Folksinger-songwriter Lui Collins will join February 1 Song & Story Swap

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Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- February 2020

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- Lui Collins will join February 1 Song & Story Swap
- Upcoming local shows
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Lui Collins will perform at February 1 Song & Story Swap

Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley
Folklore Society Song & Story Swap.

Saturday, February 1, 7:00 p.m. at The Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst,
Mass.

The featured performer at the February 1 Song & Story Swap will be Lui
Collins.

Folksinger-songwriter Lui Collins has been performing, writing and recording
for over 40 years, her early Philo and Green Linnet recordings earning
international acclaim and establishing her as a respected voice in the folk
world. Lui has shared the stage with such notables as Pete Seeger, Bonnie
Raitt, Stan Rogers, Dar Williams, and John Gorka. Renowned guitarist Dave
van Ronk called her “one of the best guitarist-arrangers I have heard in
years.”

Along with creating playful 4-string arrangements of some favorite original
songs, Lui has been exploring the fabulous jazz chords in old American
standards and bossa nova on tenor ukulele. She also contributes to 3-part
vocal harmonies and plays ukulele, banjo, and piano with fiddler Donna
Hébert and guitarist Max Cohen in the band 3 Ravens. In October 2018 they
released The Infinite Dark, a collaborative recording with renowned author
and poet Jane Yolen.

Most recently, Lui can be heard with guitarist, Grammy-nominated producer
and longtime collaborator Anand Nayak accompanying her in a wide range of
styles and languages. Anand not only produced Lui's album "Closer," he
played on and co-produced all 8 of her Kids' Jam recordings. Their decade
plus of creative collaboration is evident in the fluid musical dialogue of
their live performance.

Lui Collins has been hailed by the Boston Herald as a "folksinger for our
times" and by the Boston Globe as "one of New England's first and brightest
stars."

Learn more about Lui Collins at http://luicollins.net.

This month's opening round theme is Language.

Looking ahead to next month, the Song & Story Swap guest for March 7 will be
multi-instrumentalist Matt Stamell and the opening round theme will be Crime
and Punishment.

The Song & Story Swap is held on the first Saturday of each month, excepting
July and August, and is jointly sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Folklore
Society and the Nacul Center. Visit the Folklore Society website at
http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.

The Song & Story Swap is open to the public, free of charge with donations
accepted ($5 - $10 is suggested). 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 visit
http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.

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