Jim and Maggi Dalton, Salem, MA
Jim & Maggi Dalton
Singing String Music
Performance/Production/Publishing/Studio
Concerts, Workshops & Residencies
American & Celtic Traditions
Period & Period-Appropriate Instruments *** Historically-Informed Performance
Jim and Maggi Dalton perform music of popular/vernacular, folk and cultivated traditions -- covering time periods from the Middle Ages to the present,
focusing largely on American and Celtic repertoire.
They specialize in music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Instrumentation: mostly plucked strings and voices.
Concerts and programs contain commentary designed to place the music performed in historical context for the audience.
Programs reflect the continual and ongoing research in which the two delight. They also perform original songs and compositions.
Jim and Maggi have released two recordings to date, and have designed a full spectrum of programs which they present nationwide.
They have been featured often on radio and television.
(PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS affiliates, Cable Networks; NPR stations,NewsRadio, interview programs across the USA
They have performed at nationally-known venues (i.e., Colonial Williamsburg, Seneca Falls, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House) and countless local and regional venues nationwide.
They have served as artists-in-residence at various colleges, public history sites, community and educational centers,
presenting series addressing American history and other topics in the humanities, using music as the core of each session.
They are co-authors of the recently published book, first in a series: The Measure of the Year - Singing Through the
