[Imc-events] 2010 Concerts

[Edwin Hawkes]

Hi All,

I wanted to let people know about two concerts planned for next year at 
the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center at 202 South Broadway in 
Urbana, IL On February 27th* Claudia Schmidt *a wonderful performer from 
Michigan will be doing a vocal workshop in the afternoon and a concert 
in the evening.

http://claudiaschmidt.homestead.com/Index.html

More details to come. Please reserve the dates

One critic has described a

Claudia Schmidt concert as "....a lot like falling in love. You never 
know what's going

to happen next, but chances are it's going to be wonderful, every moment is

burned into your memory, and you know you'll never be the same again."

Over her 30 years-and-counting career, Claudia has lent her beautifully 
expressive

singing and speaking voice to wide ranging performance mediums. As a touring

professional she has traversed North America as well as Europe in venues 
ranging

from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and festival stages in front 
of 25,000 rapt

listeners, and became well-known to public radio listeners during her 
regular stints

on "A Prairie Home Companion" in its early incarnation.


Then on March 13th *Bill Staines* a prolific songwriter and singer will 
perform.   http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines/bsbio.htm

Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special 
treat.
For over thirty five years, Bill has traveled back and forth across 
North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, 
folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. A New 
England native, Bill became involved with the Boston- Cambridge folk 
scene in the early 1960's and, for a time, emceed the Sunday hootenanny 
at the renowned Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly became a popular 
performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after one of his performances, a 
reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill was "simply Boston's best 
performer." A decade later, both in 1980 and 1981, the annual Reader's 
Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a favorite performer. In 1991, 
Bill entered his forth decade as a folk performer with an international 
reputation as an artist.
Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular 
singers on the folk music circuit today and averages around 200 concert 
dates a year.
Bill weaves a magical blend of wit and gentle humor into his 
performances, and as one reviewer wrote, "he has a sense of timing to 
match the best stand-up comic." His music is a slice of Americana, 
reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the prairie people of 
the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
Interspersed between original songs, Bill also includes songs ranging 
from traditional folk tunes to more contemporary country ballads and 
delights in having the audience participate in many of the numbers. He 
may even do a yodeling tune or two- having won the National Yodeling 
Championship in 1975 at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville Texas.
A number of Bill's songs have been recorded by other artists including, 
Peter, Paul, & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, 
The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, 
Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded twenty-two of his own 
albums, fifteen of which are still in print. Additionally, Bill's songs 
have been published in four songbooks, If I Were A Word, Then I'd Be A 
Song, River, Music To Me, The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's 
Critters Got A Place In The Choir. Two of the books contain nearly one 
hundred of Bill's songs.
Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, 
Mountain Stage, The Good Evening Show and a host of local programs on 
PBS and network TV. Bill continues to drive over 65,000 miles a year, 
doing what he loves, bringing music to people.
http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines/


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