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http://michiganfolklive.podcastpeople.com/posts/19321
Hi. I'm Steven Johnson from Michigan Folk Live. I'd like to welcome you to another MichiganFolkLive podcast. This is a series of podcasts presented by Michigan Folk Live, features both National touring acts and local Michigan Artists. With this podcast we are going focus primarily on artists who are touring Michigan in March 2008.
Michigan Folk Live Intro – Laura Bates and Brandon Foot Shenandoah
Misty Lyn and The Big Beautiful
Misty Lyn is a Ann Arbor Singer-Songwriter currently touring with her band “The Big Beautiful” . She is working on a new record titled ‘For The Dead” with famed producer Jim Roll that should be released any day now. She will be performing a send off concert with Chris Bathgate for their trip to South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on:
Mar 8 2008 10:00P
Elbow Room Ypsilanti, Michigan
Here is Misty Lyn singing “Rita Mae” recordd live at Mittenfest.
The Saw Doctors
This Irish band has been delighting fans on both sides of the Atlantic for twenty years. They are the Saw Doctors and they are now on a 9 city US tour that happily lands right here in Detroit at The Royal Oak Music Theater. Here are the Saw Doctors performing “Same Oul’ Town” from their most recent CD titled “Sing a Powerful Song”.
Mar 09 Royal Oaks, MI Music Theatre
http://sawdoctors.com/
Missy Raines and the New Hip
"The music? Think a jazzier Nickel Creek, or a (slightly) feistier Alison Brown."
-San Jose Mercury News
Missy Raines is a beloved figure in bluegrass and a pioneering force in acoustic music. She launched her career with experimental bluegrass outfit Cloud Valley. She has toured the country with Eddie and Martha Adcock and the Masters and Claire Lynch. Missy developed a duo with band mate Jim Hurst, which pushed the envelope on how much music two people with two acoustic instruments can make.
Missy Raines is now stepping out to make a longtime dream come true: creating a fusion of bluegrass virtuosity, jazz-tinged groove and a song-driven sensibility with a hot band, “The New Hip”.
Missy is a seven time International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year
Mar 29 2008 8:00P The Ten Pound Fiddle Lansing, Michigan
Here is Missy Raines and :The New Hip” performing “Fingernail Moon”.
http://www.missyraines.com/
http://www.myspace.com/missyrainesandthenewhip
Drew Nelson
Drew Nelson is a wonderful performer and songwriter from Grand Rapids. He will be performing with Jim Bizer at the Ark in Ann Arbor on March 18th at 8:00 pm.
Here is performing a song about his hometown, “Wealthy Street”. It’s from his 2005 release “Immigrant Son”.
The Ark - Double bill with the one and only Jim Bizer
$13.50
316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Office: (734) 761-1800;
Hotline: (734) 761-1451;
MySpace: www.myspace.com/annarborark.
Rachel Davis
Rachael Davis is a Michigan born singer-songwriter who also performs as Shout Sister Shout with the ultra hot Lansing area band Steppin’ In It. Rachael came from a musical family and first began her stage career at the tender age of two. At 8 years of age, after leaving the stage at the Wheatland Music Festival, the great Irish singer Maura O'Connell went up to her, and grasped Rachael's face with both hands and said, "Never stop doing it for the love of it!"
03/20 8:00p Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark - Double CD Release Concert with
Steppin' In It
03/22 8:00p East Lansing, MI With Steppin In It as Shout Sister Shout!
- Ten Pound Fiddle Tickets
4/18 8:00p Livonia, MI Trinity House With Steppin' In It as
Shout Sister Shout
Her is Rachael Davis sing Sweet Water Sea from her soon to be released CD.
Tim Grimm – The Peoples Highway
Tim Grimm was a successful movie and stage actor who decided Hollywood was no place to raise his kids. He and his wife decided to return to the Indiana heartland where they were raised. Soon after he picked up his guitar and began writing songs again. That first album was named, naturally enough, “Heart Land”. Luckily for us he’s never put that guitar down. Here he is performing from his most recent release, “The Back Fields” a song titled “Sometimes Trouble Is A Gift”.
