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Tickets are available online, or through a 24/7 call-in box office.
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Calendar
September 2010
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Members receive 20% discount on most shows. Tickets sold at door cost additional $2.
Doors open 30 min. before showtime. Please, no earlybirds! |
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| Wednesday, Sept. 1 • 7 PM |
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Poetry Open Mic |
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With featured reader Nancy Denofio |
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Nancy Duci Denofio’s work has appeared in numerous publications both in the United States and abroad. She is a passionate supporter of health care reform in the United States and as a committed citizen advocate participated in a number of high level initiatives concerning this issue. Her first collection of poetry, What Brought You Here (Limited Editions Press) was published in May 2010. Born in Schenectady, NY, she now resides with her husband in Saratoga Springs, NY. |
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| Friday, Sept. 3 • 7 PM |
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Benefit for Roy Hurd |
Concert at 8 PM
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Featuring Chris Shaw, Stony Creek Band, Kay Olan & Joe and Jesse Bruchac
All proceeds to Benefit Roy and Amy |
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On the night of Wednesday, July 21 the home of Adirondack musician Roy Hurd burned to the ground and he lost everything in it, including instruments, recordings, artwork, and his just-completed music studio.
Tonight we'll be raising money and showing our love to help him and Amy through this time.
Joseph and Jesse Bruchac will offer welcoming and closing songs and Joe will serve as the MC for the evening.
If you can¹t come to the show but you¹d like to make a 100% tax-deductible
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Southern Adirondack Musician¹s Fund
240 Parker Road
Corinth, NY 12822 |
| Make checks payable to: Southern Adirondack Musician’s Fund, and write ROY HURD in the memo line. |
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| Sat., Sept. 4 • 6 PM TO 10 PM |
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Youth Rocks! Battle of the Bands |
$6 advance / $8 at the door
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  Get your mojo back with the swamp blues of Mark Tolstrup and Dale Haskell! With a solid beat of finger-picking, foot stomping, ringing slide-guitar, rock solid percussion and a powerful vocal attack, Mark and Dale will bring you authentic sounds of the American landscape, from New Orleans to Tin Pan Alley to modern blues.
Tonight Mark and Dale will be joined by the incomparable Motherjudge, that Alt-country-funk diva from Albany, NY called "kd lang with a black eye" (Metroland Magazine) on vocals and guitar.
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| Kim & Reggie |
Gathering Time |
On the 9th anniversary of the twin towers attack, two folk ensembles known for their songs of Peace and Freedom join forces to strengthen our hearts and sense and togetherness, and treat us to an inspiring evening of song.
Consummate musicians and storytellers, Kim and Reggie Harris combine a strong folk and gospel legacy with a solid background in classical, rock, jazz and pop music. Creative curiosity, years of road and stage experience, and interactions with performers such as Pete Seeger, Ysaye Barnwell, Jay Leno, Tom Paxton, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Harry Belafonte and others, has led them to produce music that entertains and inspires.
Delicious three-part vocal blends backed by fine acoustic, electric and bass guitar create the wall of sound and wave of memories known as Gathering Time. With a stylistic breadth ranging from the dyed-in-the-wool folk sound of Peter, Paul & Mary to the folk-rock harmonic complexity of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Gathering Time is a trio that's "getting a whole beehive-full of buzz" on the national folk scene right now. |
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Ellis Paul
Children's Concert
Sunday, Sept. 12 • 3 PM
$5 kids / $10 adults
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 Today Ellis Paul treats audiences to two sides of his craft. In the afternoon he'll perform a special concert for children featuring songs from The Dragonfly Races, his first family album and an NPR Top Ten pick. It bubbles with buoyant, hummable songs that appeal to kids and parents and incites good conversation between them.
Ellis re-takes the stage in the evening with a concert for his adult fans.
As one of the principle leaders in the 1990s Boston folk scene, Ellis Paul's charismatic, personally authentic performance style has influenced a generation of artists and bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
His latest album, The Day After Everything Changed, released in the winter of 2010 is his 15th studio album. In the words of Roberta Schwartz of FAME, "In The Day After Everything Changed he has done the one thing all artists yearn to accomplish. He has told our universal story, and has revealed our universal truths. And he has done so in a masterwork filled with the best music and lyrics of his career. Ellis Paul gives us hope, gives us a reason to dream and to love. His music is the soundtrack of our lives."
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| Monday, Sept. 13 • 7 PM |
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Storytelling Open Mic |
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With Featured Storyteller Betty McCanty |
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87-year-old Betty McCanty, mother of eight, grandmother and great-grandmother, is a local treasure and a professional storyteller with 25 years of experience. A graduate of SUNY-Buffalo, she studied storytelling with Jeannine Laverty and has performed in Australia, Europe, and many places in the United States.
She has taught the Art of Storytelling at the Academy for Lifelong Learning in Saratoga Springs. Her special interest is tall tales of the Adirondacks and folk tales.
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Indie songwriter Angus Saunders from Argyle, NY has been playing guitar and writing songs for throughout his teen years. His gentle, modern acoustic songs will be released soon on his first studio CD, recorded at the Creek Studio with esteemed producer John Nazarenko. |
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| Friday, Sept. 17 • 7 & 9:30 PM |
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Chris Smither |
$22 advance / $24 at door
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 With a dozen albums under his belt, Chris Smither qualifies as a veteran of the music industry. His elegant lyrics are arranged simply, with mostly just his own masterful finger-picking and foot-tapping to accompany him. His music qualifies as folk, but the blues influences are undeniable.
