Rural Rhythms; Performance and Conversation with The Wood's Tea Company

Motel room for a couple of days when the festival wasn't going on so we wrote a song. The air conditioning wasn't working it was a great time. Especially for Michael who took a bus at Saskatchewan Bruce and I flew. Before we go on to listen to more songs up a little bit of background on the band How long have you been together where you are from a little bit about your musical backgrounds. Well the woodsy company is I guess going on 11 years now. We've been doing it for a long time. Bruce and I started the band we had various configurations in the first the early years when we were struggling and then we met Michael and he joined band eight years ago. It's been pretty much downhill since then. And I actually it's worked very well and we get along musically real well. Mike smiling I say let the audience know that. It has this been a full time job for you over those 11 years. Yeah a full time job. That's great. Well actually the first few years were part time. I had day jobs and silly stuff like that. And where do you do most of your performances is it mostly in this area did you travel do a lot of traveling.

Well we stay pretty much in the other Northeast once a year we do a Western tour out as far as Wyoming Kansas Colorado and then once a year we do a southern tour down as far south as North Carolina so far. I'd like to get it so we can be in Florida in February one someday. OK. Let's listen to another piece off of your king new CD called Journey Home. I'm going to listen to a tune called blowing water. Any background on this one before you listen to this is actually a medley it's boiling water in the white cut Cade and the last one is the linen cap and the first two were originally were Irish tunes that came over here. As military music about the time of the revolution got played in as fife and drum music. We kind of adapted from that. And I took advantage of the fact that we are multi tracking in a studio and we got several penny whistles going at once and I did what I thought was kind of fun. Counter melodies. So we had a lot of fun in the studio with this one. How do we get toward the end we get

everything going and everything started going at once as much as we can get on. So terrific and here it is boy and water would see company in. Arab or.

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More. Maw. Maw. Maw. Now I. Would see company again from their CD called Journey home and that was boiling water a medley. This new CD is on kicking new records which is out of California at least last

I knew it was in California. Where did you do the recording in Burlington. Chuck Taylors studio. And how did you get hooked up with with keeping your records begged. You. Know there are other fine folks out there they're they're very much into environmental causes. Especially old tree growth. And we're very happy to be working with them. And they're up and Northern California not anywhere near Los Angeles so they live right in the heart of the redwoods. It's a small operation and they do some very nice work. Great. Do you know a lot of your performances at least this time of year in this area. What are some of the ones that you have coming up in the near future. Well this coming Wednesday we're going to be at Middlebury College and they're called the house room. What's the gamut room gamut I'm getting out the calendar because we never know where we are. As we look at that we'll be there at 9:30 in Middlebury and then Thursday night

for the Cascades lodge in Killington that's right up on the mountain. And Friday we're in New Jersey. Molly Malone's I'll go one more day here. Saturday we're at this Al Salem library so I'll say on New York and I'm holding in my hand one of your winter schedules and. A newsletter almost you have some. Yeah I really enjoyed your marketing so I think it's great we learned a lot from that. Did you get some responses. Oh yeah Bruce sort of got the responses and kept them to himself. Oh by the way Bruce is out there listening to us he's not here today. At least I hope he's listening. Hi Bruce Lee We're going to talk about you. Yes. Since he's not here we talk about him. And sometime in the future we'll have Bruce up on the program as well and would see company will be performing live. Yeah we promise to come definitely sorry we couldn't do that today. Well. That's fine. Well the thing is that Bruce is as got really good finally voice so we would kind of sound like a rock n roll backup group without him. And I couldn't stand anymore and that's when you know you've heard me sing and you know

you don't know all the arrangements are you. Musician mark a little bit a little bit yeah but not much of a singer but you don't anybody ever ask you questions on what you play. Some banjo are writing banjo. Well yeah yeah. Compadre So let's introduce let's interview him. What were your early influences. Elvis Presley mostly. Yeah yeah. If somebody would like to get a copy of you or of your schedule how did the I assume the people can get these. Get on your mailing list is it. Yeah they can. Anybody can get on it. And your addresses are 1 box 9 7 1 a water bill Vermont 0 4 5 4 9 2. Yeah just write to that address will get you great. Spell your name right and you'll get on. And and if someone is interested in hiring you to play in the area how do they do that. Oh well I'll give you a phone number for that one that's in Vermont 8 0 2 6 4 4

