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Volume 41 No. 7 July 2015 Special MadFolk Summer Concert Event Brother Sun w/ special guest Tom Prasada-Rao Thursday, August 6 Think of it as a mini folk festival, right While the individual members of 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30) here in Madison: On a Thursday night Brother Sun are all extremely talented in the heart of summer, four outstand- and accomplished nationally touring sing- The Brink Lounge ing musicians will take the stage at the er-songwriters, the harmonizing trio of 701 E. Washington Ave, Madison Brink Lounge to warm up for their week- Brother Sun has its own unique sound. 608-661-8599 end performances at the Shawano Folk The trio’s musical style ranges from folk, $15 in advance Festival. The super folk trio Brother Sun, Americana, and pop, to blues, jazz, and $18 day of show consisting of Greg Greenway, Pat Wictor, rock. Their blended voices are accompa- and Joe Jencks, will be joined by guest nied by the sounds of acoustic and slide Tom Prasada-Rao for a special MadFolk guitars, piano, ukulele, and bouzouki. summer event. Brother Sun is “an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest of male singing traditions.” Helen Schneyer MadFolk Scholarships Awarded The Helen Schneyer Memorial Schol- appreciated to support the next genera- arships for private lessons have been tion of folk musicians, as the folk music awarded to two promising folk musicians community has lost too many greats with- on the recommendation of Madison Mu- in the past year: Pete Seeger, Ronnie sic Makers: Stone Laack-Veeder, a high Gilbert, Guy Carawan, Larry Penn, Jean school junior, and Franco Morales, a 7th Ritchie and Art Thieme have all gone on grader at Spring Harbor School, will both to sing with the Angel Band and we need be studying guitar this summer with Lou- to replenish their numbers. kas Patenaude. We hope to have them Congratulations to Franco Morales play a selection or two at one of our fall and Stone Laack-Veeder! May your concerts. guitar skills improve exponentially with The scholarships honor the memory private lessons with an excellent teacher, of the late folk singer Helen Schneyer, Loukas Patenaude. Photo of Stone Laack-Veeder sister of MadFolk member Mona Wasow. When Helen passed away, Mona’s col- leagues in the UW School of Social Work took up a collection, which Mona contrib- uted to MadFolk. The original funds have been supplemented with contributions deposited in the stringless guitar at Mad- Folk concerts, plus designated contribu- tions made when MadFolk memberships are renewed. Contributions are always Mad Folk Concert Tickets When you see this symbol – ee Sugar Maple Festival Aug. 14-15 – you’ll know that you’re read- ing about a Mad Folk sponsored Only one month away, organizers torically continues far into the night event. Advance tickets for Mad have announced the lineup for the at the campfire where all ages come Folk shows are available online 2015 Sugar Maple Traditional Music together for shared songs and sto- Festival to be held August 14 & 15 ries. Fest-campers will start Saturday at www.madfolk.org and at these at Lake Farm County Park in Madi- with continued song before the gates outlets: son, WI. In its 12th year, the Sugar open at our most recent tradition of Maple Festival continues to present the Saturday morning Bloody Mary • Orange Tree Imports, 1721 Mon- a diverse lineup. This year’s artists jam. Available for purchase will be roe Street include performers Jesse Lége, Kelli tasty brews from our sponsor Tyran- Jones-Savoy and Joel Savoy; The ena Brewing, and food from several • Spruce Tree Music, 851 East Hot Seats; The Lonesome Aces; The area mobile carts including for special Johnson Dead Horses; Hannah Aldridge, and dietary restrictions Bluegrass guitarist Bryan Sutton. The Four Lakes Traditional Music Purchase tickets ONLINE for Mad Attending the Festival is more than Collective is a non-profit organization Folk concerts via Brown Paper just performances; guests take part in supporting the art of traditional mu- live workshops at the Roots & Rea- sic and dance throughout the greater Tickets (with $1.62 service son stage as well as informal jam Madison community. We provide edu- charge): sessions to join in (bring your string cational and performance opportuni- https://www.brownpapertickets. instrument!) or just listen. On Sat- ties that bring together people of all com/producer/10879 urday we will once again feature the ages to celebrate diverse musical tra- You can also purchase advance Wild Rumpus Circus and performer ditions. Tickets are available at their tickets by mail. Send a stamped self- David Landau for the young folksters. website sugarmaplefest.org, or at se- addressed envelope with your check Rustic camping is also available lect ticket locations in Madison. payable to Mad Folk, PO Box 665, at Lake Farm Park — the music his- Madison, WI 53701. If all else fails, call 608-846-9214 for information. Carolyn Carter returns to WI in August Mike Tuten and Carol Huber are excited traditional mountain folk and ballads have more fans who say the same thing, “She is to host singer/writer Carolyn Carter, from earned her invitations to sing with the likes not forgettable”! Stone County, AR on Wed Evening, August of John Prine when he is in the area, Odell This is one concert of the summer you 12th at 7:30 pm at their home. While this is Jackson, the Cobb Brothers and a host of will be glad you came to hear. not Carter’s first tour in WI, it is her first ap- musicians throughout her lifetime.............. pearance in Madison. She, Mike and Carol from a Nashville recording when she was a For a sampling from her last album you are thrilled to have her debut in Madison. teenager to her current road tours that bring can find her at carolyncarter.info. her to festivals, concert stages, House Con- Carolyn, a native from North Central AR certs and everything in-between. For more information or to reserve a spot (Ozark Backhill Country), has been writing at the this House Concert, contact Mike at and singing since she was young. Stone Her lyrics interpret life in the Ozark [email protected] or give him call at County, AR prides itself as being called the Mountain Culture that is intertwined with Na- 608 274-6340. You won’t want to miss this “folk capital of the world” and true to that title tive American ancestry and based on true evening. has produced hundreds of incredible singers, stories of her own life and family. With a pickers, mountain dancers and the like. As simple acoustic style reminiscent of some of The suggested donation for this concert a tribute to their culture of music the Jimmy the best folk artists of the 60’s and 70’s , is $15 but none is turned away. Driftwood Barn and the Ozark Folk Cen- Carter’s sweet, yet haunting voice will keep ter continue to entertain locals and tourists you involved with her stories and music in weekly in Mountain View, AR. a most relaxing and impacting evening of music. After three previous trips to South- Carter’s unique blend of original folk, eastern WI, she continues to draw more and If you are on Facebook, please consider (if you have not already) “friending” or is it “liking” this page. Then when you are on this page you can invite others to “like” this page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madison-Folk-Music-Society/34497984835 GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS A FOREST OF ARMS NETTWERK PRODUCTIOns ~ 2015 me it’s a “fretless zither with two octaves Have Someone Else’s Blues” is very of double melody strings in the key of C nearly a rock song, with lighthearted “na major (middle C to C’’), and four sets of na” backing vocals and cheerful whis- chord strings,” and sounds like a man- tling. It’s hard to describe what exactly dolin or a hammered dulcimer. I was lis- makes “I Was a Wayward Pastel Bay” tening closely to “A Bird Flew Inside the different—might be the Wurlitzer, might House” to hear this magical instrument. be the echoing claves. Or it might be But scrutiny isn’t necessary—there’s no because Higgins cowrote the music for mistaking it during the bridge when a light both (and two other tracks) with usual trill answers the banjo’s call. The song sole songwriter Dekker. Additionally, is indicative of everything that makes the violinist Miranda Mulholland, whom I’ve Great Lake Swimmers so great, includ- always found a bit distracting, appears Review by Kiki Schueler ing a propulsive, head-bobbing melody on only half the tracks. These are all The Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony and a grand, sing-along chorus: “I’m in good things, very good things. Dekker followed the release of his someone else’s shoes, and I hear band’s pretty great 2012 record New no good news, that I have nothing Mad Folk News is published monthly by the Wild Everywhere with the stunning 2013 to lose. Everything’s in danger and Madison Folk Music Society, a non-profit, solo project Prayer for the Woods, on heaven needs help.” volunteer-led society dedicated to fostering which he played every instrument. It Opening track “Something Like folk music in the Madison area. was so perfect, and so overwhelmingly a Storm” hooks you immediately as Contact us at [email protected] addictive, that I wasn’t sure I would ever Dekker’s vocals and Erik Arnesen’s about concerts, membership, scholarships, be ready, or even want, to go back to banjo jump out of the speaker.