Stonecross
Addie’s Goat
Devils Courtship
Mar 15 2008 8:00P Dark Irish Concert at The Amen Room DeWitt, Michigan
Mar 16 2008 7:00P St Patrick’s Party @ THE CROW! Saginaw, Michigan
Mar 17 2008 8:00P Saint Patricks Day @ Baile Corcaigh Detroit "Corktown"
Billy Brandt
Here’s another great song from the mind and strings of Billy Brandt. It’s a great “things can’t get any worse” pick me up number from his recent release “The Mission Band”.
Mar 18, 25 2008 8:00P South Lyon Hotel South Lyon, Michigan
Mar 14, 20, 26, 29 2008 8:30PM Oak City Grille Royal Oak, Michigan
Mar 16 2008 3:00PM Carrick House Concert Series Clarkston, Michigan
Mar 28 2008 9:00P The Cellar Door Farmington, Michigan
Here is Billy performing “Looking For America”.
Laura Bates and Brandon Foote
If you’re a regular listener to MichiganFolkLive you should recognize this next duo. Among their many other contributions they perform the lovely Guitar and mandolin introduction on MichiganFolkLIve each week. They are Laura Bates and Brandon Foote.
Date: Mar 28, 2008 Nomad Bookhouse Jackson, MI 7:00pm
A great independent bookhouse! http://www.nomadbookhouse.com
Date: Apr 04, 2008 Trinity House Theatre w/ The Ragbirds Livonia, MI 8:00p
One of our favorite venues with the fantastic Ragbirds!!!
more info... (734) 464.6302 http://www.trinityhouse.org/
Here they are performing “The Lonesome Whippoorwill” from their freshman CD “Jubilee”.
http://www.batesandfoote.com/
http://www.myspace.com/laurabatesandbrandonfoote
Fonn Mor
This West Michigan Irish Folk band is in high demand these days in celebration of the St.Patricks Day holiday. But their excellent musicianship keeps them in demand year-round, They are Fonn Mohr a five piece celtic group that performs both traditional and original songs along with rollicking jigs and reels that keep their audiences dancing on the ends of their seats.
March 14
St. Patrick's Irish Fest.
Located at The Watermark Center 930 Washington, Downtown Muskegon, MI Festival starts at 5:30PM
March 15
St. Patrick's Irish Festival
Located at the Watermark Center 930 Washington, Downtown Muskegon, MI. 6:00PM
March 15
The Curragh Irish Pub
73 East 8th Street, Holland, MI 2:00-4:00pm
March 17
Bell's Brewery
Celebrate St. Pat's with Fonn Mor. 355 E. Kalamazoo, Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 8:30PM- Midnight
Here is Fonn Mohr performing “Nubian Wind”
Two Loons For Tea
This Seattle Duo has been a contributor on MichiganFolkLIve before. Now we are happy to have them back as they are coming to Michigan on March 24th.
Two Loons For Tea Mar 24 @ One Trick Pony Grand Rapids, MI WYCE benefit
Here they performing “Sunset Room” from their CD “Nine Lucid Dreams”.
Bill Bynum
South-Eastern Michigan native Bill Bynum has just released his first CD “Daddy’s Word”. Bill will be appearing:
Apr 18 2008 7:00PM Jackson Coffee Co. Jackson, Michigan
Here is Bill performing the title song from his new CD “Daddys’ Word”.
Jen Sygit
Jen Sygit is one of Michigan’s most talented artists both as a song-writer and as a performer. Her last release “Leaving Marshall St.” received a 2007 Detroit Music Award nomination for OUTSTANDING ACOUSTIC/FOLK RECORDING.
Mar 14 2008 8:00P The Cabbage Shed Elberta, Michigan
Mar 21 2008 9:00P Bells Brewery w/ The Amity Front Kalamazoo, Michigan
Jennifer Daniels
Recorded Live at the Trinity House Theater.
MichiganFolkLive Extro - Darol Anger with Scott Nagaard.
This visionary instrumentalist calls himself a “Peripatetic Freestyle Fiddler and Legendary Weirdo". What he is, is a fiddle savant. Here to end today’s podcast is Darol Anger performing his magic on a traditional folk tune “Wayfaring Stranger”
Thank you to all the talented Artists who particpated in our podcast!
We are not worthy!!
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