2 1 5 5. I should mention. That's right. We're not booked for St. Patrick's Day. Well it all all over the place for everything else but nobody's booked us for St. Patrick's Day so. So give us a call. Or if you have a community that wants to have a concert even maybe on a basis where we collect at the door nobody else hires us outright we may do that. So I thought I'd put in a plug for that. Well that time is coming up soon and somebody said grab a hold of that opportunity really fast have the woods Tea Company on St. Patty's Day is a great opportunity. In fact you can call right here at 6 7 4 6 7 7 2 if you want to. Want to get in on that real quickly. We're going to turn now to your CD journey home. Again I'm kicking your records you want to listen to ghost of Gloucester's fleet. Yep. And we can tell us about this one. OK I'll talk about a little of this is Gloucester Massachusetts. As some people know as one of the largest fishing fleets in the East Coast they all go out and fish in a Grand Banks kind of dangerous

waters and they have a reputation for her for losing a lot of vessels at sea and so this legend or myth started up that that there's a night in autumn around November when the storms start blowing that when all the ships and boats that ever sunk out of Gloucester rise again and they say I want to go sleep there's various versions of this this legend. But we found a poem dating back to the turn of the century that that sort of put a end into Iran and the way this version of the legend goes if you spot this closely you'll never see land again. Now the pall it was a sort of unknown populous poet by the name of Holman after really like a stuff. Some of it's long winded and Corny in the style of the day. Anyway the way he put it was this and this alone we know when the days of autumn blow up from the sway in ocean deeps appears a grisly show and down the swim in deep is the fisher's lie asleep. These craft loom out of the great black night and past the living sweet and.

To give you the old brain was on. His back. Get back. To another the way with Bergdahl the brain. Dead to my. Mother. Coming. AS. You recall. Pretty good as it is you are. One of the does this mean. The brain. Bar feeling never and retreats into disarray. Oh dire train we saw pain leave back. On go somewhere I got out on the drag of a word. You. Used.

Was a. Private someone's gone away so far away. As 5. 0. 0. 0. Years in. This very. Praying. Hands for. Those with my. Insight. Was born. Here so I don't. Try. To fix you know. Bring. Home. To me my. Son. My. Brother was just enough of.

A. Storm. Like. This. We saw. Things. Out of the fire. When the. Motor car style. Bike. Rides I. Get to. See. Some. More. I just don't see. Then the headlight from the train his eyes is tired. And the.

Song. Back. It was. Oh the train was on paying me back to go somewhere. The track I was I use an. Hour long. Well that obviously was not the ghost of Gloucester's fleet. And we're going to we're going to hear that in just a moment. We

did hear was Matthew another song from Woods Tea Company journey or journey home recording. That one written by Mike Lawson and that's a song Mike which uses a train as a as a vehicle for expressing a nice sentiment. You know tell us a little bit about that song how they came to you. Yes that's. Kind of a heavy nostalgia trip as well as a bit of theological mischief. But once I figure God has a sense of humor so he won't mind. When did you write this one. Oh last year we were playing in New Hampshire and I heard. I heard we were playing outside and I heard one of those old fashioned train whistles off in the in the distance and it kind of became inspiration. I'm not one of these people that can sit down and every morning from 10:00 to noon and write I have to I have to wait until the Muse visits me which sometimes is not very often.

