The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston will feature Judy Cook, a folksinger and historical balladeer, on Saturday, May 19 at 7 p.m. Central Time. The Concert at the Confluence will feature this outstanding musician from Laurel, Maryland.
The event is free and open to the public. Cook’s program is entitled “One Man’s Civil War: A Musical Look at the Civil War Through the Eyes of Gilbert Claflin.”
Cook has been performing her repertoire of songs and ballads of traditional Americana and the British Isles since the early 1990s. She has family roots in Virginia and was lucky enough to be born into a family who loved music. After discovering a packet of her great-great-grandparents’ letters, she developed a Civil War program of songs introduced with historic details and enhanced with hundreds of projected images. Her programs are enthusiastically received at museums, historical societies, universities, festivals, lecture series and concert series. She has recorded four CDs. Her first CD of traditional songs and ballads, “If You Sing Songs …,” was released in 1998, followed two years later by “Far From the Lowlands.” She released “Tenting Tonight: Songs of the Civil War” in 2007 and “Lincoln’s America” in 2009.
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