Old World Echoes Trio

Arts in Appalachia

The Cherokee County Arts Council presents the Old World Echoes Trio in concert on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 7 p.m. Jeanne Carere on flute, John Huston on guitar, and Paul Hannah on percussion.

The group started as a flute and guitar duo and added percussion earlier this year. That addition opened the repertoire toward folk and world traditions alongside the classical material the duo was already playing, and it gives the three instruments a lot of room to work against each other.

Jeanne Carere has been a freelance flutist in Atlanta for more than 30 years. She plays principal flute with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and the Georgia Symphony, performs regularly with the Atlanta Pops, and has played Fox Theatre runs of Wicked, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, and Fiddler on the Roof. She has performed for Celine Dion, Ray Charles, and Elton John. She studied at Boston University, where she took second place in the James Pappoutsakis flute competition, and she owns Carere Music in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.

Paul Hannah has played professionally since the age of sixteen. He was born into a musical family in Las Vegas, where his father, Don Hannah, worked as an arranger for performers on the Strip, and he learned much of his craft on the bandstand from the city's working drummers and percussionists. He attended the New England Conservatory as a student of Vic Firth and holds an Artist's Diploma from the Hartt School of Music, where he studied with Alexander Lepak. He has also studied drums with Alan Dawson and mallets with Dave Carey, and has performed folkloric music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, West Africa, and Javanese gamelan.

John Huston is an Atlanta guitarist who leads the ensemble Echoes of the Old World and maintains a large library of music arranged for guitar and flute.

More about the trio at oldworldechoestrio.com.

Event details
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Cherokee County Arts Council, 33 Valley River Avenue, Murphy, NC 28906
Admission: $15 general, $10 CCAC members, free for students
Presented by: Cherokee County Arts Council, as part of the Arts in Appalachia concert series.
Contact: Rachel Watson, director@cherokeeartscouncil.org, (828) 233-5624

The Arts in Appalachia series is supported by the Cherokee County Tourism Development Authority and the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.