Spring and Summer 2004 Series
Concerts are listed with the most recent at the top. Follow the links to
visit the web sites of the performers or the organizations their concerts supported.
Special
Summer Concert
Special
Day: Sunday,
June 27
David Roth
Special time: 7:00 pm
Since emerging from another nationwide field of several hundred songwriters
to open the 1987 Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival as it’s New Folk Winner, Chicago
native (and two-time national anthem singer for the NBA’s Michael Jordan-era
Bulls) David Roth has garnered accolades for his performances, workshops,
writing, and recordings. In addition to performing at music festivals, concert
halls, clubs, and other venues, David leads singing, songwriting, and
performance workshops at many music camps around the country (he was
artist-in-residence for several years at New York’s Omega Institute, one of the
country’s leading adult education centers). David’s one-man play “The Gripes of
Roth” premiered in 1994 at the Nomad Theater in Boulder, CO.
May 21, 2004 (3rd Friday of the month)
Rachel Bissex (Burlington,
VT) and Stephanie Corby (Austin, TX)
benefiting Hospice Austin
Rachel Bissex
loves playing and singing, and has had the honor of
performing at many great concert halls, church basements, coffee shops and
festivals. She's opened for many fab famous people like Ray Charles, Joan
Armatrading, Shawn Colvin, and many more. Her pals over the years include Catie
Curtis, Rick Kolow, Dar Williams, Karen Savoca, and many more who she's shared
the stage with, singing harmony and grooving on their great vibes. Rachel's
poise on stage and ease with her audience have made her a favorite at
coffeehouses and at folk concerts from Miami to Vermont. Her stage patter is
full of wit and humor, and the content of her songs is sometimes political,
sometimes personal, usually powerful.
Stephanie Corby (right)
possesses a rich, powerful voice that transcends the borders of musical style.
This soulful songstress has successfully fused her classical, jazz and blues
backgrounds into a distinct R&B-flavored acoustic sound. Singer/Songwriter
Ellis Paul says the following about Stephanie's voice: "she has the kind of
voice that makes the waters part; loud sweet and soulful…..she could have
saved Moses a lot of trouble."
Terri
Allard has an extraordinary talent for capturing the human spirit in her
songs. With power-packed vocals and infectious energy she has the uncanny
ability of moving her audiences to pin-drop silence. The Virginia based
singer-songwriter has taken her rootsy blend of folk, country, and acoustic pop
to countless clubs, coffeehouses and festivals throughout the U.S. She has been
a finalist at many folk festivals, including Kerrville. Makes No Sense,
Terri's fourth recording, was produced by Bruce Hornby sideman, Bobby Read. The
CD is a collection of Terri's country-folk originals, including Anna Carolyn,
written with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Rootsy instrumentation and tight harmonies
tastefully support Terri's signature smoky alto on songs about love, hope, good
times, and sadness. (adapted from website)
Environmental
engineer-turned-songwriter Andrew McKnight is a high energy crowd pleaser
for audiences nationwide, from intimate unplugged house concerts to large stages
such as the New Artist showcases at the Falcon Ridge Folk, Kerrville Folk and
Napa Valley Music Festivals. Equal parts Shenandoah Valley storyteller and poet
blended with the ever-present passions of the historian, geographer and
naturalist, his rurally-based music reflects an oral history built on the past
while firmly musically rooted in the present; "blends wry and romantic
stories with keen tuneful observations in a delicious mix of folk, blues and
bluegrass... a man not to be missed!" (The National Theatre). Andrew frames
his stories and observations in a diverse southern " 'mountain gumbo' brand
of music that mixes folk, blues and bluegrass in one appealing and energetic
sound" (Norwich Bulletin). (from his website)
March 12, 2004 (2nd Friday of the month)
Sarah Pierce and the Healers
(Austin, TX)
opener Steve Hopkins (Austin, TX)
benefiting Amigos de las Americas
Sarah
Pierce was born in Rockford, Illinois and raised in rural Texas and
Colorado. She has a wonderfully unique sound. Her music is a blend of both old
and new world sensibilities. The Los Angeles Times stated, “Sarah
Pierce seems a likely candidate for contemporary music fame.” On her new
release, "Love's The Only Way," Sarah takes a step closer to that
reality. With each song, her lyrics daze with elegant poetry that carries
the listener over wide musical vistas on each soul-bearing turn of her
incomparable voice. (from her website)
Purveyor of eclectic, eccentric acoustic, Steve Hopkins' decidedly
unique view of the world has produced some of the most original music on the
contemporary folk scene. His latest CD, Just Another Day in Paradox, is proof.
Anyone who sings "I'm gonna leave my body to science... fiction" is most
assuredly looking at the world through skewed lenses. Alternately sensitive &
bawdy, Steve mixes humor and social awareness, whimsy and romanticism...all with
passion towards his ultimate goal: FUN ... for him & his audience.
Help "send the kids to camp" again this year - $10 donation at the
door, season passes WILL be honored, because this is replacing a regular
coffeehouse that had to be postponed. Most proceeds will be used to help pay
musicians' expenses associated with attending the annual Folk Alliance
conference in sunny San Diego, California. The rest will go to the charity
listed. Participating artists, most of whom have graced the Live Oak stage in
the past, and all of whom are incredibly talented and fun, include:
