notloB News, March 2013
The Brittany Haas, Natalie Haas, Lily
Henley and Kellen Zakula w/ Rene del Fierro concert sold out!
The Fellswater concert sold out!
Get your reservations in as soon as
possible, these upcoming concerts will
sell out!
In this edition
1 Thank you for supporting live music
2 Next notloB concert
3 Upcoming notloB concerts
4 Lord
Geoffrey Presents
5 Other
live music and event recommendations
6 Volunteering
1.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING LIVE MUSIC!
notloB Parlour Concerts is unique in the greater Boston area in
terms of the model (admission is by suggested donation, all proceeds, less
production costs, go to the artists). The series would not be possible without
the support of our loyal patrons and volunteers. Join us and bring a friend or
two or three to an upcoming concert!
2. 2. THE NEXT NOTLOB PARLOUR CONCERT:
NOTLOB PARLOUR CONCERTS
PRESENTS
Bronwyn
Keith-Hynes and Catherine Bowness
with George
Clements
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Loring-Greenough
House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
Doors
7:30, Concert 8:00
The concert will be preceded by separate admission
workshops*
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is an award-winning fiddler from
Charlottesville, Virginia. She began fiddling at the age of three and has
studied with many wonderful musicians on the folk music scene including Beth
Telford, Jerry Holland, Cleek Schrey, Matt Glaser, John McGann and Darol Anger.
Bronwyn is a fluent player of Irish, Cape Breton, Scottish and American
traditional music. She has performed throughout the U.S, Ireland and France and
has traveled to Ireland extensively to study with local traditional musicians.
She has been featured on Irish RTE One television and the Irish Comhaltas Live
Programme. At the age of sixteen she was awarded a scholarship to attend
Berklee College of Music in Boston and in December 2012 graduated with a
professional diploma in violin performance.
Bronwyn has won numerous
fiddle contests in Irish and Scottish fiddle styles. In 2006 at the age of
fourteen, Bronwyn placed third in the Open Division of the U.S. National
Scottish Fiddle Championship. She holds the 2007 Virginia State Fiddle Champion
title and has also won at the 2008 and 2009 Mid-West Fleadh Cheoil fiddle
competition.
Bronwyn performs frequently
at Berklee and around the Boston area. She performed with Mark O'Connor at the
Berklee Performance Center in 2009 and was featured in the Fall 2010 String
Showcase held at the Berklee Performance Center. She is part of the group
Atlantic Seaways, which is a collaboration of young traditional American and
Scottish musicians from Berklee, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance in
Glasgow and Strathclyde University in Glasgow. In 2011 they performed in
Lorient, France at the Inter-Celtic Festival. In March 2012 she went on tour in
France with the international Irish music and dance show Celtic Dances, run by
music directors Liz Knowles and Kieran O'Hare. In addition to being a
highly accomplished performer, Bronwyn is also a skilled group and private
teacher. She taught at the 2010 Kanack School Fiddle Camp and currently teaches
privately in Boston.
Catherine
Bowness - In
her hometown, Koitiata, New Zealand, Catherine (BB) began her musical studies
with banjo tutor, Mark Warren. A few years later she received the Frank Winter
memorial award at the Auckland Folk Festival to travel to the USA and study
with world renowned banjo players Tony Trischka, Alan Munde and Bill Evans. She
won the Uncle Dave Macon banjo competition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at just
15 years old and was runner up in the Rockygrass bluegrass banjo contest in
Colorado. In 2007, she was invited to join Colorado bluegrass band Long Road
Home, for their tour of summer festivals in the USA. BB has performed
throughout New Zealand and Australia with the bluegrass band Twisted Oak, in a
banjo duet with tenor banjoist Alex Borwick and most recently with Cy Winstanley
and Vanessa McGowan in their country/bluegrass trio, ‘Sandpaper Tango.’ In 2010,
she recorded her debut album Village Green, which features original
compositions and collaborations with some of the best acoustic musicians from
all around NZ. BB travelled on a Massey University scholarship in 2011 to study
at the Miles Davis program in Jazz studies at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. This year, BB has completed her BMus in Jazz performance at the
NZ school of music, being the first person to be accepted on the banjo.
George Clements is a guitarist and singer/songwriter
from central Massachusetts. His musical influences include folk, bluegrass, Celtic,
classical and jazz. He is currently a student at Berklee College of Music and is
an active player in the Roots Music program.
*WORKSHOPS - Prior to the concert, from 6:45 to 7:45pm
(you can arrive at 6:30), Bronwyn will teach an Irish fiddle workshop; Catherine
will teach a bluegrass banjo workshop; and George will teach a guitar accompaniment
workshop. For all, class size is minimum of 4 and maximum of 20. Each
workshop will be in a closed, private room. $10/person, payable directly to the
artists. Reservation and pre-payment is required, email notlobreservations@gmail.com.
CONCERT - Suggested donation $9-14 sliding scale plus $1 preservation
fee. 20% discount for Loring-Greenough museum members.
Reservations are strongly recommended, email notlobreservations@gmail.com.
As always,
coffee will come from JP Licks and pastries from Fiores Bakery. Assorted
teas will also be available.
3.
UPCOMING NOTLOB CONCERTS
April 19 – Dakota Dave Hull, ragtime
and country blues from Minnesota. Workshop and separate admission concert @ LGH. Details available on the notloB
website.
April 30 – The
Andy Statman Trio, Klezmer music from Brooklyn! @ a private home. Details will
be announced soon in a separate mailing.
4.
