Singer Annie Patterson will join November 5 Song & Story Swap

[Jeff Lee]

Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings -- November 2011

Singer Annie Patterson will join November 5 Song & Story Swap

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

Saturday, November 5 , 7:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St.,
Amherst, Mass (see map).

Guest performer for the November 5 Song & Story Swap will be professional
singer and musical educator Annie Patterson.

Annie Patterson has performed as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses, clubs
and folk festivals. She has been a jazz vocalist and performed for twenty
years with the swing bands Big Nite Out and Girls from Mars, and is on three
swing recordings by these bands. She currently substitutes as a vocalist
with the Northampton based swing band, The O-Tones.

Annie and her husband Peter Blood have gained widespread recognition as
compilers of the folk music master collection, Rise Up Singing, which has
sold over a million copies since it was first published in 1988. Annie is
producer and chief vocalist for the series of teaching recordings that
accompany the songbook. She plays the acoustic guitar, old-timey banjo, the
djimbe and mandolin.

The November 5 event will celebrate the release of a new CD by Annie
Patterson called Mountain Side, which contains her rendition of 13 of her
favorite songs from "Rise Up Singing."

Learn more about Annie Patterson at http://www.quakersong.org/annie/ .

The theme this month is Rebellion.

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.