Acoustic Instrument Primers What Kind of Guitar Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo Do I Want? Evaluating and Buying Used Guitars Setting Up Acoustic Guitars and other Fretted Instruments Historical Links About the National Road The Story Behind the Story - Real People, Places, and Events About the Play Play Home What's New Overview About the Music About the History About the Logistics About the Cast Synopsis About the Set About the Author Contact Us Home	Creek Don't Rise™ is an informal project to celebrate and commemorate the music and culture of the American Heartland. The biggest part of this project so far has been developing a two-act musical called If the Creek Don't Rise. That play commemorates the building of the National Road, the Dayton Flood, the Wright Brothers' experiments, and many other important historical events and trends of the modern Midwest. It also celebrates the music of twelve generations of explorers, pioneers, builders, and inventors who built the heart and backbone of the nation. New for 2012! In addition to information about our play and the history it celebrates (available from the links in the left margin), we are happy to present a brand new section, a set of Acoustic Instrument Primers to help you get started learning about, learning, and eventually playing acoustic instruments that aren't all that different from the ones our pioneer ancestors brought here by wagon and horseback. Other planned projects include: Providing information and links to information about regional history, especially the history of the National Road corridor. Providing information about the music and culture of the Heartland. Providing live performances of the music of the Heartland, featuring soloists and ensembles In the immortal words of Joni Mitchell, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'till it's gone." Not that the American Midwest is Paradise, but it is more than a place that folks on either coast have to fly over to get to the other coast. And we want to document and celebrate the things that have made this place different from any other place, while there are still folks who know the difference. Much more information about our play and about our little piece of the heartland is available from the links in the left margin. Music Samples from the Play: Click on the little banjo at the right to download a free mp3 of "National Road." For other examples, check out the MIDI (instrumental) clips of several of our other songs on the About the Music page. For information about other music collections and projects, check the links at the bottom of this page. At the moment, Creek Don't Rise™ is operating as a part of Breakthrough Communications™, the communication company started by writer and musician Paul Race in 1995. We are not a non-profit agency, although Paul and other individuals affiliated with Creek Don't Rise™ have worked with non-profit regional educational, musical, and theatrical agencies for many years. We may spin off all or part of this effort into a non-profit corporation, however, if there is enough interest. If you are interested in contributing content, sponsoring a concert, or sponsoring a reading or production of the play, please contact us for more detailed information, for reading copies of the script, song demos, etc.
	All material, illustrations, and content of this web site is copyrighted © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 by Paul D. Race. All rights reserved. For questions, comments, suggestions, trouble reports, etc. about this play or about this web page, please contact us. Please Visit Our Other Music Sites