This will be an historic event for folk singing in Seattle.
Don and Bob were there from the early '50s
singing in coffee houses, concert halls and other venues.
Come from near, come from far (if you can) to hear their
wonderful voices, great songs, and interesting stories.

DON FIRTH & BOB NELSON IN CONCERT AGAIN. Sunday, Oct. 14, 2 pm, Central Lutheran Church, 1710 11th Ave. (11th and Olive), Seattle. $10, children half price. Don and Bob first met in Seattle in 1953, and over the years have performed at many coffee houses, nightclubs, and concerts in Seattle and San Francisco. And most of all ... they remain loyal friends! Come for an afternoon of folk songs and stories.

        Don Firth and Bob Nelson are two of Seattle's best folk singers from the late '50s and '60s. They will be singing together again in a reunion concert at Central Lutheran Church in Seattle on October 14th at 2 pm. They last performed together at the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival's Seattle Coffeehouse Reunion Concert with other old-timers from the early Seattle coffee house days.

        Here's what Don Firth says about their times together: "We began singing together early in 1959 at The Place Next Door, one of Seattle's first and finest coffee houses. Television appearances and concerts followed, and in summer of 1959, we went to the San Francisco Bay area where we performed in a wide variety of venues. Back in Seattle, we sang in the weekly concerts at the U. N. Pavilion during the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. The following year I performed in the Seattle Center Hootenannies and traveled with the tour group, while Bob, working in California, was a regular singer at The Catalyst, a coffee house in Santa Cruz. Since the '60s we have continued to perform, singing occasional concerts and at various events such as folk festivals."

Cheers, S. in Seattle