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Hiawatha Music Co-op brings Harp, Hart & Bones to Ore Dock stage

MARQUETTE — February’s Hiawatha on T.A.A.P — Traditional Acoustic Arts Performances — features the traditional country blues trio, Harp, Hart & Bones Wednesday on the Ore Dock Brewing Company Stage.

The event held from 6-8 p.m. will feature “Fast Eddie” Consolmagno on harmonica and slide guitar, Bill “Dock” Hart on resonator guitar, and Rex Havoc sitting in for Randy “da Bones Man” Seppala on percussion.

Harp, Hart & Bones draw material from the blues tradition that dates from the 1920s and extends barely into the early 1950s. According to a release from Hiawatha: “It was a time when bands of two or three people were common, playing on record, at dance parties, traveling shows, and juke joints.”

Unlike the urban blues and rock music that followed, it was a study in the essentials … acoustic-based music set against steady and syncopated rhythms with music responsibilities shared evenly to create one sound.

Their second recording, entitled “Juke Joint,” illustrates the effect of playing “live” in one room with no effects or devices intervening. That “live” feeling gets deeper in their third album, “They’re Red Hot,” recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the original trio has played annually at “Juke Joint Fest” for many years.

Techniques applied by Harp, Hart & Bones include those from Mississippi Delta and Hill Country music, ragtime and early jazz, Piedmont blues and Muhlenberg country and blues music.

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