Ed Sweeney takes his audience on an American Musical Journey playing guitar, 5-string banjo and fretless banjo. This concert celebrates the 250th anniversary of America through traditional folk songs, blues, ragtime, and banjo tunes. In this performance, Ed Sweeney will weave portraits of our American history and life by performing songs and instrumentals from colonial times, the Civil War, the Western Expansion, the Cowboy songs, Railroad Songs, the Great Depression, World Wars to our current day and how all of these events relate our history.
Ed Sweeney honors people and their histories by presenting music that entertains and educates. Through his musical expertise, breadth of knowledge, and wonderful sense of humor, he helps listeners, understand the motivations, stories, and culture that have made us who and what we are today. For more than 45 years Ed Sweeney has actively explored ways to research, learn, perform and teach traditional American music. He started this journey in high school, then became the first music major at Providence College in 1973 where he helped create and shape a curriculum.
Ed’s music reaches a diverse audience through NPR or on the hundreds of radio stations and
on-line networks around the world. Currently, his music is playing in Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Tokyo.
This concert is sponsored by the City of East Providence 250 Commission.
Free and open to all. Registration not required.
