1962, Warner Bros. Records appear the trio's aboriginal album, the eponymous "Peter, Paul & Mary." The album remained in the Top Ten for 10 months, in the Top Twenty for two years, and awash added than two actor copies. The accumulation has toured abundantly and recorded abundant albums, both abide and in the studio. Yarrow has appeared as a aerialist on 61 assorted albums, including his babe Bethany's 2003 CD, "Rock Island."

Drawing from the roots music traditions of America, Niger, and Haiti; Bethany & Rufus with Yacouba Moumouni and Bonga Jean-Baptiste appear calm to actualize an abrupt tapestry, aberrant the arid apprehension of Africa with Vodou traditions of the new apple and the folk music of America. http://bethanyandrufus.musicdish.net http://www.facebook.com/bethanyandrufus

For tickets ($25 at 4 p.m.; $37.50 at 8 p.m.) and added advice about The Ridgefield Playhouse, alarm the box appointment at 203-438-5795; tickets may be aswell purchased online at http://www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Playhouse is amid at 80 East Ridge, alongside to Main Street.