Click the URL below to listen to Episode 9. (April 2008)
http://michiganfolklive.podcastpeople.com/posts/22440
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
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 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
Here is Missy Raines and :The New Hip” performing "Eye of the Liger" – Yet unreleased
http://www.missyraines.com/
http://www.myspace.com/missyrainesandthenewhip
Po’ Girl
They started out as flop house roommates in Vancouver, they were a duo that wanted to sing “creaky old jazz tunes”. Two years later, this now five piece band they have released three highly acclaimed albums full of Folk, Jazz, Old R&B and swing tunes. They are the Po’ Girls one of Canada’s Finest exports. And the will soon be returning to Ann Arbor, to appear at the Ark on February 28. I saw their last performance at the Ark and it’s not to be missed. I don’t know if I ever saw a band having more fun on stage.
“No Shame ” From their most recent CD “Home to You”.
http://www.pogirl.net/
http://www.myspace.com/pogirls
Cheryl Wheeler
This next artist is a personal favorite and not to be missed. Her shows are like her songs, some are funny, some are insightful and some are both. She have you laughing till your sides hurt and give you a lot to contemplate. She is New England based Cheryl Wheeler and she taking a three concert swing through Michigan. She will be appearing:
Fri, 04/11/08 Wealthy Street Theatre Grand Rapids MI 8:00 PM
616-459-4788 www.wealthytheatre.org
Sat, 04/12/08 The Inside Out Gallery Traverse City MI 8:00 PM
231-929-3254 www.insideoutgallery.com
Sun, 04/13/08 The Ark Ann Arbor MI 8:00 PM 734-761-1451 www.theark.org
“Summer is Almost Over” - Defying Gravity
http://cherylwheeler.com/
http://www.myspace.com/cherylwheelermusic
Tim Grimm
Tim Grim is stage/TV/ and Movie Actor who has a list of credits as long as my arm. Sometime around 2000 Tim and his wife decided they didn’t want to raise their kids in Hollywood. So they packed up and moved back to Indiana. They bought a farm not far from where they grew up. Soon after, Tim picked up his guitar and started writing songs again.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Tim Grimm at The Ten Pound Fiddle
Unitarian Universalist Church 855 Grove St. East Lansing, MI 48223
517-337-7744
http://www.tenpoundfiddle.org
8 pm Concert
“Coyote’s Dream” – From his release, Coyote’s Dream.
Twister – Also from Coyote’s Dream.
http://www.timgrimm.com/
Jill Jack
In January she just opened for Emmy Lou Harris, Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. She is Jill Jack, and she has more Detroit Music Awards than Carter has liver pills. She has been nominated for five more Detroit Music Awards for 2007.
She’ll be appearing this month:
Thursday, April 10th - 7:00 PM Memphis Smoke - Jill will Host the seventh Annual MCMF Acoustic Music Showcase w/ Michael On Fire, David Nefesh. Carolyn Striho, Billy Brandt, Stacia Petrie, Jo Sereparre, and The Wrenfields.
12th - Sat 7:30 PM Shrine High School-Gym
18th - Fri 7:00 PM Sweetgrass Concert Series, Davisburg MI
26th - Sat 8:00 PM AJ'S CAFE (FORMERLY XHEDOS)
Makes Me Wonder – Recorded Live at The Ann Arbor Ark
http://www.jilljack.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jilljack
Laura Bates and Brandon Foote
Laura Bates and Brandon Foote are well known to most listeners of MichiganFolkLive as the providers of the beautiful rendition of the folk classic Shenandoah which opens every MichiganFolkLive Podcast. They recently came to town and opened a concert for the Ragbirds at the Trinity House theater. Here is a live recording from that concert, Laura Bates and Brandon Foote performing a Bob Dylan song, Girl From North Country.
Apr 11, 2008 Grand Rapids, MI, Park Church, 6:30pm
with Who Hit John and Ralston Bowles!
http://www.parkchurchgr.org/pages/directions_page.htm
Apr 12, 2008 Bellaire, MI Short’s Brewing Company ~ Earthwork Concert
8:00pm www.shortsbrewery.com
Apr 19, 2008 Calumet, MI The Calumet Theatre ~ Earthwork Earth Day Concert 8:00pm
more info @ www.earthworkmusic.com
Apr 24, 2008 Grand Rapids, MI Grand Rapids Public Library 7:00pm
EARTHWORK CONCERT!
Apr 25, 2008 Big Rapids, MI Ferris State University ~ Williams Auditorium
Time: 8:00pm Earthwork Concert!
http://www.batesandfoote.com/
http://www.myspace.com/laurabatesandbrandonfoote
Dick Siegel
This next artist is a 25 year veteran of the Detroit Music scene that I somehow have managed to avoid hearing live until last night. Dick Siegel won the best New Folk Artist award at the 1991 Kerrville Folk Festival, and became a member of the Detroit Music Hall of Fame after winning multiple Detroit Music Awards. Siegel's music has featured on nationally syndicated shows such as NPR's All Things Considered and Mountain Stage. His albums and shows feature an eclectic blend of Folk, Jazz, Bebop, swing, country and Blues. He is by far the most versatile songwriter I have ever heard.
Here he is performing “Starlight Rodeo” from his release “A Little Pain Never Hurt”.
http://www.dicksiegel.com/
http://www.myspace.com/dicksiegel
Kitty Donohoe
This next performer’s music has the strong celtic influences you might expect from an artist named Kitty Donohoe. She is also a member of the Ann Arbor songwriting and performing group the Yellow Room Gang as well as a Member of the Folk Duo the Biddies along with Jan Krist.
April 12 Lake Superior State University Arts Center w/Jan Krist as ‘The Biddies Duo’
650 W. Easterday Ave Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 8:00 PM
(906)632-6841 www.lssu.edu/artscenter
April 19 MAMA’sCoffeehouse 15th Anniversary Concert
w/Jan Krist as ‘The Biddies Duo’ + Joel Mabus, Matt Watroba, Jim Bizer, Floyd King & the Bushwackers and Mustard’s Retreat
Birmingham Unitarian Church
38651 N. Woodward at Lone Pine, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 8:00PM
www.mamascoffeehouse.org
Here she is performing a song I heard her perform a few nights ago at the Trinity House Theater. The song is titled “Jack Of All Trades” and is from her CD titled “This Road Tonight”.
http://kitdonohoemi.tripod.com/
Karen Dalton
Karen Dalton was an American folk singer and banjo player associated with the Hardline Drive, Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 60s. Her bluesy, world-weary voice is often compared to that of Billie Holiday. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, and Motown. This song is from her second album, In My Own Time released in 1971 and re-released in 2006. She struggled with drugs and alcohol for many years and died in 1993 after an eight-year battle with AIDS. Here she is performing “Katie Cruel” from “In My Own Time”.
Hardline Drive
Here is a relatively new Michigan Band that’s been together just over a year. They are Hardline Drive a talented Country/Bluegrass band out of Oxford, Mi.
April 12, 2008 • Community Presbyterian Church -7:00 pm - Waterford, MI
April 19, 2008 • Pickin on Cystic Fibrosis - 2:00 pm - Fremont, MI
Here they are performing “Someones Hurting Worse”.
http://www.hardlinedrive.com/
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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