Fiddlers ReStrung Recognized by Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners for their Summer Reading Program for Michigan Libraries
	Pictured above are (left to right): Washtenaw County Board Commissioner Kirsten Judge, Anjali Saripalli, Christina Radak, Artistic Director Josh Herter, Trevor Morrison, Sean Chene and Adriane Rasmussen.

November 21, 2009

Saline, Michigan: On October 21, 2009, the Fiddlers ReStrung were recognized by the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners for their Summer Reading Program for Michigan Libraries.  The program, which ran for the first time in 2009, featured an engaging interactive and educational performance format, where ReStrung performers shared stories about their own musical background and the musical selections they perform with the audience.  In each concert during this series, the audience was not only invited to ask questions about the songs, the instruments and the group, but some lucky children in the audience were invited up to join ReStrung during the show-ending number, the Orange Blossom Special, each with a percussion instrument.

In bestowing this citation on Fiddlers ReStrung, County Commissioner Kristin Judge said, “Over the summer, Commissioner Sizemore and I were talking about all the negative news that we had coming to the Board, and we thought it might be fun to find some positive things happening in our community.”  She added, “

And at that same I was speaking to some of the folks involved in this community group, the Saline Area School’s Fiddlers ReStrung, and they were telling me about how they were doing their part, to help in this economy to bring positive activities to the community.”