Historic Cane Hill will host a musical celebration open to the public at 2 PM on Saturday, December 7, at the 1891 Cane Hill Presbyterian Church.

 This year’s entertainment will feature the music of George West and Starr Mitchell of Little Rock.

 When George and Starr met in 1978, they soon discovered they had a common love of Arkansas folk music. George played it on his fiddle and harmonica, Starr on her mountain and hammered dulcimers. In 1981, they were two of the founding members of Lark in the Morning, a band that plays in the Celtic-Ozark tradition — music from the British Isles that found its way to the Arkansas mountains.

 For this program,In researching 19th-century Arkansas Christmases, the couple found a Civil War diarist who remarked about how quiet the family’s Christmas Day had been — no one was firing guns in the street, he said. On a more typical Christmas there was gunfire, fireworks, and sometimes even a canon shot straight down Main Street. Other customs highlighted during the musical program will include the Yule log, eggnog, and the Christmas Beef. 

The Christmas concert is free and open to the public, but reserved tickets are required due to limited seating. Tickets will be released November 1.

Historic Cane Hill Members are invited to a reception following the performance at the Historic Cane Hill College.
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