[NEohioPAL] 42nd Kent State Folk Festival ticket info

[The Kent Stage]

September 29, 2008
330-677-5005
www.kentstage.org
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 42nd Kent State Folk Festival tickets on-sale now
 







Richard Shindell & Darrell Scott 11/6
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice 11/7
The Felice Brothers & Justin Townes Earle 11/8
Korean National Ensemble 11/11
Martin Sexton & Ryan Montebleau 11/13
Dale Galgozy, Alex Bevan & Ryan Humbert 11/14
Nanci Griffith 11/15
  ALL @ THE KENT STAGE! 
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Upcoming Concerts 
Ashley Brooke Toussant CD release 10/9

Joshua Radin 10/10
Tom Paxton 10/11
  Keller Williams: 10/23 
The Speedbumps 10/24 
The Zou 10/25  
Freekbass & Lotus Groove 10/30 
Carrie Rodriguez 12/4
Glen Phillips & Jonatha Brooke 12/5  



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42nd Kent State Folk Festival
 RICHARD SHINDELL & DARRELL SCOTT 

Thursday, November 6 -- 8:00 PM 
 
An enigmatic singer/songwriter whose work veered from the bitterly comic to the profoundly spiritual, Richard Shindell gained his first notoriety via the Fast Folk Musical Magazine series (which previously launched then-unknowns like Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith as well). A native of Lakehurst, New Jersey, Shindell was a former seminary student whose first musical exposure came while playing guitar in the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band alongside the young John Gorka; he began composing songs during the late 1980s, quickly earning a word-of-mouth cult following. After a featured appearance on Christine Lavin's 1991 compilation When October Goes, a year later he recorded his Shanachie label debut, Sparrow's Point; Blue Divide followed in 1994, and in 1997 Shindell resurfaced with Reunion Hill. He next teamed with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky in the group Cry, Cry, Cry, issuing a self-titled LP in 1998; the solo Somewhere Near Paterson followed in early 2000.
 The rest of the decade treated Shindell well, with Sparrows Point and South of Delia ranking among his finest work. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

 
Darrell Scott is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has written several mainstream country hits, and also has established himself as one of Nashville's premier session instrumentalists. Scott was born in London, Kentucky, raised in Indiana and California and has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, since about 1995.
Scott has collaborated with Steve Earle, Sam Bush, Emmylou Harris, John Cowan, Verlon Thompson, Guy Clark, Tim O'Brien, Kate Rusby, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and many others. His unique music has attracted a growing fanbase, and he tours regularly with his own band. His latest album, Modern Hymns, was released August 19th, 2008.

Reserved tickets: $20.00    Buy Tickets Now  

 
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PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE QUARTET 
 Friday, November 7 -- 8:00 PM 
 
Rice and Rowan on guitars (with Peter doing lead vocals), Bryn Davies on bass, and Sharon Gilchrist on mandolin. Both ladies share singing chores with Rowan.
Rice and Rowan are surely familiar to most fans of bluegrass and acoustic music, but their Quartet cohorts perhaps less so. Gilchrist has a long pedigree in the music, having performed as a teenager with Martie and Emily Erwin of Dixie Chicks fame, and more recently as a member of the acclaimed old time band, Uncle Earl.
Davies is a relative newcomer to bluegrass, discovering it while studying jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She performed as a member of the Two High String Band before coming aboard as a member of The Tony Rice Unit and the Rice/Rowan collaboration.
"The spellbinding synergy of Rowan's soulful serenades and Rice's masterful flatpicking ...it's almost as if the singer and accompanist are one in the same." - Bluegrass Now
"A musical marriage made in heaven." - Relix 
 
Reserved tickets: $25.00     Buy Tickets Now
   

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 THE FELICE BROTHERS and JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 
 Saturday, November 8 -- 8:00 PM 
 
The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from Upstate New York founded in 2006. The band has five main members: Ian, Simone, James Felice, their friend Christmas, previously a traveling dice player, and, most recently, Farley, a washboard player and fiddler. At other times, they have featured a horn section in the band, comprised of local Hudson Valley musicians. The three brothers are from the Catskill Mountains of New York. They hail from Palenville, NY. Ian is the main vocalist and plays the guitar and piano. James contributes vocals and plays the accordion, organ, and piano. Simone is the drummer as well as a vocalist and a guitarist.Simone is also an author. Recently releasing a book entitled, Goodbye Amelia. Christmas plays the bass guitar.

