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
Tickets at Door
for $10 per Person
Total of $5
All Children in a Family
No Advance
Reservations Are Needed
Bill Staines will appear in concert in the Sanctuary of the First United
Methodist Church of Salem starting at
Tickets at the door are $10 per person with a special price of a total of $5
for all the children in a family. Refreshments
provided by Dulci-More members will be available during an intermission. Bill’s
recordings and books will be available at the concert.
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. He has also written a memoir published in the last year, The Tour.
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.
The First United Methodist Church of Salem is located at 244 South Broadway,
Salem, Ohio 44460. That is a block and a half south of State Street (State
Route 14) in Downtown Salem. Since a left turn onto South Broadway is not
permitted for westbound traffic, those coming from the east should turn south
onto South Lincoln for one block, and west onto Pershing for two and a half or
three blocks to East Alley or South Broadway. The main parking lot north of the
church may be reached by turning south onto East Alley one half block east of
Broadway. The south parking lot of the church (with elevator access) may be
reached from South Broadway or East Alley. There is also parking along South
Broadway and in nearby public lots.
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.
Click here to get a flyer for this Bill Staines concert in Adobe PDF format.
Following are some quotes from reviews in various sources about Bill Staines and some other variations of photographs. This is one where there has been a lot of excitement locally about Bill Staines coming since he gets very regular airplay on local folk radio stations. We would really appreciate a photograph with this information to help draw even more attention to the concert. Prior to last year’s appearance in Salem, Bill’s last local appearance was several years ago at the Morley Performing Arts Pavilion in Mill Creek Park. Dulci-More was the opening act for that concert, and we are very pleased to bring him back to the area.
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"Bill Staines has been my hero since 1977. He
carries on where Woody left off-carrying on the tradition of stories and
characters you wish you knew." - Nanci Griffith |
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"Staines is one of the best songwriters in folk
music today, penning lyrics that evoke a sense of place and a generous spirit
to go along with his pretty melodies. - Associated Press |
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"Staines is one of folk music's best songwriters
and entertainers." - Milwaukee Journal |
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"There is no better writer of instantly memorable
singalong choruses in this genre of music!" - The Boston
Globe |
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"His gentle lilting voice, spacious melodies and
common-chord lyrics give his songs a homespun grace that often belies his
mastery of the folk form. He is such a pure pleasure too, people forget to
notice how damn good at the job of singer-songwritering he really is."
- New England Folk Almanac |
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"Folk singer Bill Staines' compositions recall
the paintings of Grandma Moses - simple, literal and evocative of a bucolic tranquility
that modern times have almost erased." - Hartford Courant |
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"Bill Staines is one of our very best folk and
country singer/songwriters. He's a New Englander who dreams of open plains
and vast, Western skies, and damn his soul, he writes better cowboy songs
than anybody in the Southwest. - The Houston Post |
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"Bill Staines is a prototypical
singer/songwriter, long on the anecdote, quick with the quip, not a stranger
to his character's plights and/or escapades. He's an old hand at selling you
the kind of truisms that crop back into your consciousness a few days after
his tunes have floated off into the ether." - The New Paper
(Providence) |
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"One of the most admired and imitated writers on
the contemporary folk circuit.. [He writes] pensive, probing narratives made
especially memorable by their ability to translate the common details of
common lives into songs of uncommon eloquence and beauty." - The
Austin American-Statesman |
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"He is a poet with Insight about a world that
many of us let pass by. He is a storyteller with a gift for transporting the
listener into the body of his songs." - The Record Roundup |
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"A craftsman who has cobbled together evocative
details, pithy aphorisms and singalong melodies into a trunkful of
unassuming, marvelous songs." - The Washington Post |
Updated October 8, 2004
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