Singer-songwriter Carrie Ferguson will join February 4 Song & Story Swap
Jeff Lee
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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- February 2012
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Singer-songwriter Carrie Ferguson will join February 4 Song & Story Swap
John Roberts and Debra Cowan will play Ashfield on Feb. 10
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Singer-Songwriter Carrie Ferguson will join February 4 Song & Story Swap
Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley
Folklore Society Song & Story Swap.
Saturday, February 4, 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St.,
Amherst, Mass (see map).
Guest performer for the January 7 Song & Story Swap will be
singer-songwriter Carrie Ferguson.
Carrie Ferguson grew up in Arcata on the North Coast of California playing
an enormous, third-hand, upright piano. She credits the stubborn and
sonorous voice of her childhood instrument, combined with the perpetual fog
and exhilarating clamminess of coastal Northern California, as instilling in
her the baseline aesthetic of melancholic optimism that still permeates her
words and music today.
Carrie started performing her songs in 1990 and has been going non-stop ever
since, performing either solo or with her band, The Cherry Street Band. She
has opened for Antje Duvekot, Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Heaton, and The Mammals,
and has shared festival bills with Melissa Ferrick, Catie Curtis, Toshi
Reagan, and The Stone Coyotes.
In 2010 Carrie celebrated the release of her first full-length solo CD,
"Riding On the Back of The Wind," with a sold out show at the Iron Horse
Music Hall. The recording is a catchy, exuberant collection of melodic story
pop bursting with Ferguson's trademark joyful melancholy and featuring
Pioneer Valley musicians Jim Henry on guitar, mandolin and dobro, J.J.
O'Connell on drums, Mark Schwaber on bass, and Emily Breines on violin.
Learn more about Carrie Ferguson at http://carriefergusonmusic.com.
The theme this month is Animals.
The Song & Story Swap is open to the public, free of charge with donations
accepted. People of all ages gather to share stories and songs that are
traditional, newly written, or of personal experiences. You can tell, sing,
or lead everyone in singing, or request a song or story. Listeners are
welcome.
For information contact Paul Kaplan, (413)-687-5002 or Jeff Lee,
(413)-256-0433 or visit http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.
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John Roberts and Debra Cowan will play Ashfield on Feb. 10
Two of traditional folk's finest interpreters, John Roberts and Debra Cowan,
will give a concert on February 10 at the Ashfield Community Hall, 521 Main
St., Ashfield, MA. The show begins at 7pm, and general admission is $15.
For more info contact Maude's Music at (413) 835-6956.