WHEN: Satruday, February 13th, 2010

at 8:00pm doors will open at 7:40pm

WHERE: 7552 South State Street in Lowville - Lewis County Historical Society

Tickets for this event are $15 in advance or $20 at the door and can be purchased at Cafe Z on South State Street in historic downtown Lowville at Dr. Guitar Music at 154 Court Street in Watertown or by calling Lewis County Historical Society at 376-8957, no credit cards are accepted. 

Call 376-8957 for more information

or website

Refreshments will be available for purchase, however no food or beverages may be brought into the facility.  Corporate sponsorship for the event is by Aries Chemicals; Housing is being provided by Alger Place B & B with hospitality by Jeb’s Restaurant. 
The Black River Valley Concert Series is a fund raising arm of Lewis County Historical Society.  Support the humanities and arts by joining or volunteering at your local historical society today!  To learn how, call 376-8957

Lindsay Mac is a girl you’ll not likely forget. The obvious is that she is the girl who straps her cello to her body. Like a guitar, she strums and plucks it while singing. “A classical education gone horribly wrong” is usually the gist of the local headline. Yet what you’ll remember about this musician might not be the obvious. Beneath the headlines the single most valuable bow in Mac’s indie-music-making quiver is her songwriting. Her songs of love, bewilderment, protest and reverence are what move Lindsay’s fans to drive long distances, to pre-order CDs a year in advance and to spread the word to friends on opposite coasts and throughout the world. And thank heavens because that cello surely gets heavy.

As you might expect, the bulk of her instrument hasn’t affected the bulk of her tour schedule (though buying an extra seat on the plane has its disadvantages). In her first two years on the road, Lindsay and her cello logged in nearly 300 dates, helping her find her audience and laying the groundwork for multiple North American tours and radio support. The focus of 2008 partly shifted in order to accommodate the recording of her sophomore release, Stop Thinking, though the touring was still burly with several multi-month tours including the epic Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Preview Tour - 28 shows in 28 days - which included venues like The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Mac also showcased at the 2008 International Folk Alliance Conference and performed on the Main Stage at the Falcon Ridge Festival in July.

Lindsay Mac has been on both the front cover and the cover of the Weekend section of the Boston Globe, the cover of Strings magazine, and has been featured in many other publications such as The New York Times’ About.com, Northeast Performer, Music Connection, and the largest Spanish-language music magazine, Musico Pro.
Mac was born in Iowa to bohemian, party-hungry parents who likely fed her pork tenderloin and Midwest microbrews for breakfast.

This explains a lot.

She was classically trained starting at the age of six in church choir and formal training in piano and cello came shortly thereafter.  After attending a public high school and, in the summer, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Lindsay enrolled in Dartmouth College to study what else but medicine.

She took advantage of the College's foreign study opportunities and moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music and then briefly left Dartmouth to study at The San Francisco Conservatory as well as to be a professional ski patroller in Utah and bike messenger.

She returned to Dartmouth, graduated, and starting experimenting with her music while living in a cabin heated by a wood stove.  It is there that she found her voice and her unique style was born.  Fearing the cello might be used for kindling, she enrolled in Berklee College of Music and shortly thereafter began touring full-time.  The rest is yet to come.
Accompanying Mac will be:Jason Petrin - guitars, keys; Mona Tavakoli - cajon, percussion, backup vox (or) Jesse Magnuson – drums.

Folks traveling on American Airlines flights during January of ’09 may recall Mac’s track “Stop Thinking” being played!

Refreshments will be available for purchase, however no food or beverages may be brought into the facility.  Corporate sponsorship for the event is by Aries Chemicals; Housing is being provided by Alger Place B & B with hospitality by Jeb’s Restaurant. 
The Black River Valley Concert Series is a fund raising arm of Lewis County Historical Society.  Support the humanities and arts by joining or volunteering at your local historical society today!  To learn how, call 376-8957