New Haven Folk Festival 2004

Subject: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 07:11 AM

The schedule and details are now available for this festival in New Haven, CT, USA, formerly called the Eli Whitney Folk Festival. ShoreGrass (with me and Frank) will perform at the free Saturday afternoon concert, and also mudcatters The Johnson Girls.

http://www.ctfolk.com/nhff

Following is the official announcement:

Announcing the

2004 NEW HAVEN FOLK FESTIVAL
          FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY
                SEPTEMBER 17-18-19

                   BACK IN THE PARK!

As in past years, the Friday Song Circle will fill the First Presbyterian Church at 704 Whitney Street in New Haven. The Saturday and Sunday events will all be back in our original venue, Edgerton Park on the New Haven-Hamden line.

AND NOW THE HEADLINERS...

For the Yale Stage main show on Saturday night,

ARLO GUTHRIE

THE FOUR BITCHIN' BABES

PAT HUMPHRIES & SANDY O (emma's revolution)

and Yale's student folk choir TANGLED UP IN BLUE

The 2004 edition of New Haven's Folk Festival--the twelfth edition of Connecticut's largest multi-day folk music event--will present SIXTEEN HOURS of great folk music Friday through Sunday September 17, 18, and 19 in New Haven. This year's Festival features an extremely diverse bill of SIXTEEN nationally and regionally known folk performances in three separate events over three days.

Heading the bill is one of the legendary names of American folk music:

ARLO GUTHRIE. From "Alice's Restaurant" to his contemporary songs about our weird and needy world, Arlo has been a folk icon for two generations. Appearing with him will be his son Abe on keyboards and vocals, and pedal steel guitar master Gordon Titcomb.

Arlo's funny, moving, provocative performance will be preceded by...
THE FOUR BITCHIN' BABES, AKA Debbie Smith, Suzzy Roche, Sally Fingerett, and Camille West--all super talents in their own right. Hilarious, thoughtful, and babelicious!

Rounding out the YALE STAGE main concert in the Park on Saturday evening is...
emma's revolution, AKA Pat Humphries & Sandy O. They are known the world over for some of the finest songs ever written and sung to support the longing for peace and justice--shared today more than ever.

Opening the show, as always, is Yale's world-famous folk choir, Tangled Up in Blue. A Festival Tradition, the dozen or so undergrads do for folk what the Whiffenpoofs do for Tin Pan Alley. "TUIB" brings the fresh face of youth to the scene, keeping folk alive for the new generation.
(In case of rain, the Saturday evening concert will be at the beautifully renovated Fair Haven MS Auditorium on Grand Ave.)

GRASSY HILL SONG CIRCLE
The 2004 Festival kicks off at 7:30 Friday Sept. 17th with the Grassy Hill Song Circle at First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Avenue, a few blocks south of Edgerton Park, featuring PETER MULVEY, MERRIE AMSTERBURG, JEFFREY FOUCAULT, and CADENCE CARROLL. The exciting round-robin format puts four normally solo artists on stage at once, swapping songs, bantering, and backing up each other on the fly. The event is produced and hosted by the New Haven Folk Alliance's director of monthly concerts and presented by Tom Neff, producer of the Grassy Hill Concert Series in Lyme.

JPMORGAN CHASE FOLK PICNIC CONCERT
Saturday's festivities begin at noon in New Haven's magnificent Edgerton Park with the Kids' Concert, featuring LES JULIAN, followed by ROGER'S BARN CIRCUS. The afternoon show continues with an amazing bill of local and regional folk stars...
THE JOHNSON GIRLS of Mystic Seaport,
DAVE KING of Fairfield,
SHOREGRASS of the Shoreline,
MOLLY VENTER of Cliff Street and the wide, wide world,
JUST HARMONY singing for peace and justice,
and featuring the guitarist for the legendary folk rock pioneers The Animals,
HILTON VALENTINE.
(In case of rain, the concert will be at First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney Ave.)

Wow!
But wait! There's more!

Saturday is the premiere of the first Festival SONGWRITING WORKSHOP, to be led by main stage headliners Pat Humphries & Sandy O in the Edgerton Park Carriage House. And this year we have a bigger, better children's program, and a greatly expanded vendor area--the solar-powered FOLK VILLAGE--featuring more crafters, tablers, and sellers of goodies than ever before.

