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Woodland Park Zoo Tunes Presents: Carolina Chocolate Drops & The Del McCoury Band

Sunday | July 6

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CCD: In early 2012, Grammy award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops released their studio albumLeaving Eden (Nonesuch Records) produced by Buddy Miller. The traditional African-American string band’s album was recorded in Nashville and featured founding members Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons, along with multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and cellist Leyla McCalla, already a familiar presence at the group’s live shows. With Flemons and McCalla now concentrating on solo work, the group’s 2014 lineup will feature two more virtuosic players alongside Giddens and Jenkins, cellist Malcolm Parson and multi-instrumentalist Rowan Corbett, illustrating the expansive, continually exploratory nature of the Chocolate Drops’ music.

DMB: For more than fifty years, Del McCoury’s music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans as well as a growing number of fans among those only vaguely familiar with the genre. McCoury is something special, a living link to the days when bluegrass was made only in hillbilly honkytonks, schoolhouse shows and on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, yet also a commandingly vital presence today, from prime time and late night talk show TV to music festivals where audiences number in the hundreds of thousands.

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