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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Jeff
SACRED SHAKERS with MARK BRINE on the radio + -
http://boston.going.com/event-516188
1/27 ~ Mark Brine on Eli Polonski's "Lost and Found", www.WMBR.org & 88.1fm, noon-2pm. LIVE PERFORMANCE!
1/30 ~ The Sacred Shakers, hosted by Dave Palmater, www.WUMB.org & 91.9fm, noon. LIVE PERFORMANCE!
1/31 ~ Mark Brine on Cousin Lynn's "Hillbilly at Harvard", www.WHRB.org & 95.3fm, 10am-noon. LIVE PERFORMANCE!
1/31 ~ The Sacred Shakers, hosted on "Folk on WGBH" with Naomi Arenberg, www.wgbh.org, 89.7fm, 3pm. Interview only.
Jeff
RE: SACRED SHAKERS with MARK BRINE on the radio + -
From: Eilen Jewell
Date: Jan 23, 2009 12:08 PM
Subject: Butcher Holler Tonight!!
Body: Fri, Jan. 23
BUTCHER HOLLER live @ Precinct
Somerville, MA
Doors: 1030pm
Show: 11pm
Butcher Holler, Boston's best Loretta Lynn Cover Band, plays Precinct tonight.
Featuring the Eilen Jewell Band
www.precinctbar.com
Jeff
This Land is Your Land ~ AS WOODY WROTE IT! + -
http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com/
Jeff
Merchandise sales + -
keep all proceeds.
The venue operator is now insisting on taking 15% of the sales.
My experience is to avoid this problem by agreeing how merchandise is to be sold and any sales split into the contract.
1. If the house sells merchandise, it is customary it keep up to 15%.
2. If the artist provides a person to sell merch, the artist keeps 100%.
3. Some venues provide a volunteer and give the artist 100% of the sales.
Back to my friend's situation. Even though there is nothing in the contract, is it right for the venue to insist on taking 15%? Should he cave to the venue and give 15%, or stand his ground and tell the venue
"no way"?
I'd be interested in hearing from artists and venue operators their thoughts about contracts and merchandise sales.
Dominic
TONIGHT! - Cash Bash! "At Folsom Prison" Anniversary Party @ Milky Way Lounge + -
http://boston.going.com/event-518660;...
Peace
Winter Warmer: a benefit for Mass families in need, 1/14 + -
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2...
"Woody really spoke to me as a kid," Moock, 35, recalls. "My dad took me to see Pete Seeger and [Woody's son, musician] Arlo Guthrie, and Pete really moved me, too. I guess the music I've always been moved by is music that connects me to progressive issues and social involvement. It's always been a big part of what I've wanted to do as a musician."
http://boston.going.com/event-511205;...
Jeff
RE: Winter Warmer: a benefit for Mass families in need, 1/14 + -
Jeff
NOTLOB ACOUSTIC CONCERT SERIES, SOMERVILLE, WINTER + -
Where: Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
Address: 155 Powderhouse Blvd. Somerville
Cost: $10-15 suggested donation
http://boston.going.com/event-516022;...
NOTLOB CONCERTS continues the presentation of traditional folk, roots and Celtic music at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA.
The Winter season kicks off January 31 with Signature Sounds recording artists The Sacred Shakers, purveyors of old-time, country and blues-influenced gospel music. National Traditional Country Music Hall of Fame member Mark Brine opens. $12.50, $10 students and seniors.
On February 28 Hanneke Cassel Band (featuring Mike Block (cello) and Christopher Lewis (guitar) brings "exuberant and rhythmic, somehow both wild and innocent, delivered with captivating melodic clarity and an irresistible playfulness", The Boston Globe. Fionnuala O’Donovan opens. $15 door, $12.50 advance, $10 students and seniors.
The season concludes March 28 with the co-bill of Bob Franke & Martin Grosswendt, two of the most respected artists performing in the traditional folk genre. $15 door, $12.50 advance, $10 students and seniors.
ARTIST WEBSITES:
http://www.sacredshakers.com
http://www.markbrine.com
http://www.hannekecassel.com
http://www.myspace.com/blockcello
http://www.bobfranke.com
Doors 7:30pm, concerts 8:00pm.
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets ~ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
Jeff
Call Out for "Green" Musicians + -
http://notlobmusic.blogspot.com/2009/...
Jeff
6th Annual Boston Celtic Music Festival ~ BCMFest + -
Full details at http://boston.going.com/event-504706
Jeff
RE: 6th Annual Boston Celtic Music Festival ~ BCMFest + -
Jeff
Looking for a few good calendar editors + -
If you are interested in working together towards a community-based solution, let’s talk.
Jeff
Calendar of NE roots and folk radio programs + -
Visit NORTHEASTFOLKnROOTS' calendar ~
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEa... ~ to see a listing of traditional and revival folk as well as roots programs from stations located in the northeast US. Each calendar listing has program details, host name, frequency and www address.
Celtic and bluegrass programs are needed and welcome, please follow the format used for prior listings.
Contents as of 12/22:
SUNDAY
10a WZBC ~ Sunday Morning Country
11a WCUW ~ The Folk Spot
2p WUMB ~ Folk Odyssey
7p WHUS ~ Sunday Night Folk Festival
7:30p WESU ~ Dead Air
MONDAY
6a Troubadour 1700 AM, "Folk Image Encore"
9:30a WOMR ~ The Old Song's Home
5p WCUW ~ In the Tradition
TUESDAY
6a Troubadour 1700 AM, "Folk Image Encore"
5p WCUW ~ In the Tradition
8p WBRS ~ The Watch City Coffeehouse
WEDNESDAY
6a Troubadour 1700 AM, "Folk Image Encore"
5p WCUW ~ In the Tradition
7p WICN ~ Against The Grain
8p WBCR ~ Common Sense Songs
THURSDAY
6a Troubadour 1700 AM, "Folk Image Encore"
2p WMBR~ Troubadour
7p WICN ~ Folk Revival
FRIDAY
6a Troubadour 1700 AM, "Folk Image Encore"
9a WCUW ~ American Roots
SATURDAY
9a WHRB ~ Hillbilly at Harvard
3p WBGH ~ Folk on WGBH
9p WUMB ~ Traditional Folk
And for a listing of folk-friendly internet and radio stations visit the group's database ~ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NorthEa...