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Gospel & Mountain Music
Veteran country music performer Mac McHale and old-time gospel singer Carolyn Hutton bring a bit of the North and South together in a duo called "Taylors Grove." Taking the name from the little North Carolina church where Carolyn grew up singing with her family, Mac and Carolyn perform together in the spirit of simple old-fashioned American music that reaches across barriers of place and generations.  With guitar, mandolin, banjo and harmony singing, they bring together songs Mac learned from his mother in Downeast Maine and songs Carolyn heard in Piedmont, North Carolina in the days when people from miles around would bring their guitars and children into the church just to wait for a turn to sing and play.

Mac McHale is the lead singer for the old-time country band "The Radio Gang" and half of the popular Celtic/Country duo "Two Old Friends." A Fishtraks Recording Artist, who has produced over 20 recordings. Mac is a member of The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame and was recently inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum, a pioneer of American bluegrass music. Carolyn Hutton is newer on the music scene, having spent most of her years raising 4 children, but in the last few years she has gone back to her roots. She has helped to form a bluegrass trio called "Silver and Central,” which hosts monthly jams in Rollinsford NH, and formerly played the mandolin in a popular all female acoustic band called "Bliss."

Both educators and music preservationists at heart, Mac and Carolyn seek to bring to you the music of old places--old wooden churches, old town halls, old parlors, old battlefields, North and South.  They trust that the music that touched the lives of people long ago still has the power to touch, to delight, and to connect us all to the places and people from which we came.

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