Does that tend to happen when you're on the road when you're out in new areas and seeing new places new people. Yes how did you know. How do you how do you go about choosing the material that you're going to perform and record how do you try out new pieces. Well sometimes we get lucky and we find something that we all that all of us like. And sometimes we have to have violent arguments no only kidding. But it takes compromise and discussion and whether to do the song and then if we decide to do it how to do it. So it's. We all we often like to say that being in a musical group is kind of like being married without benefit of sex. So there was that one. But you're talking about what I think. Yes it's really got to run the gauntlet of. All of us have to like it has to be appropriate to the kind of

music we do and then the audiences have to like it so we probably try ten songs for everyone that gets on stage and then we get Milli Vanilli to record it. And do you you try out songs on in concert. Listen and see what kind of response there is and whether people come up to you afterwards and say they like it is that usually. Yeah. Then there's good songs that we like that the audiences will like that we just don't do well. But that happens occasionally. This doesn't fit our style and our talents and others will and I'm much better sense and actually surprise us sometimes. OK great. Let's go to the song we're going to hear before ghost of Gloucester's fleet from the woods Tea Company from their CD journey home. Millman illness not Milner's

my name only not my song ilk. Whether I belong. To only mainstay where drinking. Drugs. Lolo the pay me. To. Be. Nice to me. He's all the ghosts. Along with. The Heat. On the night. While. We were young you know those little things hey I think I'm wrong. One. Morning I. Stumbled off the rails. Is I marvel. Through. The night. As a musician right. We. Must be. Close. To something seeing. More. Of the women are all just seeing the white plague.

Oh OK. Oh behind. The long. Sleeves long. Long ago and someone lost. Feet. On the night. Come my. Long long. Long. Long long. My. My. My. My kids Monday. Morning the. Whole long moment that Hamas. More than only the great. Things of the soul. Still others look. At me the way. The suede old song let me take a look I'm only one thing more recent all morning long we've moved along I must look tonight to see the time I. Rung my.

Heart Oh my. God my song is going to. Be a song old song last month. Meet. On the night. More money more. Money. More oh no what I said. Above Why let. Me eat. On the night. Right. Move move move. Move move. Move move. Move. Move. Ghost of Gloucester's fleet from the woodsy company from their new CD on kicking

new records. We were speaking just a moment ago about how you choose the material and find inspiration for some of the pieces you write. How do you find how do you go about finding some of the songs in the poems that you write songs from do you listen to a lot of recordings do you go back through old books. How do you do that. We steal as much as we can. Well I still bet everyone else does it. Now I may and there are there are books and old recordings and. It's just when we're out doing the festival scene in the summer time we run into. We actually get a chance to hear other groups which is a treat that is so there's no shortage of material or sometimes there's a shortage of rehearsal time. Do you do any work while you're on the road or in the car wherever driving or in a plane going from one gig to another do you work on songs then either singing or writing. This is a arrangements on the road is a good time to listen to other people's

stuff. Just travel a lot. Put a cassette in and we get ideas from that. I guess basically you can always rehearse acapella numbers and then we don't do that often because the band's kind of noisy. But we do more of that in motel rooms or we have some extra time before your band is in tune so it's a song like a drone from some pipes on the idea it's a drone but it's an E flat. I think were already into they haven't seen you live a good impression at least today that you have a good sense of humor which certainly comes through in your performances as well. Well we're generally not this funny. Well I don't you know I don't take myself seriously. Lord knows nobody else does. So what the heck. We're going to go to another piece now what do you have for us. Coming up we have another medley of things that we had a lot of fun recording. This is it starts out with a tune called the piper remember that was written by Sean Potts back when he was with the Chieftains

and then there's a little bit of verse by John Masefield and we follow that with farewell to Tara Lothian and North Sea holds farewell to Lafayette as an old Newfie tune that was also recorded by Judy Collins Yeah it's kind of a famous recording that now that the way we had it. There's some actual sound effects on this and maybe I'll explain that a little. We were playing in Camden Maine at the Camden Harbor years ago and we when Mike first joined the band and they put us up and so really what would stop us luxury accommodations and after the show we were saying all is great we got we have two room suite and then there was a skunk fight on the room so we had to leave immediately and went down to the harbor and ended up sitting on this rock a very fine moonlit night and there was the sound of the ocean and the sound of the police beating against the mass on the boats in the harbor and it made a real nice impression on me and I think on everybody there for some reason at night that really meant something to us because we're just jelling as a band at that time so

