Mad Folk Concerts/Events: PAST events for 2009-2010
(For current/upcoming events, CLICK HERE)
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Sept. 19 & 20, 2009
(Sat/Sun)
800/900/1000 blocks of
Williamson Street
Madison, WI
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WILLY STREET FAIR!
Mad Folk will once again have a stage.
MAD FOLK STAGE:
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Oct. 1 (Thurs), 2009
7:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington Ave.
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$15 in advance
$17 day of show
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John Gorka
John's rich multi-faceted songs full of depth, beauty and emotion have gained attention from critics and audiences across the country, as well as in Europe where his tours have led him through Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland and Germany. His material is championed by many -- to date more than a score of artists have recorded and/or performed John Gorka songs, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mary Black and Maura O'Connell.
He has shared tours
with many notable friends -- Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin Carpenter among them. His energetic acoustic music is not a trend, not a fad, but an expression of everyday life.
"Scathing beauty...Gorka makes even the harshest observations beautiful."
- Dallas Morning News
 ** Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Oct. 23 (Fri), 2009
8:00 pm
Wil-Mar Center
953 Jenifer Street
Madison WI [MAP]
$15 in advance
$17 day of show
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Phil Ochs Song Night
Performers for this show will include:
** Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Nov. 7 (Sat), 2009
8:00 pm
Wil-Mar Center
953 Jenifer Street
Madison WI [MAP]
$14 in advance
$16 day of show
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Enoch Kent
Legendary Scottish-Canadian Songsmith
Canadian Folk Music Award winner
Traditional Singer of the Year
OCFF Songs From the Heart Award winner
Enoch's collections of songs include such original gems as the "The Farm Auction," (recorded by Garnet Rogers, The McCalmans, Jean Redpath and others), "No More Cod On The Banks," "The Widows O' War," "Edinburgh Maggie," and "I Didn't Raise My Son To Be A Soldier."
Enoch's music is treasured by both traditional and contemporary music enthusiasts with a passion for story-songs, love and betrayal ballads, and gritty politics. While his songs are deeply rooted in the Scottish style, much of his subject matter is Canadian, giving his music a unique cultural blend. What's more is Enoch's natural storytelling style complemented by a ferocious wit and kitchen range warmth.
Opener: Tom Kastle
Tom Kastle has spent over two decades "on the road" and "on the water"
as a singer, tall ship sailor and captain, songwriter, and teller of
tales, both personal and those steeped in tradition. As half of the
maritime folk duo Tom & Chris Kastle, he toured throughout the
United States as well as Ireland, Scotland, Poland, the Netherlands, and NewZealand delighting audiences and producing 11 recordings plus a soundtrack for PBS (WTTW Chicago). After taking most of a year off to captain a tall ship in South Haven, MI, Tom has relocated to Madison, WI.
** Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Enoch Kent
Opener:
Tom Kastle
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Nov. 20 (Fri), 2009
(Board meeting at 5:30p)
6:30 pm Annual Meeting
Brink Lounge
(near the coffee bar)
701 E. Washington Ave.
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
No fee for meeting, and it will be done in time for those of you who have tickets to see Carrie Newcomer to get to the show (not a Mad Folk event but held at same location as the meeting)
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MAD FOLK ANNUAL MEETING! "Short and sweet" this year!
5:30 Board meeting followed by ANNUAL MEETING, 6:30 to 7:00 pm
Join MadFolk members on Friday November 20th! We will be meeting at 5:30 for our standard board meetin, then at 6:30 we will have our annual
meeting where we will be electing our board of directors for the next
year and will answer any questions you may have about The Madison
Folk Music Society.
We will also be announcing the winners of this
years scholarships, which will officially delivered to the winners at our January
concert.
We will meet at The Brink Lounge, near the coffee bar. We
plan to be done at 7:00 so that those of you who have tickets to see
Carrie Newcomer in the nightclub that evening (7:30 show time) may then have time to get your seats before the show. Carrie's show will be a benefit for Habitat for Humanity - see http://carrienewcomerspumc.eventbrite.com/ for full details. (Note: Mad Folk is not the promoter for Carrie's performance Nov. 20, but we still encourage you to attend! See also www.thebrinklounge.com for more details.)
