PUTNEY — Twilight Music continues its 13th annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, July 12, with an evening of American music by The Mike + Ruthy Band.
The seven-concert series continues every other Sunday through Aug. 23. All concerts begin at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at The Putney Community Center at 10 Christian Square in case of rain.
Woodstock, N.Y.-based Ruth Ungar and Mike Merenda have played thousands of concerts across tens-of-thousands of miles.
In 2000, the couple met Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (grandson of the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger) and formed The Mammals, an acoustic stringband that toured the world over the next seven years, and performed with the likes of Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Last year, Ungar and Merenda recorded an album comprised of songs they could tour with a band, and tapped drummer Konrad Meissner, bassist Jacob Silver and pedal steel man Charlie Rose.
Bright As You Can, the new album from The Mike + Ruthy Band, celebrates the grit and glory of kinship.