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While traditional music artists often focus on one genre, Atwater & Donnelly have cut a broad swath within their initiatives to conserve older designs and music. A mainstay in New Britain, the few performs ocean shanties, Shaker hymns, British and Appalachian folk music, and Celtic music. “Their harmonies, punctuated by …

Rhode Island-born folk music artists Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly met in March 1987, if they shared emcee responsibilities on the all-volunteer Rock Soup Coffeehouse in Providence, Rhode Isle. Signing up for their voices jointly for an a cappella launch to one from the evening’s performers, they found that their …