Friday, March 12th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Jeni & Billy are returning to SXSW! Showcase or no showcase, we discovered in 2009 that this is a place to get inspired, get in touch, and get a lot of swag. As big fans of documentary film, this conference is a bit like Heaven -- plus the interviews with directors, film music composers, and the folks who "can do" and "do". We had a ball in 2009 and couldn't resist treating ourselves to a whole week of visual and aural nirvana. Hope to see you there!
Jeni & Billy at SXSW 2009. Notice the telltale lanyards and Billy's brand new haircut courtesy of Jeni's deft hand and happy scissors:
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Interactive, Film, & Music Conference - All Day
Austin Texas US
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
at Congregation Or Ami - 8 pm
9400 West Huguenot Road
Richmond VA 23235
Songs of Coal, Hard Living, and Redemption!
What a wonderful series! And we are so happy to be part of the 2009/2010 group of performers!
We hope to see all of the wonderful folks we met when opening for John McCutcheon in May of 2009!
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
House Concert hosted by Virginia & Royce
3 pm
Arlington VA
Price: $15
How wonderful to be spending the afternoon at the home of Virginia & Royce sharing our songs of the Southwest Virginia coalfields and of love come & gone. To reserve your spot contact Virginia & Royce at AmericanSongBand@aol.com
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Celebrating the Arts Center's 4th Anniversary!!! - 7 pm
2157 Steelsburg Highway
Cedar Bluff Virginia 24641
276-596-9188
Price: $14
We are thrilled to be celebrating the Appalachian Arts Center's 4th Anniversary!
The Appalachian Arts Center is a 4000 square foot gallery, marketplace and educational resource. The center is divided into seven small gallery spaces devoted exclusively to the exhibition and sale of work created by local craftspeople, artists, student apprentices, authors and musicians; while a large rotating exhibition space showcases regional artisans.
Many folks who have stopped along the road at the Arts Center have found our Jewell Ridge Coal CD playing in the background! And we've had lots of letters from folks who have bought our CD there. So, we are looking forward to this homecoming and celebrating the release of our new CD, Longing for Heaven!
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
11 am and 7 pm
9501 Lori Road
Chesterfield Virginia 23832
US (804) 748-1603
Price: Free to the public
Come celebrate Earth Day with us!
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
8 pm
28 North New Street
Staunton Virginia 24401
US 540-885-4220
The lovely town of Staunton has always been a welcome stop for us as we frequently find ourselves on I-81. So, imagine our excitement to be playing at the lovely historic Frederick House. Please call the hotel for information on packages including a room, dinner and the concert.
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Times forthcoming
Wilkesboro North Carolina 28697
US
We are overwhelmed with happiness at being invited to perform at Merlefest! To give you an idea of how close this festival is to our hearts we are sharing a piece that Jeni wrote for the news section of our website back in 2005:
Baptism at Merlefest - April 26, 2005
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I always look forward to this time of year because of Merlefest. Merlefest is an Americana music festival which takes place in North Wilkesboro, NC, the last weekend of April every year.
Two years ago my Dad and I went to Merlefest and I came home with new ears. When my Mawmaw talks of being born again, I think of the way I felt after my first Merlefest. Though I grew up around primitive hymn singing and country music, the old-time sounds that came to me at Merlefest swept through me like a new religion. Sometimes you have to be ready to receive certain gifts and two Aprils ago I was ready.
I had a new guitar and I was writing songs and listening to a lot of Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris. I was also writing a lot of narrative poetry from old family stories that my Mawmaw passed down to me. Just before Merlefest I had written what I considered to be my first really old sounding tune, Up On Middle Creek. This song felt more like home to me than any other I had written before because it told the story of my Great Granddad Babe in a plaintive but raw way. Still I couldn’t quite imagine a place where my new song would fit in. At Merlefest I found the answer.
In the Traditional tent Dad and I heard the singing of Kari Sickenberger and Laurelyn Dossett, two women who make up the North Carolina based duo Polecat Creek. These women sang with conviction and honesty. Their voices were beyond pretty, their voices were innervating. Hearing them made me feel like life just started over and I should jump up and shout about it, but instead I was glued to my seat. Their voices just seemed to climb up and down all over each other and then they would meet for an eerie moment. All this was happening, but it didn’t seem like a fancy trick or choral acrobatics. They just gave the song what it wanted. And then I came to find out that those old songs they were singing were new songs they wrote. Without knowing it these women became my mentors and their songs, like those of Gillian Welch and, later, Martha Scanlan, became the bar which I set my songs against.
