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Show Folk Utah! debut: CD artists in Red Butte Garden concert Red Butte Garden & Arboretum will be the setting for plenty of great acoustic music on Sunday, August 8, at 6:30p.m., playing host to a concert featuring Folk Utah! Folk Utah! is a collective of many of Utah's most recognized and talented acoustic musicians. With the first of a brand new CD series of the same name scheduled for release in early August, this show will offer a sampler of the enormous talent found in Utah's "unplugged" music community. All of the songwriter /performers are working dedicated musicians that have appeared for years in both the local and national club, concert and festival scene. Their songs, like the lives they lead, offer few, if any, cliches for consumption by our pop-song hungry culture. Wistful to whimsical, Folk Utah! sings of desert canyons, trains, sons and daughters, tainted traditions, sailing ships, dead heroes and slain civic leaders. Each of the performers' offerings reflects the discipline that is the song writing tradition. Green Linnet recording artist Rosalie Sorrels will headline the evening performance with many of her best loved songs and stories. An award-winning, nationally recognized performer, Rosalie Sorrels lived, taught and performed for many years as a resident of Salt Lake City. She now lives in Boise, Idaho. Salt Lake City's Doug Wintch will also be appearing on the lineup with songs from his newly released CD, Wooden Nickels. A long-time Salt Lake favorite, Doug's songs and warm presence place him among people he'd still call his heroes-Jerry Jeff, Taj Mahal, Joe Pass. In nationally recognized songwriter Kate MacLeod's song writing and performing are found elegant musicianship and understatement. Her songs, guitar and fiddle playing are rich with image, verve and humor. She is currently at work a recording project of her own. The husband/wife duo of Steve and Anke Barbee (Stillwater) combine smooth harmonies and instrumentation with genuine song writing talent into a sound that has been winning ears in Utah's music rooms for years. Their guitar sounds are beautifuljust the right touches for their disciplined and lyrical voices. Tom Shults, who resides in American Rosalie Sorrels Fork, has a sizable, if quiet, audience of admirers of his guitar skills and song craft. His recordings- People Tales, Lizard Tales, At This Juncture In Time, and along with his wife Gael, A Shearin'-are popular with fans of his talent and diversity. So far, there's only one Ken Shaw. By day a teacher of science, chemistry and biology, Ken is famous locally for his topical songs for and about Utah, having appeared on the bill with Nanci Griffith and Pete Seeger, and most recently, the Neville Brothers. ~ F-In another Red Butte event, legendary country music vocalist Jerry Jeff Walker will appear August 22 at 6:30p.m. Walker has delighted crowds around the world for over a quarter century. His talent combines folk, rock and country music- a unique mix that is universally appealing, and has retained the power to touch two generations of listeners. Tickets for the Folk Utah! show are $6; for Jerry Jeff Walker, $12 and available at Kingsbury Hall box office (581-7100) on the University of Utah campus or at the gate. Parking at the Garden is limited, but a free shuttle runs from the parking lot south of the Huntsman Event Center beginning at 5 p.m. For more information, call the Concert Hotline, (801) 581-IRIS (4747). LOCALMUSIC R ~ c a ·r :·d .. s. .. F~i~fi~r CD/Digalog Cassette Songwriter's Sampler Featuring: Rosalie Sorrels Tom Shults Kate MacLeod Ken Shaw Amy Jacob DougWintch Scott Williams Jay Toups Megan Peters Dave & Carla Eskelsen Steve & Anke Barbee In Concert August 8! Red Butte Arboretum 774 East 800 South 539--1439 (ii·lll,l·I•UQ MUIIC • mOYIEI 10%oH With Your lAMA Card Intermountain Acoustic Musician, August 1993 1 |
