Bobby Horton & Sean Deitrich – Songs of the Civil War at the Majestic

We still have music today, of course, but it’s not the tool of the bards anymore. It’s not how we record and convey our lives and feelings anymore. There is so much media and so many ways for people to shake their fists at the gods, or express their love for the girl next door or for sunflowers… music is just another commodity for consumption.

That’s why Bobby Horton is a treasure that we should be valuing as such. He is a virtuoso musician with an encyclopedic knowledge of the culture of that period, and he presented it last weekend at the Gettysburg Majestic Theater, with writer and musician Sean Deitrich, for us to experience.

The performance made me realize just how important music is to our culture and how we define ourselves.