Virtual Music Festival continues Wednesday night with local artists

Claude Cymerman at the piano

The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival continues Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. with “Smooth Transitions,” a variety-show program of folk, classical and original American music celebrating the diversity of American music and what is hoped will have been a smooth transition of power during the Presidential Inauguration earlier in the day.

Featured in the program are local artists pianist Claude Cymerman (performing Joplin, Gershwin, “Amazing Grace,” and a virtuoso rendition of “The Stars and Stripes Forever”), Ethan Batan (mandolin) and Luke Lovejoy (guitar) playing bluegrass tunes, singer-songwriter Bobbie Lancaster, and “Him and Her” the duo of LaToshia and Joel Everson.

From out of town, there will be music from the Frueh Brothers (violin/piano duo) of Oregon playing Applancian reels, and pianist Andrew Brown, a DePauw University alum, playing a piece inspired by Navajo music.

The program goes live at 7:30 p.m. and can be heard and seen:

• In a watch party with post-concert discussion at http://watch.gvmf.live.

• At facebook.com/greencastlevirtualmusic.

• At greencastlemusic.org.

All previous weekly programs are available at playlist.gvmf.live

“We’re doing everything we can to help people connect with each other even as we are physically isolated while we wait out the pandemic,” Edberg said. “While each week’s program can be watched on your own at any time once it debuts, a growing community is connecting with each other on Zoom to watch together and talk with the performers and each other after. It’s the closest thing to being together in person that we have been able to create.”

The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival programs are made possible by the Greencastle Summer Music Festival family of donors and the GSMF endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the DePauw Performing Arts Series, the Inn at DePauw, the people of Gobin Church, and in partnership with the Sunnyside concert series. Contributions can be made at greencastlemusic.org/donate.