Alberts Folk Revival 922:
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Ah sorry for the delay guys, but I haven’t had a moment to get this up. The Pickin’ Bubs and Alberts Folk Revival played a great set at the Grafton Pub in September. Alberts Folk Revival is Mike Alberts of the One Mic Stand series and his son Chris. They recently recorded an episode for the Chicago Acoustic Underground podcast so check that out when it’s up. Enjoy!
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Tags: Alberts Folk Revival, Maura Lally, Mike Alberts, Peggy Browning, Pickin' Bubs
Check out this webcast recording of Bruce Springsteen’s acoustic set in Phillidelphia this past weekend (October 6th) at a Vote For Change Obama rally. The video’s tiny but the audio is quite good, and check out that sweet guitar bruce is playing, +3 points for chipped wood. (the audio cuts out for me for a bit at 4 min, but comes back shortly)
Bruce says (around 25min):
I’ve spent 35 years writing about America, it’s people and the American promise. That’s the promise that was handed down to us right here in this city from our founding fathers with one instruction. Thats Do your best to make these things real: Opportunity, Equality, Social and Economic Justice, a fair shake for all of our citizens, the American idea as a positive influence around the world for a more just and peaceful existence. These are the things that give our lives hope, give our lives shape and give our lives meaning. These are the ties that bind us together and give us faith in our contract with one another. I’ve spent most of my creative life measuring the distance between that American promise and American reality.
Tags: America, Bruce Springsteen, Justice, Links, the boss, Vote For Change
August Part 1 [40:17m]:
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August Part 2 [1:22:50m]:
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This week on the podcast we have another episode of the One Mike Stand series, Mike Alberts monthly residency at the Grafton Pub (Lincoln Ave) in Chicago. The theme this month is Duets. The first part contains Mike singing with several friends and the second part contains a set by GoodTimeTonight friends The Pickin Bubs and one by Mark Dvorak with Sue Strom. Music in small bars is some of the best stuff going on on right now. Come out to the One Mike Stand next month or see something in your area!
Performers on Part 1 include Danny Gasperut, Mike Alberts, Tony Polecastro, Simon Flory, Lizabeth MacDonald, Peggy Browning, and Maura Lally. Part 2 includes Amy Jarrett, Sue Strom, Mark Dvorak, Mary Lally, Maua Lally, Peggy Browing, Simon Flory, and Tony Polecastro.
Tags: Amy Jarrett, Danny Gasperut, Lizabeth MacDonald, Mark Dvorak, Mary Lally, Maura Lally, Mike Alberts, Peggy Browing, Simon Flory, Sue Strom, Tony Polecastro
One Mike Stand July 2008 [65:37m]:
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This month’s One Mike Stand is Mike-less. No, not the rig, its alright, but host Mike Alberts is on vacation. While he’s off traveling Mark Dvork has taken over hosting duties for this show. It’s another good one singer-songwriter Randy Burgess shows off his finger picking chops and one-ups us all in technical prowess with his fancy pickup enabled guitar. In the second half of the show old time string band Kettle Moraine play some great folk, bluegrass, and honky-tonk songs, all this out of one microphone, what a deal! Kettle Moraine is Jim Sanabria, Kris Huysken, Dennis Harpole, and Ted Johnson. Ted is an original Old Town School of Folk Music student, he was present at the opening in 1957 and was one of the first hired teachers at the school.
Tags: Kettle Moraine, Mark Dvorak, Randy Burgess
After posting the out of print album version of this concert a bit ago a friend of gave me a copy of the complete concert as it was broadcast on Chicago WFMT radio in 1956. Here’s a copy of it for all your Independence Day Barbecues. From the liner notes:
This historic concert was broadcast live on WFMT radio’s ‘Midnight Special’, on October 25, 1956. It was one of Big Bill’s last shows before being diagnosed with cancer, and one of Pete’s first visits to chicago after leaving the Weavers. This concert is remembered as an important event in Chicago folk music. Soon The Gate of Horn, the first folk music night club in the nation, would open on the near north side, and within the year the Old Town School of Folk Music would open it’s doors.
Click here to download an archive of this concert:
PeteAndBillNorthwestern.zip
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Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy in Concert
Tags: Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger
Hi Everyone, so this is the first episode of the podcast! For this first episode, I have the great pleasure to syndicate Mike Alberts’ monthly series ‘One Mike Stand’.
The live show runs at the Grafton Pub (Lincoln Avenue) every second Tuesday of the month, (Check out the live page for upcoming show dates) but we will be rebroadcasting the series after the fact. This episode was recoded in May and features three segments, Mike Alberts and Mark Mitchell in the first, Maura Lally and Peggy Browing as The Pickin’ Bubs in the second and songwriter Mark Dvorak in the third.
These guys are all doing great stuff, they are great at interpreting traditional folk and roots tunes and at creating new music, this some of the best songwriting going on in Chicago right now.
The Entire show runs 1h:51, the Pickin’ Bubs and Mark Dvorak’s sets are in part 2.
Enjoy!
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Tags: Mark “Louie†Mitchell, Mark Dvorak, Maura Lally, Mike Alberts, One Mike Stand, Peggy Browning, The Pickin' Bubs
