Traditional music lives on with Solstice Sisters
For the non-seasoned folkie it’s pretty hard to hear the effortlessly sweet harmonizing of The Solstice Sisters (playing Friday at UGA’s Masters Hall) and not think of the movie that put traditional American music in the international spotlight a few years back. And really, the Sisters’ simple, time-honored approach to music-making is the kind of thing that would no doubt have landed them a role in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” But lucky for us, Athens got them instead. The Solstice Sisters - who are sisters only in song - came to be in the early 1990s. As the story goes, the exact date and circumstances in which the trio of Anna Durden, Maggie Hunter and Susan Staley became The Solstice Sisters is a matter of memory, and also a matter of which Sister you’re talking to. Read the full story…