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January 12th
Dave Rowe Trio
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From the David Trio Web Site...
In the Tradition…
With so much to write and sing about, Maine is a very special place for folk music. It is a state of lofty mountains, fragrant balsam forests, and a craggy, island-dotted coast. And it has hard-working people whose ancestors emigrated from Canada, France, Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. They found jobs in fishing, farming and manufacturing and when the work was done, they shared the handmade music of the countries they left behind.
These influences come together in every performance of the Maine-based Dave Rowe Trio. Dave Rowe, Ed Howe and Kevin O’Reilly make authentic Maine music, driven by lyrical fiddle melodies and hearty three-part harmonies that sound as rugged as the coast they sing about. To truly experience Maine, you have to go there. But to have a taste of Maine’s music, humor and stories wherever you are, invite the Dave Rowe Trio to perform a concert.
Lobsters are optional!
The Irish American Post is quoted “On stage, the Dave Rowe Trio is as laid back and comfortable as the audience. They
wear Hawaiian shirts, khaki shorts, and two of the three have kicked off their flip flops
and are keeping time with bare feet. The trio’s sound is a mix of traditional, nautical and Irish sounds.”
January 26th
Bernie Clarke and the Rhythm Sharks
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Bernie Clarke and the Rhythm Sharks Web Site
Every night the band works from a grab bag of tunes guaranteed to please anyone that likes blues and boogie played with high energy and SOUL! Start with a powerful, soulful vocalist. Back him with rhythm steadier than the Rock of Gibraltar. Add the twang of swingin' guitar and a hot honking harmonica straight from the Southside of anywhere and you've got Bernie Clarke & the Rhythm Sharks. Take their CD on Burning Bridge Records, Love Recession, for a spin and you'll understand why they were nominated for a SAMMY (Syracuse Area Music Award) in the "Best Blues Band" category. Come to a Rhythm Shark performance and be rocked, swung, funked, souled, and shuffled to honest AMERICAN ROOTS music. The Rhythm Sharks shine a spotlight on their own original material as well as eclectic selections dug from deep in the blues, soul and roots music troughs. You'll travel the musical road of Americana from Chicago blues and funk down south to Texas and Louisiana for some shuffles and hot swamp boogie. After that head west on Rt. 66 for some of that West Coast swing. The Rhythm Sharks cover a lot of road and keep the motor running.
February 2nd
Aztec Two Step
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Aztec Two Step Web Site
Rex Fowler from Pittsfield, Maine and Neal Shulman of New York City met one "open mike" night at a Boston folk club in the spring of 1971. Each impressed by the other's talents, they joined forces and Aztec Two-Step (named for a line from "A Coney Island of the Mind" by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti) was born.
Just one year later, signed by Elektra Records, Neal and Rex were in Los Angeles putting the final touches on their debut album, Aztec Two-Step. Quickly becoming a staple of FM and college radio the album remained in print for fifteen years and was the foundation for a performing and recording career that continues to the present day. In 1992, Aztec Two-Step was re-released by ERA Records. In the intervening years, Aztec Two-Step recorded six more albums for RCA, Waterhouse, Reflex and Flying Fish Records. The duo's 1986 release, Living in America, was sighted in Billboard Magazine's year end critics poll and received the 1987 Best Folk Album at the New York Music Awards.
Of Age, Aztec Two-Step's eighth album, was released by Beacon Records in September 1993. Its title celebrates both the twenty-one year anniversary the group marked while recording the album and the maturity Rex and Neal feel the writing, playing and singing on it reflect.
Headliners in their own right, Aztec Two-Step has also appeared in concert with such notable artists as Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Talking Heads, Bill Cosby, The Beach Boys, Jackson Browne, Bette Midler, Heart and many more. They continue to tour, pleasing old fans and winning new ones.
February 16th
Sam Hopkins Trio
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February 23rd
Maria Zemantauski & Flamenco Dancers with Percussionist Brian Melick
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Maria Zemantauski is one of the world's few heralded female flamenco guitarists, and one of even fewer female flamenco composers. She has performed in Spain and across the continental United States to great acclaim. Her albums, Mrs. Laughinghouse (1997), Seeing Red (2000) and "Under the Lemon Tree" (2005), have received stellar reviews from Flamenco Connection, Dirty Linen and music critics around the world. In May 2004, Maria marked her premier performance in Sarzana, Italy, where she was invited to represent the United States at the 7th International Acoustic Guitar Summit.
