Performer and teaching artist Dave Ruch will be giving a special concert of rare regional folksongs this Thursday evening at the Andes Public Library in Andes NY.
DATE: Thursday, November 2, 2006
TIME: 6:30-7:30pm
LOCATION: Andes Public Library, 242 Main Street, Andes NY 13731
PHONE: 845-676-3333 for directions
ADMISSION: Free
PERFORMER WEBSITE: www.daveruch.com Dave Ruch is a dedicated performer, interpreter and collector of traditional New York State (and regional American) songs. In his very special concert programs, Dave presents, and tells the stories behind, the songs of real people from days gone by - - farmers, lumbermen, children, immigrants, native americans, canallers, hops pickers, lake sailors and more - - songs from the people who settled and built our region.Dave is also a strong instrumentalist who was for many years a highly sought-after instructor of guitar and mandolin in the Buffalo NY area. He has taught hundreds of beginning through advanced music students, and has performed with numerous regionally- and nationally-known folk, rock and bluegrass artists."Fierce mandolin picker, and hero of the tour" -Carol A. Wade, Duprees Diamond News Magazine, Northhampton MA "It was great hearing your show. Very nice performance!" -Lynn Arthur Koch, Author, "Folk Songs of Upstate New York"
Dave Ruch has researched regional folklore and song traditions at Cornell University and the New York State Historical Association, and using materials from Smithsonian Folkways, New York Folklore Society, Harold Thompson Folklore Archives, Ivan Walton Great Lakes folklore collection, Anne & Frank Warner collections, Stevens-Douglass manuscript, John & Alan Lomax archives, Buffalo & Erie County Library's Grosvenor Room, Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, Shoemaker Pennsylvania resources, Eddy Ballads of Ohio collection, Anne Grimes, Library of Congress, Edith Fowke & Helen Creighton Canadian collections and more.This is program is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities program. More information here: http://www.nyhumanities.org/speakers/lectures/lecture.php?lecture_id=1179
Video
Just watched a video of my performance at the Heritage Concert in Saugerties this September. On the whole I liked it, but was struck at how much I reminded myself of my brother Richard. Thanks to Ernie Morduzans for taping it.
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Ed Pell has offerred to video the Kirtan (Hindu chant) next Monday, November 6th at Namaste Yoga in Woodstock. It should be a wonderful evening. Marty Klein will be accompanying me on tabla and I'm hoping to see a lot of old and new friends there. It runs from 5:30 to 7:00 and is free.
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Ed Pell has offerred to video the Kirtan (Hindu chant) next Monday, November 6th at Namaste Yoga in Woodstock. It should be a wonderful evening. Marty Klein will be accompanying me on tabla and I'm hoping to see a lot of old and new friends there. It runs from 5:30 to 7:00 and is free.
Fw: [RickNestlerInfo] Digest Number 29
Sat Nov 18, 2006
2:00pm Rick Nestler
Warwick Valley Winery & Orchards
114 Little York Road
Warwick, NY
For directions call: (845)258-4858
email: wvwinery@warwick.net
website: www.wvwinery.com
Rich Bala
Just a note to let all of you in the greater Poughkeepsie area know that Rich Bala's 2 solo recordings,
Hudson Valley Traditions and Home for the Harvest are now available at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Rt. 9 in Poughkeepsie! They are located in the folk music section (duh!) with his very own divider that says "Regional Artist - Rich Bala", which is right behind Joan Baez's CD's. For directions and more info, their phone number is 845-485-2224.
Hudson Valley Traditions and Home for the Harvest are now available at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Rt. 9 in Poughkeepsie! They are located in the folk music section (duh!) with his very own divider that says "Regional Artist - Rich Bala", which is right behind Joan Baez's CD's. For directions and more info, their phone number is 845-485-2224.
Cycles
It's funny how my music seems to go in cycles. The past month was Animal Songs month with several gigs at zoos and animal sanctuary's. Now for the next two weeks I'm working on the Hindustani violin and the harmonium for a Kirtan in Woodstock 11/6. Then it will be Christmas songs - I'm almost too late this year to start rehearsing for the Christmas season! No Celtic New Year gigs this Halloween. (sob!).
I've been lucky lately to have my 15 year old son as "roady", hauling the big speakers and amplifiers. My back has been very grateful!
I've been lucky lately to have my 15 year old son as "roady", hauling the big speakers and amplifiers. My back has been very grateful!
