Anne Hills Featured at a Fundraising Concert for
Sing Out! Magazine
Along with
Sons of the Never Wrong
Eric Noden and Joe Filisko
Cameo Appearance by Ella Gill
Sponsored by Plank Road Folk Music Society,Two Way Street Coffee House,
Fox Valley Folklore Society, Studio A Recording and Sound,
98.7 WFMT, 90.9fm WDCB Public Radio,
89.3fm WNUR Folk Show
Sunday, June 6
6:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Home of the Two Way Street Coffee House
First Congregational Church of Downers Grove
1047 Curtiss Street, across from the public library
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
This concert is a rare opportunity to hear acoustic folk music in the beautiful sanctuary (auditorium) of the church!
Anne Hills will perform at a fundraiser in the auditorium of the First Congregational Church of Downers Grove on Sunday, June 6, 2010 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm; doors open at 6:00. Area favorites, Sons of the Never Wrong, and, Eric Noden and Joe Filisko will share the stage with Anne at this event, which will be emceed by Dave Humphreys of the Two Way Street Coffee House. Rich Warren, host of WFMT radio's Midnight Special and Folkstage will also participate. Sound will be provided by Maurice Smeets, Studio A Recording and Sound.
This concert is made possible by the generous contribution of time and talent by the musicians, sound engineers, community organizers and fans that support acoustic music. Our thanks go out to everyone!
All proceeds will benefit Sing Out!, a not-for-profit organization committed to preserving the folk music tradition. Co-founded 60 years ago by Pete Seeger, Sing Out! has struggled to weather these difficult economic times.
The Plank Road Folk Music Society, the Two Way Street Coffee House, and the Fox Valley Folklore Society have teamed up to sponsor the concert, inspired by an email that 14-year-old Plank Road member Ella Gill received from Sing Out!
Co-founder Pete Seeger wrote:
“A little over 59 years ago, I helped to co-found a wonderful little magazine called Sing Out!
Today, in these changing and challenging economic times, Sing Out! is struggling to survive. As we head toward our 60th anniversary next year, we need your support more than ever. I ask you to consider making a contribution to help Sing Out! get through this very difficult year AND to ensure another 60 years of sharing songs that we need to learn and sing.”
-Pete Seeger
Ella, a performer and folk music enthusiast, brought the idea of a fundraiser to the Plank Road Folk Music Society, asking for their help in making the event a reality. Her belief in Sing Out! as a worthy cause, combined with her energy and delightful personality, made it easy for area Folk Music organizations to pull together and support her request to one of her favorite folk musicians, Anne Hills, about performing at a benefit concert. We envision the fundraiser as a night to lend support to Sing Out! and to honor its tradition of sharing music at the same time!
Please come and share in this wonderful evening of song!
Tickets are $15
Advance Ticket Purchase Recommended
Tickets will be Available at the Door
Questions and Advance Tickets:
Sue Gill: (708)763-9864 jimgillmusic@earthlink.net
Checks and Credit Cards Accepted
Two Way Street Coffee House:
At Friday night concerts. Cash and Checks Accepted
Anne Hills:
“Hills has carved a distinct niche by performing contemporary folk songs in a stunning voice ... Experimenting with country, blues and jazz techniques, she brings a fresh vision to many of the finest folk songs being written today.”
— Michigan Daily
As a singer, actress, writer, and musician Anne Hills has continuously built a reputation of merit. During her career, she has received numerous honors including, most recently, the 2006 Pennsylvania Partner’s in the Arts Project Stream grant award (for the 2007 premiere of An Evening of James Whitcomb Riley). In 2005 she received the same grant for her premiere of The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley. She was also the recipient of the WFMA 2002 Kate Wolf Memorial Award, and The Kerrville Music Foundation’s Outstanding Female Vocalist of the Year Award (1997).
“Anne Hills is such an exquisite singer that it’s understandable that people might be swept up in the pure beauty of her voice and thereby overlook her writing. That would be a mistake. For me, Anne’s writing, in songs like ‘Follow That Road’ and many others, is as direct, melodic and deep as any work being done today. She is quite simply one of my absolute favorite songwriters.”
— Tom Paxton
www.annehills.com
Sons of the Never Wrong:
The Sons of the Never Wrong has been creating original "turbo-charged folk music" for over 18 years to a cult-like international following. With their outrageous approach to 3-part harmony on top of original, witty, whimsical songs, Sons' style has turned familiar musical traditions inside out! In performance this trio’s energy can power up an entire town, and in this day and age of global warming, we all could use some wattage like the Sons of the Never Wrong.
“Folk Music Reinvented: Sons of the Never Wrong keep pushing the genre forward.” Southwestern Observer
www.sons.com
www.myspace.com/sonsoftheneverwrong
Eric Noden and Joe Filisko:
The early blues and roots songs performed by the guitar and harmonica duo of Eric Noden and Joel Filisko reflect the influences of musicians such as Sonny Terry, Daddy Stovepipe, Fred McDowell and Gwen Foster. The duo’s first CD’s success led to several European tours as well as festival and workshop appearances in the US. Their new release “I.C. Special” continues to draw on American music from the 1920’s & 30’s.
“Two marvelous musicians who have
captured not only the sounds but the
emotional spirit of some of the richest
bloodlines in American music.”
--Kim Field (author of Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy
Breathers)
“Joe Filisko & Eric Noden make a
thoroughly convincing case that this music
is the real deal, and their spirited
performances make it sound both fresh and
contemporary”—Dirty Linen
www.ericnoden.com/Filisko_Noden
Ella Gill, named for the great Ella Fitzgerald, was born to sing. She grew up listening to music of every genre, but it was the acoustic sounds of Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan that most inspired her. She made her folk music debut at age 7 in her school’s talent show, singing the classic “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” in protest of the Iraq war. Her passion for folk music was reignited in the summer of 2008 when she befriended an old guitar that had been, for her entire lifetime, sitting quietly in a basement corner. Since then, Ella has performed locally at Val’s Halla Records and the Buzz Café and has amassed a tremendous collection of LP records. Ella is also an accomplished dancer and was honored to be a part of the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker for five seasons. She savors Agatha Christie, and is endlessly thrilled to spot Alfred Hitchcock in his films. |