An Evening with Dolores Hydock & Bobby Horton
presented by the Oxford Arts Council
- Oct 24, 2023 | Tuesday 7:00PM
Event Details
This event is presented by the Oxford Arts Council with support from the Oxford City Council and the Oxford Performing Arts Center.
A Sweet Strangeness Thrills My Heart:
The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster, 1861 – 1867
Dolores Hydock, Storyteller
Bobby Horton, Musician
Sallie Independence Foster was 12 years old and living in Florence, Alabama in 1861 when The War Between the States began. She was keeping a diary at the time, and kept on keeping a diary for 26 years. This performance, based on Sallie’s diaries, papers, and letters from her brothers off at war, presents a funny, touching, and uniquely personal look at the life and times that Sallie shared with her paper “dear Companion.”
Storyteller Dolores Hydock and music historian Bobby Horton interweave Sallie’s story with camp songs, period favorites, and original tunes to create a poignant, powerful, humorous, and honest picture of a world of innocence turned upside-down.
Sallies’s diaries and other papers are now in the safekeeping of the Archives of the University of North Alabama, thanks to the generosity of Sallie’s great-grandson and great-granddaughter.
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Additional Ticket Information
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This event is General Admission and will be presented in the Studio at OPAC.
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About Dolores Hydock
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Dolores Hydock is an actress and story performer, whose work has been featured at conferences, festivals, and special events throughout the United States, including the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. She has been a featured Teller-in-Residence at Jonesborough’s International Storytelling Center, and has won Resource Awards from STORYTELLING WORLD MAGAZINE for her twelve CDs of original stories. She has collaborated with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Museum of Art to blend stories and music.
Her award winning vivacious style of presenting personal stories, oral histories, medieval adventures, and traditional tales fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters.
Dolores is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania where she won her first blue ribbon in storytelling in a local contest at the age of 5. She now lives in Irondale, just four blocks from the Whistle Stop Café. If the wind is just right, she can stand on her front porch and smell the aroma of fried green tomatoes.
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About Bobby Horton
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Bobby Horton was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. His life-long passion for music and history began at an early age. With a trumpet playing father, a banjo-playing grandfather, and a piano-playing grandmother, he was exposed to a varied menu of music – from the sound of the big bands, jazz combos, R & B, and classical to the old time sounds of Southern gospel, sacred harp, and hillbilly music.
A seasoned performer, Horton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and music historian. He has performed with the musical – comedy trio, Three On A String, throughout the United States and Canada for 50 plus years. He has also produced and performed music scores for nineteen PBS films by Ken Burns including “The Civil War,” and “Baseball,” two films for The A&E network, twenty-three films for The National Park Service, and many others. His series of recordings of authentic period music has been acclaimed by historical organizations and publications through America and Europe. Horton is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading authorities of music from The Civil War period.
Bobby Horton also holds the distinction of performing with the Alabama Symphony in the Inaugural Concert opening the Oxford Performing Arts Center on May 17, 2013.