Concerts at the Schoolhouse, and Cabot Arts presents...
Bill Staines
Sunday, April 29th at 4pm
At the Cabot Town Hall
3084 Main St, Cabot, VT 05647
Tickets: Suggested Donation $20 at the door, $16 reserve seating
To reserve your seat visit: https://www.robinsongs.com/schoolhouse-concerts
Potluck snacks, and BYOB
Doors Open at 3:30pm - Music Starts at 4:00 pm
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 House Concert in Cabot on Sunday, April 29th. For more than forty 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.
Many of Bill's songs have appeared in grade school music books, church hymnals, and scouting campfire songbooks; he 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 1960's and for a time, emceed the Sunday Hootenanny at the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. 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, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances and one reviewer wrote, "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.
Dana Robinson
Executive Director
Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture
http://www.summit-school.org
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