Maria's programs are a dynamic blend of artistic freedom, innovation and tradition. While she believes that the expressive possibilities of the guitar are limitless, she feels that the indigenous voice of her instrument is found within the flamenco art form. She has claimed this genre of music as her own with passion, confidence and grace.
Brian Melick
March 1st
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings
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Blackie & the Rodeo Kings Web Site
In 1996, their debut album was released to critical acclaim. The first album, High or Hurtin', brought 14+ Willie P. Bennett originals to an appreciative audience. The musicianship is superb, the vocals right on, and the lyrics are sublime.
All three continued their successful solo careers garnering numerous individual awards and nominations. The chemistry, which first brought the trio together, drew them back in 1999 for Kings of Love, a double album of originals and covers, folk,rock, ballads, even surf instrumental : an amazing achievement from Colin, Tom and Stephen which won the JUNO in the Best Roots & Traditonal Album Group category.
BARK is the third album and marked the highly anticipated return of the Juno Award-winning group Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. Recorded in the winter of 2003, BARK found the trio maturing musically, featuring some of the best material that these three talented songwriters had ever put to disc.
Since Kings of Love, Stephen, Colin and Tom have often found themselves writing songs that could only be expressed through the Blackie & the Rodeo Kings medium. It was this material and a love for collaboration with each other that brought them together for a third time. As they began work on BARK, they found that Blackie meant more to them than a simple and fun way to pay tribute to the music that they loved. In the three years since the release of their Juno nominated recording BARK, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings been very busy. They appeared live on the Juno and the CCMA Award shows, toured across Canada with country legend Merle Haggard, toured the U.S. on the heels of a top 15 Americana radio hit and all three founding members (Stephen Fearing, Colin Linden and Tom Wilson) released solo CDs. BARK garnered the band 4 singles, 2 of which went top 30 at Rock Radio. Earlier this year, the band went into the legendary Bearsville Studio with long time collaborators Richard Bell (keyboards), John Dymond (bass) and Gary Craig (drums) to record their fourth album. Added to the mix were guest appearances from Garth Hudson (the Band), Daniel Lanois, Pam Tillis, Malcolm Burn, Wayne Jackson and John Wynot. The sessions went so well, were so creative and fun that they ended up recording 29 songs, too much for just one CD. As a result, Let's Frolic, released September 12, will be followed-up with Let's Frolic Again sometime in early 2007.
Let’s Frolic features stellar yet soulful playing, superb songwriting and heartfelt vocals. “House of Soul” is a Daniel Lanois penned song which he handed over to the band with one request, which was to make him cry. Reports are that he was brought to tears when he heard it. The band got an assist on the Hi Records inspired “I Give it Up Everyday” from the Memphis Horns’ Wayne Jackson. Pam Tillis’s angelic vocals perfectly compliment Stephen Fearing on “The Fools Who Can’t Forget”. Other standout tracks include “That’s What I Like”, “Lovin’ Cup”, “Let’s Frolic” and “Silver Dreams”.