In some respects, Justin Townes Earle seemed destined from birth to be a musician -- his father,
Steve Earle, is one of America's most acclaimed singer/songwriters, and he was named in part for Townes Van Zandt, a close friend and mentor to Earle and an equally legendary tunesmith. But Justin also grew up learning the downside of the musician's life, and came up against some of the same demons that haunted his father. Born in 1982, Justin Townes Earle didn't see much of his dad through most of his childhood; after the release of his first album in 1986, Steve was often on the road, and a serious drug habit sidelined him through much of the early '90s. Despite it all, Justin developed an appetite for music, and in his teens began playing and singing with two different Nashville groups, a rock band called the Distributors and a bluegrass-influenced acoustic combo, the Swindlers. Justin also spent some time as a member of his father's touring band the Dukes, and sang one of his own songs, "The Time You Waste," on Steve's 2003 live album Just an
 American Boy. But Justin was fired from the Dukes after a dangerous appetite for drugs began interfering with his performances, and Justin told a Los Angeles Times reporter that he suffered his fifth major drug overdose, one which put him in the hospital for several days, when he was only 21. But that misadventure put Justin on the road to recovery, and once clean and sober he began putting a new focus on his music and songwriting. In 2007, Justin unveiled a critically acclaimed EP, Yuma, on his own J-Trane Music label, and later that year he signed with the respected "insurgent country" label Bloodshot, who released his debut album The Good Life on March 25, 2008. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

General Admission Public tickets: $20.00         Buy Tickets Now
General Admission Student : $15.00

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 NATIONAL KOREAN ENSEMBLE 

Tuesday, November 11 -- 8:00 PM 
 Music Ensemble Korea bring a treasure trove of musical riches from their country's long history. From the exquisite charm of the Pansori singer, to the magical sounds of traditional instruments in many and varied combinations, a delightful musical journey awaits you.
Music Ensemble Korea began in 1998 with just four musicians playing the daegeum, gayageum, guitar, and saenghwang. Shortly thereafter, the ensemble grew to nine musicians playing the cello, clarinet, piri, and Korean and Western percussion instruments. Group members Yi Young Yi, Jeong-Seung Kim, Chi-Wan Park and Sook-Kyung Hwang are all considered national treasures in their home country. 
Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear authentic Korean music, performed live in concert. 
 General Admission tickets: $15.00   Buy Tickets Now
   
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MARTIN SEXTON & RYAN MONTBLEAU 

 Thursday, November 13 -- 8:00 PM 
 
Martin Sexton began his career as a street performer in Boston's Harvard Square. With just a guitar and his multi-octave, jazz-inflected voice, he managed to sell 15,000 copies of his 1992 demo IN THE JOURNEY out of his guitar case. His strong live performances won him a Boston Music Award for "Best New Artist" and led to his being named "Artist of the Year" by the National Academy of Songwriters in 1994.
He worked his way into the city's legendary folk club circuit and soon began touring, releasing his first full-length studio recording BLACK SHEEP in 1996, followed two years later by a major label debut on Atlantic Records, THE AMERICAN, produced by Danny Kortchmar. His second album on Atlantic, WONDER BAR, came out in 2000 and was self-produced by Sexton.
Following his departure from the major label, he formed his own independent label, Kitchen Table Records, and released 2002's LIVE WIDE OPEN, a two-disc live album. CAMP HOLIDAY, a seasonal album of Christmas standards, came out in 2005, and his latest original studio album is SEEDS, released in 2007.
That year, his song "Diner" reached a wide TV audience when it appeared in the Scrubs episode "My Night to Remember."
Sexton's music blends many genres of American music, including soul, gospel, country, rock, blues, and R&B. He is known for his wide vocal range and ability to improvise. Onstage, he often plays the guitar without a pick, using his thumb to play bass lines and his fingers for chords and melodies. 
 
Ryan Montbleau Emerging onto the national music scene from his home base of Boston, Ryan Montbleau has been described as something of a Martin Sexton by way of Van Morrison and Stevie Wonder. Yet Ryan Montbleau Band's music is diffi cult to pigeon-hole or neatly categorize. It is original yet familiar-a fresh sound full of firmly-rooted ingredients, including Americana, folk, blues, ragtime and '70's R&B and soul. Whereas the band's intriguing
instrumentation and arrangements (not to mention top notch chops) help to create this unique sound, all is fi rmly anchored by Montbleau's water-tight lyrics and unmistakable voice.
Having begun his career playing Boston's coffee shops and folk venues as a solo artist with an infectious, percussive, fi ngerpicking guitar style, the charismatic Ryan Montbleau has evolved into the front man for the eclectic ensemble that bears his name.

