Hurdy Gurdy

 On June 5 at 8 p.m., the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club Concert Series at the Fair Lawn Community Center will wrap up its season with a Turn Back the Clock Night featuring the New York old-time string band the Second Fiddles, and from the mountains of Virginia, the Shivers. The Hurdy Gurdy promises an evening of old-time style music and vaudeville humor that will take the audience back to the days of the early country music stage shows.

George and Susette Shiver bring variety musical comedy back to the stage. One part early country music, one part Bluegrass and one part vaudeville, The Shivers are George Burns and Gracie Allen gone country. But not the country of today, rather they have gone back to a time when the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers and Charlie Poole played with Will Rodgers and Uncle Dave Macon and comedy was a big part of the show.

Sharing the stage for this unique evening of music will be New York City's own The Second Fiddles. Formed in 2005, The Second Fiddles are a trio in the tradition of the great stringbands that performed at the turn of the century (the last century!) The artists that traveled with the medicine shows were adept at all genre's of American roots music. The Fiddles pull from the song books of Country, Blues, Bluegrass, Gospel and Swing bands of the '20s, '30s and '40s.

The Fair Lawn Community Center is located at 10-10 20th Street in Fair Lawn. Tickets for this concert are $20 ($17 for Hurdy Gurdy members) and can be purchased online at www.hurdygurdyfolk.org or at the box office at the Fair Lawn Community Center on the night of the concert.