New “Music in the Stacks” Concert Season Kicks Off With Taarka

WEST LINN – The concert series known as “Music in the Stacks” kicks off at the West Linn Public Library on Monday, September 27, 6:30 p.m. This free concert is sponsored by Friends of the West Linn Public Library and is open to the public.

The opening concert on September 27 will be a performance by Taarka. Emerging from a long adition of gypsy circus troubadours, Taarka performs a blended evolution of Western and Eastern folk traditions of jazz, rock, bluegrass, old‐time, gypsy, Indian, and Celtic music.

Collectively and individually, members of the group have shared stages with members of the Grateful Dead, Phish, and String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, to name a few. They ave also performed at such music festivals as High Sierra, Joshua Tree, Northwest String Summit, Oregon Country Fair, Whole Earth, Telluride Bluegrass, Bumbershoot, and Seattle Folklife.

Music in the Stacks” concerts are held on the main floor of the library in the high‐ceilinged reading room. Seating is general admission and all ages are welcome.

The rest of the series will feature the following concerts:

• Ragtime piano with Greg Lief – October 25
• Holiday concert with Heartstrings – December 13
• Middle Eastern music with Shabava – January 10
• Celtic/Irish music with Innisfree – March 14
• Blues and hokum with Steve Cheseborough – April 18