[Imc-events] Six Songwriters, Two Shows!

[Zach - UCIMC Folk Music Coordinator]

This week at the Channing-Murray, the IMC presents SIX folk musicians
in two shows!

Wednesday, October 1st @ 8pm
Beth Amsel with Maggie Simpson, Kate Hathaway, Kevin Elliott
http://www.bethamsel.org
http://www.lorax.org/maggie
http://www.katehathaway.com

Saturday, October 4th @ 8pm
James O'Brien with MJ Walker
http://www.jamesobrien.cc

$7-$15 sliding scale at the door ($10 suggested)
The Channing-Murray (above the Red Herring)
1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL 61801 
(217) 344-8820

All ages. Non-smoking. No alcohol.

The fliers from these shows are available here:
http://shows.ucimc.org/posters/2003-10-01.pdf
http://shows.ucimc.org/posters/2003-10-04.pdf

If you download and print (on legal size paper) 30 copies of these
fliers and post them in prominent public places and send me an email
with the locations where you postered before the show you can get in
to the show for free.

Beth Amsel toured with Voices on the Verge and has been doing her own
solo singer songwriter performances for several years. Her soaring
voice is beautiful, her words are a musicial ride through love, loss,
want, desire, grief, and change. She's worked with the likes of Erin
McKeown and The Nields. (October 1)

We've been trying to book Adam Brodsky's friend and fellow
anti-folker, James O'Brien, for a while now and finally we've been
able to make a date work out. If you like Dan Bern, Hammel on Trial,
or Adam Brodsky, you'll love James O'Brien. "Fueled by a love of Bob
Dylan, punk rock, beat poetry and a penchant for politics, James
O'Brien has fused together passion and provocation. James is a vibrant
presence . . . ushering in alternative folk for the next
generation. It's good to see a young artist being productive in all
aspects." (October 4)

Every time Beth Amsel visits CU she tours with a different fantastic
artists. This time around she's bringing Maggie Simpson. "Simpson's
music covers a broad range from ethereal, lyrical ballads to hard
edged, funk inflected grooves. Her song writing reveals a complex,
sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic sense but springs from a raw
innocence that keeps if tuneful and accessible. Maggie's stories are
simple but profound; disarmingly unselfconscious. She underscores her
performances with a spacious, 'meaty' and percussive guitar style
which, though compelling, remains unobtrusive and like everything else
she does, is an equal and integral part of the whole." (October 1)

Kate Hathaway started playing guitar at the age of 14, and soon after,
began writing her own songs and lyrics. She grew up in the small town
of Rossville, IL, and recently moved to Urbana last year to begin
school at the University of Illinois. Immediately after her move to
Champaign-Urbana, she began playing her own originals at venues all
over town including. Some of her first shows were at the IMC. Hathaway
formed a backing band in the fall of 2002. Kate's sound is acoustic
guitar driven bluesy folk and rock. Her new three song EP is available
for $3 at the IMC. (October 1)

MJ Walker is a singer-songwriter who plays honest bluesy porch
music. Her folk evokes the spirit of Woody Guthrie blended with blues
and bluegrass sounds. MJ is a veteran acoustic music player in
Champaign-Urbana with a loyal following. (October 4)

Kevin Elliott is the host of From the Joshua Tree Inn on WEFT 90.1 FM
Tuesdays 6-8pm. Many know Kevin as an expert on folk music, now you
have the chance to hear his great skills as a singer-songwriter as
well. (October 1)

And looking into the future...

Mark Erelli and Jeff Foucault with TBA
Wednesday, November 5th @ 8pm
Channing-Murray 
http://www.markerelli.com
http://www.jeffreyfoucault.com

Mark Erelli is really a roots rocker in a folk musician's guise (and
what is the difference anyway?). He's been described as tasteful,
intelligent, sensitive, and unpredictible. He mixes old style country,
balladry, and folk-rock for a throughoughly modern combination. 

"Jeffrey Foucault is Lyle Lovett with more dirt on his boots." - Peter
Mulvey

"What I found compelling in Townes Van Zandt's writing is the
essentially American element of the blues that runs through everything
he wrote. No matter what he was playing, Townes sang the blues and he
did it with such a hurtful purity. It was honest and haunting. Hearing
Townes when I was eighteen had the power of revelation."  - Jeff
Foucault

-- 
Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
UCIMC Folk Music Coordinator - http://shows.ucimc.org/
UC Folk Music Associatation - http://folk.chambana.net/
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