Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers will be treating a local audience to a program of American Folk Music on Monday, October 17 at the Ron Dalley Theatre.

The Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers will be performing at the Ron Dalley Theatre at Moapa Valley High School on Monday, October 17 at 7:00 p.m. The concert will be the second installment of the Moapa Valley Performing Arts Council’s 2011-2012 season.

For ninteen years, the Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers, a group of twelve women from Northern Utah, have arranged, performed and shared their love for traditional American folk music. The group was created to preserve and promote the national and regional folk music heritage.

Best known for its vocal harmony, the group uses authentic and original arrangements to celebrate the folk writing and performance process. Stories and old journal entries are used during the program to bring to life a rich western pioneer history.

Railroad songs, religious hymns, western migration tunes and traditional folk music are performed by women wearing traditional costumes representative of the American West in the late 1800’s. The music highlights traditional instruments including folk harp, mountain and hammered dulcimer, fiddle, mandolin, bodhran drum, guitar, tin whistle, banjo, jolk bass, harmonica, washboard, concertina and various percussion instruments.

The group has played for special events in in St. Louis, Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois. They have also performed at the American West Heritage Center, the Promontory Point Golden Spike Reenactment, This Is The Place Park and other private venues.

Tickets may be purchased at the door: Adults $10, Students/Seniors $7.50, Family $30.