A SONG FOR INDIA, featuring vocalists Betty Johnson and Lydia Gray, fiddler Patrick Ross, and guitarist Ed Eastridge. Sunday, September 24, 4 pm, Alumni Hall, 75 Court Street, Haverhill NH. Café and Bazaar open at 3 pm. To benefit Help Kids India. Tickets: $10, $20 patron, $35 benefactor. Reservations: courtstreetarts.org, 603 989-5500.
What the critics say about Some Song for India’s artists:
Betty Johnson: “superlative vocalist,” “loaded with lyrical sensitivity, sparkling and charged we feeling.” (David Nathan)
Betty & Lydia Gray: “I have been on the air listening to Betty Johnson since the mid-fifties. She is like a fine wine. She is getting better as she ages, plus adding her daughters Elizabeth and Lydia to make the music even sweeter.” (Brian Lee Hart, WVUD, Newark Delaware)
Patrick Ross: “It’s not just the technical expertise or the mastery of an amazing variety of styles that puts Vermont fiddler Patrick Ross several steps above and beyond practically all other players. Ross’s eclectic taste and raw energy make sparks and create musical magic every time his bow hits the strings.” (Robert Resnik, VPR) “His ear is attuned to the sounds and contrasts of voices, cultures, and resiliency in trying times. He’s a listener, and when he plays we ride the memories of sound he creates so effortlessly” (Wendy Teller-Eisberg)
Ed Eastridge: "Great technical virtuosity and a real feel for the material transform his guitar licks into sheer therapy." (Canoe Club)
Listen to Betty & Lydia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knjhrsLx7Lo&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4bObFTsdUqAFZElJoprEEgk
Patrick: https://patrickross.bandcamp.com/track/the-cliffs-of-mohor
Ed & Lydia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJf_GUcO8is
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