Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)
Archie Fisher “One of Britain’s finest song interpreters.” – Sing Out “Quietly poetic ballads haunt like a shadowy specter.” – St. Paul Pioneer-Press “It just seems like Archie Fisher invented Scottish folk.” – Boston Globe Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3115 Master guitarist, singer and songwriter Archie Fisher is among Scotland’s foremost interpreters of traditional songs and is known throughout the country as the host of BBC Radio Scotland’s award-winning “Travelling Folk” show, which he has presented for over 25 years. For his contributions to Scottish folk music, he has been inducted into the Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth for services to traditional music. Archie was born in Glasgow into a large singing family. His father’s appreciation of many musical styles (opera, vaudeville, traditional ballads) and his mother’s Gaelic speaking family from the Outer Hebrides strongly influenced his musical development and the lyrical quality of his singing and songwriting. He first became interested in the folk revival during the Skiffle era of the late 1950s and recordings of the Weavers later profoundly influenced his approach to music and political outlook. During the British TV folk boom of the 1960s and 70s he was part of an Edinburgh scene that also included Robin Williamson, Clive Palmer and Mike Heron, and the Incredible String Band and was an early guitar colleague of Bert Jansch. In addition to his solo work, he played as a duo with Dundee musician Allan Barty, worked as a backing musician and arranger/producer for Tommy Makem, Liam Clancy, and Silly Wizard. After spending the 1980s working primarily in documentary radio, he returned to the recording studio during what he describes as one of his most creative songwriting periods, touring North America with Garnet Rogers, English guitarist John Renbourn, and Bert Jansch. With the release of Windward Away, which has already achieved widespread acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, he returns to the US for the first time in over a decade. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