March 15th
Mad Agnes
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Mad Agnes' harmony-driven performance offers an eclectic mix of contemporary singer-songwriter material with influences of classical, Celtic, folk/rock, PDQ Bach, and a touch of street theatre. Their lyrics, vocal intricacies and instrument prowess make their music "music for thinking people." Mad Agnes is not one person, but three, and they're mad in only the most inventive way. Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders stir up elements of classical and folk, cross singer/songwriter poignancy with street-theatre smarts and infuse it all with courageous harmonies, complex counterpoint and rich storytelling in a powerful live performance. Their lyrics are intelligent, their delivery warm, and insightful. Not surprisingly, each has arrived at the trio from a long list of solo accomplishments. The music of classically trained Hennebach has been described as “contemporary and timeless” by the Star Gazette, and “captivating” by Sing Out Magazine. A finalist in songwriting competitions, including Kerrville and Napa Valley, Margo has a BM in Piano from Oberlin Conservatory and a masters degree in Music Therapy from the Guildhall School of Music in London, and is Feldenkrais Practitioner. Jones is a self-taught fingerstyle & rhythm guitarist and bassist, a finalist in four national songwriting competitions, a member of Actors Equity Association, and a Reiki Practitioner. Of her CD release, Talking River, Dirty Linen magazine praised her “expressive ability to wrap meaning around a lyric with the simple rise or fall of a note.” Mad Agnes also features Hartford Conservatory graduate Saunders on vocals, acoustic, electric, National steel and bass guitars. His guitar work recalls the inventiveness of Richard Thompson, while providing "understated ballast with his voice and lead guitar--his delicate arpeggio picking...and fiery fills and runs,” says Acoustic Guitar magazine. They've been called genre-bending -- with classical, rock and old-world backgrounds they play everything from contemporary original to madrigals, to Celtic traditionals, to harmony-driven folk pop. Their third CD, Revenants, features guest artists, drummer Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull) and guitarist Jeff Pevar (Crosby, Stills, and Nash, CPR), and was mixed and mastered by four-time Emmy winner Jim Chapdelaine (Phoebe Snow, Big Al Anderson) in West Hartford, CT. The song list represents all three members' contributions, including, for the first time, three instrumentals by Saunders (guitars, mandolin). Together the collection presents an intimate scrapbook of the band's passages and triumphs.
Recognized for their terrific live show, Mad Agnes was a formal mainstage artist at The Southwest Regional Folk Alliance in 2007, the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in 2004, and a TriCentric artist in 2003. They perform internationally at listening rooms and festivals including The Kerrville Folk Festival (TX), Mountain Stage New Songs Festival (WV), The Birchmere (VA), The Forksville Folk Festival, The Sellersville Theatre, Bethlehem Musikfest and Godfrey Daniels (PA), The Bitter End and the Towne Crier (NY), Old Settlers Inn (KS), WFMT’s Live Stage (IL), Cedarburg Cultural Center (WI), Sunrise Civic Center Theater (FL), University of Hartford and Cheney Hall (CT), The Ark (MI), and First nights Morristown (NJ) and Worcester (MA), Cropredy Festival (UK). As one presenter once introduced them, “Together, the three of them make a great couple.”
March 28th
Tanglefoot
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Tanglefoot Web Site
TANGLEFOOT WINS "BEST VOCAL GROUP" at 2007 Canadian Folk Music Awards
A perennial favorite in the North Country, sure to be a sell out event. Intelligent, well-written folk-influenced songs played with hell-bent, rampaging abandon… that may be why Tanglefoot was once described as "Stan Rogers meets Van Halen." Tanglefoot is a thunderous live band with a reputation for spectacular vocal harmonies. It is also a band of adept songwriters who specialize in portraying the Canadian experience. "One of Canada's most accomplished musical mythologizers," wrote Robert Reid of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. And after more than twenty years of performing, this Canadian roots institution is stronger than ever with an impressive new addition on violin and viola.
