Several live appearances of the 2nd South Carolina String Band have already been scheduled:

Ball in Lynchburg, Va on 27 March

Concert in Gettysburg: June 19

Concert in Gettysburg – 2-5 July

CONCERT & CIVIL WAR ENCAMPMENT:
Renfrew State Park, Waynesboro PA
7:30 pm. 7 Aug 2010

EDINBURG OLE TIME FESTIVAL, Edinburg, Va:
Dance and performances throughout the day
Sept. 18th,  19th. 2010

CEDAR CREEK RE-ENACTMENT, Middletown Va:
Dance and Performances throughout the day on Sutler Row
16, 17 October 2010

Please direct your booking questions to the address below:

Powerful, high energy Double CD with 26 songs recorded LIVE at two back-to-back, sold out shows. Over 2 hours of favorite Civil War songs played on period instruments in authentic arrangements. Bobby Horton says, “It’s like eavesdropping on history.”

Nelly Bly • Hard Crackers Come Again No More • Stonewall Jackson’s Way/Garryowen • Listen to the Mockingbird/Siege of Vicksburg • Amazing Grace • Clare de Kitchen • Kelton’s Reel/Waiting For the Federals • My Old Kentucky Home • The Yellow Rose of Texas • Southron’s Battle Cry of Freedom • The Minstrel Boy • Southron’s Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! • Jim Along Josie • Sweet Evalina • War Song of Dixie • Hawks and Eagles

In this their fifth album, the 2nd South Carolina String Band once again brings you the songs and music that moved the American people of the early and mid-eighteen hundreds. They play the music that was in the hearts and minds and on the tongues of the citizen-soldiers that made up the ranks of the armies of the North and the South as they marched off to take part in the cataclysmic struggle that was to become the defining event of our nation’s history. They play it on instruments of the era and in an authentic manner and style that carries the listener back to simpler times. They play with a verve and excitement that infects even the most reserved listener with their own enjoyment and brings back to vibrant life the tumultuous energy of the American experience during the War Between the States. To experience the 2nd South Carolina String Band is, for a moment, to reach out and touch the past.

Lynchburg Town/Briggs’ Jig • Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) • Granny Will Your Dog Bite/Guilderoy • O Lemuel • ‘Twill Neber Do to Gib It Up So (De Ol’ Jim Ribber) • Liza Jane/Mississippi Sawyer/Road to Boston • I’m Gwine Ober de Mountain • De Blue Tail Fly • Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker • Virginia Reel Medley • Jordan Is a Hard Road • Old Rosin the Beau • Glendy Burke • The White Cockade/Devil’s Dream • Down in Alabama • Bonnie Blue Flag

IN HIGH COTTON will bring the listener back more than 150 years to hear music that was essentially laying the foundations of American popular music in the years leading up to the War Between the States. You’ll hear timeless melodies created by American musical icons Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett, such as The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) and The Blue Tail Fly. Songs about life on the nation’s earliest highways of commerce – America’s mighty rivers. You’ll hear songs of heartbreak and songs of joy and delight. The listener will hear minstrel melodies that were adapted by the soldiers to reflect the experiences of war and by making fun of those hardships in song, make them easier to bear.