The Jacksonville Public Library is pleased to welcome back Kevin Aldrich as our next Music Under the Dome performer. Join us on Sunday, December 14th at 4 pm!

Meter, rhyme, imagery, sensual language, and ideas are basic to both poetry and lyrics. Aldrich will explore parallels in the English folk tradition exemplified by the centuries’-old “Scarborough Fair” and Bob Dylan’s modern rendition “The Girl from the North Country”; delve into the art song with original settings of the iconic poems “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” by Yeats, Dickinson’s “Wild Nights!” and Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; and discuss and demonstrate the lyrical and musical process of writing original songs. Aldrich is a veteran English teacher and a singer-songwriter who performs professionally in Central Illinois.