About

Jim & Maggi Dalton   Singing String Music
Performance/Production/Publishing/Studio

Concerts, Workshops & Residencies Understanding History Thru Music ™

Specialists in 19th- & Early 20th-Century Music
From Parlor and Stage
American & Celtic Traditions
Period & Period-Appropriate Instruments *** Historically-Informed Performance

Download a brochure http://singingstring.org

   Previous audiences found the couple to be "engaging, scholarly, delightful, warm, intelligent, flexible, humorous, talented, versatile, enthusiastic, personable, joyful." The couple specializes in 19th- and 20th-century music, history, and culture from parlor and stage, focusing largely on American, Celtic and British Isles traditions.

   The Calvin Coolidge Historical Site/Plymouth Folk & Blues Concerts stated, "Simply put, Jim and Maggi Dalton are a national treasure."

   The Daltons have toured nationwide and have been featured often on commercial and NPR public radio, on television and in major-market newspapers and magazines.

   Praised as "extraordinarily versatile," their performances feature repertoire drawn from the Middle Ages to contemporary music; and popular traditions including blues, jazz and TPA/Great American Songbook programs. They specialize in 19th- and 20th-century American and Celtic music, history and culture from parlor and stage.

   The Daltons have released two recordings and compose and perform original material. They have designed a full spectrum of programs which they have performed throughout the United States, appearing at nationally-known historic sites such as Colonial Williamsburg; at colleges, in concert series, at festivals, at historical societies, at community arts centers, for organizations of every description.

   Performances feature voices and instruments, appropriate to the program, that may include piano, guitar, mandolin, banjo, lute, and bouzouki. Jim Dalton endorses and plays The Phoenix Neoclassical mandolin, which is made in Maine, and is the author of "Mandolin for Beginners," published by Alfred/Workshop Arts.

   As artists-in-residence at various community and educational centers, they have presented series which address American history and various other topics in the humanities, using music as the core of each session.

   Massachusetts Cultural Council Creative Teaching Partners artists, and members of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) New England States Touring program.

   The Daltons are founders of the scholarly nonprofit Institute for Music, History, and Cultural Traditions, Inc. (http://imhct.org) and founders/artistic directors of the American History and Music Project ™ (americanhistoryandmusicproject.org)

   They are also authors of "The Measure of the Year: Singing Through the Seasons."

   So, what IS "historically-informed performance, anyway?
   Download our "Frequently Asked Questions" or "FAQs" in PDF format from our website

   Jim and Maggi are founders and co-directors of  The Institute for Music, History, and Cultural Traditions, Inc., a non-profit organization (http://imhct.org).

See our webstite for individual short bios... http://singingstring.org/JM/artists.html


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For information and brochure on the nonprofit Institute for Music, History, and Cultural Traditions, Inc/The American History and Music Project ™
http://imhct.org