Sunday, May 13 , 2012
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Roaring Brook is proud to present living legend and five-time Grammy Nominee and two-time Grammy Winner, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Long a favorite of Roaring Brook Concerts and Hartland Festival audiences we are honored to host him in his only 2012 Connecticut performance. Before he was a major influence on Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Bruce Springsteen, he was part of a circle that included Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and folk icon Woody Guthrie with whom he travelled the country collecting stories and songs. Jack won the Best Traditional Folk Grammy for his 1995 release South Coast and the Best Traditional Blues Grammy for his 2009 recording A Stranger Here. In 1998, Jack received the Presidential Medal of the Arts from President Clinton at The White House. He was part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, Woody Guthrie's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction and Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Party at Madison Square Garden! This living legend's cowboy songs, ballads, blues and travelogue-style yarn spinning are priceless. We look forward to Jack's amazing renditions of songs, "South Coast," "Death Don't Have No Mercy," "Buffalo Skinners," "Pastures of Plenty," "If I Were a Carpenter," "Talkin' Dust Bowl" and "San Francisco Bay Blues".
$25.00 Advance / $30.00 Door
Doors open at 6:30 PM, Show starts at 7:00 PM |
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