Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings

December 2007

Contents

  • Katherine Rhoda will be featured at December 9 Song and Story Swap
  • Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen coming to Amherst on Jan. 13
  • Calendar of Western Mass. folk events

Katherine Rhoda will join December 9 Song & Story Swap

Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Song & Story Swap.

Sunday, December 9, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the The Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst, Mass (see map).

Katherine Rhoda will be featured performer at the December 9 Song & Story Swap in AmherstGuest performer for the December 9 Song & Story Swap will be folksinger and multi-instrumentalist Katherine Rhoda.

Maine native Katherine Rhoda has a passion and gift for engaging her listeners. Whether sharing a traditional ballad, a rollicking instrumental, or a piece of humorous social satire, she brings a lucid and refreshing quality of intelligent, respectful, openhearted presence to her work. In the face of so many forces that separate and isolate us, her goal is to be joyfully subversive, drawing her listeners into an experience of contact, ease, mutuality, gusto and Big Fun.

She sings in a sensitive and rousing voice, and plays a variety of fascinating instruments, which include the Marxophone and violin-guitar, unique American play-by-number instruments sold door-to-door beginning in the early 1900s. She also plays the Lithuanian Kankles, the guitar, and more. She shares joyful tunes and songs of freedom, struggle, spirit, and humor, drawing upon both traditional and contemporary sources, and often encouraging audience participation.

Learn more about Katherine Rhoda at http://www.katherinerhoda.com.

The warm-up theme this month is Jealousy.

The PVFS Song & Story Swap happens the 2ND SUNDAY of every month.  For information contact Paul Kaplan, (413)-687-5002 or Jeff Lee, (413)-256-0433 or visit http://www.filbert.com/pvfs.

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen coming to Amherst on January 13

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen will join Jan. 13 Song & Story SwapAnd mark your calendars! — reknowned folk duo Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen will be the featured artists at the January 13 Song & Story Swap at the Nacul Center. This Vermont couple has been on the vanguard of folk music since they began performing together in the late eighties. Possessed of dazzling instrumental skills, mellifluous vocals, deft songwriting and a winning stage presence, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen are not to be missed!

Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 13 at the Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst.