Merlefest is a hotbed for a lot of different talent. There are bluegrass all-stars who will pick a mandolin so fast and clean it’s like a drill in your head. And there are tribe bands that will skillfully and subtly send you into a Sufi-like trance. But I go to Merlefest for the songwriting – for an immersion education in story and melody. Two years ago I was baptized in Polecat Creek. It’s time to get my feet wet again.
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
Times forthcoming
Wilkesboro North Carolina 28697
US
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Times forthcoming
Wilkesboro North Carolina 28697
US
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Co-bill with Hungrytown - 4pm - 9pm
The Stag's Head 55 Orsman Road
London N1 5RA
Eng
Price: Donation to artists
Thrilled to be kicking off our UK tour with our favorite duo from the US, Hungrytown.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
7:30 pm
60 Ferensway
Hull HU2 8LN
Eng 01482 318800
We are very glad to be returning to Hull and to be giving our first concert at The Music Centre! We are looking forward to meeting our new students and sharing our love of American Appalachian Music with them.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Workshop for Children - 1:30
60 Ferensway
Hull HU2 8LN
Eng 01482 318800
We enjoyed our visit to the Sydney Smith School in Hull last year tremendously! We are so pleased to be returning this year to teach again and this time at the Music Centre.
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
8:15
17 York Road, Kings Heath
Birmingham B14 7SA
Eng 0121 443 4725
Price: 10 pounds, 9 pounds concessions
This cafe could not be any lovelier! Impossible! It must be one of the loveliest spots we will ever play! We are thrilled!
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Beverley Leisure Complex
Beverley GB HU17 OLT
GB
We are beyond thrilled to be returning to the Beverley Folk Festival in 2010! Can't wait to see everyone again! PeaceCake Cafe, yes please!
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Beverley Leisure Complex
Beverley GB HU17 OLT
GB
Fiona come sing "Tazewell Beauty Queen" with us!
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Beverley Leisure Complex
Beverley GB HU17 OLT
GB
Marks & Spencer ready-made salads here we come . . .
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
8 pm
Wheal Dream Restaurant
Wendron nr Helston, Cornwall TR13 0LR
Eng
Price: Door £5, Members £3
Our first visit to Cornwall! Tremendously excited! See you there!
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
22nd Annual Event - All Day
Conwy Wales GB
We return to one of our very favorite events of 2009! The people of Wales are among the friendliest we've ever met and boy do they love roots music. Though this is listed as a bluegrass festival, and you will hear lots of fine bluegrass for certain, there are a variety of roots styles represented at this lovely festival! And Conwy is full of history (well, that pretty much goes for all of the UK!), a castle, city wall, and a harbor where the water sparkles and seagulls will steal the chips right out of your hand if you're not careful!
Does Billy look nervous in this photo? Maybe it's because we're up on the city wall . . .
. . . taking this photo:
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
22nd Annual Event - All Day
Conwy Wales GB
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
22nd Annual Event - All Day
Conwy Wales GB
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
22nd Annual Event - All Day
Conwy Wales GB
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Friday Folk Concert Series
Hosted by Mike Kelsey at the Monroe County History Center - 8 pm
202 E 6th St
Bloomington Indiana 47408
US
Price: Donations to Artists
Overjoyed to be returning to lovely Bloomington, home of WFHB Community Radio, DJ Mike Kelsey and his champion quilting wife, Linda, and Arbutus the storytelling queen and so much more!
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Hosted by the marvelous Rich Warren - 8pm
5400 N. St Louis
Chicago Illinois 60625
US
Price: Streaming Broadcast
Very honored to be joining Rich Warren on Folkstage and to be following in the footsteps of our songmaking heros like Peggy Seeger and Anne Hills!
You can hear us live on 98.7 FM WFMT in Chicago!
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Soup and Song House Concert
Laurel Maryland 20707
US
Price: $10 donation to performers
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Columbia Lakefront Festival
6:30
Columbia Town Center off Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia Maryland 21045
US http://www.lakefrontfestival.com/wordp/
Price: Free outdoor concert
Bring your picnic blankets and sunhats, we're coming back to the Lakefront for another summer!
Friday, August 6th, 2010
7 pm
Jonesborough Tennessee 37659
US
Price: Free to the public
We are counting the days and hours til we can get back to beautiful downtown Jonesborough, storytelling capitol of the world! Bring your chair and settle down in the square for stories and songs of the Appalachian south.
