Check
out this video from Kaelin's last FolkHouse visit!
Kailin
Yong is a familiar face at FolkHouse. He has performed here three times
with Boulder Acoustic Society and once with The Kailin Yong Peace
Project. He is a blend of virtuosity, inventiveness and passion
mixed a sharp wit and a sense of adventure. Certain to impress life-long
musicians and musical newcomers alike, the Kailin Yong Peace Project in
concert is a wonderful thing!
ERIC TAYLOR Special guest, Bejae
Fleming will open the show!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
Ok, if
you haven't heard of Eric Taylor, I guess that's ok. But if you have a
chance to see Eric perform and pass up the opportunity, that's not ok.
He's that great. By the time this show rolls around it will have
been three years since he's been in Omaha, and that is way too long for
me. Don't even think about it, just be here...
“ I had heard of Eric but had never heard him play. I can honestly say that I've never seen a performer leave so much of himself on stage. He was so honest and his emotions while singing so raw that he could have been alone instead of playing before a room full of strangers.”
– Tom Henry, Barnes House Concert
Way
back in May of 2000, Dana Robinson was brave enough to be the very first
performer at our fledgling house concert series. Happy to say we're both
still going strong!
Underpinning the songs is the undeniable rhythm of their trademark guitar/banjo sound. Whether it is quiet or driving, there is a steady and unrelenting groove to the music that supports the lyric and delivers the story in an effortless and magical way.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dana relocated to New England where he discovered both a thriving songwriters scene and the deep well of traditional mountain music. In the early 1980’s, Dana settled in northern Vermont and built a house “off the grid” (no electricity and phone) on 30 acres near the Canadian border. There he founded a popular bakery, café and folk music venue. Dana launched into full-time touring after the release of his 1994 debut CD, Elemental
Lullabye, and after receiving a request to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City for Putumayo’s Shelter benefit project.
Sue grew up in a musical family in New England. She studied piano, oboe, and Scottish fiddle before meeting Dana in 2002. Sue was working in the environmental field in California when she met Dana at a house concert. Upon moving to North Carolina a short time thereafter, Sue launched into studying with many of the great oldtime musicians in the Asheville area, and naturally adapted to the on-the-road lifestyle.
COSY
SHERIDAN
Saturday, June 16, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
FolkHouse
favorite Cosy Sheridan returns! If you've seen her before you know the
show will be great, and if you've seen her before you'll probabyl be
back! Bring your friends!
Cosy Sheridan has been called "one of the era's finest and most thoughtful singer/songwriters." A winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival NewFolk Showcase and the Telluride Troubadour Contest, she has played everywhere from Carnegie Hall and The Jerry Lewis Telethon to the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Her songs have appeared in best-selling author Robert Fulghum's book "Third Wish" and in the documentary "Lines Across The Sand."
Together with her partner, fellow songwriter and bassist TR Ritchie, Sheridan gives one of the most entertaining and intelligent concert performances on the folk circuit. She is a storyteller as well as a songwriter; she weaves children's stories into tales of modern adulthood: The Little Engine That Could talks with Ferdinand The Bull about achievement verses contentment. Her modern renditions of mythology (we meet Hades The Biker) have won her fans and praise from the press. The Cornell Folksong Society wrote, "Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture, Persephone with Botox."
In her latest critically acclaimed CD, "Eros," Sheridan weaves a cycle of songs about love. Sing Out! Magazine wrote, "Cosy Sheridan possesses an eccentric muse, or perhaps it possesses her. That's all for the good as this muse leads her into explorations to which other writers are oblivious."
Sheridan's masterful guitar style is a testament to years of honing her craft (she was a student of Guy Van Duser and Eric Schoenberg), as is her voice (she studied voice at Berklee). She first appeared on the national folk scent in 1992 when she won the songwriting contests at Kerrville and The Telluride festival and released her critically acclaimed CD "Quietly Led" on Waterbug Records. Folk Music Quarterly wrote, "When she's accepting her Grammy, we can say we knew her when."
Since then she's released 6 more CDs, written a one-woman show entitled "The Pomegranate Seed - An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image and Myth in Modern Culture," and co-founded the Moab Folk Camp with Ritchie. She is a songwriting and performance teacher at adult music camps across the country, among them The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in Washington, The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina and Summer Fishtrap in Oregon.
Scott Alarik, author of "Deep Community; Adventures in The Modern Folk Underground," sums up Cosy and her music this way: "She is a very funny and enormously amiable entertainer with a keen and wicked eye for the excesses of our fast-food, TV-happy and noisome culture."
STILL
ON THE HILL
Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
Seemingly oblivious to the limitations of what two musicians can create, Still on the Hill has set new boundaries of originality. This duo uses traditional instruments from their home in the Ozarks (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica and scrub board) as well as other exotic offerings (Moon guitar from Japan, African Mbira, and Tenor Ukulele) to create a kaleidoscope of musical color and texture:
The result is a yet-to-be-named hybrid music that simply compels people to stop and listen, to pause in their hectic lives and pay attention to something they've never heard before. It's magic, and there's simply not enough magic in the world today. Visually, Still on the Hill is full of color and motion; instrumentally, they command their instruments with power and grace, producing a sound that is both fresh and ancient at the same time; lyrically, their original material is packed with new ideas, social awareness and a level of intellect and consciousness that's seldom found in contemporary tunes.
