Like their namesake bird, when the Hoot Owls open their beaks – you best stop and listen and prepare for shivers to run down your back. An old-time string band based in Boston, members Celeste Frey (banjo), Ruth Rappaport (guitar) and Mark Wholley (fiddle) offer a spirited evening of lively hoe-downs, breakdowns and country songs. Favorites of area farmers’ markets and square dances, the band’s unadorned excellence and down-home tunes will have you singing along and dancing in your seats at historic Gore Place.