His first album, I'm A Stranger Too!, was released in 1970. His songs have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Diana Krall. His latest album, Time Stands Still, his 11th studio album, was recorded in just three days and captures the vibrant urgency and immediacy of his live shows. It features eight original compositions as well as covers from Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler, and 1920s country-blues songster Frank Hutchison.
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| Saturday, Sept. 18 • 8 PM |
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Tas Cru |
$15 advance / $17 door
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 Upstate blues master Tas Cru plays rock styled Mississippi Delta blues on resonator guitar. His original songwriting is eccentric, quirky, and sometimes boldly irreverent. This combined with his soulful voice and skillful guitarwork has earned him his reputation as a bonafide "triple threat."
Cru's latest CD, Grizzle n' Bone (2009) has generated serious blues world attention, making its way onto a variety of US and International roots music ariplay charts and with great reviews from the blues media including Blues Revue, Blues Festival Guide, and the UK's Blues Matters!. Tas is a smart and seasoned bluesman who knows how to entertain and never fails to get his audience fully engaged.
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| Sunday, Sept. 19 • 2 PM |
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Family Friendly Improv Comedy Show |
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Fall Family Frolic
Recommended for ages 8+ |
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 Enjoy not just watching, but actively guiding this enthusiastic company of actors and stand-up comics through a variety of hilarious and absurd scenes based on impromptu audience suggestions. The Improv Club's family-friendly show is suitable for anyone who needs a good laugh between the ages of 8 to 88.
The Improv Club consists of nine stand-up comics and experienced stage performers who believe the shortest distance between two people is humor. The company consists of Judi Clements, Marcy Hausman, Chas Heritage, Jon Hausman, Scott Hooker, Steve Smoller and Julie Phillips.
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| Sunday, Sept. 19 • 7 PM |
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Mary Fahl of OCTOBER PROJECT |
$18 advance / $20 door
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 “Mary Fahl has a voice for the gods” —Steve Morse, The Boston Globe
"Sounding like no other singer of her generation" (Allmusic.com), Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the chamber-pop group October Project. Fahl's elegant, cinematic songs draw on classical and world music sources, American art song, as well as thinking man's folk-pop.
She sings in an earthy, viscerally powerful contralto that Boston Globe critic Steve Morse calls "a voice for the gods that can transport listeners to other realms." Since her "October Project" days, Fahl has recorded solo albums for Sony Classical and V2 Records. She has written and performed songs for several major motion pictures, including the lead song ("Going Home") for the Warner Bros. Civil War epic "Gods and Generals."
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| Wednesday, Sept. 22 • 7 PM |
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Emerging Artist Breakout |
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Featuring Wylie Brown |
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Wylie Brown, a Skidmore Filene Scholar, began writing folk songs during his first year at Skidmore College. His songs have a strong emphasis on intriguing lyrics and sentimental melodies. |
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Folk troubadour Jess Klein has been lauded on the national and international scene for almost a decade. Her deeply passionate songs tell the story of the soul—from wrenching heartbreak to finding the strength to pick up and move on. Her latest album, Bound to Love, is an Americana gem inspired by the sounds of her new home in Austin, TX. She'll be coming to us fresh off a tour of Ireland with Arlo Guthrie.
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Natalia Zukerman offers top notch guitar playing, contemporary beats, and dark, sweet, provocative vocals. Musically sophisticated, intimate and irreverent all at once, her latest record highlights what's best about Americana music and offers it a "Brand New Frame." Natalia is the daughter of violinist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman and flutist/writer Eugenia Zukerman. She was immersed in classical music from birth and her ears are tuned to perfect pitch, and the guitar dexterity, intricate sense of rhythm and meter evident in her own musicianship came naturally.
Antje Duvekot burst onto the national music scene in 2007 with the release
of Big Dream Boulevard, since followed by the critically acclaimed Near
Demise of the Highwire Dancer. She has won the praise of top critics and
fellow songwriters, including Ellis Paul, Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell
and John Gorka. Her pretty, melodic songs are romantic, inventive, and
filled with enticing storylines.
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 Marie, Annie and Jeannie Burns are famous for their beautiful bluegrass-style harmonies and countrified pop-rock as heard on several Philo/Rounder albums. Their concerts feature traditional folk, African-American sprituals and musical poems and prayers from around the globe.
This will be a rocking, energized night of music, backed up the Burns Sisters Band featuring Kevin Maul on dobro and Larry Clyman on lead guitar.
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| Sunday, Sept. 26 • 7 PM |
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Ani DiFranco |
$30 general admission
Premium Seating - sold out
$15 Skidmore students
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With Opener Erin McKeown
Arthur Zankel
Music Center
Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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 Ani DiFranco is one of the best-known names on Caffe Lena's famed roster of artists. Those who saw her on the tiny Caffe stage in the early 90s knew they were seeing the start of something extraordinary.
Ani became the most influential folk artist of the past two decades, inspiring a whole generation of young singer-songwriters with her tireless activism, unique performance style, and boundless creativity.
 On the occasion of Caffe Lena's 50th anniversary we are so pleased to present Ani in concert at the beautiful Arthur Zankel Music Center on the campus of Skidmore College.
Famously averaging 200 live shows a year, prolific songwriter and session player Erin McKeown is 10 years into her career. Her brand new album, Hundreds of Lions, brims with bright piano, cathedral spire atmosphere and traces of carnival-noir pop. |
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Railbird, 2010
© 2010, Joseph Deuel
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The Holy Six, 2010
© 2010, Joseph Deuel
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