Piedmont String Band Music: Carolina Chocolate Drops

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre $28; Members $24; Students $18

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are leaders in the revival of the old-time black string band music of the Piedmont region of the Carolinas – a rich banjo and fiddle tradition that was the antecedent of Appalachian old-time music, bluegrass, ragtime and blues. The group’s members – Justin Robinson, Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons – have been acclaimed for their spirited interpretations of this back porch foot-stomping music that reached its height of popularity in the 1920s and ‘30s.

“Dazzling in its velocity and virtuosity” —Rolling Stone