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This performance is Sold out

Only those who have preregistered will be admitted

This performance is hosted by the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

FEATURED ARTISTS
Tyler Duncan, bass-baritone
Debra Nagy, oboe and director
Shelby Yamin, violin
Brian Kay, guitar
Rebecca Landell, cello

O’er the hills and far away – SOLD OUT

At Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 7:00 pM

Pre-concert talk with KSU Associate Professor of History Kim Gruenwald at 6:00 PM 

Happy Days Lodge at CVNP
500 West Streetsboro Street/State Route 303
Peninsula, OH 44264 

An uplifting new program from Les Délices that brings together 18th century Scottish ballad tunes with songs of the Great Lakes and the Ohio-Erie Canal. Join us for ballad tunes, jigs, and reels that crossed the Atlantic and traveled up through the Cuyahoga Valley to Lake Erie in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Featuring Tyler Duncan (baritone), Debra Nagy (oboe and recorders), Shelby Yamin (violin), Rebecca Landell (cello), and Brian Kay (guitar).

Musical Program

From the Old Country
Tweed Side
Farewell to Lochaber
As slow our ship

New Beginnings
Frances Hopkinson: My days have been so wondrous free

Echoes of the Revolution
The Georgia Grenadier’s March
General Washington’s March
William BIllings: Chester
Roslyn Castle

French allies
Lafayette
Marche des Marseillais – l’Ord’nance – Yanky Doodle

Westward Expansion
Frances Hopkinson: The traveler benighted

The Lovely Ohio
Logan’s Lament

Science Prevail’d
The Meeting of the Waters
Linky Lanky – Pady Whack


The Canal Era
I’m afloat
The Old Skipper
O dear what can the matter be

O’er the hills and far away