[IMC] Lou and Peter Berryman For Immediate Release

[Ed Hawkes]

For Immediate Release
 
Folk Music Meets Musical Comedy
CU Folk and Roots Presents Lou and Peter
Berryman, with Special Guest Margaret O'Brien
 
Contact: Ed Hawkes,
oltime1 at att.net, 217-493-4654
Lou and Peter website:
www.louandpeter.com
CU Folk and Roots:
www.folkandroots.org
 
Come out Saturday March
2nd, 7pm to Techline Studio, 307 South Locust, for a night of music and humor
featuring renowned performers Lou and Peter Berryman, and local singer
songwriter Margaret O'Brien. There is a suggested donation at the door of
$10-$15. 
 
 Lou and
Peter Berryman are musical humorists who have delighted nationwide audiences
for more than thirty-five years. Frequent comparisons to Tom Lehrer, Flanders
and Swann, and Gilbert and Sullivan notwithstanding, these two are originals,
blending Midwestern culture with intelligent observation in a whimsical and
wonderfully accessible performance.
 
Gaining national attention with appearances on such programs
as Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Weekend Edition, regular
appearances at festivals and folk music clubs all across the country now serve
as venues for the songs contained in their sixteen recordings and three
songbooks, which have been performed by everyone from Garrison Keillor to Peggy
Seeger. The popularity of Lou and Peter Berryman -- whose friendship survived a
brief marriage in the seventies -- is a testament to their intelligent and
wickedly funny material which is never bawdy or risqué but is rich with
wordplay and witty images. This duo is not to be missed.
 
Pete Seeger says: "Lou & Peter Berryman! Long may
they wave! Their song "A Chat with your Mother" is one of the great
American folksongs of the 20th century."
 
Sing Out! Magazine: "Every new recording is full of
material that stretches and explodes with original ideas and fresh musical
wordplay. It is that distinctive mosaic of melody and lyric that keeps their
fans hanging on every line and sometimes every word."
 
Local singer songwriter, folk singer, Margaret O'brien lends
her lustrous voice to her own original songs, and accompanies herself on the
mountain dulicimer. Margaret has loved the music of Mother Maybelle Carter and
her plaintiff mountain sound, the joy and spirit of Joni Mitchell, the guts and
skill of Bonnie Raitt and Jude Johnstone, the humour and stories of Jim Post,
John Prine and Bob Dylan, the down-to-earth Robert Johnson, not to mention
Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles. So many incredible musicians out there,
so much inspiration to draw and learn from and hopefully, emulate.
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