Coordinators of the Linden Tree Coffeehouse (Wakefield), Music in Melrose, and the Ivy Chord (Reading) announce that The WUMB 91.9 FM annual music festival returns to the waterfront campus of UMass Boston on Sunday, June 6th. Attendees will enjoy music from over two dozen talented performers on three indoor and outdoor stages from noon to 7pm. The festival, now in its thirteenth year, offers a full day of live entertainment, including blues, bluegrass, and singer-songwriter contemporary folk music. “The most exciting aspect about the festival is our artist line up that reunites legendary musicians of the past, while introducing up and coming artists of the contemporary folk and blues scene,” Pat Monteith, the station’s general manager. Festival goers won’t have to worry about the weather or bringing chairs as there is a new main stage with seating under a large tent. Members of the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association will be again hosting at the Coffeehouse Stage where you can meet and greet some of your favorite singer songwriters.
Exciting elements of this year’s festival are the performances from both David Bromberg and John Sebastian. Legendary guitarist Bromberg makes his return to the stage after leading one of the largest folk music bands of the 1970s. Muldaur and Kweskin have also reunited to perform regularly since their Jug Band fame of the 1960s. The Angel Band also joins the line up with powerful lyrics, and melodious voices. A graduate of Amherst College, Amy Speace, signed by famed Judy Collins, will be on hand to perform her poetic lyrics. Guitarists Pete and Maura of The Kennedys and singer-songwriter Cliff Eberhardt will also be on stage to perform.
Some young, new and edgy artists will bring strong lyrical, and performance based shows to the festival. As a major act of the festival this year, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, bring great presence to the stage, where music is only one component of their performance. By combining acoustic, and techno music, Mick Lynch and Kevin May of Guggenheim Grotto have excited UK and US audiences over the past three years. Winterbloom traditionally performs contemporary folk songs about the winter season, but Antje Duvekot, Anne Heaton, Meg Hutchinson, and Natalia Zukerman will reunite in a special performance for this festival. Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther of Dala, who wowed crowds at The Newport Folk Festival last year, will also be there to demonstrate their skills on the guitar as well as the piano.
For attendees seeking local talent, this year’s festival features artists from around the region. * Chris O’Brien, awarded new artist of the year in 2008 by WUMB, will attend along with Les Sampou, an artist with a blues and rock background, and powerful guitar skills. Michael Troy, native of Somerset MA, combines his strong lyrics, with folk and bluegrass music. From Vermont, Anais Mitchell, consistently pushes vocal boundaries by singing folk opera along with acoustic guitar performances. Danielle Miraglia, of Revere MA, is renowned for her blues influenced guitar style, and eclectic array of songs. Also performing alongside Miraglia in a blues song swap are distinguished blues performers Scott Ainslie and Brendan Hogan.
Tickets start at $15 for lawn seating, $30 for general admission withWUMB members receive tickets at a discounted price. Bring family and friends, for a great day of music, crafts and food spread throughout the UMass Boston campus. Tickets for children ages 6-14 is $10, and tickets for kids under six are free. Information about the 2010 WUMB Music Festival can be found at www.wumbmusicfest.org.

The WUMB Music Festival is a production of UMass Boston’s WUMB Radio. WUMB is a listener-supported non-commercial radio station for those who love original music and diverse radio programming. The station broadcasts from studios located on the UMass Boston campus, which serves as the main hub for a network of five public radio stations in Boston, Worcester, Falmouth, Orleans and Newburyport, Massachusetts. Please visit www.wumb.org for a 24-hour-a-day broadcast and more information about WUMB Radio. Patty Domeniconi
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“Celebrate with us for today Lonesomeville is being launched to 275 plus Americana radio programmers at stations nationwide. Al Moss Promotions is repping Les’s album and he’s one big cat in the radio world. Presently, he’s repping such majors as Willy Nelson, John Prine, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Merle Haggard, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin and the Crazy Heart Sound track to name a few.
One thing you can do besides ‘send the love’ to Lonesomeville as it travels the airwaves is give us a holler at tracey@trespassmusic.org if you hear it anywhere so we can help chart it’s progress.” Give a listen to Lonesomeville if you haven’t already http://www.lessampou.com/discography.cfm

Kathy Sands-Boehmer just posted a “Quick Q&A” interview with Joe Iadanza, to promote his upcoming show at The Me and Thee Coffeehouse. You can check it out here:

http://meandthee.org/blog/txp/blogspot/269/quick-q-and-a-with-joe-iadanza

Enjoy!

Trespass Music is kicking off it’s new Radio Promotion arm with the national distribution of Joe Iadanza’s new CD, “All In Good Time” to Folk DJs. Already revered as “classic” and “a very big one” by European critics, Trespass hopes to build on Joe’s recent successes in Europe as he expands his reach across America. A broader European push will follow.

For more information about Joe Iadanza and his new CD, “All in Good Time”, or to find out more about Trespass Music’s radio promotion services, contact Tracey Delfino – tracey@trespassmusic.org.

Classic.

In the ten new songs on his second CD American singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza makes a big step forward.

Much more subdued than on his good debut Traveling Salesman, Iadanza stays much closer to folk than to roots music this time. The total absence of up-tempo songs in favour of ballads is striking, although in his lyrics Iadanza takes a stance just as categorically as on that first one.

From opener Skin And Bones to closing song American Dream he sings about great themes in the directly appealing way of the classic folk heroes: a soldier gets crushed by the war, a man holding two jobs gets crushed by the economic crisis, a son compares his life to his deceased father’s and a musician on tour longs for his lover at home.

Musically all songs are very restrained:Iadanza’s acoustic guitar and Craig Akin’s double bass support the vocal melody more than that they determine it. A few times Julie Wolf adds some piano, Carolin Pook a melancholic violin or the trio Gathering Time their moody, repetitive background vocals.

Because of that and of the free-flowing melodies Iadanza’s evocative vocals and his lyrics from within are at the centre. They convince without exception, because he understands the art of emphatizing with his characters and making their stories his own.

In doing that he is at the crossroads of folk and singer-songwriter, because although in many of his lyrics there is a social consciousness, they are highly personal at the same time.

The relative silence Iadanza creates, is deafening.

By Ruud Heijjer – Original review can be found at: http://www.kippenvel.net/?p=2067