John Roberts/Tony Barrand in Concert

What:

Cornell Folk Song Club Concert

When:

Saturday, February 27, 1999
8:00pm

Where:

165 McGraw Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

How Much:

$8 / usual discounts

It's been thirty years, folks! 
It was thirty years ago right here in Ithaca that two graduate
students a long way from home discovered each other's music and
joined their lively voices together. 
It was in 1969 that John Roberts and Tony Barrand started singing
together and unleashed their unique harmonies and general
explosive outrageousness on the North American folk scene. 
Their energy was pivotal in the early years of the Cornell Folk
Song Club. 

Since it has been decades since John and Tony could be considered
"locals," and since neither one has performed in Ithaca in quite
a few years, there may be a few of you uninitiated to the music
of these two remarkable Brits. 
John and Tony are indeed the premier singers of British
traditional songs in North America today. 
Their repertoire is vast, filled with ballads, lyric songs, music
hall ditties, sea shanties, pub songs, morris dances, seasonal
songs, and parodies. 
Famous for their unaccompanied two-part singing, they are quite
adept instrumentalists as well, with John on concertinas,
hurdy-gurdy, and banjo, and Tony on a variety of implements of
percussive persuasion. 
But they don't just sing and play; John and Tony brighten the
stage. 
They may provide you with the most fun you'll have all winter. 

We can't think of a better way to start the Cornell Folk Song
Club's 1999 season than to bring back our old friends, John
Roberts and Tony Barrand. 
Give them a hearty welcome! 

(John Henderson and Margaret Shepard)

Tickets at Rebop, Borealis, Bound for Glory, and the door. 
Call Ginny, 607.272.3471 for reservations or e-mail
Bill (and follow up with
a call to Ginny, 'cause he'll forget). 
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