Phil Shapiro's a folksinger and guitarist, and Carrie Shore's a fiddle player, and a fine singer and harmonizer as well. Together they offer an unusual and delightful program of American folk music, old and new.

Phil Shapiro and Carrie Shore choose fascinating, energetic songs from the last couple of hundred years of American traditional folk song, and add newer songs written squarely in the folk tradition. This is the music we'd all be singing and playing were it not for our fabled Music Industry. Carrie has a super repertoire of fiddle tunes, good to dance to, perhaps to waltz to, that she skillfully interweaves between and within the songs.

Phil Shapiro is a fine finger-style guitarist, creative and lively, good at getting his guitar to "talk", to be part of the song and the story. Phil has been entertaining folk audiences--throughout New York State and beyond--for over 40 years. He is, however, best known as the host of WVBR's Bound for Glory radio show, North America's longest-running live folk concert broadcast, Sunday nights, Ithaca, N.Y., since 1967, and webcast at wvbr.com .

Carrie Shore is an excellent classically trained violinist... since fourth grade... who is having a great deal of fun playing traditional tunes, and playing bluesy and slinky improvisations. Carrie Shore has played more kinds of music in less time than practically anyone. She's incredibly flexible and very exciting to listen to.

Nowadays, most performers present their music in similar fashion to television... that is, the audience sits and receives the music, and applauds in the right places. Phil Shapiro and Carrie Shore hearken back to an older way of doing things. They want the audience to sing right back. They want to share their songs and tell the stories of where our American music comes from and why it's so much fun to sing the old songs... and so important to keep them alive.

Visit them at: www.shapiroandshore.com