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Carrie Newcomer
November 20
Benefit concert for
Habitat for Humanity
[ticket info]
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Jan. 10 (Sun), 2010
7:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington Ave.
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$15 in advance
$17 day of show
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GARNET ROGERS - A Mad Folk favorite!
Barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full- time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American folk music. Since that time, Garnet Rogers has established himself as "One of the major talents of our time."
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Opening this show: SONiA
SONiA is one of the most dynamic performers in music today, she performs energetic, conscience-driven music. Solo or with her band disappear fear, she delivers powerful songs that challenge injustice, performed with passion and hope. Touring 180 concerts annually across America mostly and in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel; SONiA sings and composes in English, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. She has shared the stage with Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Idan Raichel, Roy Bittan, Jewel, Peter Paul and Mary, Bob Schneider, Chris Thiele, Guy Davis and many more.
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Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Garnet Rogers
(headliner)
SONiA
(iopener)
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Jan. 16 (Sat), 2010
8:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington Ave.
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$14 in advance
$16 day of show
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Bryan Bowers
For nearly three decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression and professionalism. From his rather unglamorous beginning as a street singer, Bryan Bowers has become a major artist on the traditional music circuit. Bryan has a dynamic outgoing personality and an uncanny ability to enchant a crowd in practically any situation. His towering six foot four inch frame can be wild and zany on stage while playing a song like `Dixie' and five minutes later he can have the same audience singing `Will The Circle Be Unbroken' in quiet reverence and delight.
"Bowers is widely regarded as the leading virtuoso on the autoharp... Bowers also has distinct gifts as a singer and songwriter."
- People Magazine
Opening this show: Isaac Stafstrom - Past winner of a Mad Folk Scholarship!
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Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Feb. 26 (Fri), 2010
8:00 pm
First United
Methodist Church
(in the Fellowship Hall)
203 Wisconsin
Ave
Madison, WI 53703
[MAP]
$14 in advance
$16 day of show
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James Keelaghan
Called Canada’s finest singer-songwriter by one of
the most respected music journalists of the last 50 years, James
Keelaghan is an artist who has proven to be a man for all seasons. For almost a quarter of a century now,
this poet laureate of the folk and roots music world has gone about his
work with a combination of passion, curiosity intent and intensity. His
masterful story telling has been
part of the bedrock of his success, earning Keelaghan nominations and
awards - including a Juno (Canada's Grammy) - and acclaim
from Australia to Scandinavia.
Possessed of an insatiable
appetite for finding the next unique story line, Keelaghan forges his
pieces with brilliant craftsmanship and monogrammed artistic vision,
making him one of the most distinctive and readily identifiable voices
on both the Canadian and international singer-songwriter scenes. His songbook has enlightened, enthralled, and been embraced, by audiences around the world.
Opening this show: Michael Bryant & Tracy Jane Comer
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Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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James Keelaghan
Michael Bryant
w/ Tracy Jane Comer
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Mar. 6 (Sat), 2010
8:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington Ave.
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$15 in advance
$17 day of show
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Bill Staines
"Any new song that can live comfortably
beside the well-worn songs of folk tradition has a good chance of
surviving the test of time. Such, we believe, are the songs of Bill
Staines."
- Charles "Sandy" Paton, Folk Legacy Records
For over thirty five years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular singers on the folk music circuit today and averages around 200 concert dates a year. Bill weaves a magical blend of wit and gentle humor into his performances, and as one
reviewer wrote, "he has
a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic." His music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
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Don't forget - Non-perishable donations of food are collected for local food banks at all Mad Folk shows!
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Bill Staines
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Mar. 26 (Fri), 2010
8:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$16 in advance
$18 day of show
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PEGGY SEEGER, member of the North American musical Seeger family, is a singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and an activist songmaker. Considered to be one of N. America's finest revival singers of traditional songs, Peggy has also written music for films, television and radio. She has collaborated on books of folksongs with Edith Fowke, Alan Lomax and Ewan MacColl. She has made 22 solo LPs and collaborated with other performers (Tom Paley, Mike Seeger, Guy Carawan, Ewan MacColl) on more records than she can remember. In the mid-1970s she began to concentrate on feminist and ecological issues. Peggy plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. She now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and tours regularly worldwide. [MORE...]