A Message from Pete Seeger
Protest music has been around for thousands of years. It just leaks out every so often and helps make history.
A group of young people and not-so-young people have gotten together to sing one of my songs that I wrote around 1965 about the Vietnam War. And they've done what I did a few years ago; they're singing it about the situation in Iraq. "Bring 'em Home!"
You can watch them singing and share it with your friends right here: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
What they are saying is we need to send the politicians a message in a language they understand: election day votes. Here in New York, voting on the Working Families line is the best way to tell the politicians, bring them home, bring them home.
We're in a very dangerous situation. The problems in the Middle East are not going away — they're getting worse. Churchill said, anybody who thinks, when they get into a war, that they know what's going to happen, is fooling themselves. With all the power that the American military establishment has, they still cannot predict all the things that are going to happen.
To quote Martin Luther King, the weakness of violence is that it always creates more violence. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
That's the message at the end of the song, "the world needs teachers, books and schools . . . And learning a few universal rules." I'm glad they left that verse in.
Watch the video and then pass it on: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
There's a saying from William James a young friend painted on my barn. It goes: "I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for all those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual . . . like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
Apply this to the current situation: Take this email and forward it to your friends and family. Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
We need to spread this message. Back in the sixties, I'd go from college to college to college singing songs. That's how folk songs were shared. Sure, some person who thought it was an unpatriotic song might boo, but a few seconds later he'd be drowned out by a few thousands voices who started cheering enthusiastically. Made the poor guy start thinking.
Change comes through small organizations. You divide up the jobs: Some people sing bass, some sing soprano. Some copy the sheet music, others drive and pick up those who ride the subway. You take small steps. They all add up.
Take a small step today. Here's your part: Tell your family and your friends about what we can do to send a message to the politicians to bring our troops home. And then vote on election day.
The very worst thing is for people to say: "My vote doesn't count. So why bother to vote at all?" Our votes do count. And if we vote to bring the troops home, they count even more.
Let's bring them home: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
In solidarity,
Pete Seeger
Watch the VideoYou can send a message to the politicians to bring the troops home from Iraq. Take action and spread the word.
A group of young people and not-so-young people have gotten together to sing one of my songs that I wrote around 1965 about the Vietnam War. And they've done what I did a few years ago; they're singing it about the situation in Iraq. "Bring 'em Home!"
You can watch them singing and share it with your friends right here: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
What they are saying is we need to send the politicians a message in a language they understand: election day votes. Here in New York, voting on the Working Families line is the best way to tell the politicians, bring them home, bring them home.
We're in a very dangerous situation. The problems in the Middle East are not going away — they're getting worse. Churchill said, anybody who thinks, when they get into a war, that they know what's going to happen, is fooling themselves. With all the power that the American military establishment has, they still cannot predict all the things that are going to happen.
To quote Martin Luther King, the weakness of violence is that it always creates more violence. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
That's the message at the end of the song, "the world needs teachers, books and schools . . . And learning a few universal rules." I'm glad they left that verse in.
Watch the video and then pass it on: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
There's a saying from William James a young friend painted on my barn. It goes: "I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for all those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual . . . like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
Apply this to the current situation: Take this email and forward it to your friends and family. Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
We need to spread this message. Back in the sixties, I'd go from college to college to college singing songs. That's how folk songs were shared. Sure, some person who thought it was an unpatriotic song might boo, but a few seconds later he'd be drowned out by a few thousands voices who started cheering enthusiastically. Made the poor guy start thinking.
Change comes through small organizations. You divide up the jobs: Some people sing bass, some sing soprano. Some copy the sheet music, others drive and pick up those who ride the subway. You take small steps. They all add up.
Take a small step today. Here's your part: Tell your family and your friends about what we can do to send a message to the politicians to bring our troops home. And then vote on election day.
The very worst thing is for people to say: "My vote doesn't count. So why bother to vote at all?" Our votes do count. And if we vote to bring the troops home, they count even more.
Let's bring them home: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/bringthemhome/
In solidarity,
Pete Seeger
Watch the VideoYou can send a message to the politicians to bring the troops home from Iraq. Take action and spread the word.
Henry Baccus - the Saugerties Bard
Rich Bala and I are working on the songs of the 19th Century songwriter, Henry Backus, who was called "The Saugerties Bard". If anyone has any information to pass along on the subject, please do so. Concert is set for Sunday afternoon at 3:00 on 4/29/07 at the Dutch Arms Chapel in Saugerties.
