The Libby Prison Minstrels will perform Civil War Era music at Hagley

CONTACT:     Meg Marcozzi, Marketing Manager

                        (302) 658-2400, ext. 238    mmarcozzi@hagley.org

What:               The Libby Prison Minstrels will perform Civil War Era music  at Hagley

Where:             The Soda House at Hagley Museum and Library (Buck Road Entrance off Route 100)

When:              7 pm. On Thursday, September 29, 2011

Admission:      Free

Briefly:            

            The Concert by the Libby Prison Minstrels is the first program in Hagley’s Civil War Education Series. The Civil War Education Series complements Hagley’s exhibit, “An Oath of Allegiance to the Republic: The du Ponts and the Civil War.”

           The Libby Prison Minstrels is a five-piece band with guitars, banjo, mandolins, bass, harmonica, whistles and percussion that feature three-part harmony.  It is modeled after a group of Union prisoners who performed in the infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War. The band’s repertoire includes soldier songs (North and South), Irish-American ballads, sea shanties, spirituals, period fiddle tunes, and Early American dance music.

 The Hagley Civil War education series will continue in October with historian Justin Carisio, and his lecture, " Quaker Soldier: The Civil War Experience of  Henry Gawthrop of the 4^th Delaware;" and December with Jane Peters Estes, and her presentation of “Christmas Past,” which will explore the origins of many of                                      our holiday traditions and highlights Christmas customs observed during the Civil War.

            Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org.

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