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Robin Kessinger and Kate Long: a magical combination
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Robin Kessinger and Kate Long
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Robin Kessinger and Kate Long
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Don't miss Robin Kessinger and Kate Long's Carnegie Hall Storytelling Performance on Friday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
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Long and Kessinger have fun together, and people who come to their concerts get to laugh a lot between songs—also during songs such as "Lift Me to Heaven before I Turn Mean" or "Go Try and Dump It When Nobody Is Around."
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They may also shed a tear with ballads like Long's "Who'll Watch the Homeplace (an IBMA Song of the Year)"—all paired with Kessinger's guitar wizardry.
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"Whether Kate and Robin are playing traditional tunes or their own compositions, the feeling is down-to-earth, down-home, and deeply rooted."
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Robin Kessinger's guitar virtuosity has earned him the Winfield national flatpick guitar champion title and an international reputation for creative, sensitive rendition of traditional tunes.
He is one of the folk world's most respected guitar masters and teachers.
For a decade, he coordinated Guitar Week for the Augusta Heritage Center, and he teaches at Steve Kaufmann's guitar camp, the Swannanoa Gathering, and other camps.
He has been on the cover of "Flatpicking Guitar" magazine, has six CDs of his own and has played on about two dozen.
He is best-known as a national flatpick guitar champion, but he is also the West Virginia state dulcimer champion and a fine mandolin player.
He leads the singing in his church on Sundays.
He and his legendary musical family are the subject of a BBC documentary.
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17.JAN.09 Robin Kessinger and Kate Long: a magical combination