Bluestone and Old Friends
A wonderful time yesterday at the Kingston Bluestone Festival on the Strand. Good friends Dr. Romo (accordion and fiddle), Jim Donnelly (guitar and vocals) and Irish tenor Warren Kelder all showed up and played music. Also on hand was Steven James'es Old Tyme String Band, Danile Woerners' Voices for Peace, Adam Snyder and a banjo blayer from Palenville named Kit. The weather was great, the people were friendly and we all had fun (:>) trying to play along in time to the hammers on the bluestone.
The ego problem in this business is a constant battle. One minute everyone loves you, the next you can't get a gig. I had one of the biggest ego boosters of my life at the festival. At the very end, when we were packing up, one of the bluestone workers came up to me and said "Hey, you didn't sing "Dirty Little Town!" It took me a minute to figure out what song he was talking about. At first I thought it was the Irish song "Dirty Old Town" - "I left my love by the gas yard wall, dreamed a dream by the old canal..." But after a few questions I realized he was talking about "Kingston is a Dirty Old Town, streets roll up when the sun goes down", which is a song I've been singing for 30 years. It was a Woody Guthrie song about Pitsburgh that I had heard done in Greenwich Village 40 years ago by a great guitar picker that I don't remember. It's a real picker's song, but as far as I know I'm the only one who sings it about Kingston. The bluestone worker said that he and the people at the bluestone company sing it while they're working all the time. I don't think I've ever received a better compliment!
And of course I have to do the song next year.
(Complete words are at Song Lyrics link on the right hand side of this page)
The ego problem in this business is a constant battle. One minute everyone loves you, the next you can't get a gig. I had one of the biggest ego boosters of my life at the festival. At the very end, when we were packing up, one of the bluestone workers came up to me and said "Hey, you didn't sing "Dirty Little Town!" It took me a minute to figure out what song he was talking about. At first I thought it was the Irish song "Dirty Old Town" - "I left my love by the gas yard wall, dreamed a dream by the old canal..." But after a few questions I realized he was talking about "Kingston is a Dirty Old Town, streets roll up when the sun goes down", which is a song I've been singing for 30 years. It was a Woody Guthrie song about Pitsburgh that I had heard done in Greenwich Village 40 years ago by a great guitar picker that I don't remember. It's a real picker's song, but as far as I know I'm the only one who sings it about Kingston. The bluestone worker said that he and the people at the bluestone company sing it while they're working all the time. I don't think I've ever received a better compliment!
And of course I have to do the song next year.
(Complete words are at Song Lyrics link on the right hand side of this page)
Mark Rust - Prairie Home Companion
Mark Rust appearances in your region!
Mark Rust will be in New York City this week performing several shows to promote the DVD release of the film 'A Prairie Home Companion' with Robin Greenstein & Barry Wiesenfeld. Some of the information is still approximate. If you'd like more specific info, send me an email.
è Tuesday, October 10th, 11am-2pm
'Shake Shack', Madison Square Park (23rd & 5th)
è Thursday, October 12th, sometime between 7am-12:30pm
Grand Central Station
è Friday, October 13th, sometime between 2:30pm-6pm
'Museum Mile'
Yours,
Mark Rust
Mark Rust
PO Box 551, Woodstock, NY, 12498
markrust@markrust.com
markrust@markrust.com
Links of Interest
I've updated the "Links of Interest Site". I added a FUN section and another section for Luthiers and instrument repair people. The link is on the right of this page.
Heritage Concerts
There has been such a great reaction from the Heritage Concert that we are planning two next year. Rich Bala will do one in the spring and Kevin and Carol Becker will do one next fall. More details to follow of course.
Folk Festivals in Kingston on Saturday!
OK, I won't be part of the big folk festival in Cornell Park this weekend -10/8/06. It's sponsored by the Mezzanine Cafe and will have a lot of good name acts.
I will be part of the Bluestone Festival a few blocks away at TR Gallo Park down at the Strand. It runs from 12-5. I open the show at noon as usual! Jim Donnelly and a bunch of other musical groups should be there. Both festivals are free, so people will be able to wander from one to the other.
Bob
I will be part of the Bluestone Festival a few blocks away at TR Gallo Park down at the Strand. It runs from 12-5. I open the show at noon as usual! Jim Donnelly and a bunch of other musical groups should be there. Both festivals are free, so people will be able to wander from one to the other.
Bob
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