April 11
Pat Wictor & Jess Klein
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$18 At the Door
Pat Wictor Web Site
Pat Wictor
"...Pat Wictor walks onstage and sits down. He places a Guild DV-52 flat across his lap and begins playing slide guitar. The sounds are snaky and sizzling...." --Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live
In a remarkably short period of time, Pat Wictor has become the name that is being chatted about on the acoustic, blues, folk and Americana circuits. Steeped in American "roots" music, Pat is a contemporary songwriter and interpreter drawing on the rural country, gospel, and blues traditions of our nation. An American by birth, Pat was raised outside of the United States until his teenage years, living in Venezuela, Holland, Norway, and England. This time abroad gave him an unusually deep awareness of being a resident of a country while also a world citizen. Through these early experiences, he gained an appreciation for taking diffferent paths to arrave at the same destination. Indeed, Pat took a convoluted path to folk music, winding his way through rock, heavy metal, and jazz. He started with guitar, shifted to bass, moved to saxophone, and then quit music entirely before a return in 1993, a time when he also began composing songs. By 2001, he left a teaching career to pursue music full time and does so in the broadest way possible. An adept improviser and accompanist, he is sought after as a collaborator, sideman and session musician, with numerous recording credits to date. His monthly e-mail column, "A Few Choice Words," is read by thousands of subscribers. He is a music educator of note, teaching workshops on writing, interpreting, and rearranging songs, on slide guitar and other guitar techniques, and various topics of music history. His performances--part fireside chat, part meditation on matters earthly and transcendent--feature his originals. In addition to his own tunes, he is quick to offer up a newly-discovered lyric from another performer, or a fresh arrangement of a traditional song, delighting in introducing his audience to innovative material. With flowing red hair and zen-like calm, Pat embraces his audience with the sincerity of his music and the clarity of his voice, inviting them in. Pat views his life and his music as a journey, populated with an ever-shifting landscape of people, places and emotions. It is a journey he is eager to share with others, knowing that it is the experiences along the way, not the arrival, that initiate the most profound changes. Pat's fifth CD, Heaven Is So High...And I'm So Far Down, was released in July '06, and has receivved nationwide airplay on folk and specialty radio programs. The disc features standout originals like "I Will Walk With You," the a cappella "Raise My Voice and Sing," and the title track. The CD also includes distinctive versions of Bob Dylan's "Oxford Town," Dave Carter's "When I Go," and a swampy, rousing version of "You Got To Move," featuring Abbie Gardner of Red Molly. His previous CD, Waiting for the Water, also received wide radio play, reaching #4 on the FolkDJ charts in February 2005, and remaining on the charts for months afterward.
Jess Klein
Jess Klein Web Site
A native of Rochester, NY, Jess Klein picked up the acoustic guitar and started writing songs while living in Kingston, Jamaica in her late teens. On a whim she auditioned for a guest slot at a local weekly dub poetry and music session, where, upon hearing the first song Klein had written, the host, locally renowned author Lady Elean Thomas declared, 'She have soul, mon'. Klein returned home, moved to Boston, and began performing locally. After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, she was spotted and signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard.
Her first release for Ryko, Draw Them Near [which received 3 ½ out of four stars from USA Today], launched Klein on a worldwide tour where, among other accomplishments, she wowed 70,000 attendees at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Returning to the U.S., Klein joined the songwriter collective Voices on the Verge, along with Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, and Beth Amsel. The foursome was featured on Good Morning America performing Klein's song 'Little White Dove', and brought crowds in small theaters across the U.S. to their feet nightly with their blend of harmonies and eclectic styles. Klein's second solo effort for Ryko, Strawberry Lover, produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely, debuted as the Number 1 most added album at triple A radio a week before its release, was given four stars by MOJO, a plug from the nearly 80 million readership Parade, and within weeks of its release, the emotive and sensual title track was named one of the 'Top Ten sexiest songs of the moment' by the NY Daily News, alongside Fifty Cent's 'Candy Shop' and Destiny's Child's 'Soldier'.
April 26th
Montana Skies
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$18 At the Door
Montana Skies creates a unique new sound, from finger-picking to flamenco, with the unusual pairing of cello and guitar and the seamless use of modern electronic effects. The core of the group Montana Skies is husband and wife team Jonathan Adams on guitars (steel string and spanish/nylon) and Jennifer Adams on cellos (acoustic cello and her 6-String Electric cello). The music of Montana Skies has been heard nationwide on NPR radio stations as well as television, including the Travel Channel, Soundscapes and more. Montana Skies continues to thrill audiences with their live shows and they have an extensive tour schedule which has taken them across the US, Canada and to Asia. As the group moves ahead, they continue to explore the boundaries of contemporary instrumental music.
Montana Skies' debut recording Montana Skies reached #1 on world and instrumental music radio charts in April and May of 2004 and helped them win the title of "Best New Artist" in the 2004 Lifestyle Radio Awards. Highlights from the cd's airplay include broadcasts nationally on the NPR radio program "Echoes" and the TV program "Soundscapes". Montana Skies has enjoyed performing live on radio and TV programs throughout the country and internationally.
