October 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31; November 1 & 2
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on all performance days except October 23and 30, performance times will have an 8 p.m. start time due to late business hours for “The Eye of Napoleon.” Performance duration is approximately 2 hours.

For more than a century, readers have been terrified, surprised, and delighted by one of America’s greatest storytellers, Edgar Allan Poe.

Back by popular demand, the Frazier Museum’s Historic Interpretations Department will bring some of Poe’s best known works to the stage for a live show like you’ve never seen before.

This year, eight Poe tales will be presented, including six poems and three short stories:

Dream-Land
Annabel Lee
The Raven
The Bells
The Tell-Tale Heart
MS Found in a Bottle
The Fall of the House of Usher
Dream Within a Dream (a song by the Tamerlane Trio)

Tickets are just $15 and include admission to the museum’s permanent galleries. Cash bar. To purchase tickets, call (502) 753-5663. Frazier Museum members are able to purchase advanced tickets two weeks prior to the general public. Advance purchase is recommended!

* Tickets do not include access to special exhibitions, such as “The Eye of Napoleon.”

The Music Behind “An Evening with Poe”
Live musical accompaniment for “An Evening with Poe” is provided by The Tamerlane Trio, an ensemble of local musicians formed specifically for our “An Evening with Poe” series. Amber Estes (voice), Mick Sullivan (guitar, banjo, mandolin and voice) and Rob Collier (bass and voice) have collaborated and performed independently with groups such as Sandpaper Dolls, Fire the Saddle, Liberation Prophecy and Squeeze-bot, among others.

Scores pull largely from music played in the Appalachia region during Poe’s time. Having grown up in Richmond, Va., Poe certainly would have heard the music of slaves, the strings of a banjo, as well as the popular parlor music of the day. The Tamerlane Trio plays folk songs carried from the British Isles, music composed by personal acquaintances of Poe and some of the day’s most popular songs – many of which are now largely forgotten.
Crafting an unusual repertoire of 19th century music specifically for “An Evening with Poe” performances, the trio has also written an original musical setting for Poe’s “Dream Within a Dream,” along with an original score for some of the evening’s onstage action.