NorthEast Folk 'n Roots
If you're not doing it already, resolve ... to get out and hear live local music. As Jonathan Perry said in The Boston Globe, you owe it to yourself to investigate why the Boston area's "musical landscape" is "so consistently exciting, surprising and gratifying."
- Dennis Brennan
Everything folk: roots, Americana, blues, bluegrass, newgrass, traditional, folk rock, blues, R&B and Celtic music and allied forms of dance happening from the greater Boston / Cambridge / Somerville area out to New England and into New York and eastern Canada.
Postings of general interest are welcome, but please limit discussion and events to folk and roots music in the Northeast. Take discussion of pop and other forms of music to other Going groups.
Links to other Going groups / websites / calendars of interest to the folk and roots communities:
- Going - Boston-area Musicians for Peace ~ http://boston.going.com/group-2017;Bo...
- Going – Boston Singer / Songwriter Club - http://boston.going.com/group-272;Sin...
- NortheastFolk news and discussion forum ~ http://www.northeastfolk.org/folkforum/
- NortheastFolk events calendar ~ http://www.northeastfolk.org/calendar.php
- Yahoo - news and discussion forum & events calendar ~ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEa...
- Notlob Concerts ~ http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com
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Raymond
Free Live Music This Thursday and Friday Sept. 3rd. and 4th. + -
www.myspace.com/perkscoffeehousepr...
Thursday September 3rd. The Dawn Kenney Band
Event listing: http://going.com/dkband
Friday September 4th. Ross Robinson
Event listing: http://going.com/ross3
Perks Coffeehouse
685 Washington Street
Norwood MA 02062
781-762-5565
Remember, Come Early, Come Hungry, The Kitchen Is Open!
Jeff
The Jay Ungar-Molly Mason Family Band + -
7/10
http://boston.going.com/event-621501
Raymond
Free Live Music This Thursday and Friday June 11th. and 12th. + -
www.myspace.com/perkscoffeehousepr...
Thursday June 11th. The Points North
Event listing: http://going.com/thepointsnorth
Friday June 12th. Adam Sweeney
Event listing: http://going.com/sweeney
Perks Coffeehouse
685 Washington Street
Norwood MA 02062
781-762-5565
Remember, Come Early, Come Hungry, The Kitchen Is Open!
Raymond
RE: Free Live Music This Thursday and Friday June 11th. and 12th. + -
Raymond
RE: Free Live Music This Thursday and Friday June 11th. and 12th. + -
Raymond
RE: Free Live Music This Thursday and Friday June 11th. and 12th. + -
Jeff
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One that caters to the northeast folk / blues / roots community can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group
/NorthEastFolknRoots/database
Jeff
Summer Festival Ridesharing Resources + -
One that caters to the northeast folk / blues / roots community can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group
/NorthEastFolknRoots/database
Jeff
Bob Franke & Martin Grosswendt, Somerville, 3/28 + -
Two of the most respected artists in the folk community.
Suggested minimum donation is $15.00 at the door & $10 for seniors and students with ID. Regular patron admission is just $12.50 if a reservation to notlobreservations@comcast.net is made at least 24 hours prior to the concert.
Website ~ http://notlobmusic.googlepages.com
Mailing list ~ http://www.reverbnation.com/notlob
Jeff
Subject of folk ballad a fugitive + -
By Associated Press | March 5, 2009
KENNESAW, Ga. - The inspiration for a folk ballad about a man who stole a Wal-Mart trailer to see his dying mother was on the loose yesterday after escaping from custody in Georgia, authorities said.
Chris Daniel Gay slipped out of leg irons, waist chains, and handcuffs and escaped from a deputy Tuesday in Kennesaw, officials say. The officer was transporting him to Tennessee to face charges of stealing
the trailer in January 2007, officials say. He also is accused of stealing country singer Crystal Gayle's tour bus.
Coffee County Sheriff Steven Graves said the officer stopped to eat and use the restroom at a restaurant when the 34-year-old Gay escaped.
Gay was the main character in a 2007 song by Grammy-award winning bluegrass picker Tim O'Brien. He wrote the lyrics to "The Ballad of Christopher Daniel Gay" about Gay's 2007 journey and set them to the
melody of folk singer Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd."
News reports and O'Brien's song said Gay stole the trailer and tried to visit his mother who was dying of cancer. She died weeks later and he never saw her.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/article...
Jeff
Pete Seeger's Hope + -
http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com/2009/...
Jeff
The Bones Workshop & Session w/ STEVE BROWN + -
Tues., Feb. 3, 2009
7 to 8pm Bones workshop
8 to Close Session
Steve Brown has 30 years experience playing percussion instruments in traditional Irish music.
He was All Ireland Bone Playing Champion in 2003 and 2004.
He has contributed to several recordings, including Jimmy Noonan's Music from Clare.
How to play the bones with Steve Brown begins with how to hold the bones and produce the basic sounds, and progresses as far as the workshop participants want. The tap, rattle, double tap are thoroughly explained and demonstrated, with a progressive process on how to shape the sound to play with music. Focusing on how to play with traditional Irish dance music and the basic tune types, reels, jigs, hornpipes, slides, polka's, etc. Some discussion of other musical genre's including dixie land jazz, ragtime, the blues, etc. Bones will be provided for use during the workshop. Bones will also be available for sale.
email Ashling ashling@verizon.net to sign up & pay at the door.
Tickets are $10
Call 978-425-4311 for info or
http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com
Bull Run Concert Series
Rt. 2A, Shirley, MA
Toll Free 877-536-7190
www.bullrunrestaurant.com/concert....
Jeff
2009 BBU Heritage Awards + -
http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com/2009/...