Balladeer to Perform Songs of the Harvest at Old Dutch Parsonage

Fall Concert at the Old Dutch Parsonage: Celebrating the Harvest

Join balladeer Linda Russell as she sings songs of harvest-time. Playing the hammered and mountain dulcimers, penny whistle and guitar, Linda sings and plays ballads,love songs, dance tunes,and working songs written in early America and brought over from the Old World. 

Click to hear excerpt of Linda Russell playing “Meeting of the Waters” on hammered dulcimer.

Saturday, September 30, 2017

1:30 pm

Old Dutch Parsonage

71 Somerset Street

Somerville, NJ 08876

$10 per-person suggested donation to attend this program.

Advance registration recommended. Call 908-725-1015 or email whouse3@verizon.net to register. Please register early, as seating is limited. 

While performing on guitar, mountain and hammered dulcimers, penny whistle and limberjack, Linda’s rich singing voice illuminates our American heritage through patriotic anthems, broadsides, hymns and dance tunes.

Linda Russell is a balladeer who brings America’s past to life through song. She has served for many years as musical historian for the National Park Service at Federal Hall National Memorial and has performed at historic sites throughout New York and New Jersey.