Folk Notes [November 2002]
F O L K C L U B O F S O U T H F L O R I D A Visit us at http://members.aol.com/souflafolk for FOLK NOTES music links and upcoming events November, 2002 ______________________________________________________________________________ ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND FOLK FRIDAY PRESENTS CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS: Andrew Calhoun Friday November 15th, 8:00pm Radoslav Lorkovic If there is an Saturday November 2nd, 8:00pm aristocracy in Despite the Croatian contemporary folk name and heritage music Andrew singer/ songwriter Calhoun is royalty Radoslav Lorkovic is and membership in solidly based and that heady group grounded in an amazing is not by birth but range of genres from by work. Critics elegant classical and place him in the jazz to the rawest, most company of his basic blues, country, close friend, the zydeco, Cajun and soul. late Dave Carter who said of him: "Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To With roots in Iowa from the age of six, a grandmother my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive." who was an internationally known classical pianist, and Others put him with Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, John an early diet of Slavic folk songs, he built on an already Prine, Michael Smith, Steve Goodman and, his eclectic background. On keyboard or accordion, you mentor, Martin Carthy. The commonality here is the might hear the influence of the New Orleans styles of love of language, the word, the turn of phrase labored Professor Longhair, James Booker or Doctor John. and crafted plus the ability to use that skill to describe His blues credentials include tours with Bo Ramsey, and illuminate life as it is lived and observed.
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