Returning to Golden Link after last year's well-received concert, the highly acclaimed husband-wife duo, Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works. Elwood and Aubrey blend gorgeous and unusual harmonies and play guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and other surprises including Appalachian clog dancing, French Canadian footwork, and Tap!

Aubrey and Elwood met as volunteers at the Stone Soup Coffeehouse in Providence in early 1987. Married since 1989, they have toured throughout the United States and, on occasion, abroad. They have performed with or shared festival billing with folk legends like Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, and Doc Watson. Their ten recordings receive international airplay, as on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," Fiona Ritchie's "Thistle and Shamrock," and the nationally syndicated "Midnight Special" out of Chicago.

Atwater and Donnelly have researched traditional folk music and dance in Appalachia, the Ozarks, New England, and other regions of the United States, as well as Ireland, England and Prince Edward Island. They lead workshops, play for and call contra-dances, and regularly receive standing ovations for their concerts during trips to festivals and camps such as the Hindman Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky, the Augusta Heritage Center in West Virginia, the Old Songs Festival in New York, the Ozark Folk Center in Arkansas, and the Swannanoa Gathering and the John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina.

The Atwater-Donnelly Duo won Motif Magazine's "Best Local Folk Act" award in 2006 and well as three awards in 2007: "Best Folk Act" for the Atwater-Donnelly Band, "Album of the Year" for "The Halfway Ground", and "Best Female Vocalist" for Aubrey Atwater.