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Ellis County Historical Society in Hays will host “Kansas Music History,” a presentation and discussion by Derrick Doty at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at 100 W. Seventh in downtown Hays.
Members of the community are invited to attend the free program. Contact the Ellis County Historical Society at 785-628-2624 for more information. The program is made possible by Humanities Kansas.
Refreshments will be provided, and all ages are welcome to join the society in its newly remodeled basement commons area of the red brick building on Main Street museum campus.
What is it like to be a musician from Kansas and what can their music tell us about time and place? Using music and storytelling, this presentation explores informal music traditions, styles and musicians from Territorial Kansas up through the age of the radio and concludes with a demonstration of various instruments and music from early 19th and 20th century Kansas.
Doty is a music historian and works at the Riley County Historical Society in Manhattan, Kan. He has taught music lessons for more than 20 years, specializing in piano, guitar, fiddle and mandolin. He plays the fiddle in Tallgrass Express String Band, a folk group based in the Flint Hills, which plays original songs about the region.