Welcoming friends back to campus with food, drink, and live music from award-winning fiddler and banjo player Joseph Decosimo (PhD ’18). Learn about the Center, catch up with friends, and enjoy a sneak peek at our new exhibit, featuring photos by Emily Williams. Bring friends! Kids welcome.
Event is free, RSVPs appreciated.
Joseph Decosimo is a multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, banjo, guitar, droney things), singer, and leading interpreter and teacher of traditional music from Southern Appalachia, where he grew up and learned from the region’s last master musicians. Based in Durham, NC, Joseph is a powerful champion of traditional music—a responsive artist who makes his genre accessible and draws musicians from Durham’s rich traditional, experimental, and indie communities into his orbit to make music that NPR All Song Considered praises as “pushing the sonic boundaries of old-time music … gorgeous.”
