Prairie Folklore Theatre is hosting a special performance of "Civil War Ghosts and Legends" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first shots fired on Fort Sumter.
This is an original musical program featuring Barry Cloyd and Brian "Fox" Ellis.
True stories and legends are woven with traditional songs and poetry from this most un-Civil War.
Join us as we travel back in time to the bloody battlefields, prison camps and haunted graveyards of America’s deadliest conflict.
Horror stories by Ambrose Bierce and songs by Stephen Foster bring to life this chapter in history.
The show features storyteller and historian Brian “Fox” Ellis with folksinger, and songwriter, Barry Cloyd.
In the persona of Mathias Stritt, Fox puts the grand arc of the war into perspective.
Cloyd portrays Joseph Henry Munroe, the Drummer Boy of Shiloh who, later in life, taught music at Peoria High and shares his love for the songs of the era.
Together, these two old ghosts, Stritt and Munroe, weave true stories with original music; their first hand knowledge of the war with traditional folk tunes.
The single performance will be April 12th, at 7:00pm at the GAR Hall at the corner of Madison and Hamilton in Downtown Peoria.
Tickets are only $10 for adult s and $5 for children. Please call 309-689-8000 for reservations.
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