DAVA HOOT IN THE PARK
The Festival will conclude Sunday afternoon with the fourth annual Dava Hoot in the Park. Everyone is invited to this free sing-along and "mikeless open mike" in the Dell of Edgerton Park. It's a folk jam facilitated by one of New England's best-known folk and entertainers, Pierce Campbell. Last year over a hundred people sang, played, and listened to folk music
Washington Square style -- sans stage or amplification. This year's Hoot begins at 1 p.m. and runs until 4:30 or we're all sung out.
(In case of rain, the event will be moved to the Edgerton Park Carriage House.)

Tickets are on sale NOW online at http://www.ctfolk.com/nhff/tickets.html (go to CTFolk.com and click the Festival link for all the details.)
Tickets go on sale at outlets in New Haven, Hamden, and Guilford starting August 15th. Advance tickets for the Grassy Hill Song Circle are $17 ($10 for students) for unreserved and $30 VIP. Tickets for the Yale Stage main concert on Saturday night are $25 ($10 for students) for unreserved seating and $37 VIP.
As always there are substantial discounts for All-Festival Pass tickets. Door and gate prices are higher.

ADVANCE PURCHASE OF TICKETS IS ADVISABLE because VIP seats are very limited and the total number of advanced sales cannot exceed the capacity of our in-case-of-rain location, the Fair Haven MS Auditorium.

For complete details, schedules, and tickets visit http://www.ctfolk.com/nhff
or call 877-9-CTFOLK.

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Vixen
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 08:07 AM

Barbara--Thanks for posting this...I'd have found out too late otherwise! Maybe we'll see you there!

V

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 10:21 AM

Arlo will be performing Saturday night with his son Abe on keyboards and vocals. It will be interesting to hear another generation of Guthries!

I hope people will support folk music events like this, so they can continue to prosper. The jam bands and rock and country stars certainly have huge followings and lavish concert tours, but our little corner of the music world struggles to keep the folk genre available to the public.

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: MARINER
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 02:44 PM

Sounds exciting! If my plans go well I might just make it. Ihope to be in the States around then. I usually base myself in Milford CT. which is only about 30 mins by train to New Haven. So fingers crossed.!

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 08:26 AM

Hope it works out for you Mariner, and I hope to see you and Vixen there!

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 05:04 PM

I'm looking forward to this, my first time at the NHFF.

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 10:39 AM

If it rains Saturday, the entire FREE afternoon concert will take place at the First Presbyterian Church at 704 Whitney Avenue, just three blocks away from the non-rain location at Edgerton Park. (And what better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon than listen to live folk music...)

Saturday, September 18, 2004
New Haven Folk Festival
Edgerton Park, Whitney & Cliff -or rain location- First Presbyterian Church, 704 Whitney & Huntington
Directions: I91 exit 6, rt onto Willow Street to Whitney, rt for either location

Saturday Afternoon FREE Concert Schedule:
Les Julian (children's show) 12:05 PM      
Just Harmony   1:00 PM
Dave King    1:35 PM
Johnson Girls   2:10 PM
Molly Venter   2:55 PM
ShoreGrass   3:30 PM
Hilton Valentine (of the Animals)   4:10 PM

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Jimmy C
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 12:53 AM

Bad timing on my part. I just left New Haven last week, was down at the Michaelangelo Artifacts ( Building St. Peters ) on display in the Knights of Columbus Museum. My first time in New Haven, some neat pubs 'The Playwright" "Anna Liffey's" etc. The Atticus Bakery, coffee shop and book store was great.

Good luck with the festival, New Haven needs more social events, it appears to be one of the towns forgotten by industry etc.

Subject: RE: New Haven Folk Festival 2004
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 09:46 AM

Too bad, Jimmy C! This weekend is also Film Fest in New Haven, with films and venues all over the city.

In case you're somewhere sunny, it's raining like crazy in southern CT (hello, Ivan), so our concert will be inside at the church. Too bad I picked a set of lively-animals-dancing-picnic-in-the-park songs to do!