A SPLENDID ORCHESTRA
Is in town, but has not been engaged.
ALSO, A DEN OF FEROCIOUS WILD BEASTS
Will be on exhibition in the next Block.
MAGNIFICENT FIREWORKS
Were in contemplation for this occasion,
but the idea has been abandoned.
A GRAND TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION
May be expected; in fact, the public are privileged
to expect whatever they please.
The doors open at seven. The Trouble starts at 8. (from Mark Twain, describing his speaking engagement. )
The MB's are (redoubtable, all of 'em) ANDY COHEN, blues scholar, road
squaller, Memphis-to-the-Yukon driver and unaffiliated sociologist of
all things traditional, MARK ROSS, Greenwich Village folk scene veteran,
collaborator with U. Utah Phillips, folk and labor historian, and CHICO
SCHWALL, multi-instrumentalist, song wrangler and all around trouble
maker. Last time we were all in one place we played fiddle-banjo-guitar
(etc.) ensemble music and decided to
Andy Cohen lives in Memphis when he's not in his car. He plays a lot of
guitar and a little of a few other things, and takes the whole
Southeast, Chesapeake to Texas, as his source: fiddle tunes and blues,
work songs and medicine show routines, tearjerkers and playparties,
ballads and yodels.
Folksinger, Multi-instrumentalist and songpoet Chico Schwall believes
there IS enough to go around and we CAN figure out how to make it work.
He has sung at labor rallies, played in pit bands, designed folk music
camps for kids, burned up the road with Northwest Touring Theatre and
Young Audiences, released three CDs of (mostly) original music and
played for countless contra dances. He teaches "Everything with Strings"
at the Shedd Institute in Eugene and plays with the Low Tide Drifters
and the Axes of Evil String Quartet.