[Triangle Folk] Upcoming Folk Music Shows

Thu Jan 17 16:20:18 EST 2008

Hi,

There are some good shows on the horizon that I wanted to let you know about.

Friday, January 18      - Roger Lucey and Si Kahn in Concert    - Learned Place, Durham
Friday, January 25       - Jamie Laval and Ashey Broder - Duke Gardens, Durham
Thursday, January 31    - Jim Watson and John Lilly             - Hayti Heritage Center, Durham
Sunday, February 3      - Zoe Mulford and Pat Wictor            - Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham

More details about these great shows follows.  For more information about these shows use the contact information included with each show.

We encourage you to support live music in the triangle by attending these shows.

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Roger Lucey and Si Kahn in Concert
Friday, January 18, 2008 * Contribution $20
For a reservation, please e-mail James.Roberts at duke.edu<mailto:James.Roberts at duke.edu>

This is an evening dedicated to two singer-songwriters who use their musical talents in pursuit of their visions of social justice. Roger Lucey is a South African singer-songwriter, film maker and journalist whose work has documented the struggle against apartheid and the creation of a new South Africa. Roger will be studying at Duke this spring, enrolled in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. We were introduced to Roger via email thanks to his compatriot Paul Weinberg, a South African photographer and Duke MALS graduate who established his archive at Duke. Paul attended one of our concerts last winter, and put Roger in touch with us. When we heard a CD of his songs, we knew this was an opportunity not to be missed.

And we thought, wouldn’t it be great to introduce Roger to one of America’s great social activist singer-songwriters: Si Kahn. Si Kahn has worked for over 40 years as a civil rights, labor and community organizer and musician in the Southern United States. To date he has released 14 CD’s and performed at festival and other venues in the US and abroad. His songs of family, community, work and freedom such as “Aragon Mill,” “Gone, Gonna Rise Again,” and “Wild Rose of the Mountain” have been recorded by over 100 artists. We are thrilled that Roger and Si will share an evening with us.

Tickets
Learned Place House Concerts are semi-public; music fans who will enjoy the concert setting are welcome. We usually list concerts on the WUNC Backporch Music website but otherwise do not advertise. The concert schedule is available on this website and we also send periodic emails to those who choose to be on our email list. We request a contribution for each concert to help defray our costs for rentals and refreshments and most importantly to support the artists who perform here.

Attendance at Learned Place House Concerts requires an advance reservation confirmed by payment. This is essential, given the limited capacity. You can check on ticket availability by emailing Jim Roberts at info at learnedplacemusic.net<mailto:info at learnedplacemusic.net> or by calling 919-490-1558. Unless otherwise arranged, payment is due to confirm a reservation by mailing a check made out to Jim Roberts, 10 Learned Place, Durham, NC 27705. Tickets will then be sent to you by return mail. Contributions are normally not refundable. Checks are cashed shortly before each performance. If requesting tickets for multiple performances, we prefer separate checks for each performance.
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Special Event: Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder
Kirby Horton Hall at Duke Gardens, 7:30 PM, Friday, January 25

Violinist Jamie Laval and mandolinist Ashley Broder form a stunning instrumental duo rendering traditional Irish, Scottish, Bretagne, Cape Breton and Quebecois tunes with hints of classical refinement and ethnic music from around the world. Their mix of intense passion and tenderness together with coy, playful interaction has become their trademark.

The concert will be in the beautiful Kirby Horton Hall at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham.

Tickets: $15    www.brownpapertickets.com<http://www.brownpapertickets.com>
Directions to the gardens are at http://www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens/directions.htm
You can learn more about Jamie and Ashley at:
www.jamielaval.com<http://www.jamielaval.com>
www.ashleybroder.com<http://www.ashleybroder.com>

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The Bull City Cosmic Hoedown Presents An Evening with John Lilly and Jim Watson In concert together
Thursday Jan 31 – 7:30pm – At the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham
In a Pre-Groundhog-Day Concert Celebrating the Music of Jimmy Rodgers - “The Father of Country Music”
Concert info and advance tickets available at: http://bullcityroots.org<http://bullcityroots.org/>
Tickets $10 in advance -- or $12 at the door

 West Virginia Guitarist and Songwriter John Lilly will be in town Thursday Jan 31rst with Chapel Hill’s own Jim Watson for an evening of early country music, old-time string band music, honky-tonk tunes, Bluegrass, Americana and traditional folk music.