LORD
GEOFFREY PRESENTS
Lord Geoffrey is a scurrilous
card-carrying member of the Boston-area folk scene whose mission in life is to
re-kindle the great folk scare by presenting in unique rented spaces
(galleries, historic homes, church sanctuaries, clubs...) vintage musicians of
that era as well as up-and-coming young whippersnappers!
Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher
Tuesday, March 5 @ Johnny D’s,
Somerville, 8pm
Direct from Prince
Edward Island, the acclaimed duo Richard
Wood & Gordon Belsher (notlob 10/10/12) will light the room on fire
with their high-energy, high-quality music. Fiddler Wood and guitarist/vocalist
Belsher are accomplished performers who routinely electrify concert halls up
and down the east coast of US & Canada.
$12 general
admission. Reserved seating and dinner packages are available.
All ages...Under 21
requests can be directed to carla@johnnyds.com.
Upcoming
Lord Geoffrey concerts:
Late
April or early May - John
Mailander and Molly Tuttle @ TBD. Details will be announced soon in a
separate mailing.
5. OTHER LIVE MUSIC AND EVENT RECOMMENDATIONS
Karan Casey and John Doyle, March
6, 7:30pm, Davis Square Theater, Somerville. Charter members of the legendary
group Solas, these artists have become two of the more outstanding Irish music
performers of the past decade or more. Casey has released five well-received
solo albums and, among other collaborations, has appeared in “A Christmas
Celtic Sojourn.” So too has Doyle, who has cultivated a multifaceted career as
guitarist, vocalist, producer and, lately, songwriter. Casey and Doyle joined
forces two years ago to make the acclaimed album “Exile’s Return.”
Opening
for Casey and Doyle will be Scottish-born harpist and Lord Geoffrey alumna Maeve
Gilchrist, who brings jazz and world music influences to her repertoire of
mainly traditional songs and tunes.
Lindsay Adler -
http://www.lindsayadler.com - and Chris Warren perform songs and tunes
from a variety of Celtic and world folk traditions (2-3:30pm) as a part of the
Old Schwamb Mill's Spring Open House (11am-4:30pm). Saturday, March 16, 2013.
17 Mill Lane (off Lowell St.), Arlington.
Fiddle'Deis Fiddle Festival at Brandeis University, Waltham, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-17. Featuring notloB
alumni Mariel Vandersteel, Andy Reiner,
Eric Eid-Reiner, Laura Cortese, Jeremy Kittel, Simon Chrisman and Ben Powell. Three days of workshops and performances. A
Cross-genre progression of the violin in performance. From Medieval to
Traditional to Electronic. All strings (violin, viola, cello, bass, viola da
gamba, guitar, mandolin, etc.) are invited to take part in the workshops,
master classes and jams.
notloBBers Matt and
Shannon Heaton, March 16 and 17, The Beehive, Boston: Equally admired for
expressive singing as well as instrumental prowess, this Boston-based
flute-guitar husband-wife duo have put their inimitable stamp on Irish music,
interpolating their own compositions and perspectives into the Irish tradition
they revere and represent with a passion.
Revels Spring Sing! A Family Celebration of the Vernal Equinox,
Saturday, March 23, 3-5pm (doors at 2:30) at St. John's Church, 80 Mt. Auburn
Street, Watertown, MA . Tickets: $20 adults; $5 children 11 and under. Celebrate
the arrival of spring amidst forsythia blossoms and sprigs of green at this
joyful family event featuring lots of community singing, refreshments, and
entertainment by children from our Spring Workshop. Revels music director
George Emlen hosts the celebration, featuring soloists David Coffin, Jamie
Jaffe and Jennie O'Brien and a great folk band. We're whisking winter away and
so can you! For tickets call Jennifer at 617-972-8300 ext. 31 or order them
online.
Reservations/information. Sending a reservation request
is appreciated and is insurance against being turned away at the door, if the
concert sells out. It also helps as we can contact you when the occasional
concert must be postponed or cancelled due to severe weather or other
circumstances. Please send an email to notlobreservations@gmail.com at least 24 hours prior to the concert. Information
about the concert series, the venues and the artists can be found at the website.
Keeping in touch. There are several ways to stay
informed of scheduled events:
Admission to
notloB Parlour Concerts is by suggested minimum
donation. If you cannot
support the artists with dollars, please consider volunteering your time and
energy. Your donations cover venue rental, publicity and other production
expenses, 100% of the balance goes to the artists (many of whom
travel many miles). Sometimes there are shortfalls, so extra
donations are gladly accepted. And please, cash only (no credit cards or checks).
Photography,
video recording & sound recording. No still, video or sound recording is
permitted without permission of the artist and the house. If you
would like to share photos of past concerts, email the pictures and/or web link
to notlobreservations@gmail.com
History. Since June 2, 2007, notloB Parlour Concerts has presented
close to 100 old-time, blue/newgrass, folk, Celtic and country blues artists to
audiences throughout the greater Boston area. Our venue is the historic
Loring-Greenough House (built in 1760, 40+ intimate seats) in Jamaica Plain.
The concerts are volunteer-run and not for profit. 100% of the patron donations go to
the artists and production expenses.
"The concerts always have a
warm atmosphere and are fun to play. From a musician's perspective, I
really appreciate the effort Jeff puts into his shows. Nobody on the Boston
folk scene works harder to pull a concert together."
~ Alastair
Moock
"In this era of
pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive."
~ Jack
Hardy
Thank you for
supporting live acoustic music!
Jeff Boudreau
notloB Parlour
Concerts
