Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt January 14Th at the Brink Lounge Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt “Sally Rogers Has a Clear, Fluid and and Sally, to Us

Volume 43 No. 12 January 2017

Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt January 14th at The Brink Lounge Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt “Sally Rogers has a clear, fluid and and Sally, to us. Sam says this is a CD are coming to town! That’s really ‘nuff remarkably agile voice, a keen sense made for those who live IN this messy said. Every time these two impossibly of drama, and a most refreshing sense world and still LOVE it, complete with gifted women team up -- and they’ve of fun.” – Peggy Seeger all its pain and promise.” been teaming up for over thirty five years, including many a stop in Madi- Somehow these two together These sentiments apply not only son -- they drive their audiences wild manage to exude a homespun friend- to this recording, but also to a perfor- with their songwriting, their solo and liness while at the same time prob- mance by Sally and Claudia. They are harmony singing, and their excellent ing and titillating the extremes of a wonder; do not miss this show! musicianship. And as anyone who has emotion you weren’t aware existed. been to one of their shows knows, Claudia, a fearless experimenter in that doesn’t begin to explain the un- song form and delivery, has worked canny grip in which they hold the pas- in both the jazz and folk realms and is Mad Folk Concert Tickets sions of their followers. not afraid to invent whole new com- When you see this symbol – ee binations of the two genres. Sally, a – you’ll know that you’re read- “To say that [Claudia] Schmidt is professional music educator as well as ing about a Mad Folk sponsored simply a performer with a talent to world-traveled performer, knows how event. Advance tickets for Mad entertain would be a miscarriage of to touch the full gamut of feelings we understatement. Schmidt takes her all have tucked away from childhood Folk shows are available online audiences into her world as easily as through adolescence to the present at www.madfolk.org and at these the child who discovers the endless day. outlets: universes that exist in a cardboard box.” -- Door County Advocate They have each produced dozens • Orange Tree Imports, 1721 Mon- of CDs, both solo and as roe Street a duo, a powerful, fun, high energy example of • Spruce Tree Music, 851 East the latter being the 2016 Johnson release of the album “We Are Welcomed.” Purchase tickets ONLINE for Mad Steve Nelson, a fan, Folk concerts via Brown Paper has this to say of the re- Tickets (with $1.62 service lease: charge): https://www.brownpapertickets. “Your CD arrived a com/producer/10879 couple of days ago..... You can also purchase advance We are so grateful for tickets by mail. Send a stamped self- the art and arc of your addressed envelope with your check music that flows straight payable to Mad Folk, PO Box 665, to our hearts! This CD is Madison, WI 53701. If all else fails, call an amazing accomplish- 608-846-9214 for information. ment and gift from you Chad Elliot Plays The Brink Lounge February 25th Please join on February 25, 2016 Chad will be touring in support of his one minded when festivities closed early when Chad Elliot makes his debut per- newest CD – Wreck and Ruin. The title so his mother could attend a Lyle Lovett formance on our MadFolk Stage. I think track was conceived after the Moore, concert. Two hours after Elliott and his I first saw Chad Elliot perform at the Folk Oklahoma tornado of 2013. Elliott didn’t wife and children left, a tornado leveled Alliance Conference around 2007, he think too much of the song at the time his mother’s house. Thankfully, no one had already won a slot playing at Fol- he wrote it and put it aside. Its lyrics spell was home. It could have been worse kAlley’s Festival, and within a year of our out a hopeless situation of a family ex- - the whole family would likely have first meeting he won the Woody Guthrie pecting twins (Elliott being a twin him- been home, kids and all, if not for that song writing contest and was invited to self). As the mother goes into labor the Lyle Lovett concert. Elliott dusted off the play the Woody Guthrie festival, a festi- family finds itself in the back of a broken- “Wreck and Ruin” song to feature on this val that I had been attending for many down Chevy as a tornado bears down on album, adopting the motto “Lyle Lovett years, and he has had many more honor the land. Nothing is left standing, except Saves Lives.” and awards since then. So it has taken the family, now with two babies named me 10 years to finally get Chad’s sched- “Wreck” and “Ruin.” Show will be at the Brink Lounge at ule and the Madfolk schedule to work One year after writing the song, 7:00 and tickets are $12 in advance and so we could present him on our stage. on Mother’s Day, 2014, Elliott and his $15 day of show. Please remember to He comes from Iowa, home of folks that family were celebrating at his mother’s bring an item for the food pantry. have had an influence on him, Greg home in Iowa. His hard-working, single Brown, Bo Ramsey and Dave Moore to mother raised four children alone. No be specific. I remember the first time I played one of Chad’s CDs during a road trip with the family and they thought he had a sound of James Taylor. As any good artist does, he moves his sound around from standard singer songwriter, to some slide guitar and back again. Whatever style he is playing he does it well.

