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The Cedarville Opera House is located at the corner of Main Street and Xenia Avenue (Routes 72 and 42) in Cedarville, Ohio.
For more details please visit the Cedarville Opera House website.
2009-2010 schedule:
October 3, 8 pm: Homecoming concert with The Demerits and the Cedarville University Jazz Band. Outdoors on the BTS steps by Cedar Lake. Free.
November 14, 3 pm: Featured musical guest on The Dear Green Place, WYSO 91.3 FM radio. Streamed live from www.wyso.org
November 21, 7:30 pm: Concert at the Cedarville Opera House. Tickets at the door.
December 6, 6 pm: The Demerits appear as part of the University Christmas concert. DMC chapel.
January 30: The Demerits present a workshop on Traditional Irish Music at the Ohio Music Educators' Conference, Cincinnati Convention Center.
February TBA: Recording Sessions
March 14: Concert at High Street Methodist Church, Springfield, Ohio. Details forthcoming.
March 17, 9 pm: St. Patrick's Day CD Release Party and Concert, The Hive, CU. Free.
More Fun videos!
Fun video from the St. Patrick's gig. Check out the heavy metal interludes.
And another St. Patrick's Vid.
Here is a video of a cool set of tunes called Brian Boru's Big Day.
About The Demerits
The Demerits are happiest when tossing off a set of lilting jigs, blazing reels, and bluegrass tunes for anyone who will listen. Formed in 2003 on the campus of Cedarville University in Ohio as an emergency measure to appease angry crowds demanding traditional Irish music, The Demerits have since gone on to record five very reliable CDs: Plays Well With Others, Roadtrip, Not Far from the Tree, Made from Scratch, and Dance by the Light of the Moon. They have performed in a few different places, none of which was very prestigious, but all of which were a good deal of fun.
The group members are mostly fugitives from classical music. After hearing them rip through a rowdy Irish dance set you might not guess that they also have perfectly respectable lives in a little college town.
They play Irish and American roots music, which is cool in itself, but what makes them kind of different is that the traditional tunes are intricately arranged with harmonic and rhythmic complexity that draws on the polyphony of Bach.
Recently they have begun to acquire a reputation in Ireland. What happened was, this one lady got their CD and sent it to her daughter who was staying in Ireland, and the daughter called the mom and said the music was good. Technically that is an international reputation if you think about it.
So you can see that things are really picking up.