I made a trip back to Maine to record the sounds from that rock and to put on this album. And you'll hear that at the very beginning of this. This is from our second cassette album entitled voice upon the way friend. I guess you can play it. This is a medley of our hit. The THAT.

Was. Was. Long long but that was. The old. Fur bound for blue waters where the great winds blow. It's time to get the tax aboard it's time for us to go. The crowds at the capstan and the tombs in the shelter a long pull a strong one. Look around. The bow washes Eddie and spread them from the back. Aloft and loose the topsails. And someone give a rousing soft Atlantic shanty should

be music to the dead. A long pull a strong pull a yard to the mast. Green and Mary runs. Wind comes cool and soft and strong and pleasant with Aminta gold and she's staggering now sweeping the she feels her feet long claws strong pull an AFF the mainsheet shrilly squeal the running she is so whether your streams such a clattering the chain sheep's head devils in the chains over us the bright stars and under US the ground. A long pull a strong. More out. Yonder round unready as the old moon. The Red Funnel tug is gone. Now Sonny soon will be clear the channel so watches you steer easier when she pitches. Better to talk about the.

News and the did I live in. A bikini that. I'm bound out the greenlight. Ready to sing in whole hope to find it. On the way. But they do look at my comrades. Are lying we must caught. Unlike lie ahead of us. Everyone must hide. A code a serene bio the nudges. And the longer blowing ice and snow loving the movie. Oh shit but. You did say.

To me. All. The way. With the A's but told to. Just go with the old and the hot. And. Cold. Motherhood was. Whole. The cold. Goes. On. But.

There is no. Looking. At. The time. With the ship. Beguiling fish with the dollar nice. The whole lot on the fish in Uganda that other little children wait for the banks and then older than Aussie All those without having your shoulder. It's where you'll find the bar for bars and that's from Peter.

There's mucky cheek segment from The Shield and the other mens on the way gets on the banks of the knoll. The whole lettering is all the other guy rung for your brother and neither do you come out of your month long live the dole at the bank of data the other news a little way before the banks and then old enough to see all of their Ingold or. Something with the boiler. Honestly I. Just look at the sky and embezzling. That are 0. And advise that all of us live. Right here. He's got the goods on the ground. Doing rather well. The letter from callers gone just. Calling LOL over the fish to be stolen.

That was the ultimate goal of the fishing grounds all the way through the fixing old letting go the ruler with. A medley of songs from the woods Tea Company from their recording voice upon the wave and we heard the voices of an instrumentation of Bruce Morgen Mike Lawson and Rusty Jacobs who were and I should say Mike and rusty joining us here and had from our public radio this afternoon on rhythms. You're probably best known for your sea songs and sea shanties tell us a little about what other styles of music you do and the various instruments that you play and it's a quite a wide variety.

Well we do a lot of sea songs because we're from Vermont. You know I've us before we even met each other we were all very fond of sea shanties. They have a lot of energy. They're different. And beautiful. I've been to see. It's really great it's kind of like being in jail with a chance of drowning. Yeah well you know we do the usual prerequisite. Celtic and American folk music but I think that the sea shanties are what makes us perhaps a little different. We have a large following. In the Celtic community the Irish community which is kind of nice for us is we're a lot like last Friday night we're down at the in Fairfield Connecticut at a Gaelic American club I'd say half the people in the audience were from Ireland and we actually we only did maybe a quarter Irish music but they. We did some bluegrass and Bill Staines we did some Woody Guthrie and I went over just fine it was really a nice night.

