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2009
Porcupine Mountain Music Festival

Rory Miller and Dale C. Miller

Florida-based Rory Miller plays an original high energy acoustic guitar style. Her voice is powerful and emotive, her lyrics surreal and evocative. Her songs are guaranteed to yank you from your daydreams and find out who is making that beautiful exciting sound.

Ontonagon-based Dale C. Miller is a prolific songwriter who plays the guitar as if it were part of him. His songs range from the wacky to the personal, populated by quirky characters and images from daily life.

 
Dale and Rory Miller's first song was a song Dale wrote about a neighbor. Since Rory is from the Florida they sang a song about Florida for their second number. The third number was "Ode to Jimmy Hendrix.
Rory's brother joined the duo for the fifth song and they were then joined by their mom doing a song about antiques.
 
 
 

Charlie Parr

 
Charlie Parr - Charlie Parr of Duluth, Minnesota plays original and traditional folk and Piedmont-style blues, accompanying himself on National resonator guitars, 12-string guitar and banjo.

Parr was raised in Austin, Minn, in a household that prized traditional American folk music and his style bears the influence of hours spent listening to country blues records and Smithsonian/Folkways field recordings.

Charlie has performed publicly since 1988 and he has shared stages and opened concerts for Haley Bonar, The Black-Eyed Snakes, Baby Grant Johnson, Dan Rumsey, Paul Metsa, Dakota Dave Hull, Cam Waters, Bob Brozman, Catfish Keith and Greg Brown.

 

Charlie performed  "Are you ready ?"  "Lord Lord Lord"  "Cold Creek Tennessee " He also performed "That's the Way it Is" on the banjo.