Jonathan and Jennifer Adams are the originators of Montana Skies. The couple met almost a decade ago while studying music at the University of Georgia in Athens. At first the two planned on collaborating on classical music but after a trip to the University Library to investigate repertoire, they discovered that music written for cello/guitar was as rare as the combination itself. Jonathan and Jennifer were not discouraged; they began writing their own arrangements to classics and composing music for themselves. Not having set repertoire has given these music artists a great freedom in their musical expression. Jonathan explains, "Throughout the years, we have developed many of our own arrangements ranging from world music and classical to original compositions. The fact that 'ready made' repertoire is not available for our combination of instruments really what pushes us to be more creative with our music. We love composing and arranging, and appreciate the opportunity to present old favorites, along with newer music, to our audiences."
Montana Skies' name is taken from one of the first songs Jonathan composed for the group entitled "Montana Skies". Jonathan studied music at Montana State University in Bozeman and this song was written specifically about those times. Jonathan and Jennifer named themselves after this first song because it captures the essence of the duo's music, and marked the beginning of their newly formed sound.
Forging ahead artistically, Montana Skies is releasing their newest album Chasing the Sun which was inspired by their most recent cross-country tour. Many of the songs were composed while traveling across the USA and seeing it's national treasures. Chasing the Sun is an homage to the "road trip". Jonathan explains, "This cd is not only about the literal road trip, but also the metaphorical "road trip" of life. We've learned a lot on both so far, but mostly we've learned that it's never about the place, but always about the people. Much of this music was written and arranged on our cross country tour in the spring of 2004 and draws from the sights and sounds that we absorbed as we crisscrossed the US. We hope our fans will enjoy the ride as much as we did."
May 3rd
The Kennedy's
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The Kennedy's Web Site
The story of Pete and Maura Kennedy’s personal and professional relationship, now in its second decade, is somewhere between fate and a fairytale. How else can you explain a chance meeting in Austin between two East Coast-born musicians that immediately sparked a songwriting collaboration, a first date at Buddy Holly’s grave, an enduring romance, and a creative partnership that radiates warmth, positive energy, and captivating music?
In 1992, Virginia native Pete Kennedy was playing a solo show at Austin’s Continental Club on a brief sabbatical from his duties as country-folk singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith’s lead guitarist when he met former Syracuse, NY, resident Maura Boudreau, enjoying a night off from performing with her own country-rock band, The Delta Rays. The duo “instantly connected on a soul level, or maybe even something deeper,” according to Pete. They wrote their first song together the following day before Pete returned to the road, and rendezvoused ten days later at mutual hero Buddy Holly’s grave in Lubbock, Tex., 500 miles equidistant between them. And that’s how it started . . .
When Griffith needed a harmony singer to replace Iris Dement on short notice for a British tour in Spring ’93, Maura was the obvious choice, and her touring life alongside Pete began. While boarding the plane to England, Nanci informed the duo that they would serve as the opening act for many of the shows on her tour, as well as performing in her backing band. With a need for material to fill their set, Pete and Maura wrote an inspired set of songs in Dublin that would become the basis for their first album, 1995’s River of Fallen Stars, which earned an “Indie” award as “Best Adult Contemporary CD” by the National Association of Independent Record Distributors.
The body of work The Kennedys have created since their 1994 wedding is a reflection of their musical and philosophical influences and experiences separately and as a couple. A child of the ’50s, Pete was compelled to pick up his older sister’s guitar after seeing The Beatles perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and was soon playing “Louie Louie” and “Satisfaction” in a garage band while also absorbing the new sounds of The Byrds and folk-rock. After a year of studies at Boston College and with disco music just around the corner, Pete “started to lose interest in pop and got into taking the long view of the guitar.” He returned to Virginia and immersed himself in classical and jazz guitar, studying with master players Joe Pass and Johnny Smith in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The rise of the “alt.country” scene in the mid-’80s reignited Pete’s interest in contemporary music and he became a first-call session player in the Washington, DC, area. When fellow picker John Jennings took a sabbatical from his role as Mary Chapin Carpenter’s lead guitarist, Pete stepped into his shoes. On a final show with Carpenter in 1991 (on “Austin City Limits”) before she took a hiatus for songwriting, Pete sat in with fellow guest Nanci Griffith, was invited to join her band, and accepted.