Still on the Hill are the consummate professionals, whether they're performing for an audience of one or for thousands. Their high-energy show seems to emerge from somewhere deep inside their souls. They play music for one reason: it's a spark, or maybe a raging bonfire, inside each of them that has to come out, something that's shared just as easily with a large festival audience as it would be with a quiet Ozark forest.
DAN
NAVARRO Sunday,
September 9, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
For
over thirty years, Dan Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his
way through a rich and varied career...
As
a songwriter for artists as diverse as Pat
Benatar(the Grammy-nominated classic “We Belong”) , The
Bangles, Jackson
Browne, Keb’
Mo’, Dave Edmunds,
The Temptations, Dionne
Warwick, Dutch superstar Marco
Borsato, The
Triplets, Austin outlaw legend Rusty
Weir and many more...
As
a recording and touring artist with longtime songwriting partner Eric
Lowen in the acclaimed acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro and,
since 2009, as a solo singer-songwriter increasingly on demand on the
national concert circuit...
As
a singer and voice actor in major motion pictures, television series,
commercials and recordings, including the films Happy
Feet (1& 2), Rio,
Ice Age (2 &
3), Robots, The
Mexican, The
Emperor’s New Groove, Envy;
television series Prison
Break, Family Guy,
American Dad
and The Cleveland Show;
recordings with Neil
Young, Andrea
Bocelli, Luis
Miguel, Jose
Feliciano, Susanna
Hoffs and Jon
Anderson of Yes;
and commercials for McDonald’s.
After
22 years and 12 albums with Lowen & Navarro, Dan ventured out solo
in 2009 and released his first album that year, the spirited “Live
at McCabe’s”, with his pals from the Austin-based Stonehoney
backing him. His next album, “Shed
My Skin”, is slated for release in 2012. He also moonlights as
a member of the four-artist Christmas revue, Decembersongs,
with friends Amy Speace,
Jon Vezner and Sally
Barris, and is a known abuser of acoustic guitars.
CAROLYN
CRUSO
Saturday, September 29, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
FolkHouse
is happy to bring back Carolyn Cruso, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer who has toured widely in the United States and Europe, as well as produced eight CDs. She is equally at home on hammered dulcimer, flute, guitar and vocals and performs a diverse array of original tunes and songs as well as traditional material. Her unusual and lyrical approach to the dulcimer especially delights audiences and has even won over curmudgeons who swore they hated hammered dulcimer!
With over twenty years of performing experience, Carolyn is a relative newcomer to the performing songwriting genre and has been surprising fans around the country with the fact that she is a poetic lyricist, a powerfully expressive singer and a strong guitar player. Her lyrics explore love, loss and
redemption and convey a compelling sense of longing.
DARDEN
SMITH
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30PM
$15 Artist Donation Requested
“When I write a song,” says Darden Smith, “the way it ends up is usually not the way I thought it would be when I started.” And that notion of exploration, of following unexpected paths, has been a constant force in his 25-year career as a musician. Smith has long transcended traditional singer-songwriter boundaries, and his varied, fascinating musical legacy continues to evolve.
His dozen critically acclaimed albums, recorded from New York to Nashville and London to Los Angeles, weave together rock, pop, country, folk and Americana influences with the musical roots of his home state of Texas. Smith, praised by All Music Guide as “a singer-songwriter blessed with an uncommon degree of intelligence, depth, and compassion,” enjoys broad appeal on both the American and British music scenes. Likened to songwriters such as Nick Drake, John Hiatt, Leonard Cohen and Elvis Costello, Smith is one of contemporary’s music’s most winning and gifted artistic treasures whose consistent creative excellence keeps blossoming.
show rolls around it will have
been three years since he's been in Omaha, and that is way too long for
me. Don't even think about it, just be here... 
Seemingly oblivious to the limitations of what two musicians can create, Still on the Hill has set new boundaries of originality. This duo uses traditional instruments from their home in the Ozarks (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica and scrub board) as well as other exotic offerings (Moon guitar from Japan, African Mbira, and Tenor Ukulele) to create a kaleidoscope of musical color and texture: 
For
over thirty years, Dan Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his
way through a rich and varied career...
FolkHouse
is happy to bring back Carolyn Cruso, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer who has toured widely in the United States and Europe, as well as produced eight CDs. She is equally at home on hammered dulcimer, flute, guitar and vocals and performs a diverse array of original tunes and songs as well as traditional material. Her unusual and lyrical approach to the dulcimer especially delights audiences and has even won over curmudgeons who swore they hated hammered dulcimer! 
“When I write a song,” says Darden Smith, “the way it ends up is usually not the way I thought it would be when I started.” And that notion of exploration, of following unexpected paths, has been a constant force in his 25-year career as a musician. Smith has long transcended traditional singer-songwriter boundaries, and his varied, fascinating musical legacy continues to evolve.