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The Pine Hill Project: Richard Shindell & Lucy Kaplansky

David Wilcox

Diana Jones

Rebecca Frazier

Catie Curtis

Caroline Cotter

Mike Vial

Ken Yates

Chad Elliott

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BEST LISTENING ROOM IN COLUMBUS

SEPTEMBER 2015

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Did you see Columbus Monthly magazine’s Best of Columbus 2015 issue this summer? They named Six String Concerts the best Listening Room for experiencing a live concert in their editors’ picks for the best of arts and entertainment in Columbus. They wrote:

“There are some pretty polite rooms for music in Columbus. But we’ll be darned if we can find people more reverent and ready to absorb music than we’ve found at Six String Concerts. All the more impressive: The series is run by volunteers who’ve booked distinguished, familiar artists like Shawn Colvin, Ani DiFranco, Stacey Earle, Iris DeMent, The Roches and The Wailin’ Jennys. They’ve also built relationships with many other folk, roots and Americana artists who have made repeat visits and who know just what to expect from the Six String audience: affection, support and all ears.”

They got it exactly right. It’s all about our audience and volunteers connecting with some of the best performing songwriters on the planet.

We hear from artists all the time how much they appreciate performing for such a knowledgeable and supportive audience. So we’re thrilled that you were recognized by this prestigious publication from among all the live entertainment options in Central Ohio.

Above all, it’s you – our enduring musical community, built from our first concert in 1988 – that makes the experience so special.

Many thanks to Columbus Monthly and to all our dedicated patrons and volunteers who make Six String Concerts events so special for artists and audience alike.

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What’s better than having both Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky scheduled to perform for us this season? Having them appear together, in the form of a veritable folk super duo, The Pine Hill Project.

As solo artists, Kaplansky and Shindell have been making critically acclaimed albums since the early 1990s, and each has contributed harmonies to every one of those albums.

As The Pine Hill Project, the duo has released Tomorrow You’re Going, an evocative, sometimes rollicking, deeply moving collection of songs from writers as diverse as Greg Brown, Nick Lowe and U2.

The duo’s stunning harmonies call us all home to the broad cultural field where Americana, Folk, Country, Pop, and Roots Music meet. Rarely have two singers sounded so perfectly suited to each other and to the repertoire. They bring a new and deeply personal musical sensibility to this treasure trove of songs.

Richard Shindell is a meticulous craftsman of song.

SEPTEMBER 2015

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Saturday, September 19 / $30 Advance / Columbus School for Girls / 56 S. Columbia Ave.

THE PINE HILL PROJECT: RICHARD SHINDELL & LUCY KAPLANSKY

A folk music “super duo”.

He weaves tales that champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected and tell stories of those lost to society’s fringes. His first-person narratives shine through the voices of vagrants, truck drivers, cabbies, drug addicts, Confederate drummerboys, Argentine grandmothers, and frustrated mule drivers.

Lucy Kaplansky’s musical road has been a winding one.

Initially known as everyone’s favorite singing partner, the result of her gift of harmonization, Kaplansky most often found herself singing as a duo with Shawn Colvin. People envisioned big things for them; in fact, The New York Times said it was “easy to predict stardom for her.”

But then Lucy dropped it all. She gave up music for school, earning a doctorate in Psychology. Dr. Kaplansky was often pulled back into the studio by her friends, (who by then had contracts with record labels) wanting her to sing on their albums. She returned to music full time in 1994 and has released a steady stream of quality music.

“ The voice of a master.– The Los Angeles Daily News

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“The troubadour laureate of modern city folk.– The Boston Globe

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Troubadour is published twice annually by Six String Concerts, Inc., a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to promoting regional and national acoustic performing songwriters not otherwise heard in Columbus. The concerts are held primarily in smoke- and alcohol-free environments which provide mutual satisfaction to the audience and artists.

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DAVID WILCOX RICHARD SHINDELL & LUCY KAPLANSKY

WITH CAROLINE COTTER

David Wilcox’s lyrical insight is matched by a smooth baritone voice, virtuosic guitar chops, and creative open tunings, giving him a range and tenderness rare in folk music.

Considered a ‘songwriter’s songwriter’, his songs have been covered by many notable artists. In addition to his writing prowess, his skills as a performer and storyteller are unmatched. He holds audiences rapt a fearless ability to mine the depths of human emotions of joy, sorrow and everything in between, and all tempered by a quick and wry wit.

An Ohio native, Wilcox was born in Mentor and first learned guitar during his days as a student at Antioch in Yellow Springs. Since the very beginning, Wilcox has focused on bringing the audience along on his journey. He describes his process using a travel metaphor featured in his songs. He says he follows “…the navigation I get from music. I love to follow where music leads, not geographically, but emotionally”.