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Summer on the Porch
Outside and on the grass, bring yer chair! - 6 pm
Old Post Office
Aberdeen North Carolina
Happily, Happily, we return to Aberdeen's lovely little piece of Heaven, the front porch of the Old Post Office. Thanks to the Rooster's Wife for having us back for another go round!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
All Day
Muskoka ON CA (416) 461-1864
Rumor is that we will be teaching Duet Harmony Singing and Appalachian Traditions. Billy will be our point person on Duet Harmony Singing and is hard at work on our Jewell Ridge Coal Songbook which should make a great teaching tool. And I'll be taking the helm on Appalachian Traditions where we'll learn to sing Appalachian Ballads through the oral teaching tradition and write new ones too. Billy and I will do a little talking and showing about banjo as an accompaniment instrument to singing as well. And there may even be a quilting lesson in there. We've also been told that we'll be talking and showing a bit about Music of the Coalfields, so all in all it sounds like a grand time! We hope you'll register and spend the week with us!
Oh Canada!
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
All Day
Muskoka ON CA (416) 461-1864
Friday, August 13th, 2010
All Day
Muskoka ON CA (416) 461-1864
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
All Day
Muskoka ON CA (416) 461-1864
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
All Day
Muskoka ON CA (416) 461-1864
Monday, August 30th, 2010
In the Round! - 8 pm
424 S Walnut St
Bloomington Indiana 47401
So happy to be returning to the Bloomington Songwriter Showcase!
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Private Event
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Optional Pot Luck at 6pm, Concert at 7pm
Nederland Colorado
Price: $10-$15 donation to performers
We are pleased as punch to be kicking off our Way Out West tour with Greg & Deborah Ching and guests in Nederland! Can't wait to smell the aspens and rest our eyes on some mountains.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Co-bill with Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band - 8 pm
2029 N. Lake
Altadena California 91001
US 626.398.7917
Price: $20
After loving our fine listening crowd at our Coffee Gallery Backstage debut in November 2009, we are looking forward to sharing the night with a lady after our own hearts Susie Glaze. Susie has studied extensively with Kentucky ballad singer and songwriters Jean Ritchie and brings a deep understanding of roots music and a clear bell-like voice to every performance. Just can't wait!
Our lovely friend Susie:
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
7:30 opener, Jeni & Billy at 8:30
250 E. Center St.,
Anaheim California 92801
US 949-646-1964
Price: $14 or $11 for members, children
We are thrilled to be part of this series that promotes traditional music.
From their website:
The Living Tradition is a non-profit organization working to support and preserve traditional music and dance in Southern California. We host contra dances, contemporary and traditional folk music concerts, and traditional music jams nearly every month at the beautiful Anaheim Downtown Community Center in Anaheim, California.
All of our events are family-friendly and are open to the public. Admission prices for dances and concerts are modest, and children under 18 years are free with a paid adult. There is no charge for our music jams. Bring your friends, make new friends, get some exercise (dancing), or just relax and enjoy traditional American music.
The Living Tradition events held at the Anaheim Downtown Community Center are partially funded by a grant from the Anaheim Arts Council.
The Living Tradition Concert Series presents international and local artisans of contemporary and traditional folk music for a modest cost in an intimate setting.
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
8 pm
1131 Main Street
Newman California 95360
US (209)862-4490
Price: $7.50 - $18.00
How proud we are to be playing in this lovely restored theater with all of the charm of days gone by! New Old music in a New Old theater!
Friday, October 8th, 2010
7 pm
Las Cruces New Mexico US 575-522-5197
Price: $15
How happily we await our night at Lee Herman's lovely house concert series! I (Jeni) spent 7th & 8th grade at Sierra Middle School in Las Cruces, my favorite grade school and educational experience by far! So what a homecoming this will be. A trip to the fabulous Whilte Sands is planned for us the day after the concert and, of course, we'll be sharing our stories and songs of the coalfields and from our new record "Longing for Heaven."
For reservations and info please contact Lee at:
houseconcerts@comcast.net
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
at the Abounding Grace Sanctuary, co-bill with Joyce Woodson - 7 pm
2450 S. Kolb Rd
Tucson Arizona 85747
US
Price: $15 each, $25 per couple
Not only are we thrilled to share our music in Tucson, but we are especially looking forward to sharing the night with Joyce Woodson. Joyce is an amazing songwriter and storytelling. She can incorporate the sound of sprinklers into a song with unexpected grace and poignancy. Her gentleness, kindness, and her smile will have you singing all the way home. We welcome this opportunity to share our music and to share in fellowship with Joyce.
Our smiling friend Joyce Woodson:
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
All Day
San Jose California US
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
All Day
San Jose California US
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
All Day
San Jose California US
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
All Day
San Jose California US
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
7pm
1900 Tyler Street
Conway Arkansas 72032
US 501-327-7482
Price: Free to the public
Very much looking forward to our return to Conway!
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
A Little Lunch Music - Noon
Gaffney South Carolina 29340
US
Price: Free to the public
Very glad to be returning to the beautiful small town of Gaffney and this fine library!
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