You're new CD journey home has a variety it seems to be somewhat of a departure from your past recordings and more more variety of styles. For this first time we worked with our recording engineer Chuck Heller and who does really good work. Who is listening right now I think. So in a professional studio you can. You can get quite a bit more polish on it. These earlier work the ones were listening on cassette and on this cassette was recorded on a four track porta studio. It was professionally mixdown and. That. Mike Billingsley studio but the original recording was just a at home thing done very carefully. I was an engineer so I had to be careful because they would have gotten that. It was nice to have all the time you wanted to work on something that was a good point. And if someone would like to one of our listeners would like to get a copy of your CD or one of your past cassettes or T-shirts or other items that you have how do they how do they do that where they find them.

We don't have T-shirts yet. We're working on that. We do it we have the white ones. Certainly you can. Our material is generally not available in the stores especially our first three albums are cassettes that they can get them by writing to us at the address that you mentioned earlier maybe we'll go over that again. The other one that's out I'm kicking mule. You should be able to find unavailable and every place all across the country were folk music is unavailable. It is also might tough for you folks up in the Burlington area you might try Vermont folk instruments on Church Street. And it's you can call or write to kicking you all directly and order it that way and we're trying. We really want to get this in the stores and you folks out there can help us in the way you do that is by instead of ordering it through us go to the store and have them order it either from kicking mule or from silo in Montpelier and ask them to order an extra copy. It's not like they were novices at promoting an album but we figure we've got enough people out there that they may be able to lend a hand that will get this available to

people and in any case go to the record store and make a scene. Actually the ones in the malls that don't have any. Start singing one of the songs and ask if they have this recording the recording is called Journey Home and it's kicking mule CD number three forty eight so when you go into your record store to stir up some trouble and ask for this recording. That's what you want to tell him. It's CD 348 on kicking your records. And again you have some performances coming up including at the Cascades lodge in Killington on the 7th of 14th and 21st of March. And what else do you have in the Saratoga Springs New York. The Parting Glass and diversity party on the 9th through the 10th. Anything else we should know about. Sure on the 16th the day before St. Patrick's Day will be at the inn at Long Trail and that's one of our favorite places and Killington in Killington. And see nothing else in state will be in New Jersey quite a bit. OK

what do you know I does this so you will be at the Belknap mill. You know look honey you know him sure I'm not sure whether we broadcast over that far. We get quite a ways in here but that's the last Saturday March March 30th. Terrific. What would you have force next we're going to do another cut from the second cassette voice upon the wave. And this is this is a love song and I tried to get a kind of an Irish-American flavor in it when I was writing it because I am Irish-American and I certainly don't want to pretend to be Irish. So we're trying to be what I am. Why do three four. Well they tell me you call yourself Keith. I always

called you Kathleen. Finally made good you know I speak now you're. Lying. You lied to me but I. Don't know nothing. Nothing. None other than my me me to you all. But I always. Live. All the time that I spent. Loving. You. With the best years that ever come. From home here. Where we talk. Southern. Bring. So I guess I'll just. Read it as a means the last day of a dream. Brought. To. Me. But. Her. Dad lame.

Seems. She. Is a pain. That I cannot. Yes I know that I have my own faults. And it's clear. I'm no prize to be sure. But I dared out the wall of that divide us. Writes. Literary. Go back. To. This link. About. The world. So I.

