Bob Zentz in San Diego!

Subject: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:38 PM

I just received this notice and wanted to share it with Mudcatters in the San Diego area. Here is an altogether-too-rare opportunity to hear an excellent folk artist.
    Sandy

THE SEA, THE SHIP & THE SAILOR
featuring; Folk Legacy/Soundside recording artist Bob Zentz

Celebrate this Veteran's Day weekend, with a rare musical visit from One of the "Other Coast's" finest folk/nautical performing artists. The evening will include traditional & contemporary Sea Songs, Recitations, Chanteys, Yarns, Forebitters and Nautical Poetry, set to music.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego will host this special Concert at
7:30 PM on Friday, November 10, 2006.

If You've never seen Bob perform, You've surely heard his songs (3 of them are in "Rise Up Singing"), tunes and poetry settings, sung & played, by a bevy of artists including Tom Lewis, Magpie, Utah Phillips, Gordon Bok, Pint & Dale and the UK's Sherringham Shanty Men.

This Virginia song-finder, singer, sailor, educator & writer, draws on a repertoire of more than 2000 songs, presenting "thematic programs" in museums, libraries, concert halls, schools and festivals, from the shores of the Baltic, to Australia and New Zealand.

Having spent a lifetime as a purveyor of Traditional Music, its roots and its branches, Bob embraces "the song that tells a story." As a ulti-instrumentalist, he plays dozens of the usual and unusual folk instruments, including; concertina, autoharp, jew's harp, melodeon, banjo and uke. His Concerts are a smorgasbord of songs, stories, tunes & recitations, sung and told with a sense of history, humanity and humor. Learn more about Bob at his web site: BOBZENTZ.COM.

Bob briefly lived on the West Coast after being hired as a writer for the legendary Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s. His last visit to San Diego was in 1971, for two weeks active duty, with the US Coast Guard,

Returning to his native Virginia, he revitalized the folk music scene in that area, founding the legendary Ramblin' Conrad's Folklore Center, a music shop/performance venue hosting the greats of folk and other traditional music genres for more than 20 years. He also established the Tidewater Friends of Folk Music, and a Public Radio Show called "In the Folk Tradition."

Bob's first recording, on Folk Legacy, "Mirrors and Changes," was hailed by Johnny Cash as "one of the finest works I've heard by any artist." ...and has recently been released in CD format.

Bob continues today as a versatile singer of songs, old and new, about people, places and times gone by. He is an acclaimed songwriter whose work has been covered by musicians, around the globe . And he is an eloquent commentator on the ecology of the human spirit, and a scholar of the evolution of "home-made" music.

CONCERT TICKETS
General admission tickets are $12 advance, $15 at the door,
for MMSD and SDFH members -$10-and are available,
online from www.westlinweavers.com/bobzentz.htm
Concert Tickets

This will be a very special evening for all those who love the music, tales and poetry of the SEA. Anything you might do to help let your members and the public know about this show, would indeed be greatly appreciated.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:04 PM

And if you're gonna be there, let me know, and p'raps we can hoist one in honor of Bob Zentz!!


A

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 01:12 PM

I don't get it. I posted the very same thing apparently at the same time! Great minds...
Anyway, if there are any catters besides Amos (he already knows) get out and see this consumate performer.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 02:10 PM

I'll add my four pennorth to that - we saw Bob last year in Portsmouth and he was excellent.

Can't wait until he comes this way again!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 05:09 PM

Bob is a fine performer and songwriter.

He's also part of a small but dedicated gang that are adapting Cicely Fox Smith nautical poems for singing. Ask Bob when he's finally going to release his CD of C. Fox Smith poems.

Where will Bob be touring after San Diego?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 06:33 PM

Bob was in Oz a few years ago & I bought a CD, then a few more from Sandy, including 'Mirors & changes'.

Don't miss him.

sandra

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:38 PM

He has a web site for anyone who wants to see more.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:42 PM

here 'tis

why am I listening to a boring radio programme when I could be listening to one of Bob's CDs?

sandra (turning off the radio)

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Kaleea
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 07:55 PM

Sounds terrific! I've never been there. So Amos, is this going to be on the Star of India? Under the stars? Or is there another spot there where they have concerts?

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: kendall
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:01 PM

Bob is the only musiciam I have ever seen who could play the harmonica and the concertina at the same time.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Mick Tems
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:22 PM

Bob was the songwriter of Chariots and a big Star Wars fan. Pat and I played a great gig at Ramblin' Conrads, his guitar shop-cum-concert room, in Norfolk, VA, and then at the Star Wars convention, where we played for a fancy dress twmpath (a Welsh barn dance) - we even had The Thing dancing with The Blob, which is a memorable experience!

We met up last in Finland, where Haken Streng and Alf Milari organised this mad Shanty week on board a bus, from Helsinki to Aland to all the Finnish towns and islands in between. Bob was his magnificent self again, and we promised to keep in touch - but my severe stroke intervened, and I was forced to stop gigging and remained virtually incomunicado ever since.

It's good to know that Bob's playing San Diego. If you see him, just tell him that Mick from Calennig says Hello. Bob's a good mate.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: bbc
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:47 PM

Then, on November 17th, he'll be at my local folk club in Hyde Park, NY! Looking forward to that!

bbc

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:50 PM

Yeah - we were lucky to have him in Oz a couple of years ago, as Sandra said. He's one of my favourites. Went mad and bought a few CDs - which I don't do lightly, as I don't have a lot of money to throw around. It would be nice to see him down here again - maybe at another National in Canberra?

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: Genie
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:08 AM

Sorry my sojourn in SD doesn't quite last long enough to get to see Bob's concert.   More's the pity.

Genie

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: kendall
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 11:45 AM

Bob is a member of mudcat but never posts. I'm trying to talk him into putting up a profile.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz in San Diego!
From: kendall
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:28 PM

Bob and I both served in the US Coast Guard. He in the SEBAGO and I in the COOS BAY.