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 Singing Party
Saturday, February 4, Ecovillage, Rachel Carson Way (Off Route 79 West)
Combined with Steve's annual Candlemas party. 6:30 potluck; 8:00 pm music-making. Bring your instruments, share a song, sing along, play along or just listen.
For info and directions, email Steve. Rideshare: Judy, 279-2027
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Saturday, Febrruary 11, 8:00 PM, Hollis Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Archie Fisher is Scotland's foremost troubadour, known throughout the country as the host of BBC Radio Scotland's award-winning "Travelling Folk" show, which he has been presenting for over 25 years. For his contributions to Scottish folk music he was inducted into the Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame and in 2006 was awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth. Archie was born in Glasgow into a large singing family, which yielded Archie and his sisters Ray and Cilla Fisher. He first became interested in folk music through the Skiffle era of the late 1950's under the influences of performers such as Lonnie Donegan and Johnny Duncan. Later, the recording of the Weavers at Carnegie Hall also had a profound effect on his approach to music and his political outlook. In the course of his career he performed as a backing musician and arranger for the Makem and Clancy duo and the dynamic Scottish band Silly Wizard, and later toured with Garnet Rogers, John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. His new CD "Windward Away" includes introspective ballads that evoke the wild and rough beauty of the Scottish Border country ands cuts from a redicovered recording made in the late 1970's with Makem and Clancy.
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Singing Party
Saturday, February 25, 660 Stewart Ave. Co-op
6:30 potluck; 8:00 pm music-making. Bring your instruments, share a song, sing along, play along or just listen.
Info and directions: Gillian, 607-857-8216. Rideshare: Judy, 279-2027
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Saturday, March 3, 8:00 PM, 165 McGraw Hall Dana and Susan Robinson are two guitar-playing, banjo-frailing, fiddle-sawing, and harmony-singing interpreters of the American experience. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dana relocated to New England where he discovered both a thriving songwriters scene and the deep well of traditional mountain music. Susan grew up in a musical family in New England. She studied piano, oboe, and Scottish fiddle before meeting Dana in 2002 at a house concert. Upon moving to North Carolina a short time thereafter, she studied with many of the great oldtime musicians in the Asheville area.Their unique blend of contemporary songwriting and traditional Appalachian music bring to their performances a deep understanding of Americas musical heritage. Dana writes songs and tells stories about America, the land and its people. They bring to their performances an understanding of America's musical heritage and convey its significance to our culture.
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Saturday, March 31, 8:00 PM, 165 McGraw Hall A n d y C o h e n g r e w u p i n a h o u s e w i t h a p i a n o a n d a l o t o f D i x i e l a n d J a z z r e c o r d s and later listened to B i g B i l l B r o o n z y a n d t h e J i m K w e s k i n J u g B a n d . A t s i x t e e n , h e s a w R e v . G a r y D a v i s , a n d h i s c o u r s e w a s s e t . H e k n e w h e h a d i t i n h i m t o f o l l o w , s t u d y , p e r f o r m a n d p r o m o t e t h e m u s i c o f t h e s o u t h e a s t q u a d r a n t , A m e r i c a 's g r e a t m u s i c a l f o u n t a i n h e a d . He made a point of acquainting himself with all the blues players he could, on record and in person. He has given support to deserving players, and arranged work for many more, organized festivals and small venues for them and others to play in, written about several of the old guys and studied their work in a systematic way, and taught a couple of dozen players who are now professionals. He performs m a t e r i a l b y R e v . D a v i s , J o h n H u r t , B i g B i l l , G u s C a n n o n , F r a n k S t o k e s , M e m p h i s M i n n i e , B u k k a W h i t e , B a r b e c u e B o b , C h a r l i e P a t t o n , T e d B o g a n , H e n r y S p a u l d i n g , o r a n y o f a h u n d r e d o t h e r b l u e s p e o p l e .
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Saturday, April 21, 8:00 PM, 165 McGraw Hall Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. Molsky was born in the Bronx in 1955, and fell in love with old-time music as a teenager. He moved to Virginia in the '70s, learning directly from old masters like Tommy Jarrell, and seeing how the music fit into people's lives. "At first, I wanted to live like that;" he says, "but then I realized I didn't want to claim the culture as my own - I just loved the music." In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four, and Mozaik, with Hungarian Nikola Parov, and Celtic giant Donal Lunny. He was on Nickel Creek's farewell tour, and performs in a trio with Scottish fiddler Aly Bain and Sweden's great Ale Moller.
"it's real people's music; the honest expression of life as we all live it. You don't master that by imitating others, nor by trying to live in other people's worlds. You master it by being yourself; and at that profoundly simple and profoundly difficult musical art, Molsky is truly old-time's master craftsman." --Scott Alarik
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