Posted: Friday, July 19, 2013
TAUNY Brings Long-Forgotten Folk Music to Clayton Stage
Some of the North Country’s finest artists are coming to Clayton on Thursday, August 8, to bring old-time folk music to the Opera House stage.
Clayton is the first in a series of “Songs to Keep” concerts that bring to life music from the long-forgotten Marjorie Lansing Porter Collection, gathered by a lively historian who traveled across northern New York recording songs on her trusty SoundScriber. The concerts are part of an exciting and far-reaching project that includes a CD of songs from the collection recorded by contemporary artists, a song book with music, lyrics, and historical information, and a documentary featuring Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary, and the Bacon Brothers, which will be aired on PBS.
The Clayton “Songs to Keep” concert features musicians from different corners of the region, according to concert host and performer Dave Ruch. “Two of the acts, John Kirk & Trish Miller and Colleen Cleveland, are coming all the way from the southeastern Adirondacks, bringing with them a variety of stringed instruments, some beautiful ballad singing, and maybe even some fancy footwork. From the northwestern corner of the region, closer to Clayton, we have the 17-piece tour-de-force Fraser Family and Friends, and the legendary singer, storyteller, and genuine North Country character Bill Smith.”
Ruch, who has many stories to tell and songs to sing from this collection of music and the making of the CD, will also perform with Bill Smith.
Tickets for the concert are $15 and can be purchased at the Opera House box office or online at www.claytonoperahouse.com. The concert begins at 7:30 and there will be a cash bar reception in the air conditioned third floor banquet room beginning at 6:30. An exhibit exploring the fascinating life and work of Marjorie Lansing Porter will be on display in the reception area.
TAUNY’s partners on the Marjorie Lansing Porter project are Mountain Lake PBS, the Adirondack History Center Museum, and SUNY Plattsburgh Feinberg Library's Special Collections. The project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by an outreach and education grant from the Champlain Valley National Heritage Project. North Country Radio is media sponsor for the “Songs to Keep” concerts.
For more information about the Marjorie Lansing Porter project, click here.
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