On Sunday November 3, Geoff Muldaur will bring his original music to
the Cherry Tree Music Co-op. The show starts at 7:30 in the Parish
Hall of St. Mary's Church, 3916 Locust Walk, on the University of
Pennsylvania campus. Tickets are $12 in advance; $15 at the door, and
discounts are available for members of the Philadelphia Folksong
Society and for students with valid ID.
One of the great voices and musical forces to emerge from the folk,
blues and folk-rock scenes centered in Cambridge and Woodstock, Geoff
Muldaur is back!
Following a series of highly-influential recordings and tours with
acclaimed artists including the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, then-wife Maria
Muldaur, blues legend Paul Butterfield and guitar wizard Amos
Garrett, Muldaur temporarily left the stage for a working sabbatical.
He continued, however, to hone his craft, albeit while flying
"beneath radar." He produced albums for the likes of Lenny
Pickett and Borneo Horns and the Richard Greene String Quartet. He
composed scores for film and television, garnering an Emmy in the
process. And his definitive recording of "Brazil" provided
the seed for and was featured in Terry Gilliam's film of the same
title.
Magical voice and love for roots music intact, he has most recently
toured Britain, Germany and Ireland, and has appeared at Carnegie
Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Kennedy Center, "A Prairie Home
Companion," The San Francisco Blues Festival, and the Winnipeg
and Edmonton Folk Festivals. His long-awaited HighTone album now in
release, Geoff returns to the life of a touring musician exploring
the surprising connections within American Music.
His approach is one of honor and respect for the music's history,
from the perspective of a contemporary artist very much of his own
era. The result is a unique cross-fertilization, often humorous as
well as touching, that keeps the field as fertile as the roots are
deep.The Boston Herald has praised his "sweet yet grizzled voice
wrapping itself around a wide variety of musical Americana" in
interpretation "unusually deep and personal."
Advance tickets are available from House of Our Own Books at 3920
Spruce Street; Rustic Music at 333 S. 13th Street; and Mads Records
in Ardmore. Cherry Tree concerts are supported in part by a grant from
the Philadelphia Folksong Society. For more information, call the
Cherry Tree at 215-386-1640 or visit our website at http://
www.cherrytree.org