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S. S.. S. s. s.. Oh what. The mist covered mountains. Another song from that CD from the wood stick company that we've been talking about this afternoon called Journey Home Again it's own kicking mule records. It's number CD Three forty eight and if you want to go directly to kicking mule their address is P.O. Box one fifty eight Alder Point California that's a l d e r p o i n t. California 9 5 4 1 1. And again we just heard mist covered mountains and the strong voice of Bruce Morgan there along with Mike Lawson and Rusty Jacobs and Mike and rusty here with us this afternoon on rhythms. That last of all I'm sorry that last tune as Scottish as a bagpipe into that was played at the

funeral of President Kennedy. So it's kind of a special tone. We have a couple more pieces when we get through this afternoon. What's next. We're going to play foolish questions here ices on the CD but it wasn't recorded a chuckle or studio this is a live cut we recorded it first night in Burlington what two or three years ago two years ago I guess and it was the fun song and the audiences are really the best part of it it's a great audience that night. We captured it on tape and so it's kind of I was glad to be able to include it on our CD and. Might as well go go right to it at this point. All right so. Now you've all heard the question you know a person can ask a question then expect a sensible reply like when you're bringing me down. You know the first thing she's going to do is ring

that for me by name. Well reply I know this is for your Mom long hours. I wanted you to see and now I'm going to take it away. Who is Bless me you know you hear me reading this is actually an audience participation. And what I'd like to do is when we get the question for you folks that ask it if that's all right now suppose the elevator person should forget to close the door and you walk in and you tumble down the whole save 47 floor and then when you reach the bottom and you're lyin there you nerd some cool thing and head down the elevator shaft and all or. Who is going to be there dying words or. Who is just in an awful hurry and that elevators too darn smoking usually saves a lot of time you know coming down this way. Who is going to you know hear me and reading

and then there's that person who will be John your way and I'll ask you why are all dressed up and then I'll listen. Well you see that you've just been to the funeral of your dear old Uncle Ned and as you wring out your handkerchief he'll ask. Who is going to hang your head and moan. The funeral now and then later on it is really you know I think you want to hear from him again. The last verse is a little hard to get that I'll give you a clue it's gone the word reading in. The newspaper you know he would just merely sack. Who is gray. Matter back

of them and turn. His brain. In here. Or. That would stay company has recorded live at first night what was it a couple years ago. Yeah I can remember I think it's two years ago with a fine group of people. I thought it might start to mention that Darren rusty here wrote the last verse to that song so it's one fifth the original or something by rote from a joke that you told me so you had taken from an old David Brenner joke. So he did steal it after all. Yes and I saw you perform that a lot of other songs and this first night this past year and I must admit I caught myself thinking of that song a number of times during the following weeks when I

mentioned brought up a number of foolish questions to people like I've kind of hidden myself inside it you know. Foolish question at all but a catchy melody I've always thought yeah it sure does. It's just like folks in the audience that come up to you and say yup Can you play a song I don't know what it's called I don't know how the tune goes but it's about love. It really narrows it down. And you know you know is that time we were in in Albany playing for St. Patrick's Day and we were doing. You know we were doing and getting as commercial as we could because it was St. Patrick's Day replaying drunken sailor or something something like that. And in the middle of the song this person comes up and asks me from the stands about two inches from my face and asks if I'm in the band. We're going to listen to one more piece to wrap it up. A couple things again. You're available for St. Patrick's Day you said. What's your address. If someone would like to book you for St. Patty's Day or any other event coming

up and a phone number where people can get ahold of you and find out about your recordings or anything else and find out if you were in the band and ask you questions like that. It's a question I've been asking myself. You can reach me I'll get my phone number because I do most of the booking by phone. That's in Vermont 8 0 2 6 4 4 2 1 5 5. The address is the woodsy company P.O. Box for 11 Jeffersonville Vermont 0 5 4 6 4 direct 5 4 6 4 OK 0 5 4 6 4 I think. OK yeah that's it. I was not quite close enough to it there. OK. I don't know maybe I'd like to as long as you have your pencils out. Give kicking the old phone number so you can give them a call and tell them if you would like to order an album you can do it by phone they think plastic and stuff like that. There are a number in California is 7 0 7 9 2 6 5 3 1 2. I've got to warn you there really laid

back and mellow. Don't forget there's a 3 hour time difference going there. So now that you've interviewed me you know I play a little bit of banjo when can I join the band. Well you know I want to hear yours and you know you I will want to hear you play the banjo. Oh I didn't know that was a requirement period. OK. Anything you'd like to tell our audience before we wrap it up today. Well this last song is the last song on the album the other the CD and it's a kind of a bluegrass square dance type song about love gone bad and unrequited love is neat because it lasts longer. OK here it is. Go ahead. I just I want to remind people to go see Mary McCaslin That's coming up and we've been sort of preempting a lot of our time I hope just thought we should remind people because she's a great performer and she is going to be right around here and will be playing a little more from Mary McCaslin this afternoon coming up in just a minute.