"For me, the Peggy Seeger concert was a trip to the past -- so many coffee houses, hootenannies, and sing-alongs in the '50s and '60s, so much outrage, so much hope, so many dreams. It was a reminder of our heritage of ballads and story songs -- of our country and its roots in the Old World."
- Lucy V. Parker
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Peggy Seeger
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Apr. 8 (Thur), 2010
7:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$15 in advance
$17 day of show
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Jack Williams, a South Carolina-born artist, is celebrated by the contemporary U.S. folk community as a singer/songwriter of national stature and an uncommonly unique guitarist whom Sing Out! Magazine describes as "one of the strongest guitarists in contemporary folk." A featured performer on the Philadelphia and Kerrville main stages, Jack has also appeared on the Newport, (New Bedford) Summerfest and Boston Folk Festival stages. In addition to his successful solo career, Jack's credits include guitar work with legendary singer/songwriters Mickey Newbury, Harry Nilsson, Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, and Steve Gillette, among others. [MORE...]
"If there is anyone not familiar with Jack's incredible songwriting and prodigious performance skills, my sympathies to you. A Jack Williams show is a slam-dunk win-win-win for all. One of the most enlightened and entertaining performers I've ever encountered."
- Dave Humpreys, Two Way Street Coffeehouse in Downers Grove IL
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Most people know of Ronny Cox's acting
career, but not so many know of his life-long love and dedication to
music. These days, Ronny spends about half of his time acting and the other half as a singer/songwriter performing at
folk festivals, concert venues and small intimate theatres. [MORE...]
"...[Cox] played slithery corporate snakes in "RoboCop" and "Total Recall;" but as a singer-songwriter, he is a study in easygoing amiability and unforced charisma. He charms crowds with self-teasing humor, tart progressive insight, and a lulling Southwestern folk sound..."
- Scott Alarik, The Boston Globe
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Jack Williams
Ronny Cox
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April 20 (Tue), 2010
7:00 pm
Wil-Mar Center
953 Jenifer Street, Madison WI [MAP]
[Directions]
$14 in advance
$16 day of show
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Grammy-nominated Eliza is the daughter of legendary songwriter Terry Gilkyson and grew up in Los Angeles knowing that her life would revolve around music. "I got into it for all the wrong reasons, more as a survival tool than anything else, but it proved to serve me more than I dared to imagine." As a teenager, she recorded demos for her father, an accomplished songwriter whose songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Dean Martin, Johnny Cash ("Memories Are Made of This") and the White Stripes ("Look Me Over Closely"), and whose credits include such standards as "Green Fields," "Marianne" and "The Bare Necessities" (from the Disney film Jungle Book). [MORE...]
"...Stylistically adventurous...political in all the right ways..."
- Austin Chronicle
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Apr. 24 (Sat), 2010
8:00 pm
Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]
$14 in advance
$16 day of show
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Consider this list: Peter, Paul and Mary; David Wilcox; John McCutcheon; Sally Rogers; Lui Collins; Garnet Rogers; June Tabor. These well-known artists (and many more) all sing and record Bob's music. Seasoned veterans and novices alike are drawn to the complex, warm-hearted spirituality and captivatingly clear-cut melodies of Franke's songs. [MORE...]
"It's his integrity. I always think of Bob as if Emerson and Thoreau had picked up acoustic guitars and gotten into songwriting. There's touches of Mark Twain and Buddy Holly in there, too."
- Tom Paxton
 Opener: John Statz http://johnstatz.com/
At the young age of 25, John has already performed in 28 different states, as well as in 6 other countries, and his first album, Dusk Came Slow, won a Madison Area Music Award in 2007 for "Folk/Americana Album of the Year." Stay tuned, an intergalactic tour is right around the corner.
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Bob Franke
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