NORWOOD -- A double bill with American String Circus and Greg Cornell and the Cornell Brothers will be held at 6 p.m. at Norwood Village Green Concert Series on Sunday, June 19.

The American String Circus, a student band from SLU performing traditional string band music, and Greg Cornell and the Cornell Brothers, led by SLU alumnus Greg Cornell will perform original compositions.

Greg Cornell & The Cornell Brothers (siblings in music, not in fact) is a Brooklyn-based roots music quartet featuring fiddle, guitar, standup bass and percussion, along with tight three-part harmonies.

Greg Cornell started writing songs five years ago when he realized he had something to say. Inspired by his literary and musical heroes—Emerson, Whitman, Doc Boggs, Doc Watson, Levon Helm, Seldom Scene, Neil Young, and Jerry Garcia’s acoustic work, Cornell writes stories of struggle and regret ending in hope. He uses nature, especially the mountains and the sea, as settings for these tales of yearning and redemption.

The music comes bluegrass, country, old-time and blues genres.

Cornell, who grew up primarily in Westchester County, just north of New York City, lived three years in France and spend summers in Chemung, County in upstate NY at a farm -- 270 acres of fields, forests and creeks -- that has been in his family since the late 1700s and where he and his friends listened to country music. While pursuing a degree in English at St. Lawrence University, he was introduced to bluegrass, old-time music and the blues - the roots of the more popular music to which he had been listening. In his 20s, Cornell traveled a lot in the US, always with his guitar, and learned the carpentry trade to pay the bills. During the next 25 years, he also worked as a teacher, journalist and construction manager and pursued a career in acting, playing the lead role in the world premier of Tennessee Williams’s “A Chalky White Substance,” finding a home in Brooklyn in the late 1990s among the scores of folk and roots musicians who were (and still are) gathered there. He played guitar and fiddle with several NYC-based singer-songwriters before forming his own band and playing his own songs at such NYC venues as The American Folk Art Museum, now-closed Banjo Jim’s, Littlefield, The Way Station, Rockwood Music Hall and the Jalopy Theatre.

Cornell met bandmate Adam Moss while he was a student in Moss’ fiddle class at the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, one of the hubs of the folk and roots music scene in Brooklyn. Moss, an Illinois native who started playing with the band last year, contributes in various styles, as well as vocal harmonies.

The third Cornell “brother” is actually a “sister”. Amanda Homi sings harmonies and plays percussion instruments during shows, including a cajon with a bass drum kick, a washboard necktie, and a bunch of others. A singer in many genres, the London-born artist has recorded with Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples and Ray Lamontagne, among others.

Recently, The Cornell Brothers traveled to Park City, Utah, where they played four shows at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Cornell was also honored to have his rendition of Walt Whitman's poem “O Captain! My Captain!” listed in the permanent Whitman archive by Eric Conrad, a Whitman scholar who heard him play the song on a rooftop in Brooklyn last summer.

Prior to that concert, the Norwood Village Green Concert Series presents KTX Thursday, June 16, at 7 p.m.

KTX plays a variety of music along the funk, R&B and pop genres across many decades.

Looking ahead on Thursday, June 23, the Norwood Village Green Concert Series continues with a concert given by Northern Symphonic Winds.

Northern New York’s only professional wind ensemble. Northern Symphonic Winds will perform music suitable to outdoor concerts.

This will be the wind ensemble’s 10th appearance for the Norwood Village Green Concert Series.

Conducted by Brian Doyle and Scott LaVine and first convened in 1998, NSW is comprised of faculty members and emeriti of the Crane School of Music, Northern NY music educators and other music professionals and talented students.

The concert begins at 7 p.m.

Admission is free but there is a “pass the bucket.”

For more information visit nvgcs.org or call 353-2437 or 261-2866.