Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm ARCHIE FISHER Scottish songs and ballads "One of Britain’s finest song interpreters." - Sing Out. "Quietly poetic ballads haunt like a shadowy specter." - St. Paul Pioneer-Press
Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Ave. (in Calvary United Methodist Church) http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 Tickets are $20, $10 discount, $30 for supporters, $5 for 12 and under. 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. UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm MICHAEL WINOGRAD TRIO, with special guest Dan Blacksberg - New & traditional klezmer, Yiddish song & improv "The wedding band of choice for the hippest of shtetls." - City Paper "Formerly deceased, the music now enjoys rude good health. A perfect example of this sea change in musical fortunes." - The Forward Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm JAYATEERTH MEVUNDI Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana "Took [Kolkata's Nazrul Mancha] conference by storm. His presentation of Sudhkalyan followed by Pahari Thumri and Bhajan is still ringing in my ears. Jayatu Jayateerth! – Dhaka Daily Star Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30 pm ALASH ENSEMBLE Tuvan throat-singing "Utterly stunning. Audience members picked their jaws up off the floor." -Washington Post. "Seemed to demonstrate superhuman powers using their vocal chords." - Cornell Daily Sun Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring: ANNE FEENEY - unionmaid, hell raiser, and labor singer "Congratulations on your fine songwriting!" - Pete Seeger "Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America." - Utah Phillips EVAN GREER - Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance "Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come." - Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "An eloquent and energetic writer." - Howard Zinn ROY ZIMMERMAN - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed "Lacerating wit & keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." - Los Angeles Times "Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." - Tom Lehrer Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm BRUCE MOLSKY & ALE MOLLER - Appalachian old time and Swedish traditional music "The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddling." - Darrol Anger. "Among the most talented, active and prolific on the Swedish scene." - Dirty Linen Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administred in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. ---- 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.
