Tonight?s concert filled with champion fiddlers

Are you a fan of The Smithville Jamboree and Clarksville Old-Time Fiddlers Championship? If so, tonight is for you.

In addition to Jim and Inge Wood, tonight?s Main Street Live concert will include: the 2006 overall State Fiddle Champion for Tennessee, John Boulware; recent Kentucky State Championship Fiddler Cassidy Koonce; and Beginner Fiddler State Champion Maddie Denton.

The evening will combine a performance of various North American fiddle styles including contest style, blues, bluegrass, Western swing, and old-time string band. The musicians will also present a selection of various folk music styles found in the United States in the Celtic vein representing the influence of the British Isles.

There will be jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, and vocal airs, some of which are in both Spanish and English on fiddle, bouzouki, guitar, bohran, penny whistle, mandolin, cello, tenor guitar, piano, and banjo. It will be a performance like no other, according to Main Street Live organizers.

Tonight?s opening band will be The Company I Keep, featuring Andy Gay, Gene Maxwell, and Steve Phillips. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at The West Lawn of Security Federal.