Jerry Bryant will join November 3 Song & Story Swap

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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- November 2018

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Jerry Bryant will join Nov. 3 Song & Story Swap
Upcoming local shows


Jerry Bryant will join November 3 Song & Story Swap

Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley
Folklore Society Song & Story Swap on
Saturday, November 3, 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St.,
Amherst, Mass.

Guest performer at the November 3 Song & Story Swap will be singer and song
collector, Jerry Bryant.

Jerry Bryant is a songwriter and balladeer with a special interest in the
music of sailors. He has been featured in the San Francisco National
Maritime Historic Park's sea music concert series, Mystic Seaport Museum's
annual Sea Music Festival, South Street Seaport in New York, and many
others. Jerry's composition, The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelsen has been
performed and recorded by several folk artists and is the title cut of his
first recording. His release, Roast Beef of Old England, is a collection of
traditional songs from the man-of-war days of the British Navy, and is a
companion to the seafaring novels of Patrick O'Brian.

Jerry has explored and interpreted folk song for most of his life. He
delights in finding forgotten songs and breathing new life into them,
finding it remarkable how fresh and vigorous a 200-year-old song can be when
presented with artistry and enthusiasm. Modern compositions, too, form a
significant part of his repertoire, especially those that tell a story.

Jerry Bryant regards the highest and best use of a song to be as a vehicle
for making music together, with everyone joining in on chorus and refrain.

For the November Song & Story Swap, he invites the audience to join him for
a set of some of his favorites of the past two centuries and to share
personal favorites with a group of fellow song lovers.

Find out more about Jerry Bryant at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bryant_(songwriter).

The theme this month is History.


Upcoming local shows

11/1 - Pat & Tex LaMountain, A Beautiful Future. Hawks & Reed Performing
Arts Center, 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA. 7:00pm.
11/2 - Alice Howe and Freebo. First Fridays @Coho. Pioneer Valley Cohousing,
120 Pulpit Hill Rd., Amherst, MA. 7:30pm.
11/9 - Eva Capelli, Bob Chabot, Orlen & Gabriel. Acoustic Night. Northampton
UU, 220 Main St, Northampton, MA. 7:00pm.
11/17 - Ben Tousley and Paul Kaplan. Mount Toby Concerts. Mount Toby Friends
Meeting House, 194 Long Plain Rd., Leverett, MA. 7:30pm. Info: 413-336-2589.
11/18 - Gordon Kramer. House Concert. 41 Briar Hill Rd., Williamsburg, MA.
3:00pm.