FOLK ALLIANCE in NEW ORLEANS, and MORE
KEN WALDMAN & THE WILD ONES: PRIVATE SHOWCASES IN NEW ORLEANS and MORE
Wednesday night, 12:00 A.M.-12:30 A.M., Room #1129, The Little Mercies' Swamp Party
Wednesday night, 12:40 A.M.-1:00 A.M., Room #1027, Access Chicago Mike
Thursday night, 11:30 P.M.-12:00 A.M., Room #1126, Icebird Record Company
Friday night, 12:50 A.M.-1:10 A.M., Room #1100, Sweet Emma Barrett Room
Saturday night, 1:30 A.M.-2:30 A.M., Room #1226 (in-the-round with Alaska All-Stars), Muskeg Collective & Lost Patterns Present
and Sunday, approximately 4:20 pm, Ken will be one of two features at the iconic Everette Maddox Reading Series , Maple Leaf Bar, Uptown NOLA
Ken will spend two weeks in Louisiana, arriving several days before Folk Alliance International, which begins on Wednesday, January 21.
Saturday, January 17, he appears Saturday afternoon, 4 pm, at Wild Child Wines in Lafayette for a book release, music set, then a music party.
He'll arrive in New Orleans on Tuesday, January 20, and will stay through the end of the conference, Sunday, January 25, and beyond, before he heads to Mississippi.
Mississippi? Ken appears at the Blue Room in Clarksdale on Sunday, February 1, at Greenville Public Library on Tuesday, February 3, the Greenville Arts Council on Wednesday, February 4, on Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford on Thursday, February 5, at the Ford Center at Ole Miss for a big matinee education show on Friday morning, February 6, at WonderBird Distillery on Friday evening, February 6, and will take part in Oxford outreach through the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council on Saturday, February 7. For the Oxford shows, Ken brings a troupe which includes cellist, Cody Ruth; Oxford multi-instrumentalist, Greg Johnson; iconic Mississippi musician (and fiddler), Tim Avalon; Mississippi guitarist, Mary Fitzgerald; and Jamie & Kat Barrier of venerable Alabama band, The Pine Hill Haints.
At Folk Alliance, Ken Waldman & The Wild Ones means he'll be joined by whoever of his friends (and friends of friends) are available amid their own late-night showcase sets. Some of these friends might be Cody Ruth (who'll be joining Ken on all his Mississippi dates), Gabe Furtado, Beth Chrisman, Silas Lowe, and there may well be others. Ken aims for fun, inspiring sets full of surprises--a microcosm of what he does on tour. If no friends are around, he'll go solo, or call on someone who's in the room. It's Folk Alliance! We're all friends of friends, which also means we can expect memorable times.
More about Ken? Here's his home page. And here's a page with endorsement letters explaining some of what Ken has done, and continues to do.
Video? Here's fiddle, banjo, poem, and spoken word. And here's Ken with Cody Ruth. Audio? If you really want to know what Ken might bring to your stage--and have the wherewithal to download the link--here's a rarity, a live 15-minute festival set from the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau (there's an emcee for a minute before the set actually begins).