The folk dance calendar and lots more music in the last hour of rhythms. Here again is the woodsy company with going away. Illinois. Millan. Little known Mila. The snowmelt. Thought. Well I'm. Going to. Get more. Money. For my. Knowing. Way more of the late. Night. Talk. Shows to. Get. Its money on. My asthma. And so forth. My. Mom. Thought. I was

far. More. Annoying. Can I see. Where I could. Meet. You. OH MY GOD WHAT I'M HAVING I was not one you know. Oh my. God must've thought. Oh my. God. Oh my. God. Oh my. God what. While a.

Lot. But. But. But. But. We. Know. Something. But. I actually. Made. A. Point and I might. I could not. Load it. I I'm going to go home and see. What. My ma. Sœur outlet but. Yes. But. Close. Not a. Lot. And thanks to the woods Tea Company and Russell for Rusty Jacobs Mike

Lawson and Mike and rusty joining us this afternoon and also to Bruce Morgan and the three of them will be here on the Vermont Public Radio sometime in the future to perform live for you and thanks again to the woodsy company for being with us here this afternoon on rhythms here on the stations of Vermont Public Radio. WPP are eighty nine point five Windsor p.s. one hundred seven point nine Burlington and w r v.t. eighty eight point seven in Rutland funding for today's programming is provided in part by Rainey born with Texaco service centers in Stowe and South Burlington and Peter born of born oil of Mars film. It's 11 minutes past 2 o'clock. My name is Mark Hauser and you're listening to rural rhythms here on Vermont Public Radio. Time for the counters we listen to some southern old time banjo playing from

West Virginia. And we want you first to know that one of those Shrewsbury events that we announced earlier during the dance events. Now has a new location. The one that was. Let's see taking place. The sort of nadirs concert that was is taking place on Saturday March 9th as part of a coffeehouse concert series. Which was going to be at the Shrewsbury Mountain School in Shrewsbury is now at the. Let me see. You know I totally take all that back. The Mad Hatters ball which is going to be at the Shrewsbury Town Hall is going to be at the Shrewsbury mountain school that's on Friday March 1st. That's what the saw that sir Nader's performing music and Gambino calling if you like more information call 4 9 2 3 7 9 2. And of course if I've totally confused you or New York I would like more information about any of these events you're always welcome to

call us here at 6 7 4 6 7 7 to. See a house concert with folk singer Susie crate who is from North Carolina and she'll be performing on Sunday February 24th at 5 pm in Fairfax Vermont this will be a potluck to follow for more information and location of this house concert with Suzy Create call 8 4 9 6 3 2 4 or 8 4 9 2 2 7 5 and she's a singer songwriter and interpreter again from North Carolina. So you create. The local vocals series which is taking place Tuesday nights at the waterworks at the Champlain mill in Winooski Vermont from 8:30 to 10 p.m. has as their next performance. Tom peer is only a New Hampshire singer songwriter guitarists. On March 5th. The brothers will be performing at New Beginnings in Newport Vermont on the 20th of February. Coming up the local

legends coffeehouse and kitchen Cabaret which is every Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. daily bread bakery and cafe Bridge Street in Richmond Vermont. The going is going to be a concert with the next one Steve Benford and Alice Kinsey a couple of singers will be in on the twenty eighth. The Burlington coffeehouse takes place every Friday evening in Burlington Vermont at noon Eastern. And next they're in on C next on March 1st will be Vermont story teller and singer songwriter Alice Kinsey along with Steve Benford doing traditional folk and bluegrass and originals and then on the eighth John Haddon and Tom Seeger and Tom Green. And that's at the Burlington coffeehouse or number 8 6 3 6 6 4 8.

