Bill Staines Concert
7:30
PM,
First United Methodist Church of Salem in the Sanctuary
244
South Broadway, Salem, Ohio 44460
Singer/Songwriter,
Left Handed Guitarist, Storyteller from New Hampshire
Presented by Dulci-More: Folk
& Traditional Musicians
Tickets at
Door for $10 per Person
Total of $5
for All Children in a Family
No Advance
Reservations Are Needed
Updated October 8, 2004
Bill Staines will appear in concert in the Sanctuary of the First United
Methodist Church of Salem starting at
This is the twelfth concert presented in this series by Dulci-More (often in
cooperation with the Dr. Ann Waters at the Kent Salem Music Department, the
Salem Historical Society, or the First United Methodist Church of Salem). Bill
Staines appeared in this series on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at the Kent Salem
Lecture Hall.
Bill’s recordings and books will be available at the concert. Refreshments
during the intermission will be provided by Dulci-More members.
For over 30 years, Bill Staines has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and, for a time, emceed the Sunday hootenanny at the renowned Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after one of his performances, a reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill was "simply Boston's best performer". A decade later, both in 1980 and 1981, the annual Reader's Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a favorite performer. In 1991, Bill entered his fourth decade as a folk performer with an international reputation as an artist.
Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular singers on the folk circuit today and averages around 200 concert dates a year. Bill weaves a gentle blend of wit and gentle humor into his performances, and as one reviewer wrote "he has a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic." His music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
Interspersed between his own songs, Bill also includes songs ranging from traditional folk tunes to more contemporary country ballads and delights in having the audience participate in many of the numbers. He may even do a yodeling tune or two -- having won the National Yodeling Championship in 1975 at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, Texas.
A number of Bill's songs have been recorded by other artists including Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grampa Jones, Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded twenty-three of his own albums, seventeen of which are still in print. Additionally, Bill's songs have been published in four songbooks: If I Were a Word, Then I'd Be a Song, River, Music to Me, The Songs of Bill Staines and All God's Critters Got A Place In The Choir.
Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, The Good Evening Show and a host of local programs on PBS and network TV. Bill continues to drive over 65,000 miles a year, doing what he loves, bringing music to people.
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