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Bring your friends, your voices and your enthusiasm and join in with Paul and his special guest Sue Mead as they celebrate the lives and music of two of New England's greatest 20th-21st century folk musicians, Bill Staines (1946-2021) and David Mallet (1951-2024).Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines will be in for a special treat (see:). For more than forty years, Bill traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts halls, clubs, and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and for a time, emceed the Sunday Hootenanny at the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge. He quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area . Since 1971, when a reviewer from the Boston Phoenix stated that he was "simply Boston's best performer," Bill has continually appeared in folk-music-listener polls as one of the top-all-time favorite folk artists. Singing mostly his own songs, he became one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene of his day, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. Bill's music continues to resonate as a slice of Americana, reflecting--with the same ease--his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest, the adventurers of the Yukon, on-the-road truckers, as well as the everyday working folks that make up this land (see:).
If Dave Mallett had only written one song in his life - “The Garden Song" - he’d still have left a lasting legacy in music. That composition quickly became a modern folk classic, covered by the likes of John Denver, Noel Paul Stookey, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and even the Muppets (see:). But Mallett’s musical legacy spans far beyond just that one song. He began writing music while attending the University of Maine in the early 1970s. Playing gigs at local bars in Maine, Mallett cold-called Stookey and took him a demo tape. Impressed, Stookey invited the young artist to record his first tracks in Paul's studio. For a time in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Mallett relocated to Nashville, a common destination for songwriters. He eventually returned to his home state of Maine, however, a setting that helped inspire LPs like “The Fable True – Stories from Thoreau’s the Maine Woods,” one of his 17 albums. Mallett’s 2003 “Artist in Me” was named one of the best records of the year by the Associated Press, and 2009’s “Alright Now” was called a masterpiece by the Boston Globe (see:)
$10/pp. Free parking is readily available along adjacent Lyme Street. Refreshments will be available. Seating is limited: advance ticket purchase via the following link strongly recommended: https://www.musicnowfoundation.org/event-details-registration/paul-loether-bill-staines-and-david-mallett-tribute
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Nightingale's Acoustic Cafe, 68 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371, United States
