Joe
Hickerson 70th Birthday
& Retrospective with Mary Cliff
MONDAY,OCTOMBER 17, 7:30 PM
St Mark Presbyterian Church
10701 Old Georgetown Rd., Rockville, MD
$12IN
ADVANCE, $15 AT THE DOOR
“He’s a great songleader.” — Pete Seeger
“A hero to me.” — Tom Paxton
“A vintage pre-plugged paleo-acoustic folksinger.”. — Joe
Hickerson
Regardless of descriptions, his concerts are guaranteed to “” For more than 50 years, he
has performed over a thousand
times throughout the USA and in Canada, Finland, and the Ukraine. His
repertoire includes a vast array of folksongs and he has recordings on
the Folk-Legacy and Folkways labels, ranging from 1957 to 2003. Joe
also has a career as a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, and
librarian; For 35 years he was Librarian and Director of the Archive of
Folk Song/Culture at the Library of Congress. Now he continues to
lecture and write on a variety of folk music topics, and is available
for song and copyright researches. Join us as Mary Cliff, host of the
WETA radio show, Traditions, guides us through a retrospective of his
music, while coaxing Joe to tell us the stories behind his fascinating
life.
Mary Cliff grew
up in
Arlington, and has been active in the Washington-area music community
since high school and college in DC. In 1972 she was hired to host
Classical Weekend at WETA, where she’s been ever since. Traditions,
her four hour Saturday night folk music program, is known for its
breadth: a mix of traditional, revival, singer-songwriter, ethnic,
world and kitchen music, with a strong emphasis on artists and
performances in the greater Washington area.
• Advance ticketing for
this concert has closed.
Tickets will be on sale at the door.
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www.joehickerson.com
