A master fiddler is scheduled to be perform in an area village in July.
According to a news release, Howard Marshall is scheduled to be the featured speaker and performer during the “First Saturday Lecture” from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 7, at Arrow Rock State Historic Site’s visitor center.
For more than four decades, Marshall has been devoted to conserving, studying and carrying on traditional fiddle music. Marshall has played fiddle since the late 1960s. He notes that there has been a fiddler in every generation of his family since 1830, and his performances focus on music he inherited from master old-time fiddlers.
The title of Marshall’s presentation is “Fiddler’s Dream: Missouri’s Continuing Heritage of Traditional Fiddle and Dance Music.”
Marshall will perform some classic traditional fiddle tunes as part of the lecture, and the program is free and open to the public.