FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 4/3/10
Morgan Arts Council -- Berkeley Springs, WV
www.macicehouse.org

Press contact: Mary Hott • 304-258-2300



CIVIL WAR CONCERT AT ICE HOUSE

BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV ---- The Morgan Arts Council highlights its 
Civil War visual art show at the Ice House with an evening concert by 
The Civil War Comrades on Saturday, April 10 at 7:30pm.

The trio is one of the most noted recording and performing period 
American music in an historically appropriate style. The members of 
the band are Douglas Jimerson, who sings and plays guitar, Ellen 
Anderson, hammered dulcimer and mandolin, and Bob Clayton, banjo and 
mandolin. Tenor Jimerson began his professional performing career 
with The Washington Opera. He has advanced degrees in opera and 
musicology. Their latest CD, "Lincoln Portrait", was produced to 
commemorate Lincoln's 200th birthday and is being featured on NBC and 
NPR.

From Dixie and Yankee Doodle Dandy to Beautiful Dreamer, Barbara 
Allen and Jim Crack Corn, the songs are familiar to most Americans.

Throughout the day on the Ice House lawn, re-enactors of the 5th 
Virginia Company K are staging living history demonstrations of 
various aspects of camp life including roll call and mail call. 
Notorious Confederate spy, Belle Boyd, will be making appearances 
throughout the day. The Valor in the Valley art exhibit features 
limited edition prints of noted Civil War artists John Paul Strain, 
Bradley Schmehl and Mort Kunstler. Another exhibit feature more than 
20 eyewitness sketches of John Brown's Trial and Hanging by David 
Hunter Strother.

Advance tickets are available by calling 304-258-2300 or check 
www.macicehouse.org. The Ice House is located on Independence and 
Mercer in downtown Berkeley Springs.
This concert is funded by the West Virginia Humanities Council.