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Saturday, February 16 , 2013
Jim Mercik & Alvin Carter Sr.
Kent Aldrich
Roaring Brook presents three highly-talented musicians who will perform a superb split-bill concert for you tonight. Singer-songwriter-guitarist, Kent Aldrich leads off with a generous selection of songs from his rich roots music repertoire and stellar cd, Thanks For Asking. Dave Van Ronk was so impressed upon hearing Kent perform his original songs, “Just One Line,” “That Old Moon” and “Pictures & Memories” that he urged him to record them immediately! You’ll enjoy his poignant playing and vocals and his offbeat humor as you join him on his audience participation songs, “Giants” and “Nobody Leaves East Hampton.”
Songwriter-guitarist Jim Mercik has accompanied Eric Andersen, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Bruce Pratt and Hugh Blumenfeld, he was a member of The Roadbirds, The Strange Rangers and The Congo Square Ramblers and studied guitar with Dave Van Ronk. Singing and playing acoustic, resophonic guitars and banjo, he covers music from Delta Blues to songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter and Tom Waits. Performing with Jim is the amazing percussionist “Abu” Alvin Carter. His enthusiasm for music, life and peace is unquenchable. Patriarch of a percussion-playing family, he was honored with a “Celebration of Abu” night at RAW in 2010. Abu’s masterful lead and support drumming and his radiant good-vibe personality make every performance memorable. Song highlights may include “Buddy Bolden’s Blues,” “Buckets of Rain,” “St. James Infirmary” and Jim’s original “Is This Enough For You?” found in The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
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7:30 PM $15.00 Adv / $18.00 Door |
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Joseph Firecrow - Cheyenne Flute Man
Joseph FireCrow returns to Roaring Brook after having won a Grammy Award and multiple Native American awards.
He performs his remarkable program of flute playing, singing and chanting and sharing magical stories that illuminate Native American Culture. Joseph constructs flutes from natural materials to play songs passed down through countless generations. Born in Montana and raised on a Cheyenne Reservation, Joseph experienced much hardship and poverty. His great love of music and education saw him through it all. Today, Joseph is a superb musician, singer and public speaker whose music is heard on the film soundtracks to Ken Burns' PBS productions The National Parks and Lewis & Clark. Joseph's cd recordings are titled FireCrow, Red Beads, Winds of Honor and Legend of the Warrior. Song highlights include, "I Walk With You," "Sundance Horses" and "Summer Changes the Heart."
7:30 PM $15.00 Adv/ $18.00 Door |
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Roaring Brook Concerts 33rd Anniversary Shows
Saturday, March 9, 2013
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Sunday, March 10, 2103
Pat Donohue
Pat Donohue is the most multiply-talented artist that Roaring Brook has ever presented! He is an extraordinary guitarist, songwriter, singer, arranger, solo and band performer with 14 recordings to his credit, his latest, Vicksburg Blues is a collaboration with pianist Butch Thompson. For 15 years, Pat has been the house guitarist in The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on NPR's Prairie Home Companion, contributing vocals and musical selections as well. In 2005, he won a Grammy Award for his work on Pink Guitar, a recording of acoustic guitar arrangements of Henry Mancini songs. In 2008, the Martin Guitar Company asked him to collaborate on the design of 40 premium Pat Donohue Custom Edition Guitars. Chet Atkin's called him "One of the greatest fingerpickers in the world today." Leo Kottke said of Pat's cd, Two Hand Band--"If you're a guitar player, this album is going to haunt you." Over two nights, Pat will perform a musical encyclopedia of great folk, blues, jazz, swing, pop, original songs and tunes. Making it all look easy with tall humor and superb artistry, Pat will create a memorable weekend of music at RBNC. Listen for his originals, "Stealin' from Chet," "The Road To Kingdom Come," "Jazz Name," "Would You Like to Play the Guitar?" or the timely "The Irish Blues." Expect virtuoso works by jazz legends Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt and Sonny Rollins. Respecting the folk and blues giants, he covers immortal works by Leroy Carr, Skip James, Elizabeth Cotten, Blind Blake, Memphis Minnie and Big Bill Broonzy.
7:30 PM $25.00 Adv / $30.00 Door |
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Joyce Andersen
Singer-fiddler-songwriter Joyce Andersen played our most memorable show of 2012. Her solo electro-acoustic fiddle troubadour project as heard on her 5th solo album, Swerve has to be seen live to be believed! Her beautiful, expressive singing matches her playing artistry on violin, viola and 8-string Norwegian Hardanger fiddle that combines bowed, plucked and strummed techniques. Sometimes she supports this with double foot percussion. By encore time, her talent and versatility told us that she could sit in with Bob Dylan, Bela Fleck, The Chieftains, Loretta Lynn or Led Zeppelin. Before she left RBNC, we asked her back to play a few Celtic selections for St. Patrick's Day and then follow her influences that include a range of styles from bluegrass to blues, the mountain singing of Ralph Stanley, jazz standards, gospel, ballads and blistering rock & roll. On the latter, she deftly manages an array of hi-tech stage gear, creating a one woman-made wall of sound. You will enjoy her original songs "Yearning," "Heartbreak" "I Will Shine" and "Get Your Swerve On." Joyce also puts her own spin on "Don't Explain," "Higher Love," "Dream a Little Dream," "Hey Joe" and "Magic Carpet Ride."