 Reserved tickets: $25.00     Day of Show: $25.00  Buy Tickets Now

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ROUND TOWN NIGHT 

Friday, November 14 
 
Woodsy's Folk Students with Dale Galgozy - 5 to 7 in The Lobby 
Dale Galgozy is a master traditional musician, a songwriter, and a guitarist of many styles including finger style blues, jazz-swing, rock and folk. A skilled vocalist and arranger, Dale Galgozy is a fulltime professional musician and a dedicated guitar teacher. Performing throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and Indiana since 1987 and an Ohio Arts Council recipient for twelve years, his progressive contemporary acoustic music has traditional roots yet is free and playful. 
Performers include: Robert Dietrich, Ashley Markle, 
Thomas Hite, Adreanne Zeleny, and Dale Galgozy 
 
Alex Bevan - 7 to 8:30 in the Theater
Alex Bevan has been sharing his voice, guitar, music and stories with audiences for more than thirty years.
First known as the "Skinny Little Boy" from Cleveland, Ohio who came to "Chase your wimmin' and drink your beer", Alex has made a name for himself through out the Northern Ohio music scene.
Drawing on his deep skill set of imaginative and honest song writing combined with an agile, improvisational wit that dovetail wonderfully with his flawless guitar slinging, Alex never fails to delight and charm audiences no matter what the venue.
His recordings span the gamut from folk to folk rock and
pop to children's educational music and he has won a number of awards for his commercial efforts in radio and television. Alex's creative works have also contributed to documentary film scores.
You need to see him to believe him and hear him to know him. He is truly Ohio's "Great Lakes Bard".

 
Ryan Humbert Band - 9:00 in the Theater
Over the past three years Humbert has played over 300 shows, either acoustic or with his band, including opening slots for Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) Elvis Costello, The Gin Blossoms, Foreigner, Josh Ritter, Dave Mason (Traffic) and more.
The RHB had the honor of playing for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2006 American Music Masters Series in honor of Roy Orbison, one of Ryan's favorite singers. They were the only band from N.E. Ohio asked to participate, performing a 12-song "Roy" set. More recently, The RHB was the featured band at the ribbon cutting ceremony of VegiTerrenean, the Akron restaurant of Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde.
Humbert takes pride in sporting good old fashion rock and roll swagger, with touches of pop, country, punk, r&b, folk and more. His music will leave you with a tear in your eye, a bruise on your leg, and a hangover the next morning. 

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NANCI GRIFFITH 

Saturday, November 15 -- 8:00 PM 
 
Griffith's career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country, Folk, and what she terms "folkabilly." Griffith won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for her recording, Other Voices, Other Rooms. This album features Griffith covering the songs of artists who are her major influences. One of her better-known songs is "From a Distance" by Julie Gold, although Bette Midler's version achieved greater commercial success. Similarly, other artists have occasionally achieved greater success with Griffith's songs than Griffith herself. For example, Kathy Mattea had a country music top five hit with a 1986 cover of Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime," and Suzy Bogguss had one of her largest hits with Griffith's and Tom Russell's "Outbound Plane."
Griffith was married to singer-songwriter Eric Taylor from 1976 to 1982. In the early 1990s, she was engaged to singer-songwriter Tom Kimmel, but the couple parted before marrying. Griffith is a survivor of breast cancer which was diagnosed in 1996, and thyroid cancer in 1998.
Griffith has in recent years toured with various other artists including Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets, John Prine, Iris DeMent, Suzy Bogguss and Judy Collins. Griffith has recorded duets with many artists, among them Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, John Prine, Don McLean, Jimmy Buffett, Willie Nelson, Adam Duritz (singer of Counting Crows), and Darius Rucker (singer of Hootie & the Blowfish). She has also contributed background vocals on many other recordings.

Reserved tickets: $30.00     Gold Circle : $60.00   (Gold Circle tickets only available at www.kentstage.org)
 
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The Lobby @ The Kent Stage now open for Happy Hour 
5PM - 7PM  
Great local musicians,  $1.00 domestic drafts, $2.50 import drafts 
  & world-famouspopcorn!! 
 

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 The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio.  There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets.  Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, or at www.kentstage.org or call 1-800-595-4849 or 330-677-5005.  Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before concert.  If you have any questions please email us at wrfaa at yahoo.com or information at kentstage.org or call 330-677-5005.  







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