Flint Hill Folk - Rochester Music Coalition

**Description**
19th-century vocal and instrumental music, performed in costume and on period instruments. Country dances, concerts, historical programs. "House band" at Genesee Country Village Museum in Mumford.

**Roster**
The nine current members perform in groups ranging from two to five. Ray Baumler - vocals and guitar Pat Carey - vocals, guitar, flute - specialty in Irish music Dick Bolt - fiddle, banjo, harp, piano, vocals Marie Brate - fiddle, guitar, vocals Mitzie Collins - hammered dulcimer, banjo, vocals - Rochester's best folk musician Allen Hopkins - vocals, many instruments, group coordinator Joel Hume - vocals Jim Kimball - fiddle, banjo, accordion and many other instruments; SUNY Geneseo faculty, scholar of traditional music Cathy McGrath - guitar and vocals, specializes in Irish and children's material

**Influences**
Flint Hill Folk try to re-create the sounds our ancestors heard 150 years ago. Repertoire includes parlor and minstrel songs, dance tunes, hymns, patriotic airs, children's material, and the "Top 40" of the era around the Civil War.

**History**
Flint Hill Folk have performed at Genesee Country Village since it opened in 1976, and have given hundreds of programs of 19th-century music there. They have also played in Syracuse, Corning, Buffalo, and for historical societies, festivals, libraries, schools, colleges etc. throughout the area. The individual members have created a large body of recorded and published musical material.