Bob Zentz and Jeanne McDougall

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Bob Zentz & Jeanne McDougall

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Bob and Jeanne are old friends and life partners who share a love of music and history -- which they love sharing with others!

With a friendship dating back to the winter of 1972-1973 (she came to his music store to rent his 12-string Guild) the couple reunited in 2006 at a gig aboard the Star of India -- the world's oldest active sailing vessel. Together, Bob and Jeanne combine his lifetime of bringing traditional music as "edu-tainment" to students of all ages, with her work as a Ph.D. candidate with a growing reputation for helping restore lost musical "soundscapes" and adding to an understanding of music in a historical context.

Projects include:

It Happened at the White House (2007) -- A selection of traditional American tunes prepared for storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann's dramatic presentation of true stories of the lives of the eight Virginia presidents and their wives, near the banks of the Potomac River.

The Stingray Point Story (2008) -- A collection of original songs composed for Raynell Smith's play of the same name, written for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of John Smith's shallop at the present-day Stingray Point, Virginia, where the Rappahannock River meets the Chesapeake Bay. This project was selected to be part of the Opening Plenary Session of the American Historican Association Annual Meeting in January 2010.

Musical Virginiana, Vol. 1: Stories from the Rappahannock and Potomac (2008) -- Music from the previous two projects, in the first of a series of music from our home state of Virginia.

Homemade Music (2009) -- Based on the program Bob has taught for many years to help students of all ages to learn some of the funadamentals of music, combined with songs from Jeanne's repertoire -- a gift for your family from ours.

The Day Kikotan Became Hampton (2010) -- Part of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Hampton VA, the oldest continuous English-speaking settlement in North American, featuring a "re-imagining" of musical encounters between Algonquian and Anglophonic cultures on the lower Virginia peninsula.

Shipmates (spring 2011) -- A nautical trip through a collection of traditional and original maritime songs, with more adaptations of nautical poetry by C. Fox Smith, including the title track.

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