Meanwhile, Maura Boudreau was learning there was more to music than pop when she started working in a used record store in Syracuse in the mid-’80s. There she discovered the British Invasion bands of two decades earlier, England’s groundbreaking folk-rock group Fairport Convention, and, most significantly, country-rock singer Emmylou Harris, whose recordings led Maura to the traditional music of Patsy Cline and the Louvin Brothers. She subsequently switched from playing Fairport-influenced material to forming the country-oriented Delta Rays and also started writing her own songs. A trip to Austin’s SXSW music showcase in the late ’80s convinced Maura to relocate her band there, although all but one of the original Delta Rays opted out of the move.
After Pete and Maura’s fateful 1992 meeting (the subject of their last CD’s title song, “Half a Million Miles”) and several years of touring and recording with Nanci Griffith, the duo seceded amicably from Griffith’s Blue Moon Orchestra and became The Kennedys, recording CDs that encompass their favorite musical styles while incorporating the naturalistic, transcendental and mythological teachings of Joseph Campbell, Eckhart Tolle, Walt Whitman, and various Eastern-oriented philosophers into their songs and lives. Their goal is to live in the moment, appreciating every second of sensation, which imbues their music with a constant sense of wonder and freshness.
As confirmed road warriors and performance addicts, The Kennedys have logged well over 1,000 gigs and half a million miles of touring, bringing their songs and spirit to venues ranging from the prestigious Newport, Falcon Ridge and Kate Wolf music festivals to the most intimate house concerts. A fearsome accident on the New Jersey Turnpike last year totaled The Kennedys’ third touring van and eventually influenced them to shift their home base from New York’s East Village to more laid-back headquarters in Northampton, Mass. They continue to tour constantly, to record (they have three new projects already on tape), to host their “Dharma Café” show on SIRIUS Satellite radio, and to spread their exhilarating, inclusive and meaningful music across a polarized country that needs to hear it now more than ever.
May 10th
Burns Sisters Band
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$20 At the Door
Wild Bouquet – 2006 (Ithaca)
Burns Sisters Band
Reviewed by John Lupton
If the label name wasn't a giveaway, the Burns Sisters (Annie, Jeannie and Marie) do indeed hail from the Finger Lakes region of New York and over the last decade have become mainstays of the folk festival circuit with a sound that highlights their natural sibling harmonies with arrangements that manage to be tastefully eclectic, electric and acoustic - sometimes all at the same time. "Wild Bouquet" is perhaps their most ambitious and accomplished effort to date, and at 15 tracks spread out over 62 minutes, there's plenty of it.
They have been unabashedly political throughout their career, and for those who need music to reaffirm their own worldview, well, let's just say the Burns Sisters are only marginally more likely than the Dixie Chicks to be invited over to Toby Keith's for a barbecue, and leave it at that.
There's plenty here to savor, though, thanks mainly to the sisters' exquisite vocal and writing talents. Annie's "Nowhere To Fall" stands out as a catchy tune that will swirl through your consciousness. And, there's enough fiddle, mandolin and Dobro (from Kevin Maul, longtime stalwart in Robin and Linda Williams' band) to keep the interest of hard-core country fans. Folk, country, Americana, call it what you will, but it's all very tasty.
All performances will take place at the Society's headquarters, located at 7552 South State Street, Lowville, New York. Doors open at 7:30, wih the performances beginning at 8 PM. Beverages and light refreshments will be available for purcahse and none may be brought into the facility.
In its fourth year, the Black River Valley Concert Series brings to the north country an eclectic mix of music in a splendid venue. Lewis County Historical Society, including its collection of objects and artifacts, is housed in a former Masonic Temple structure. The venue has a two story great room, with comfortable seating for 150, that is accented by cove moulding and indirect, alternating blue and white lights surrounding the room. With the cabaret-style tables, adorned with flowers and tablecloths, and dimmed lighting with blue accents and spotlights, the audience is sure to feel somewhere "other" than Lewis County!
Performers interested in playing in the Black River Valley Concert
Series in the future should send the following items to Lewis County Historical
Society: