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Jeni & Billy - Southern Music Duo
New Port Richey Public Library, 5939 Main St, New Port Richey, FL | Get Directions »
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Jeni and Billy have traveled across the United States and Canada winning ribbons in folk singing, guitar picking and flat foot dancing.
Jeni Hankins traces her vocal style to Virginia Lowe, the blind music minister in the Appalachian community in which she spent childhood summers. A natural storyteller who studied with Pulitzer-Prize winning Irish poet, Paul Muldoon, Jeni's writing has been compared to Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Conner. Her singing has been compared to the lonesome voices of Maybelle Carter and Iris Dement.
Billy Kemp, a Baltimore native, embraced the sound of Appalachian immigrants who migrated to the nearby community of Oella.
Billy's passion for the sound of Flatt & Scruggs led him from Baltimore to Nashville and eventually onto the Opry stage.
"Mountain roads and mountain churches, moonshine and oxycodone, snake handlers and sherbet cake - you get to know them all at a Jeni & Billy concert."
Event Details
| Where | New Port Richey Public Library 5939 Main St, New Port Richey, FL 34652 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 6:00 pm |
| Who to bring | Everyone |
| Website | http://www.nprlibrary.org |
| Phone | 7278531265 |
| ascottfl@gmail.com | |
| Price | free, must RSVP |
More About New Port Richey Public Library
If you've finished eating at a downtown restaurant and are hungry for free information, visit the award-winning New Port Richey Public Library
Located right next to City Hall, the library offers free membership and contains a large collection of books, DVDs, CDs and periodicals, study rooms and meeting rooms. It hosts activities, clubs and classes.
The library won the first Library of the Year Award, presented by the Florida Library Association, in 2006. It is currently nominated for the Best Small Library in America Award, which is presented by the Library Journal, and is celebrating its 90th anniversary.
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