[dcab-l] Reminder - Stephen Wade with James Leva, Danny Knicely and more at the Birchmere 9/27

Here is a friendly reminder about the upcoming special event at the Birchmere on Thursday, September 27 featuring Stephen Wade and an all-star band that recorded Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition for Smithsonian Folkways (out September 11).

Here is the first review of the new album from Banjo Hangout:  http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/243126d 

"Stephen coaxes a unique approach to each tune from the long histories of each of these songs, and documents the trajectory from the first appearance of the tune to his own attempt to capture aspects of what his teachers told him he ought to aim for in catching the old music.... You gotta get this CD"

Listen to a sneak preview of the album here: http://goo.gl/fQxmd

Full details:

On September 27, 2012, at 7:30 pm, The Birchmere presents Stephen Wade in a rare, one-time concert marking national publication of his new book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience (University of Illinois Press) and the release of his new album, Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition (Smithsonian Folkways).

This signal event, a narrated, multimedia, musical stage performance, features Stephen Wade, accompanied by veteran instrumentalists and singers Mike Craver, Russ Hooper, Danny Knicely, James Leva, and Zan McLeod. The concert brings together two endeavors, deeply entwined both historically and personally. Stephen's Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition takes its inspiration from the very recordings explored in his book The Beautiful Music All Around Us. The stories there, like the sources for this album—and the contents of this evening's program—foreground the music against its backdrop in life.

Innovative and often surprising, Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition explores knowledge older musicians have bequeathed to younger players. Inspired by past banjo masters of frailing and two- and three-finger styles, the album mines new creative possibilities with pump organ, piano, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, Dobro, washboard, rhumba box, and bass.

The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience takes as its starting point thirteen iconic performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and on to the Great Plains. Through decades of research and detective work, Stephen Wade tracked down surviving performers and their families, fellow musicians, and community members. Weaving together loving and expert profiles of these performers with the histories of these songs and tunes, Stephen brings to life largely unheralded individuals—farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners—whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. Book/CD signing follows the show.

Listen to Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition: http://goo.gl/fQxmd

Watch video about The Beautiful Music All Around Us: http://youtu.be/debETxZWoPQ

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