7:30 PM $18.00 Adv / $20.00 Door |
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Harvey Reid
Talk about earning credentials through great talent and paying your dues! Master multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Harvey Reid began performing in 1974 and recording in 1982. Along the way he became a National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion and Autoharp Award winner. He's played music with many acoustic superstars including Bill Monroe, Dan Crary, Richard Thompson, Pat Donohue and Doc Watson who invited him to play at Merlefest! Guitar Player and Acoustic Guitar magazines chose his cds Solo Guitar Sketchbook and Steel Drivin' Man for their Top Ten folk-acoustic albums lists. Interspersing warm humor and interesting stage anecdotes, Harvey offers fine original songs and tunes, folk, celtic, country blues, bluegrass, ragtime, classical and jazz numbers. Harvey never disappoints with songs from his cds Roots & Branches, Chestnuts and Guitar Voyages. Highlights include "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad," Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore," "Scarborough Fair" and "Racing The Storm." Harvey is also an accomplished author of several cd/books combinations, The Wreck of the Isadore and Song Train, a 4 CD book, co-written with Joyce Andersen that teaches the history of folk music and the joy of playing guitar through one and two-chord songs.
7:30 PM $18.00 Adv / $20.00 Door |
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Ed Gerhard
Grammy Award-winning guitarist Ed Gerhard returns with his immaculate tone and "singing guitar" style to perform tunes from his phenomenal new studio album, There and Gone. With his original works "On a Pennsylvania Hill," "Kept Walking" and "Brothers," he is a reflective impressionist, suggesting loss and remembrance, change and discovery and paying tribute through celebration. It's always great to hear melodies we know well take on new life through Ed's interpretive talent. Breathtaking examples from There and Gone include "Heart Like A Wheel," "Killing the Blues," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and his marvelous medley of "Imagine/ Across the Universe." His fingerstyle playing of 6 and 12-string and Hawaiian lap style and blues slide guitars has made him a favorite at festivals in North America, Ireland, Europe and Japan. Ed's music graces Ken Burns' PBS productions The National Parks and Mark Twain.
7:30 PM $20.00 Adv / $25.00 Door
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Saturday, April 20, 2013 |
Sloan Wainwright
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Stan Sullivan |
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No singer commands the stage like New York's Sloan Wainwright. The strongest voice in the extended family that has included Wainwrights, Roches and McGarrigles returns with a dynamic, creative program of moving songs from her new 8th release, Upside Down & Under My Heart. She'll be accompanied by the superb guitar, mandolin, keyboard and vocals of Stephen Murphy. Standout songs tonight may include "Live Out the Best of Your Life," "Today," "Box of Rain" and "Too Nice for Too Long." Sloan's broad vocal range and theatrical flair serve her well on stage and at master songwriter and vocal workshops like Richard Thompson's Fret's and Refrains and WUMB Radio's SAMW Music Camps. Last summer we witnessed this duo's compelling performance at Bearsville Theater on a super bill with Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Martin Simpson, Happy Traum and John Sebastian! Leading off tonight's show,
Hartford's Stan Sullivan will perform songs from his recordings The Right Road and Do You Like the Rain? An award winning songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist, he has opened shows for Greg Brown, Richard Thompson, Cheryl Wheeler and John Hammond among others. New songs include "The Bluewater Side," "Ivan Murphy" and "Pickin Winfield Again." "Stan Sullivan is a skillful blues based guitarist with a powerful voice."--Phil Ciganer, The Towne Crier
7:30PM $18.00 Adv / $20.00 Door |
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Eliza Gilkyson
“With a knowing eye on the past, Eliza Gilkyson is making Folk Music for the 21st century and it’s a delightful thing to hear!”—Austin Chronicle Roaring Brook is proud to present a full evening with Grammy-nominated Texas songwriter-guitarist Eliza Gilkyson. She has toured worldwide as a solo artist, as part of Red Horse with John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky and in support of Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Eliza was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame alongside Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffith and Townes Van Zandt. Her fine discography includes Roses At The End Of Time, Beautiful World, Lost and Found and Land of Milk and Honey.
Her songs have been recorded by Roseanne Cash, Tom Rush and Joan Baez. Garnering great reviews and creating a lasting legacy of her own, she is the daughter of legendary songwriter Terry Gilkyson whose hits include, “Green Fields,” “Memories Are Made of This“ and “The Bare Necessities” from Disney’s Movie, The Jungle Book. Tonight’s standout selections may include “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” “Tender Mercies,” “Easy Rider” and “The Party’s Over.” The New York Times says “ Gilkyson doesn’t pull any punches. She graces the music with her lush and passionate voice, a dark and lonely sound, hope and satisfaction, and edgy lyrics with piercing imagery round out the whole.”
7:30PM $25.00 Adv / $30.00 Door |
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