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Rootz: The Green City Music Festival
Saturday, July 12
Mellon Park (Shadyside)
FREE!
Main
Stage:
Rani
Arbo & daisy mayhem
Steve Forbert
Ernie Hawkins Band
Road to the Isles
Lackawanna
Longnecks
Hooley
Lohio
Mon
River Ramblers
Pittsburgh
Ambassadors
The Pittsburgh Songwriters' Project (featuring
Tom Breiding & Rick Malis)
Pavillion
Stage:
Peter King & Marc Reisman
Devilish Merry
Mark Weakland
George Kantor
Mike & Janet Reing
Steve Pellegrino
Jack Erdie
Rolling Scones
John & Wendy Mackin
Children's
Tent:
Youth members of The
Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra
Hands All Around
Members of the Zany
Umbrella Circus
Charlie Anderson & Daphne Pappas
Silk Screening with Amy Garbark
In 1977, Calliope held its first outdoor music
festival—The Smoky City Folk Festival. The SCFF was
held for the next 23 years and created the opportunity for
local artists to perform in front of thousands of people.
The SCFF helped to launch the careers of many Pittsburgh musicians
and brought a variety of young people into the organization,
young people who over the years have grown into some of Calliope’s
most dedicated members and donors.
On Saturday, July 12, Calliope will hold an
updated version of the Smoky City Folk Festival—Rootz:
The Green City Music Festival. Through the festival, we will
remember Pittsburgh’s past as a smoky city while celebrating
its new incarnation as one of the country’s most livable
cities. The festival will emphasize that, though Pittsburgh
is no longer a smoky city, its rich traditions continue to
flourish and have grown to take on new meaning as the smog
has lifted.
The festival will kick off with a performance
by bagpiper and Calliope founder George Balderose and will
continue throughout the day, with performances by a variety
of regional artists in styles from bluegrass and American
traditional to singer-songwriters and blues. Concerts will
take place on the main stage in Mellon Park and on the newly
constructed pavilion at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
The festival will also include a children’s tent and
a silk-screening station, where festival-goers can print their
own Calliope t-shirts using eco-friendly recycled t-shirts.
Rootz Festival Kick-off featuring
 Mike
Seeger in Concert
Wednesday,
July 9
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Shadyside)
6:30pm-Reception,
7:30pm-Music
"His instrumental technique borders on
the astonishing. He switches easily from guitar to banjo to
autoharp to fiddle to mouth harp, singing and foot stomping
all the while. Just playing with authenticity and style is
a trick in itself, but Seeger does it with class and jovial
spirit."
--Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner
As a full-time musician and collector, Mike has toured throughout
the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
and Japan. In the music he makes, he strives for both variety
and depth of feeling while maintaining his own identity by
creating within the boundaries of true traditional music.
$75
(reception and concert)
$30 (concert only)
Purchase tickets online
or
Contact the Calliope office for tickets to this special performance
(412) 361-1915 / calliope@calliopehouse.org
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 Calliope
& the Ligonier Theatre present:
Stacey
Earle
& Mark Stuart
Sunday, June 8, 5:00pm
Ligonier Theatre (210 W Main St. Ligonier, PA)
Tickets: $12
(724)238-6514
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart met in 1991 at
a songwriters night in Nashville, TN. They knew that night
it was one of them things that are just meant to be. They
were married in 1992 while raising 2 children from Stacey’s
first marriage. Stacey waiting tables, Mark playing night
after night in and around Nashville from gigs to sessions
balancing time to play their own music. Stacey and Mark each
had their own solo careers that started to make a move by
opening their own indie record label Gearle Records in 1998
with the release of Stacey’s Simple Gearle
CD followed by Mark’s 1999 release Songs From A
Corner Stage and continuing on with Stacey’s 2002
Dancing With Them That Brung Me, before Stacey and Mark
would announce their husband and wife duo in 2001 with the
release of their (Double Live CD) Must Be Live.
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 Save
the Date!
Blues at the Crossroads
Sunday,
October 5
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
(Shadyside)
Featuring:
Cephas
& Wiggins
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Thursday,
May 15
Calliope Songwriters Circle CD Release Concert
Club
Cafe (South Side)
6:00 (doors), 7:00 (show),
21+
$5 (will fund upcoming Songwriters Circle projects)
Emay, Sue Gartland, George Kantor and Cathy
Stewart are showcased in this part of a concert series celebrating
the release of Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle (2007),
the third compilation album of contemporary folk and country
folk songs recorded by members of the group.
2007 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds
from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
CD's are available for sale at Calliope events, and at cdbaby.com
 We
come together once a month in the back of Pittsburgh's Bloomfield
Bridge Tavern to make ourselves heard, to support and challenge
each other, and to celebrate the intoxicating joy of making
music. We are the Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle, a program
of Calliope: the Pittsburgh Folk Music Society. Our faces
and voices and stories are as diverse as the songs on this
disc, but a shared commitment to the art and craft of songwriting
is our common thread.
This CD is the third collection of our work. Like its predecessors,
it gives us the opportunity to present our songs to the world
as we first experienced them — as a group. Each song
was written and performed by a member of the Circle, often
with the help of a few friends. It is a labor of love if there
ever was one.
Read
a Pittsburgh City Paper review of this CD!
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2006 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit
Calliope.
This album can be purchased at Calliope concerts, and at Threepenny
Opry events.
Dan Bench
Howard Davidson
Peter Donovan
Bruce Hoffman
Nancy Deckant
George Kantor
Dennis McCurdy
David Wells
Cathasaigh
Sue Gartland
Randy Hoffman
Jack Knight
George Salamacha
Another Country with DJ Danger
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2005 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
To purchase this CD, visit cdbaby.com
 1.
Pennsylvania (Jonathan Ritz)
2. Last Chance Band (David Wells)
3. Bartender (Andy Tinker)
4. Thoughts of Missouri (Sue Gartland)
5. Cocaine Don't Care (Robert Wagner)
6. Sweetness (Dan Bench)
7. Naked Mole Rat (Randy Hoffman)
8. Shades of Green (Howard Davidson)
9. Richard Jewell (John Hayes)
10. Take it in Stride (George Kantor)
11. Big Time (Patti Spinner)
12. Seven or Fewer (David LaRose)
13. S.W. (Peter Donovan)
14. I'm a Walker (Jack Erdie)
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