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Right hand man and native Wis- faux funky disco beat of “Tell Her consinite Phil Cook is omnipresent, I’m Just Dancing” takes the art of ex- lending backing vocals, keys and cuse making to a whole nother level. strings throughout. It’s his banjo Who can argue when there’s all that that buoys the infectious title track, saxophone behind him? He must be and his clarinet on the trippy “Like dancing, I certainly am. a Mirror Loves a Hammer.” The two songs appear back to back, but while the first is a light-hearted hallelujah with curious, discussion-provoking, lyrics like “I’m a peach tree jumper with rain in my shoes,” the latter is pseudo-shoegaze, drenched in snare Review by Kiki Schueler and saxophone. Try not to sway, I As universally beloved (and now bet you can’t do it. honored) as Bob Dylan is, probably While Phil and his brother no period of his lengthy career is Bradley (who plays bass on the Mad Folk News is published monthly by the as casually dismissed as the Eight- record) fill out the low-end back- ies. Those seven studio albums, and ing vocals nicely, they meet their Madison Folk Music Society, a non-proﬁt, we might as well include the last match in Raleigh-Durham sirens volunteer-led society dedicated to fostering of Seventies, Street Legal and Slow Alexandra Sauser-Monnig (of folk music in the Madison area. Train Coming, were arguably over- the band Mountain Man) and Tift Contact us at [email protected] produced, but on the bright side (for Merritt. The word association about concerts, membership, scholarships, me at least)that meant horns and fe- travelogue “As the Crow Flies” and volunteer opportunities at male backing vocals crammed into gives everyone room to shine. www.madfolk.org. every song. I would not be the Dylan The chorus “Sing little bird, sing www.facebook.com/pages/Madison-Folk- to high summer, don’t get down, fan I am today had I never seen the Music-Society/34497984835 video for “Jokerman,” and thought you’re nothing but a number,” “Hey, that’s a pretty awesome song.” gets more joyful with every rep- To this day I name his 1983 release etition. The same choir, along Madison Folk Music Society Board Infidels as one of my top five. The with bouncy piano, reinforces first time I heard Hiss Golden Mes- the straightforward message DarleneBuhler...... President,Concerts, senger I thought, “Hey, that sounds of “Say It Like You Mean It,” be- Advertising like Eighties Bob Dylan.” And for me, cause “If you don’t mean it, it 225-0710~ [email protected] that was a very, very good thing. don’t mean anything at all,” of PegMichel….…...... Treasurer course. Taylor’s vocals are the Heart Like a Levee is MC Taylor’s 831-1876 ~ [email protected] seventh release under the odd and focus, expertly laid over the mul- Tracy Comer ...... Membership & Web Site unwieldy Hiss Golden Messenger tipart voices that give the record moniker. The band was formed after its signature sound, but every so 729-4498 ~ [email protected] the dissolution of Taylor’s previous often one of his backing vocal- NorbertWodke…...... …Secretary group, California based The Court & ists gets called up. Taylor claims 836-8422 ~ [email protected] the Spark, when he and bandmate the melancholy “Happy Day (Sis- DedeGoldberg...... Newsletter Scott Hirsch moved to North Caro- ter My Sister)” was always envi- distribution lina. In 2014 he signed to Merge sioned as a Merritt duet. These 246-4332 ~ [email protected] records and released the brilliant are the kinds of dreams I like to Neil Morris...... Newsletter Lateness of Dancers. Levee contin- see come true. editor It would be hard to beat the ues that winning streak, and maybe 358-5855 ~ [email protected] even ups the ante. Taylor’s guitar one-two punch that opens Le- Meg Skinner.………...... Scholarships and magnetic vocals anchor every vee. It’s the combination of the track, but it’s the Dylan-esque ex- “Me & Bobby McGee” channel- 238-6950 ~ [email protected] tras that make it so addictive. I’m ing acoustic guitar strum and Marli Johnson...... sure he didn’t set out to make a re- the everyman lament “It’s hard 770-4643~ [email protected] cord that sounds like outtakes from Lord, Lord it’s hard” that makes Ron Dennis …...... …...... ………. Shot of Love, but that’s what I hear opening track “Biloxi” the sing- 226-9472 ~ [email protected] in the layers of vocals and horns. along standout. Meanwhile the DOWN

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Saturday, January 14, 2017 7:00 pm THE BRINK LOUNGE, 701 E. Washington, Suite 105

Tickets $18 advance, $21 day of show Available at: www.madfolk.org, Spruce Tree Music, Orange Tree Imports

Non-perishable donations of food will be collected for local food banks. January 2017

Common Chord (Michael Bryant & Tracy Jane Comer + friends) • Fri, Jan 20, 2017 - @ 7:30pm - The Brink Lounge, 701 East Washington St., Madison, WI 53703 - Free (donations) - (608) 770-2640 Claudia Schmidt and Sally Rogers • Sat, Jan 28, 2017 - @7pm - Tuvalu Cafe, 300 South Main St, Verona, Wisconsin 53593 - Free (donations) - (608) Saturday, January 14 - $18 adv / $21 d.o.s. @The Brink 845-6800 • Sat, Feb 11, 2017 - @ 7pm - Prairie Coﬀeehouse, Spring Prairie Lutheran Church, N509 County Road C De Forest Wisconsin WI 53532 - Free (donations) - (608) 846-4178 • Thu, Mar 16, 2017 - @ 7pm - The Brink Lounge, 701 East Washington St., Madison, WI 53703 - Free (donations) Chad Elliot - (608) 770-2640 Saturday, February 25 - $12 adv / $15 d.o.s. @The Brink • Thu, Apr 20, 2017 - @ 7pm - The Brink Lounge, 701 East Washington St., Madison, WI 53703 - Free (donations) - (608) 770-2640 • Thu, Sep 7, 2017 - Tracy Jane Comer (solo) - @ 2pm - The Heights at Evansville Manor, 201 North Fourth Cafe Carpe Street, Evansville, WI 53536 - (608) 882-9995 All shows at 8:30pm unless indicated otherwise • Wed, Jan 11, Irish Session - @7pm 18 S. Water St. • Thu, Jan 12, East Nashville Ramblers - @7pm - $10 Ft. Atkinson, WI cafecarpe.com • Fri, Jan 13, Radio Wranglers - $10 Old Time Jam 920-563-9391 • Sat, Jan 14, New Pioneers - @8pm - $12 Monthly - 3rd Sunday of every month, 4 to 6pm • Sun, Jan 15, Peter Mulvey end of marathon charity concert - EVP West 3809 Mineral Point Road @7pm - $25 Coodinator: Al Wilson • Thu, Jan 19, Song Circle w/ Tricia Alexander - @7pm - $5 cell: 608-572-0634 • Fri, Jan 20, Tim Grimm and the Family Band-tentative - $12 [email protected] • Wed, Jan 25, Irish Session - @7pm • Thu, Jan 26, The Suitecase Junket - @7:30pm Madison Area Ukulele Initiative -- Singalongs 3rd Sunday 11am - 1:30pm - for location visit www.MAUImadison.com The Brink Lounge • Wed, Jan 11, Mad Gael Productions presents the Celtic Folk Band: Runa - @7:30pm - $15 adv / $20 d.o.s.

