Pianist Jacqueline Schwab, heard on Ken Burns’ Civil War and numerous others, will perform a solo concert on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 7 p.m., at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Wellfleet, MA. Jacqueline will feature heartening pieces from her Burns’ soundtrack performances, as well as from her own work celebrating cultural diversity, courage and resilience. Jacqueline will choose from Irish and Scottish airs and dance tunes, spirituals, ragtime and other vintage American music, and vintage Latin and other pieces. She will share stories about the tunes and speak about Burns’ unusual way of working with music.

Jacqueline spins emotive musical stories out of the many strands in the American quilt, with community music making at their heart. Her signature playing features in over a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and his recently-released Benjamin Franklin, as well as in other PBS documentaries, such as The Irish in America—The Long Journey Home. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton and on national PBS with the American Pops Orchestra, and she has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. She is well known to the traditional dance world for her groundbreaking playing with the Bare Necessities ensemble. Her recently-released solo album is I Lift My Lamp—Illuminations from Immigrant America. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has since lived in Boston and on Cape Cod.