St. Patrick's Day Celebration with The Whippersnap - 03/16/2012

St. Patrick's Day Celebration with The Whippersnappers

Originally formed in 1976 to serenade the racetrack crowd, this trio of regional folk superstars offers upbeat string band music with fiddles, 5-string banjo and acoustic guitar, featuring fun songs new and old, and fiddle instrumentals both lively and stately. The Whippersnappers are multi-instrumentalists Peter Davis, George Wilson, and Frank Orsini. Davis is in WAMC's Dancing on the Air band, playing guitar, piano, and clarinet; Wilson is a traditional fiddler and banjoist who has played with Fennig's All-Stars and is a frequent performer at regional contradances and folk festivals; and fiddler-mandolinist-guitarist Frank Orsini has played with bluegrass greats Bill Keith and Frank Wakefield. Their latest album, Up Against It Now, is "a footstomping, ripsnorting collection of old-time music that juxtaposes country songs of the 1920s and '30s with Celtic fiddle tunes, and shows much—but by no means all—of what these three can do." —Glenn Weiser