Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash III
From:
Suffet
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 10:58 PM
Thumbnail biographies follow for all of the 2003 Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash artists, including yours truly.
Jessica Feinbloom has had a life-long love of music of virtually all genres. In recent years she has felt a deep involvement with blues and Gospel singing as well as performing traditional and contemporary folk music with various groups.
Joel Landy is a singer, songwriter, political activist, and producer of the Songs of Freedom cable TV program. He describes his role as "more of a spirit who provides a space and an energy for creative artists to meet each other and express themselves." Pete Seeger put it differently; he said of Joel, "He's a real live wire!"
Eric Levine is a long time working musician and human rights activist who uses his guitar and banjo to raise all kinds of spirits, express all kinds of social visions, and accomplish down to earth purposes. He is author of the Eric Levine Songbook, musical director of the Disabled in Action Singers, and a member of the Peoples Music Network.
Mark Maniak spends his working days as a mild mannered librarian. But when the sun goes down, or a day off comes, he transforms himself into a high powered singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, whose specialties include railroad songs, maritime music, and old-time country. Mark is a member of the New York Packet, the official chantey group of the South Street Seaport Museum.
Anne Price is a versatile and gifted singer born and raised in New York City. She sings a wide variety of traditional folk songs and many songs from contemporary songwriters, including a few songs she has written. Her wide repertoire includes Appalachian ballads, Irish and Scottish songs, country songs, songs of the sea, cowboy songs, songs about work and the labor movement, feminist songs, and love songs.
Erica Smith tells us she "likes to play guitar and shake her boo-TAY" She toured the UK in 2002, opening for Richard Buckner in Brighton and playing to delighted, drunken crowds in London. Her most recent CD, Friend or Foe, establishes her as the undisputed Songstress-in-Chief of the New York anti-folk scene. On the other hand, Erica prides herself on being one of only two traddies among 700 million Indie Grrls.
Steve Suffet describes himself as "an American folksinger in the Peoples Music tradition." Steve once won a margarita guzzling contest in a rough and tumble Texas cantina, beating out a drunken Marine Corps officer who stopped to crack jokes while Steve kept guzzling away.
Gina Tlamsa loves Renaissance music, which makes perfect sense because she is truly a Renaissance woman: violinist, flutist, mandolinist, illustrator, film maker, radio program host, teacher, writer, bibliographer, photographer, fighter for human rights, even a folksinger at times.
Carlos Vasquez is our intrepid bass player. A hardcore rock'n'roller to the bone, we had to spirit him away from his Rolling Stones world long enough to do this folkie gig.
Be there!
--- Steve
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