| Folk Under the Clock
Peterborough's Folk Concert Series presents the
23rd Season · 2008 - 2009
Join us in Peterborough for the best of folk, roots and world music in our twenty third season,
featuring the return of some of our favourite artists from the past decade.
We even go on the road to present Harry Manx in Port Hope.
Dougie Maclean (Scotland)
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough
Tickets $35
Available: Titles Bookstore & Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
Scotland’s favourite singer, songwriter and composer
returns to the Market Hall to launch the 2008-09
Folk Under the Clock season with one of his intimate and
crowd pleasing concerts.
Dougie Maclean has built
an international reputation
as a songwriter, composer
and extraordinary performer.
His recent appearances have
included Culzean Castle
(alongside Lou Reed and
Eddie Reader); Glasgow Royal
Concert Hall (the Premiere
of his Rural Image: a SongVision Symphony); and BBC
“Proms in the Park.”
His songs have been covered by a host of major artists,
including Mary Black, Dolores Keane and Grammy award
winning U.S. country singer Kathy Mattea.
Maclean’s song “Caledonia” has topped the Scottish
charts, and become one of Scotland’s most popular contemporary
songs.
His music has been used in Hollywood films (e.g. Last
of the Mohicans), TV drama (BBC’s A Mug’s Game) and he
has been the subject of three BBC TV specials (The Land-
Songs of Dougie Maclean, Songroads and Clann na Mara
(Children of the Sea).
Harry Manx
Friday, October 17, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Capitol Theatre, Port Hope
Tickets $35
Available: Capitol Theatre, Port Hope.
Harry Manx fans gave him four sold out nights at the
2008 Montreal Jazz Festival. Such is the popularity
of this “Mysticssippi” blues man, who has been called an
essential link between the
music of east and west, spinning
musical stories that wed
the blues with classical Indian
ragas. Harry is a prolific artist,
with eight albums in seven
years. His 2007 collaboration
with Kevin Breit, In Good We
Trust, won two Maple Blues
Awards, for Songwriter of
the Year and Acoustic Act of the Year. His latest album,
Harry Manx & Friends Live at The Glenn Gould Studio, was
released in March, to wide acclaim. His concerts are thrilling.
This concert at the unique Capitol Theatre in Port
Hope will be another “Harry Zone” experience!
Arlo Guthrie (USA)
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Showplace Performance Centre, Peterborough
Tickets $47
Available: Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
Arlo Guthrie is back (after a sold-out solo show last
year) with his new Lost World tour, which features his
son Abe, and The Burns Sisters. For four decades, Arlo has
toured worldwide, winning a
broad and dedicated following.
In addition to being an
accomplished musician — he
plays piano, 6- and 12-string
guitar, harmonica and a
dozen other instruments —
Arlo is a natural born (son of
Woody Guthrie) storyteller
whose hilarious tales and
anecdotes are woven seamlessly into his shows. Arlo’s
first release of new songs in 12 years, Lost World, will hit
the streets in October. “I’ve been waiting to make this
record for many years” Arlo says, “It is based on an old
story my father used to tell…”
An Irish Christmas with Danú
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Showplace Performance Centre, Peterborough
Tickets $43
Available: Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
Danú returns for a very special Irish Christmas Tour,
marking the release of their new album An Irish
Christmas with Danú. Their last performance here, in
2005, was for the 20th
Anniversary concert of Folk
Under The Clock — and
what a concert!
Based in County
Waterford, Ireland, Danú
has toured the world bringing
a unique energy and
passion to the concert
stage. Their wild spontaneity
and breathtaking musical power have made them
one of the most sought out touring bands to emerge
from Ireland in the past decade. Danú will be accompanied
by an Irish dancer to add to the festivities.
“The finest Traditional band in Ireland” – Irish Herald.
David Francey
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough
Tickets $25 advance / $30 door
Available: Moondance, Titles Bookstore & Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
We are very pleased to present David again at the
Hall. He was recently awarded his third Juno
(Roots & Traditional solo) for his superb album Right of
Passage. His list of achievements
and fans keeps
growing. David recently
won the USA Songwriting
Competition, Golden Quill
Award, and was voted one
of the top 100 folk artists of
the past 25 years by WUMB
Boston. His song “Skating
Rink” is the official theme
song for the yearly Hockey Day in Canada. (He also plays
goal for the Juno cup team). David will be accompanied
by Craig Werth (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin and vocals).
“One of Canada’s best loved troubadours.” - Toronto Star
Dala
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough
Tickets $25 advance / $30 door
Available: Moondance, Titles Bookstore & Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
The talk of Canada’s folk festivals this year, Dala had
the highest CD sales at the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival.
Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther are impressing
audiences across Canada.
They recently opened
for Matthew Good, Tom
Cochrane and were featured
on Stuart McLean's Vinyl
Café Tour. Dala released
their second album, Who Do
You Think You Are, in 2007,
and recorded Neil Young’s
“Ohio” for a tribute album
called Borrowed Tunes II. With vocal harmonies to give
you the chills, the girls also play guitar and piano, and
have an energetic and charming stage presence.
BRUCE COCKBURN
SLICE O LIFE Tour (Solo)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Showplace, Peterborough
Tickets $39 inc. at Showplace Box Office
Available: Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
Over 35 years, the Ottawa-born musician has recorded almost as many albums while earning respect for his charitable and activist work. “My job is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper, in the pulling of notes out of metal”. Cockburn said when he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was also made an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been the recipient of honorary degrees in Letters and Music from several North American universities including Berklee and Toronto’s York University. His many other awards have included the Tenco Award for Lifetime Achievement in Italy and 20 gold and platinum awards and 11 Junos in Canada.
The best live albums create the illusion of being there, witness an artist in a memorable performance. Bruce Cockburn has recorded three previous live recordings: Circles in the Stream (1977), Live (1990) and You PayYourMoney and you Take your Chance (1997), each critically acclaimed and featuring Cockburn in concert with a backing band. Now the celebrated musician-activist delivers something new: his first ever live solo album, SLICE O LIFE, set for release in Canada on March 31, 2009.
Recorded last spring over a series of dates in the northeastern United States and one in Quebec, Slice O Life is a double CD that showcases a cross-section of Cockburn’s finest songs and some of his dazzling guitar work. The album, produced by longtime associate Colin Linden, also includes one new song, The City is Hungry, three tracks recorded at sound checks on the tour and some between-song banter that show Cockburn to have both a quick wit and an engaging storyteller.
Slice O life features such hits as Cockburn’s controversial, If I had a Rocket Launcher, his classic Lovers in a Dangerous Time and his breakthrough Wondering Where The Lions Are which he rightly quips may be the only song ever to make the Billboard chart that includes the word “petroglyph”. Originally recorded with a full band, these and other songs like World of Wonders have been rearranged and performed on acoustic guitar-often with stunning results. In particular, the polyrhythmic solo on Rocket Launcher,full of complex, cascading notes is especially mesmerizing.
Cockburn has often cited the influence of the blues on his music especially the work of country-blues pioneers like Mississippi John Hurt. The blues tinge shines through in several other performances on Slice O Life, including Cockburn’s gut-wrenching rendition of Blind Willie Johnson’s Soul of a Man. The City is Hungry, an hypnotic urban blues number in which Cockburn warns “ hear that rumbling underground/better think twice before you go downtown”.
Meanwhile, the sound checks and introductions to songs reveal another side of the award- winning artist. One sound check involves Cockburn jamming wildly on his 12 string guitar before segueing into The Trains Don’t Go There Anymore, a rare track he co-wrote in the 1960’s with Ottawa poet Bill Hawkins. Cockburn’s humour comes across in anecdotes about panhandlers who claim to know his music and a mercenary who once offered him a summer job as a gun-runner while he was student at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School of Music.
As a songwriter, Cockburn is revered by fans and musicians alike. His songs have been covered by such diverse artists as Elbow, Jimmy Buffet, Judy Collins, The Skydiggers, Anne Murray, Third World, Chet Atkins, k.d.Lang, Barenaked Ladies, Maria Muldair, and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. As a guitarist, he is considered among the world’s best. The New York Times called Cockburn a “virtuoso on guitar”, while Acoustic Guitar Magazine placed him in the esteemed company of Segovia, Bill Frisell and Django Reinhardt. With Slice O Life, Cockburn’s formidable gifts are on full display.
ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough
Tickets $30 advance / $35 door
Available: Moondance, Titles Bookstore & Showplace Box Office and online www.showplace.org
Scottish fiddle and cello music of unrivalled beauty,
eloquence, and passion. Master fiddler Alasdair
Fraser, one of Scotland’s premier musical ambassadors,
links bows with vibrant young cellist Natalie Haas, in an
exciting weave of rocking, reeling rhythms and poignant
melodies. This duo’s debut
CD, Fire and Grace, won
the 2004 Scots Traditional
Album of the Year award.
Alasdair’s film credits include
the soundtracks of Titanic,
The Last of the Mohicans and
Disney’s Treasure Planet.
Natalie is also a member
of American fiddler Mark
O’Connor’s Appalachian Waltz Trio.
“Fraser, one of the most respected of all exponents of
the Scots fiddle, would look long and hard to find a more
appropriate cellist as a partner.” - The Scotsman
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