Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Great Music in the SF Bay Area!
This post has nothing to do with telecom, technology, economics, politics or corporate culcha.
Except that songwriter Stephen Foster reflected the politics and technology of his pre-Civil War, Ohio River-centered life. Foster wrote Oh Susannah, Beautiful Dreamer, Way Down upon the Swanee River, and a dozen others that weave into the interface between agrarian and industrial America. Foster was so prolific a writer he was to his time what boingboing is to ours.
Musician Joe Weed has made it a personal mission to visit the places Foster went, read the books Foster read, get to know the people Foster knew, and make Stephen Foster's music his own. Joe's recent CD, "Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster," has been described as
music that, "can easily stand beside other traditional music classics like the ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack . . . the best tribute to Foster’s music that I have ever heard," by american music scholar Charles Wolfe. (I am honored to call a great artist like Joe my friend, but I can't believe that he doesn't list Swanee on his own website with his other great recordings, like Waltz of the Whippoorwill and my personal favorite, The Vultures!)
Joe will perform "The Stephen Foster Story" in the SF Bay Area next month, with wife Marty on bass, daughter Katie on fiddle and guitar, and Nashville musician Marty Atkinson on guitar and vocals.
They have three dates:
Saturday, August 14, at 8:00 at the Espresso Garden Cafe, 814 S. Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128. Admission is $15.00 (408) 294-3353.
Friday, August 20, at 8:00, at the Cayuga Vault, 1100 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Admission is $15.00. (831) 421-9471
Saturday, August 21, at 8:00 at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94702. Admission is $15.50 in advance/$16.50 at the door. (510) 548-1761
Catch it if you can!
Except that songwriter Stephen Foster reflected the politics and technology of his pre-Civil War, Ohio River-centered life. Foster wrote Oh Susannah, Beautiful Dreamer, Way Down upon the Swanee River, and a dozen others that weave into the interface between agrarian and industrial America. Foster was so prolific a writer he was to his time what boingboing is to ours.
Musician Joe Weed has made it a personal mission to visit the places Foster went, read the books Foster read, get to know the people Foster knew, and make Stephen Foster's music his own. Joe's recent CD, "Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster," has been described as
music that, "can easily stand beside other traditional music classics like the ‘Oh Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack . . . the best tribute to Foster’s music that I have ever heard," by american music scholar Charles Wolfe. (I am honored to call a great artist like Joe my friend, but I can't believe that he doesn't list Swanee on his own website with his other great recordings, like Waltz of the Whippoorwill and my personal favorite, The Vultures!)
Joe will perform "The Stephen Foster Story" in the SF Bay Area next month, with wife Marty on bass, daughter Katie on fiddle and guitar, and Nashville musician Marty Atkinson on guitar and vocals.
They have three dates:
Saturday, August 14, at 8:00 at the Espresso Garden Cafe, 814 S. Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128. Admission is $15.00 (408) 294-3353.
Friday, August 20, at 8:00, at the Cayuga Vault, 1100 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Admission is $15.00. (831) 421-9471
Saturday, August 21, at 8:00 at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94702. Admission is $15.50 in advance/$16.50 at the door. (510) 548-1761
Catch it if you can!
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