701 E. Washington thebrinklounge.com 608-661-8599 Simply Folk on Wisconsin Public Radio w/ Stephanie Elkins- , Host Sun 5:00-8:00pm Wild Hog in the Woods Concerts recorded in Wisconsin, music and dance of people • Jan 6 - Songwriters in the Round - @8pm wpr.org the world over. For playlists, calendars, station listings, and more, visit www.wpr.org/simplyfolk. Wil-Mar Center • Jan 9 - Coordinator’s Meeting - @7pm 953 Jenifer St. • Jan 13 - 50% Folk - @8pm WORT 89.9 FM community radio wildhoginthewoods. • Jan 20 - Skip Jones & Randall Harrison Hoecherl - @8pm org Sun -- 3:00-5:00pm wort-fm.org 608-233-5687 • Jan 27 - Stephen Lee Rich - Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration • “On the Horizon” w/ Ford Blackwell, Paul Novak, Gloria Hays & Helena White Folklore Village Weekdays 9:00am-noon 3210 Cty Hwy BB • Mon - Global Revolutions (folk from the world over) • Tues, Jan 10th -- Open Mic @7pm Dodgeville, WI w/ Dan Talmo & Martin Alvarado • Sat, Jan 21st -- H”Jane Night” celebrating Founder Jane Farwell’s folklorevillage.org • Tue -- One Fine Morning w/ P.C. Allen 608-924-4000 101st Birthday - @6:30pm • August 19, 20, 21, -- Wild West Days -- 25 Nelson Parkway, VIroqua WI • Wed -- Back to the Country (country music on a www.thewildwestdays.com theme) w/Bill Malone Irish Cultural & Heritage Center All Shows are $10 Advance and day of show w/ Student ID • Thur -- Diaspora (folk and international) w/Terry O’ 2133 W Wisconsin Ave • Sat, Feb 18 - Makem and Clancy - 7:30pm -- $21 • Fri -- Mud Acres (bluegrass and acoustic) w/Chris Milwaukee, WI -- ichc.net adv/$25d.o.s. Powers 414-345-8800 • Wed, April 20 - Trian - 7:30pm -- $21 adv/$25d.o.s. WMUU 102.9 FM • Sat - Exiles Return with Elizabeth Delaquess - 4-6am and again from 10am-noon

Dave & Anne Host Folk Invitation & Advance RSVP required. • African/African-American Dance classes with live drumming -- Sun, 7:00-9:00pm -- For full details or to request an invitation, contact Dave & Anne at Metro Dance, 3009 University Ave. -- 255-3677 / 251-4311 [email protected]

• Dec 31st @ 7:30 pm (doors at 7) The Listening Party Band - $20 / $17 under 18 • SpiritMoves Ecstatic Dance 2nd and 4th Weds, 7:00-9:00 pm -- The Center for Conscious Living, 849 East Washington Ave. -- $7 min. donation • English Country Dance taught -- 1st and 3rd Mon, 7:30-9:30pm -- Wil-Mar Center, Kiki’s Righteous House of Music 953 Jenifer St. -- 238-9951 or 238-9951 Invitation & Advance RSVP required. • International Dancing -- Wed and Sun; classes 7:30-8:30pm, request dancing For full details or to request an invitation, contact Kiki at 8:30-11:00pm -- The Crossing, 1127 University Ave. -- 241-3655 [email protected] • Irish Dancing -- Monthly Ceili and set dance events are posted at • Jan 7th @ 8 pm (doors at 7) Paul Cebar’s Tomorrow Sound -- $15 celticmadison.org/dance • Jan 9th @ 8 pm (doors at 7) David Dondero/Trapper Schoepp -- $10 • Italian Dancing -- Tue, 7:00-9:00pm, no experience or partner necessary -- Wil-Mar Center, 953 Jenifer St. -- 838-9403 (Philana) • Madison Contra Dance Cooperative -- Tue; 7:30 jam band practice, intermediate Second Annual Cabin Fever Square Dance and Pot Luck level dancing 7:45-9:40pm -- $5 for non-members -- Gates of Heaven, 302 E. Gorham -- 238-3394 (Steve) Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St., Madison WI • Morris Dancing -- Wed, 7:00pm -- call for location -- 238-9951 • Jan 28th - Pot Luck @ 6:15 / Dance @7pm - Music by Grandpa’s Elixir / • Scottish Country Dancing -- Sun, 7:00pm -- Wil-Mar Center, 953 Jenifer St. -- 233-2956 Dances called by Steve Pike - $7 / person or $20 for a group of 4 Madison Folk Music Society Nonproﬁt Org P.O. Box 665, Madison, WI 53701 U.S. Postage Address Service Requested PAID ……………………………… Madison, WI ……………. Permit No. 2278 Renew your membership today at www.madfolk.org https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madison-Folk-Music-Society/34497984835 Madison Folk Music Society

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