Seeing as how John and Jim are connoisseurs of the music of the legendary Father of Country Music, Mr. Jimmy Rodgers, we thought it might be fun to get these two gents together with their guitars and mandolins and their mighty fine voices to sing some songs from the Jimmy Rodgers canon.  In addition to playing some songs associated with Jimmy Rodgers, they will also be playing and singing songs from the pen of Hank Williams, Charlie Patton, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Blizard, Hazel Dickens, Bob Wills and original songs as well.

 “If Hank Williams had a sunny disposition, he’d be John Lilly”

John Lilly, a former tour guide at The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, hails from Charleston, West Virginia. Over the years he has toured all over the country with Ralph Blizard and The New Southern Ramblers as well as with the Green Grass Cloggers Dance Team. Lilly is an outstanding guitarist, preferring to play an unusual one-of-a-kind hollow-body guitar, but is equally comfortable on mandolin. John is recognized nationally as a powerful performing songwriter. In 2005, he won the national Ghost Writers In the Sky songwriting contest, sponsored by HankFest, a Chicago-based festival honoring the music of Hank Williams. John won a customized guitar for his original song "Blue Highway." He was a finalist in the 2002 Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, chosen from 853 entries and placing third in the Country category for his song "Broken Moon." John has three albums of original songs and country classics, including the brand new “Haunted Honky Tonk” CD which was rated #1 in airplay in October 2007 by the DJ’s reporting to the FAR (Freeform American Roots) radio chart.

You can read more about John Lilly and listen to some of his music online at: http://www.johnlillymusic.com/

Jim Watson lives in Chapel Hill, but had the good sense to be born in Durham, where he wound up playing music at Bobbie and Tommy Thompson’s house in the Hollow Rock community. Jim played with Alan Jabour and Bertram Levy in the Hollow Rock String Band over the years, which along with The Fuzzy Mountain String Band, was a major center of old-time music in the area. In 1972, Tommy Thompson, Bill Hicks and Jim Watson formed a band of their own, The Red Clay. Jim is widely recoginized in bluegrass, country, and oldtime music circles as an amazing singer, able to hit those high tenor notes with ease as well as fall in with multi-part harmonies at the drop of a hat. Jim has gone on to play with Robin and Linda Williams over the years, having begun working with them regularly in the late 80’s and joining up with them full time for Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group. When not out on the road with Robin and Linda, Jim occasionally can be found playing with fellow Original Red Clay Ramblers: Bill Hicks and Mike Craver, along with Joe Newberry, who sometimes simply bill themselves as The Ramblers.  Jim’s love for early country music can be heard in his recent solo recordings Don’t Tell Me, I Don’t Know and Willie’s Redemption, both available on the Barker label.

You can read more about Jim Watson and listen to some of his music online at: http://www.originalredclayramblers.com/jimnow.htm

This concert is being organized and presented by The Bull City Cosmic Hoedown, a radio program broadcast on WXDU Durham, 88.7fm, on Tuesday evenings 6pm-8pm

Beginning in 2008, the Cosmic Hoedown is kicking off its brand new Bull City Roots Music Series. This series hopes to feature a variety of traditional and roots music artists and bands from all over the country, as well as some from our own backyard. Shows will take place in the lovely St. Joseph’s Performance Hall (the Sanctuary of the former St. Joseph’s AME church, which holds about 300 people) at the Hayti Heritage Center at 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham – just a minute away from the American Tobacco Historic District and the new Bull Durham Athletic Park. You can learn more about upcoming events by visiting our new web site at http://bullcityroots.org<http://bullcityroots.org/> or by contacting Dave Tilley via email: dave at hoedown.org<mailto:dave at hoedown.org> or by phone: 919.834.8667
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Concert: Zoe Mulford and Pat Wictor on Sunday, February 3rd, at 7 p.m.
at Eno River UU Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham

Two award-winning songwriters present a song-swapping evening of blues and contemporary folk music. Zoe Mulford (www.zoemulford.com<http://www.zoemulford.com>) a former Durham resident, delivers vivid storytelling and down-to-earth humor backed by guitar and banjo. Pat Wictor (www.patwictor.com<http://www.patwictor.com>) brings the disctinctive voice of the lap-style slide guitar to his own songs as well as the work of past masters. Guaranteed to beat the winter blues!

For more information, contact Jo Bouler, 919-361-1223.

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Clarke Thacher
Booking Coordinator
Triangle Folk Music Society
1112 Georgia Ave.
Durham, NC 27705

http://www.trianglefolk.org
(919)286-7963 (Home)
(919)531-7786 (Work)