Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass played a concert in the Meridian Ballroom in the Morris University Center at SIUE . The concert was a mix of music, poetry, and dance. Waldman, self-titled Alaska’s traveling fiddler-poet, played fiddle, read poetry published in SIUE’s Sou’Wester literary journal, other poems, and narrated the concert, while seven other musicians played fiddle, Cajun fiddle, fiddlesticks, banjo, guitar, up-right base, mandolin, and danced rhythm tap and flat-foot style Appalachian clogging. The other musicians, Riley Baugus, Ira Bernstein, David Greeley, Jerry Hagins, David Long, Jordan Wankoff, and Allison Williams, come from North Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Arkansas, respectively.