Wilcox released an independent album in 1987, was a winner of the prestigious

Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk award in 1988, and by 1989 he had signed with A&M Records. His first release on the label, How Did You Find Me Here, sold over 100,000 copies the first year largely by word of mouth. Now, 18 albums into a career marked by personal revelation and wildly loyal fans, David continues to find and deliver joy, inspiration, and invention.

For his latest CD, blaze, Wilcox worked with producer Ric Hordinski, who set some playful ground rules, designed to ensure maximum spontaneity: Don’t over-think it; only one vocal take on a song before moving on; listen back the next day. This off-the cuff approach didn’t just apply to the way Wilcox sang; it changed what he sang about, as Hordinski’s approach emboldened Wilcox to take chances with both execution and subject.

As he notes in his liner notes, the album is a “complex blossom of contradictions that is held together at the center by this blissfully focused state of mind…” With blaze, David Wilcox has stayed true to himself, and artistically alive no matter what, leaving only the path ahead and the trail to blaze.

Friday, October 23 / $24 Advance / Columbus Performing Arts Center

“ Brilliantly articulate guitar, an honestly pretty baritone, and deft lyrics.– Boston Globe

“See page 7 for opener Caroline Cotter

A trailblazer with pop and modern folk aesthetics.

SEPTEMBER 2015

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Diana Jones is an award-winning singer-songwriter based in New York and Nashville.

She grew up in the Northeast with no art or music in her home, the adopted daughter of a chemical engineer. During her childhood and adolescence, she felt an almost mystical, seemingly inexplicable attraction to rural Southern music, but it wasn’t until her late twenties, when she located her birth family in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in east Tennessee, that her deep affinity for traditional folk and Appalachian music began to make sense.

Jones’ 2006 recording, My Remembrance of You, earned her a nomination as Best Emerging Artist at the Folk Alliance Awards, leading to tours with Richard Thompson and Mary Gauthier, appearances at folk festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, and covers of her songs by Gretchen Peters and Joan Baez.

Her next recordings, Better Times Will Come and High Atmosphere, established Jones’ reputation as one of the premier artists in the folk music /Americana world.

Her latest release, Museum of Appalachia

Recordings was, appropriately, recorded in the Museum of Appalachia, a secluded cabin in Clinton, Tennessee. The album was named to lists of Top Americana Records by UNCUT Magazine, Top Overlooked Records by No Depression, and Top Country Records by BBC Scotland.

Among the high praise for the album, MOJO Magazine raved, “There is much authenticity about the way Jones wraps herself in old-time mountain music for her newly written stories of betrayal, loss, and departure. It could easily be pastiche but - with that yearning voice, sympathetic fiddle, mandolin and guitar picking, and the beguiling intimacy of the Museum of Appalachia cabin where it was recorded - the atmosphere is seductive.”

Jones maintains an active touring schedule in Europe, U.K. and Ireland, and the United States. She has performed and toured with Nanci Griffith, Richard Thompson, Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, Ralph Stanley, and Janis Ian.

In addition to her musical career, Diana is an accomplished portrait artist and is currently at work on a memoir.

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Authentic Appalachian tradition.

Friday, November 13 / $22 Advance / Columbus Performing Arts Center

DIANA JONES WITH MIKE VIAL

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“Rebecca Frazier is a triple threat. She is a wonderfully engaging singer, a compelling songwriter and an accom-plished guitarist to boot.

– Alison Brown

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For bluegrass artist Rebecca Frazier, the guitar has always been a means of transporting her, whether to a different state of mind, to a campfire bluegrass circle, or onto the stage of one of the hundred-plus festivals at which she has performed.

A Virginia native, she spent her summers in the Shenendoah Mountains at a girls’ camp. “I was song leader when I was thirteen,” she says, “so I was required to write songs and teach melodies to fellow campers. We’d sing three part harmonies as we washed our hair in the ice-cold Cowpasture River.”

In college, Rebecca immersed herself in the local bluegrass scene and was soon balancing late night bar gigs with early morning exams. She won the Hopwood Award for her thesis at the University of Michigan about guitarist Emily Remler, earned her degree in Music and Literature, and then studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

During an eight-year stay in Colorado, Rebecca co-founded Hit & Run Bluegrass, an award-winning, Boulder-based outfit, which made history by becoming the first band to win both prestigious band competitions at Rockygrass (2002) and Telluride Bluegrass Festival (2003).

