Brian Miller in Concert @ Depot Days - FREE

On Friday, June 24 at 7:00 PM, the Historical Society welcomes fiddler and historian Brian Miller, a member of the popular regional folk art duo The Lost Forty. Brian will present and perform on Bemidji's Lumberjack Musicians Circa 1922. A native of Bemidji, Brian Miller has performed extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Ireland with a variety of Irish music groups. It was his study of Irish music history that led him back to his hometown! After paging through a songbook and finding some Irish-influenced songs collected 100 years ago in Bemidji, he set out to research and revive the "Woods music" of Minnesota's logging era. This work led to several grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and, in 2014, the Parsons Fund Award from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Brian promotes the revival of regional songs with his duo The Lost Forty and his…