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Back to Our Roots: A yearlong celebration
of music, dance, folklore and visual arts! A schedule of Back to Our Roots events is posted here.
2009 Summer Concert Schedule
The Morgan Arts Council launches the 23rd season for Summer Concerts in the Park on July 11, 2009.
The free concert series has something for every taste from Blues music to Rockabilly, Zydeco and Ska.
The summer concert series was the brainchild of the late Linda Fallon, introduced in 1987 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Morgan Arts Council.
In the years since, it has become MAC’s best known program drawing more than 40,000 attendees over the years, many returning year after year.
All concerts are held at 5:30pm in downtown Berkeley Springs State Park
Rain location: the Ice House
July 11, 2009 -- THE CARPENTER ANTS
A four-piece old style rhythm & blues, gospel, soul, and country funk band that is a mainstay of the Charleston, WV music scene.
July 18, 2009 -- BILLY THOMPSON BAND
Hard-driving blues with jazz and rock influence. Billy Thompson performs with a core trio plus a horn section. He is an award-winning bluesman with credits that range from playing back-up for almost every major blues musician of the past two decades to performing on Broadway.
July 25, 2009 -- RYAN CAIN and THE CHAOTICS
This West Virginia rockabilly quartet plays roots of rock from the 50s and 60s with a little country swing thrown in.
August 1, 2009 -- CELLOFOURTE
The young, classically trained cello quartet melds genres from the classics to rock in an original and organic sound guaranteed to entertain.
August 8, 2009 -- SOUL IN MOTION PLAYERS
A 17-member troupe from the DC area was established in 1984 to promote Afro-American culture through African dance and drums.
 August 15, 2009 -- THE PLAYERS BAND
The Players Band is an 8-piece ska band formed in Baltimore in 1999 with a musical style that combines Jamaican ska and reggae, and is characterized by the use of upbeat horns and percussion. The band hasplayed over 350 live shows, opening for acts such as The IsleyBrothers, Toots & the Maytals, The B-52s, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Joe Strummer, The English Beat, Third Eye Blind, Citizen Cope,Fishbone, The Toasters, The Skatalites, The Pietasters, and manyothers. Venues played include 9:30 Club, Verizon Center, KnittingFactory, Trocadero Theatre, Chance Theater, Bottle & Cork, Rams HeadLive!, Recher Theatre, 8x10, First Night Annapolis, Baltimore's InnerHarbor, and many others.
August 22, 2009 -- JUNKYARD SAINTS
Baltimore-based seven-piece band with full horn section perform their own brand of the New Orleans sound blending funk, swing, Latin and R&B with a splash of Zydeco.
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