Hunterdon County - Stockton - Folk Music Concerts You Can't Hear On The Radio
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Mercer County - Princeton - Roosevelt String Band Concert: The Pete Seeger Songbook
Sunday, November 17 -- Mercer County Roosevelt String Band Concert: The Pete Seeger Songbook Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 p.m. $10; Free for Friends of Morven CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Click here for more information New Jersey’s Roosevelt String Band presents “The Pete Seeger Songbook," songs that Pete Seeger wrote and recorded, including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "Turn, Turn Turn," "We Shall Overcome,": and many more. The band features David Brahinsky, now living in Princeton on guitar and vocals, Joe Pepitone, from Brooklyn on bass, Nancy Wilson from Ewing, NJ on vocals and Paul Prestopino from Roosevelt (the sole member of the Roosevelt String Band still residing in Roosevelt), on at least 4 or 5 string instruments and vocals.
Union County - Union - New Jersey Folk Revival Music – History and Tradition
Sunday, April 7 – Union County The Union Township Historical Society will host Michael Gabriele on Sunday, April 7, at 2 pm for a program on his book New Jersey Folk Revival Music – History and Tradition. The event will be held at Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church, 888 Stuyvesant Avenue, Union. The presentation will include a short live-music segment and a book-signing. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Refreshments will be served. The book, published by Arcadia Publishing/The History Press, is a narrative on the evolution, traditions, and history of folk revival music in our state. Beginning with tavern revelers and fiddle players in the 1700s, the story moves to the “Guitar Mania” of the mid-1800s; to monumental recordings made at Victor studios in Camden in the early 1900s; to legendary artists, such as Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan; to the...