Musical husband and wife duo Curtis & Loretta will perform some of their original folk songs at the Grand Marais Public Library on Oct. 27. Their songs highlight Minnesota’s unsung heroes and are meant to not only educate, but to inspire listeners. Photo courtesy of the Grand Marais Library
On Saturday, October 27 at 10:30 a.m. the husband and wife duo, Curtis & Loretta, will perform original folk songs at the Grand Marais Public Library.
Together, they deliver beautiful harmonies and play several instruments, including folk harp, guitars, mandocello, and banjo. Their latest album, When There’s Good to Be Done, features story-songs of Minnesota’s unsung heroes.
Loretta wrote each of the songs about real-life people who have experienced great challenges in their lives and came out stronger for the journey. She interviewed each person, then crafted their story into a folk song. These are ordinary people with extraordinary qualities.
The song selection will include the stories of a woman who donated a kidney to a little girl she had never met, a World War II veteran whose ship was sunk by kamikazes and who helped save another man’s life, a woman who grew up in a small, primitive village in Somalia and is now a nurse at Mayo Clinic, a couple who married in the 1940s “against all odds,” and a loving family, raising kids on the severe end of the autism spectrum.
Hear these amazing stories through songs meant to inspire.
This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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