Music of Idaho
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Idaho has produced a number of musicians, including pop star Paul Revere and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. Rosalie Sorrels is also a renowned folk singer as well as Lee Penn Sky, and Norm Weinstein is a prominent critic known in the jazz world.
The town of Weiser has held fiddling contests since the 1890s, when the instrument arrived in Idaho on the Oregon Trail. Since the early 1950s, Weiser has been home to the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest, held in June and hosting more than 20,000 people a year. There is also a National Oldtime Fiddlers' Hall of Fame .
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[edit] Music venues and institutions
There is an Idaho Symphony Orchestra, Idaho Falls Symphony Orchestra, Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra (founded in 1981), Idaho State Civic Symphony and a Washington Idaho Symphony. The Idaho State Civic Symphony is the oldest in the state, having been founded in the early 1900s .
Major music venues include the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center at Idaho State University in Pocatello. Idaho State University's Department of Music is among the most important institutions of musical education in the state.
[edit] References
- Byron, Janet (1996). Country Music Lover's Guide to the U.S.A., 1st ed., New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-14300-1.
- Idaho State Civic Symphony history. Idaho State Civic Symphony. Retrieved on December 3, 2005.
- History of the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra. Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved on December 3, 2005.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Byron, pg. 59
- ^ Idaho State Civic Symphony and the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra