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Western Mass. Folk Calendar

  • Dec 6 - The Colt Thompson Project.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 6 - Spouse, Spottiswoode and His Enemies.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 7 - Evanescence.  Mullins Center, UMass, Amherst, MA.  7pm.  413-545-0505.
  • Dec 7 - Son Flamenco 2007 featuring flamenco dancer Ines Arrubla and her cuadro flamenco of three dancers and her band of Flamenco, Latin and Jazz musicians.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 8 - Matt & Shannon Heaton.  The Captain Charles Leonard House, 663 Main Street, Agawam, MA.  7:30pm.  413-786-9421.
  • Dec 8 - James Delnero & Lost Mountain and Appalachian Still.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Dec 8 - Son Flamenco 2007 featuring flamenco dancer Ines Arrubla and her cuadro flamenco of three dancers and her band of Flamenco, Latin and Jazz musicians.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 8 - Bill Staines.  uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series, 245 Porter Lake Dr., Springfield, MA.  8pm.  413-562-3990.
  • Dec 9 - Katherine Rhoda.  PVFS Song & Story Swap, Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst, MA.  7pm.  413-256-8025.
  • Dec 9 - Kelly Joe Phelps, Brooke Brown-Saracino.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 9 - Jimmy Sturr: Holiday Magic Christmas Show.  MassMutual Center, 1277 Main St., Springfield, MA.  3pm.  413-787-6610 .
  • Dec 10 - Wishbone Ash.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 12 - Cherish the Ladies.  Fine Arts Center, University of Mass., Amherst, MA.  .  413-545-2511.
  • Dec 13 - The Bad Plus.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 14 - Pioneer Valley Gay Men's Chorus .  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Dec 14 - Abbacadabra-The Ultimate Abba Concert.  Calvin Theatre, 19 King St., Northampton, MA.  8pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 14 - Chris Smither.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 14 - Tin Pan Caravan featuring Anais Mitchell, Louis Ledford, Rachel Ries, Robert Blake.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 15 - Dennis Caraher.  Echo Lake Coffeehouse, 9 Montague Road, Leverett, MA.  7:30pm.  413-548-9394.
  • Dec 15 - Todd Rundgren.  Calvin Theatre, 19 King St., Northampton, MA.  8pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 15 - PACE CD Release Party with Julia Suriano & Many Special Guests .  Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Elm St., Northampton, MA.  8pm.  41-585-2750.
  • Dec 15 - Chris Smither.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 15 - Black Rebels .  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 15 - Kim Zombik.  Hilltown Music, Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls, MA.  7:30pm.  413-625-6878.
  • Dec 15 - Full Moon Follies.  Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse, Town Hall, Wendell, MA.  7:30pm.  978-544-8339.
  • Dec 16 - David Mallett, Stewart Lewis.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 18 - Latin Night with DJ Joey Acevedo: Latin music and dancing.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 20 - The Bittersweets, John Kuhn.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 21 - Jeff Pitchell and Texas Flood.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 22 - Brooke Brown Saracino & Claire Dacey & More.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Dec 22 - The Commander Cody Band.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 23 - Susan Angeletti, Hope Keenan .  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 25 - Latin Night with DJ Joey Acevedo: Latin music and dancing.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 27 - New Riders of the Purple Sage.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 28 - Alejandro Escovedo, Haunt.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7&10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 29 - Roomful of Blues.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 29 - Leah Randazzo.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 30 - Richie Havens.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7&10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 31 - The Kennedys.  Academy of Music, 274 Main St., Northampton, MA.  .  413-584-8435.
  • Dec 31 - Melissa Ferrick, Erin McKeown, Alix Olson.  Calvin Theatre, 19 King St., Northampton, MA.  .  413-586-8686.
  • Dec 31 - Mad Agnes.  First Night, Various locations, Northampton, MA.  .  413-584-0784.
  • Dec 31 - Big Al's Big New Year's featuring Big Al Anderson.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7&10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 4 - Livingston Taylor.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 5 - Shtreiml.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Jan 5 - Livingston Taylor.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 5 - Woods Tea Company.  Common Grounds Coffeehouse, First United Methodist Church, 55 Fenn St., Pittsfield, MA.  8pm.  413-499-0866.
  • Jan 6 - Traditional Jewish and Klezmer Music.  National Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.  2pm.  413-256-4900 .
  • Jan 6 - Catie Curtis, Chris Trapper (of The Push Stars).  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 8 - Seth Glier and The Dancing Men.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 8 - Latin Night with DJ Joey Acevedo: Latin music and dancing.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 10 - Brilliant Disguise: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen, Thane Thomsen (The Figments), Steve Sanderson (Drunk Stuntmen), Rusty Belle, Kevin O'Rourke of Lofine, Chris Pureka, Philip Price, Henning Ohlenbusch, Mark Mulcahy, Frank Manzi Band, Dave Houghton (Fancy Trash), Matthew Hebert, Jeffrey Foucault, Dennis Crommett, Jose Ayerve (of Spouse), Jim Armenti (Lonesome Brothers), Erik Alan (The Amity Front).  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 11 - Swing Caravan.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Jan 11 - John Gorka, Meg Hutchinson.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 12 - Linda Hickman & Michael Nix.  Eric Carle Museum, 125 Bay Rd., Amherst, MA.  1pm.  413-658-1100 .
  • Jan 12 - Two Man Gentlemen Band.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Jan 12 - Jeffrey Foucault.  St. James Coffeehouse, 8 Church Street, Greenfield, MA.  7:15pm.  413-772-2213.
  • Jan 12 - Lori McKenna Band, Mark Erelli.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7&10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 12 - Geoff Bartley and Paul Kaplan.  uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series, 245 Porter Lake Dr., Springfield, MA.  8pm.  413-562-3990.
  • Jan 13 - The Hevreh Ensemble.  National Yiddish Book Center, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.  2pm.  413-256-4900 .
  • Jan 13 - Steve Gillete & Cindy Mangsen.  PVFS Song & Story Swap, Nacul Center, 592 Main St., Amherst, MA.  7pm.  413-256-8025.
  • Jan 13 - Willie Nile.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 15 - Andy Statman.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 16 - Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 17 - Leon Redbone.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 18 - Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Heaton.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 19 - Wintergreen.  The Captain Charles Leonard House, 663 Main Street, Agawam, MA.  .  413-786-9421.
  • Jan 19 - Mike Agranoff.  Echo Lake Coffeehouse, 9 Montague Road, Leverett, MA.  7:30pm.  413-548-9394.
  • Jan 19 - Cheryl Wheeler, Anne Heaton.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 20 - Marah, Adam and Dave's Bloodline.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  8:30pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 21 - Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 23 - Bettye LaVette.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 24 - Tracy Grammer , Rebecca Pronsky.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 25 - Antje Duvekot with Carrie Ferguson .  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Jan 25 - Gokh-Bi System.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  10pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 26 - Aeroplane 1929 and Low Anthem and Steve Biegner & Julia Suriano.  PACE, 41 Union St., Easthampton, MA.  8pm.  413-527-3700.
  • Jan 26 - Rory Block, Avi and Celia.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
  • Jan 27 - Michael Barnett & Friends.  Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St., Northampton, MA.  7pm.  413-586-8686.
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December 4, 2007