WFMA Showcase
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8739 Flower Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20901
Sunday, June 9, 2013
7:00 PM
Featuring:
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Jim Jones
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(with Chris Parker)
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Jim Jones was born in a log cabin in Illinois…. (ahh…sorry, wrong bio).
Jim Jones’ interest in folk music started in the early 60’s.
His first performance was as part of a “Peter, Paul and Mary” type group in high school in Dover, DE.
In college, Jim mostly studied folk music (when he should have been studying subjects such as Psychology, English and Math) and played as a solo around Central Pennsylvania.
After the end of the “folk scare,” from the early 70’s to the mid 80’s, Jim only played occasionally for his own amusement at home, while concentrating on graduate school, law school and a career.
However, after finishing law school in 1985, Jim decided that he needed to get back to the folk music he loved so much.
Since then, he has played in the folk duet, “Mutual Company,” in several old time string bands (most recently “The New Southern Cowtippers”), and for the past five years as part of the 60’s retro-folk band, “Kensington Station.”
Jim has decided to go back to solo performing, bringing back the music that was so much a part of, and influence on, his early adult life in the 60’s.
is a singer-songwriter based in Richmond, Virginia.
She’s always been a singer and writer—growing up in Kansas City, in college at Harvard, and performing in Boston and Virginia.
Susan released her fifth CD, This Life, in 2012 and
the recording is receiving significant national airplay on Americana, folk and country stations.
Country/Americana music website “Roughstock” calls her “a songwriting talent to be reckoned with,” comparing her writing and singing to Mary Chapin Carpenter and Bonnie Raitt.
Susan has won several songwriting contests, most recently placing second overall in the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Songwriters Contest.
She has also won the Philadelphia Songwriters Project songwriting contest; the Smithsonian Songwriters Award; and the first and second place overall prizes in one year in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, the only time that the same artist won both top prizes in the same year.
Billboard has reviewed her twice, saying her “voice is a delight, strong, clear, and drenched in pleasing harmonies” and calling her “a startlingly adept writer.”
As the opening act on Jewel's tour, Susan energized large concert hall audiences with enthusiastic and bubbly performances reflecting her irrepressibly friendly personality.
She has also performed with Grammy winner Jason Mraz and opened for Kenny Loggins, Patty Griffin, Dar Williams, Janis Ian, Jim Messina, Todd Snider, Jill Sobule, Lucy Kaplansky, and Catie Curtis.
The most frequently heard comment at her gigs is, "Great songs—and how does all that big, beautiful sound come out of someone under five feet tall?"
Find out at susangreenbaum.com.
Americana duo
were recently honored when they were invited to perform at the Washington Area Music Association music awards in February; but they have been performing their “slice of Americana with a side of suburban twang” together for over a decade.
It is no surprise that their musical lives began long before.
Michael Dunkley began his musical career as a young folksinger turned rock-and-roller, but was always in love with the bluegrass and mountain music of his ancestral North Carolina. He shared his warm voice and steady guitar playing as lead singer and rhythm guitarist with ground-breaking “Rhythm and Bluegrass” band Coup de Grass well into the 1980s.
Suzanne Ives has been writing songs and playing guitar since before she was 14, but resisted performing in public until the late 1990s.
After attending the debut years of the SummerSongs songwriter camps in Ashokan, New York, her stage fears were quieted and she later worked there as a harmony vocal instructor.
Her initial recording, “Faraway Girl”, was produced at the camp by accomplished singer-songwriter and former Bonnie Raitt bass player Freebo, who also played second guitar on the track.
Though their own CD is in production, there are a number of other recordings on which they already appeared.
“BumpKin Pie combines two of the best voices in the area, harmonizing beautifully.
Add in brilliant songwriting and a charming stage presence, with a pinch of sass, and you’ve got the recipe. Highly recommended!”
- Dan Grove, Entertainment Chair – Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival