Jug Tavern Presents Concert At Ossining Library

OSSINING, NY — The Jug Tavern of Sparta is presenting a free concert of American roots music at the Ossining Public Library at 2 p.m. April 27.

Well-known to Jug Tavern audiences since 2016, banjo player Tim Rowell and fiddler Ambrose Verdibello are back with special guest Steve Kessler on guitar for another concert of American roots music called "American Music from the Mountain."

The roots of American music are watered by many hands from many lands, organizers said. Fiddle tunes and songs travelled great distances across the oceans carried largely by people in search of a better life. Their melodies were carried in the hearts of musicians and passed down from generation to generation.

Tim and Ambrose are delighted to be back in Ossining with Steve to share the music that settled in the mountains of the American South.

Tim Rowell (Banjo) is an award-winning teacher and performer in the Boston Area. Originally from the Hudson Valley, he specializes in clawhammer banjo style and Appalachian string band music.

Ambrose Verdibello (Fiddle) is a performer and educator in and around the Hudson Valley. He teaches and accompanies The Strawberry Hill Fiddlers, a youth ensemble, and is executive director of the Field Recorders’ Collective.

Steve Kessler (Guitar) has been a mainstay of the Hudson Valley Music old-time music community for almost 40 years. He hosts the annual Fiddlin’ Bear Old-Time Musicians’ Gathering in the Catskill Mountains.

The concert is free and all are welcome. For more information about The Jug Tavern and its programs go to www.jugtavern.org.