TOUR DATES
NOTE FROM ROBIN: Because of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, all live performances through at least summer of 2021 have been cancelled or postponed. Many will be rescheduled when it becomes safe to do so, so please check back regularly.
In the meantime, I’m playing livestream concerts whenever the opportunity arises, and those are listed here. Please come join me in cyberspace from wherever you are! There will be more, and we’ll continue listing them as soon as they’re confirmed.
The monthly Carolina Celtic concert series at White Horse Black Mountain is on indefinite hold until we’re all convinced that it’s safe enough to start up again. We’ll be back, we just don’t yet know when. Keep an eye out here and at www.whitehorseblackmountain.com for updates on that.
The 2020 Robinwood Guitar Retreat had to be officially cancelled – we were hoping, but it just wouldn’t have been safe, and there wasn’t sufficient time to pull together an online event that would have been up to our standards. We’re hoping to present a virtual version of the Robinwood Guitar Retreat in May or June, and if we’re really lucky we’ll be able to resume real live weekend retreats by fall. Updates as soon as we have them.
Thank you for your understanding and support through this time. We’ll make it through together and we’ll build a better world when we come out the other side of this. Be well and stay safe – RB
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Upcoming livestreams
March through May 2021: five livestream concerts, all different!
The first Sundays of March, April and May 2021 I’ll be streaming on Facebook Live a series I’m calling Inspirations, devoted to exploring and sharing the work of three musical figures that particularly inspired and influenced my own music: Turlough O’Carolan, J.S. Bach and John Fahey.
And between the first and second of those will be two livestreams of Irish music in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, one with my duo partner and four-time National Scottish Harp Champion Sue Richards, the other solo. Come join us for any or all!
Sunday March 7, 7:00 pm ET
Robin Bullock solo
Inspirations livestream concert #1: Music of Turlough O’Carolan
Streaming here: www.facebook.com/DancingWolfRecords
Free to watch; donations welcome – PayPal: www.paypal.me/robinbullockmusic Venmo: www.venmo.com/Robin-Bullock-5
Guitar and mandolin adaptations of music by the blind Irish harper whose 200-plus surviving tunes are a unique and beautiful blend of the ancient Irish harp tradition and the influence of the Baroque. I’ll be playing lots of tunes from my animal rescue benefit CD The Carolan Collection, as well as some I’ve never recorded.
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Saturday March 13, 7:00 pm ET
Sue Richards and Robin Bullock
Saint Patrick’s Day livestream concert at White Horse Black Mountain
www.whitehorseblackmountain.com
Suggested price: $20 (or more if you’re feeling generous; White Horse, like all other venues right now, need and deserve all the help they can get)
Irish, Scottish, and maybe a wee bit of American traditional music from Sue on Celtic harp and myself on guitar, cittern and mandolin, featuring tunes from our duo CD Highland Ramble and some as-yet-unrecorded favorites. A sneak preview for when we’re able to relaunch the Carolina Celtic series!
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Wednesday March 17, 7:00 pm ET
Robin Bullock solo
Saint Patrick’s Day livestream concert at An Die Musik Live
www.andiemusiklive.com/events/
$10 (or more if you’re feeling generous; An Die Musik, like all other venues right now, need and deserve all the help they can get)
Maintaining an annual tradition of I don’t even know how many years, I’ll be returning to my longtime hometown of Baltimore for a Saint Patrick’s Day solo concert at An Die Musik, this year right on the day itself (since presumably nobody’s going out to pubs this year, at least I hope not). An all-Irish (or mostly all-Irish) evening, with some RB favorites and some I’ve never played live before.
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Sunday April 4, 7:00 pm ET
Robin Bullock solo
Inspirations livestream concert #2: Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Streaming here: www.facebook.com/DancingWolfRecords
Free to watch; donations welcome – PayPal: www.paypal.me/robinbullockmusic Venmo: www.venmo.com/Robin-Bullock-5
Music of the master himself, one of the greatest composers who ever lived, much of whose instrumental repertoire lends itself perfectly to solo guitar or mandolin. The evening will feature pieces from my two (so far) Bach-oriented CDs, Majesty and Magic and Suites for Mandolin Volume One, and plenty more that I haven’t yet recorded – maybe even including the mighty Chaconne, if I’m feeling up to the challenge!
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Sunday May 2, 7:00 pm ET
Robin Bullock solo
Inspirations livestream concert #3: Music of John Fahey
Streaming here: www.facebook.com/DancingWolfRecords
Free to watch; donations welcome – PayPal: www.paypal.me/robinbullockmusic Venmo: www.venmo.com/Robin-Bullock-5
Recreating the sound of a pioneering fingerstyle guitarist and composer, founder of the “American primitive” style of acoustic guitar blending elements of blues, early country, classical, avant-garde and world music. John Fahey was a major influence on so many of us: Leo Kottke (whose career he helped start), George Winston (ditto), Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges…all the way to Cul de Sac and Sonic Youth. Also the founder of not one but two significant record labels, Takoma and Revenant. I wouldn’t be the guitarist I am if I hadn’t heard him.
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More to come…stay tuned!