By 2007, Rebecca had married and relocated to Nashville, where Hit & Run took advantage of a more centralized touring base. Months later, her husband John was offered a position in the John Cowan Band. “I knew I couldn’t make the leap into motherhood while I was practically living on the interstate and at festivals.” A baby boy was born and Hit & Run continued to tour, albeit not full-time. Rebecca continued her studio work and she used her spare time to write.

Her first solo release, When We Fall, is something different for Frazier: a collection of self-penned bluegrass and Americana songs.

Oddly enough, it never occurred to Rebecca that she might record a collection of her own songs until she unexpectedly lost her second son in 2010. “I knew I could rely on creativity and hope in order to heal,” Rebecca relates.

She continued the process of writing new material and refining songs she’d written since moving to Nashville. “While the project itself may have been inspired by loss, its creation has brought joy to the forefront,” she says. In more ways than one, that is—the new album converged with the birth of a baby girl.

A musical triple threat: strong lyrics, vocals, and pickin’.

Friday, December 4 / $22 Advance / Columbus Performing Arts Center

REBECCA FRAZIER WITH KEN YATES

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Catie Curtis is a veteran on the singer /songwriter folk scene, crisscrossing the US for 20 years and counting, with devoted fans following her every move.

In a career that boasts 13 CDs, Curtis has several stand-out moments. She has performed at the White House several times, at two Presidential Inaugural Balls, with Lilith Fair, and at Carnegie Hall. The winner of more than her share of Boston Music Awards, she also took the Grand Prize in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition, out of 15,000 entries.

In addition to her distinguished music career, Curtis is an active social advocate. Since 2012, she has been the producer of Voices United Concerts, organized to raise awareness and funds for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a bi-partisan non-profit that lobbies, litigates and educates to protect against religious extremism. Voices United shows have presented a diverse lineup of artists including Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Louis Black, and John Gorka. The first season, in 2012, presented 75 house concerts (one in every state) over one weekend.

When Curtis is not writing, recording, touring or producing concerts, she also officiates and performs at fans’ weddings, having received her ordination online in 2011. She teaches at song schools around the country, leads high school songwriting workshops, speaks on diversity, and runs a

songwriter retreat in Maine every summer called “Catie at the Cove.”

Her 13th album, Flying Dream, continues her songwriting signature of being deep and soulful, telling honest and universal truths of the experience of living. Flying Dream is a start-to-finish collaboration with Sugarland co-founder and modern folk songwriting luminary Kristen Hall.

Curtis came to the creation of this album with a desire to articulate “some really universal experiences.” “What’s eerie,” she says, “is how much the songs ended up being true to my life.” It’s no accident that the album is bookended by songs that deal with choosing to not withdraw from life, but rather savor the simple, sensual and sacred surprises it brings.

A folk-rock goddess.

Friday, January 8 / $22 Advance / Columbus Performing Arts Center

CATIE CURTIS WITH CHAD ELLIOTT

“ Folk-rock goddess.– The New Yorker

“See page 7 for opener Chad Elliott

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With a captivating soprano voice and award-winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter is recognized as a rising star. Having lived, worked, and traveled all over the world, Cotter’s music bears the marks of a storyteller with a unique set of tales to tell.

Mike Vial sings about searching for true love, taking chances, and facing life’s transitions. These themes mirror the songwriter’s last four years. He left his teaching position to pursue music full time, got married, celebrated the birth of their first baby (a girl!), and took on a songwriting challenge to write 30 songs in 2014. His vocal style is comparable to James Taylor and Ari Hest, but his guitar playing stands out with its own voice, mixing elements of jazz, folk, and rock.

Born and Raised in London, Ontario, Ken Yates moved to Boston to study songwriting at Berklee College of Music. It was there that he developed his skills as a songwriter, releasing his first CD, “The Backseat EP”, and received the opportunity to play a song for one of his biggest influences, John Mayer. Mayer even posted a full-page blog about Yates’ ability as a writer stating, “Ken Yates wrote a song called ‘I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love’… this song moved me when I first heard it and still does today”.

Chad Elliott combines soulful, well-crafted songs with laid-back storytelling and skillful fingerpicking to deliver a memorable experience. Averaging close to 200 shows per year, Elliott has been on the road for more nearly 20 years performing a blend of Americana, roots and country music. Along the way, he has released 19 full-length albums and received accolades and awards including the 2009 Woody Guthrie Festival song contest.

Evocative, eclectic northern New England Americana.– New York Music Daily

Brainy folk-pop hybrid that appeals to mainstream fans and indie-tempered listeners. – Lansing State Journal

Ken Yates’ music is solid as stone and clear as mountain air.– Livingston Taylor

A timeless and genuine musical poet with supple-strong roots.– No Depression

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