TOUR DATES
NOTE FROM ROBIN: Because of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, all live performances through at least the end of the year 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, which already got rescheduled from May to October, is now officially cancelled for this year. 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 guitar workshop sometime this winter, and if we’re really lucky we’ll be able to resume the real live weekend retreats by the time next May rolls around. 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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In the meantime…
For the last twenty years or so, December has meant The Christmas Tour: usually about a dozen concerts and several thousand miles over two or three weeks (and most of January to recover). This year, of course, we’re all living in a different kind of world, but that’s not going to stop the music or the celebration…and so, without further ado, I am pleased to announce:
ROBIN BULLOCK VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS TOUR 2020!
Starting off with a little pre-holiday music for my friends at St. Alban’s:
Sunday November 22, 3:00 pm EST
Prerecorded streaming concert from St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Davidson, NC (Robin solo)
Streamed via Facebook Premiere on both the Music at St. Alban’s and WDAV Facebook pages
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Sunday November 29, 8:00 pm EST
Sue Richards and Robin Bullock
Post-Thanksgiving Livestream from White Horse Black Mountain
www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/whitehorselive
$10.00
I’ll be kicking off the holiday season right after Thanksgiving with my duo partner and longtime friend, four-time National Scottish Harp Champion Sue Richards, for the first of two livestream shows at our beloved hometown venue White Horse Black Mountain. It’s been far too long since we’ve had a chance to play together, and we can’t wait to share some Celtic airs and dance tunes with y’all – some from our duo CD Highland Ramble and some yet to be revealed!
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Sunday December 6, 7:00 pm EST
Robin Bullock solo
Christmas Livestream
www.facebook.com/DancingWolfRecords
Free to watch; donations welcome – PayPal: www.paypal.me/robinbullockmusic Venmo: www.venmo.com/Robin-Bullock-5
I had such a good time with the last solo livestream I did from my home a few weeks ago that I couldn’t resist doing another one to celebrate the holidays. This will be my only completely solo Christmas concert this season [UPDATE: well, it was going to be, but by popular request I’ll be doing a second one on December 18th – see below – with no material repeated!], a chance to play favorite carols from my two Christmas CDs as well as some other seasonal music I love. Please come join me; everyone’s invited!
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Friday December 11, 8:00 pm EST
Sue Richards and Robin Bullock
Christmas Livestream from White Horse Black Mountain
www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/whitehorselive
$10.00
Sue and I return to White Horse for an evening of holiday favorites and less-familiar carols and dance tunes on Celtic harp, guitar, cittern and mandolin. Both White Horse shows will be open to a VERY limited live audience, but anyone anywhere can join us online from the comfort of home.
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Saturday December 12, 7:00 pm EST
Helicon with special guests Charm City Junction and Elke Baker
Winter Solstice Concert webcast from Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington DC
www.dumbartonconcerts.org/concerts-and-tickets
$26.00
Helicon – Ken Kolodner on hammer dulcimer and fiddle, Chris Norman on wooden flutes and smallpipes, and myself on guitar, cittern and mandolin – continue our 35-year (!) Winter Solstice Concert tradition with shows tonight at the historic Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Washington and next week at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. For both shows we’ll be joined by Baltimore’s incredible roots music band Charm City Junction (with Ken’s son Brad on banjo) and national Scottish fiddle champion Elke Baker. A mighty evening of traditional music and dance from all over the world celebrating this magical time of year, and a party not to be missed! (Also join us afterwards for a “Meet the Artists” at 8:00 pm!)
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Monday December 14, 7:30 pm EST
Ken Kolodner, Elke Baker and Robin Bullock
Holiday Livestream
$10.00
Ken, Elke and I have been joining forces for an annual holiday concert for some years now, and we weren’t about to stop this year just because we can’t do it at the usual venue. Ken on hammer dulcimer and fiddle and Elke on fiddle and viola are a self-contained duo who sometimes allow me to crash the party and augment their sound with guitar or cittern, so this evening’s livestream will include trios, duos and solos, featuring music from their new holiday CD On a Cold Winter’s Day as well as my new one, An American Guitar Album. Always a joyful reunion and lots of fun.
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Friday December 18, 7:00 pm EST
Robin Bullock solo
Christmas Livestream
www.facebook.com/DancingWolfRecords
Free to watch; donations welcome – PayPal: www.paypal.me/robinbullockmusic Venmo: www.venmo.com/Robin-Bullock-5
A last-minute addition to this year’s virtual Christmas tour: After my solo Christmas livestream concert on Sunday the 6th, which I’d planned to be my only solo show for the season, I had so many people ask for more – and honestly, I had so many more carols I wanted to play and didn’t have space to squeeze into the set – that I decided to mount a second one, just under the wire before Christmas week itself. So, you’re all invited to come join me online, for an encore Christmas livestream featuring music of the season on acoustic guitar, cittern and mandolin – and no material repeated from the show on the 6th! (Well, OK, almost none – I might have to repeat one or two by popular demand.)
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Saturday December 19, 7:30 pm EST
Helicon with special guests Charm City Junction and Elke Baker
Winter Solstice Concert webcast from The Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
www.creativealliance.org/events/2020/helicons-35th-annual-winter-solstice-concert
$25.00 / $22.00 members / $40.00 Supporters
Helicon returns to our longtime hometown of Baltimore (only Ken, of the three of us, still lives there, but it’ll always be the home of the Winter Solstice Concert) for our annual festivities, joined once again by our friends Charm City Junction and Elke Baker. During this time of pandemic we’ve reluctantly vacated our usual digs at Kraushaar Auditorium, but the good folks at The Creative Alliance have taken us in and made it possible for the show to go on. No virus is going to stop us bringing the music and light of the season to our Baltimore friends…and thanks to the magic of the Internet, anyone else anywhere in the world this year as well!
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Sunday December 20
A Swannanoa Solstice
Featuring Robin Bullock, David Holt, Josh Goforth, EJ Jones and Piperjones Band, Phil Jamison, Ellie Grace and host Doug Orr
Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville NC
Live performance with limited, socially distanced audience (conditions permitting): 2:00 pm EST
$45
Webcast: 7:00 pm EST
$35.00 per household to view
Another longstanding holiday tradition, A Swannanoa Solstice celebrates the season through Appalachian music, dance and storytelling right in the heart of the mountains, at the Wortham Arts Center in downtown Asheville. Fiddles, banjos, bagpipes, guitars, stories and songs and dance and more. This year’s circumstances will limit the number of people we can have in the live audience, but we’ll make up for that by recording the whole thing and webstreaming it just a few hours later. Again, come join us!
