Songbag Concert Series

Returning favorites Joe and Vicki Price will bring traditional blues to the Carl Sandburg Songbag Concert on Sunday, March 11 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site in Galesburg.

Joe Price is a legendary Iowa musician, and has the ability to outplay almost anyone else in the room. He has opened for the likes of Iris Dement and John Lee Hooker. His reputation was cemented when he spent the latter half of the 1970s as part of Mother Blues. Vicki Price holds her own with her guitar playing and her vocals, which can be bold and brassy when she wants, and more bluesy than most. This duo is far more than the sum of their impressive parts. It is when these two take the stage together that the genuine magic happens. Their website is http://www.joepriceblues.com.

The Prices’ performance will be in the Sandburg Site’s Barn at 313 E. Third Street in Galesburg. The show starts at 4 p.m. and ends at 6 p.m. with a break for refreshments around 5 p.m. A donation of $5 per person is suggested. The concert is sponsored by the Carl Sandburg Historic Site Association and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Upcoming Songbag Concerts this spring will feature Small Potatoes on April 8 and John Heasly and Jerry Schroeder on May 13.

Carl Sandburg was a collector and performer of America’s folk songs. The series is named in honor of Sandburg’s book “The American Songbag,” published in 1927. The Carl Sandburg State Historic Site includes the home where the famed poet and biographer was born. For more information, visit www.sandburg.org.

The Sandburg site is operated by the Illinois Department Natural Resources.