Spencer & Rains Celebrate Kansas Day with Old-Time Music
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Midwest Trust Center 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, Kansas
With dancing bows and soaring harmonies, this multi-instrumentalist duo showcases a lifelong dedication to the preservation, performance and teaching of old-time music.
Funded in part by the JCCC Kansas Studies Institute and the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
Tricia Spencer is a Kansas fiddler who grew up learning the tradition of old-time music from her grandparents. Howard Rains is a native Texas artist and the fourth generation to play his fiddle. Now married, this multi-instrumentalist duo is known for twin fiddle harmony, a product of the influence of Midwestern Scandinavian fiddlers Tricia heard as a child, as well as Howard’s distinct repertoire of Texas fiddling. You’ll hear that same distinctive harmony in their vocals.
Spencer & Rains are steeped in American folk tradition and dedicated to the preservation, performance and teaching of old-time music. Their recordings can be found on the Old-Time Tiki Parlour label, where Howard also works as chief graphic designer and Tricia does hand lettering.