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Concert with Terry Barrett & Evo Bluestein • May 18, 2025

Woodward Park Library, Fresno, CA
Sunday May 18, 1:30 pm

Terry Barrett & Evo Bluestein
Oldtime Music

Terry Barrett and Evo Bluestein

 Renowned musicians Terry Barrett and Evo Bluestein will present a wide range of stringband music on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, autoharp and banjo. Together, the two musicians represent a vast repertoire of American folk music.

Barrett and Bluestein have been performing together since the 1970s. Bluestein is a celebrated multi-instrumentalist, who performed for Fresno audiences and internationally with the Bluestein Family.

Barrett is known as a master fiddler and mandolinist, who performed for many years with legendary musician Kenny Hall. In a formal apprenticeship to study and document Hall’s vast repertoire, Barrett was awarded a California Arts Council grant. Hall passed away in 2013, making Terry the number one bearer of Hall’s tradition.

Oldtime stringband music or just “oldtime music” is the roots of American country music–the historic combination of African and Anglo-Celtic traditions that combined in this country over four hundred years. It is the roots of bluegrass and modern country music.