Bill Staines
Sunday, April 29th at 4pm
In the Willey Building (Cabot Town Hall)
Cabot, VT
Tickets: Suggested donation $20 at the door
Potluck snacks, and BYOB
Doors Open at 3:30pm - Music starts at 4:00 pm
To reserve your seat visit: http://www.robinsongs.com
For Info call 802-793-3016 or email: robinsongs@fairpoint.net
Bill's Website: www.acousticmusic.com/staines
Legendary folksinger, Bill Staines visits Vermont with a concert in Cabot on Sunday, April 29th. For more than 40 years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs, and coffeehouses.
Over the decades, you have heard Bill singing on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, HBO's award winning series Deadwood, and Public Radio's Mountain Stage. Additionally, his music has been used in a number of films including Off and Running, with Cyndi Lauper, and The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles' debut as a writer- director. Bill is one of only a few songwriters to have eight songs published in the classic song collection, Rise up Singing. Composer David Amram recently described Bill as "a modern day Stephen Foster…his songs will be around 100 years from now."
A New England native, Bill became involved with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960s. From the time in 1971 when a reviewer from the Boston Phoenix stated that he was "simply Boston's best performer," Bill has continually appeared on folk music radio listener polls as one of the top all time favorite folk artists. Now, well into his fifth decade as a folk performer, he has gained an international reputation as a gifted songwriter and performer.
Singing mostly his own songs, Bill Staines has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances; as one reviewer has written, "He has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic." Bill's music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon, the on-the-road truckers, or the everyday workers that make up this land.
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