Steve key will be performing at the Peterborough New Hampshire's folk way which is a club in Peterborough. He'll be opening for a Mary McCaslin And again that's on the 1st and then on the 3rd. Steve key will be in at the coffee house at the Town Hall with Doug Clegg in where New Hampshire 3 0 1 2 7 0 0 0 4 7 3 the number for more information. The Vermont pub and Brewery which is located at 144 College Street in Burlington Vermont has a number of folk performances of blues and Celtic performances as well along with sometimes open stages and things like that all throughout the weeks throughout the year and they have coming up on Friday the 1st of March. Ted Wesley doing ragtime and Country Blues from 12:50 p.m. Then on Saturday the second Dan Archer and Marin. With blues from 9:30 to 12:30 Walter Weber is in with the Irish

sessions on the 7th and 180 main street performing blues on the 8th. The water Weber's IRA sessions from 8:30 to 11:30 on Thursday at 7 and 180 Main Street Blues 9:30 to 12:30 pm on Friday the 8th. The public very again at 1:44 College Street in Burlington. Ritual basics along with Ellen Powell and Shawn Colvin will be performing Saturday March 2nd at 8 p.m. at the Allen Chapel UVM. And you can call the UVM concert Bureau for more information. Again that's this Saturday March 2nd at 8:00 p.m.. It is going to be an open stage with host Russ Thomas the iron horse in Northampton Massachusetts on Wednesday March 6 at 7:30. And that's. By the way that Shawn Colvin concert along with Rachael basic's and Ellen Pao. Is a concert kicking off the celebration of March as

Women's History Month for 1991. So you can kick it off on March 2nd and you DM's are Allen Chapel. Mary McCaslin will be performing as we've told you previously at a coffeehouse concert for at the little theater in Woodstock from 8:00 p.m. This Friday the first 4 5 7 3 9 8 1 for more information will be giving away a pair of tickets to them for that concert in just a little bit. The Chieftains will be performing at Portsmouth New Hampshire's Music Hall on the 9th. And then of course in Portsmouth New Hampshire. There's a multicultural celebration of songs and stories of living on the land. It's called rural rhythms it takes place on Saturday March 9th at 8 p.m. and it's a variety of performers and you can get more information about location and who all is going to be there by calling for 1 3 7 7 4 4 1 4 1.

0 0 0 seem to be that time of year when there's many events taking place and we can tell you with the folk events calendar. Especially of course as St. Paddy's Day is coming up. Is going be an Irish concerts to benefit the Kimball Jenkins state. And it will be taking place. On Friday March 8 at 8 p.m. at the Kimball Jenkins est carriage house. And that's in Concord New Hampshire 2 2 5 3 9 3 2. You have a house and porch concert with Bill Thomas on March 9th at 8 p.m. and this concert consists of traditional Irish tunes and songs on the Dylan pipes flute tin whistle and other instruments along as well as the voice. And this all takes place in Loudon New Hampshire on Saturday March 9th. And there's a monthly concert series takes place on the second Saturday at the home of Charlie Clarke and Mary Lou Philbin located on back road in

Loudon New Hampshire. The number to call about more information about the series is 7 8 3 4 3 8 3. For St. Patty's Day. The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell Aren't we lucky to have them here in Vermont at the Flynn feeder 153 Main Street in Burlington Vermont the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell. For more information call the flint head 86 F L Y and the Seldom Seen will be performing on the 15th at the Barry Opera House called the on River Arts Council 2 2 9 9 4 0 8 for more information. And will be getting to more information about will be previewing that concert as it gets closer looking ahead Koko Taylor and her blues machine are going to be in at the one here city hall.