Jack Hardy
Thursday, April 16, 2009
original folk songs set firmly in the centuries-old tradition of Celtic balladry
Door 7:30
P.M., Music 8:00
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$18.50
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In his song, "The Tinker's Coin," Jack Hardy sums up his art,
"They can lock me up as best they can,
Yet songs can never know those chains.
The song is sacred as the wind,
We are just the harp that's singing."
Jack has written some of today's finest music, Celtic ballads that have been mistaken for traditional songs, romantic love songs, and witty country western songs. His songs are steeped in history, politics, mythology, and symbolism, all in a performance seasoned with humorous anecdotes and interesting footnotes.
Born in Indiana, raised in Colorado, schooled in Connecticut, Jack first gained fame in 1968, as editor of the University of Hartford newspaper, when he was arrested and convicted of libeling (then) President Nixon, in a case later thrown out on appeal. He landed in New York, where he helped rebuild the folk scene, most notably at The Fast Folk Café, where his weekly songwriting workshops had a major affect on hundreds of songwriters, including Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. He subsequently founded and edited Fast Folk Musical Magazine, which fostered a new sensibility for creative songwriting.
In 1996, BCN Records released a tribute album The Songs of Jack Hardy: Of the White Goddess, a collection of his Celtic ballads, all sung by women. In 1997, Jack was the recipient of The Kate Wolf Memorial Award, given yearly to "an artist who makes a difference through his music" by the World Folk Music Association. In 1998, Prime CD reissued his first ten albums in a box set as well as his eleventh album The Passing. In 2007, Prime CD released Jack's sixteenth album Noir.
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