Spook Handy
Remembering Pete Seeger Tour
US/Canada October-November 2014- see below
In 2003, Pete Seeger heard the song “Vote” written by Spook Handy and began singing it at concerts and festivals. Seeger and Handy have sung the song together on stage several times. This is just one of many Spook Handy tunes that address political and social issues.
“Spook Handy honors the spirit of Pete Seeger, so excellently, by sharing the music with everyone on stage and in the audience in the same way that Pete did. He makes music the star. That’s why Pete loved to play with him so often and why all of us who are still here also do.”
… David Amram – friend, world renown musician and recipient of the second annual Pete and Toshi Seeger Power of Song Award at Symphony Space in New York City.
From Spook:
“I had the fortune of performing over 50 concerts and festivals alongside Pete Seeger between 2003 and his passing in 2014. As a result, I have learned many of his songs and the stories behind them – and not only songs he wrote but those of Woody Guthrie and many others. He was a mentor to me not only of music but of how to be a decent human being. I attribute much of what I know about songwriting and performing to him. In response to Pete’s passing this past January, I put together a “program” called “Remembering Pete Seeger.” I call it a “program” because it can take the form of a concert, workshop, church service or keynote concert a.k.a lecture/concert. I am presenting it in concert halls, theaters, arts centers, libraries, festivals, summer concert series, churches and college classrooms all over the world. I present the program solo, with The Spook Handy Trio or with the The Spook Handy Band.”
I am heading out the door of my home on Oct 11 on the 2nd leg of my “Remembering Pete Seeger” World Tour. (www.spookhandy.com/wp/pete). If you have an extra bed for a clean, vegetarian folky from New Jersey
who just got his hairs cut today, please contact me at
spook@spookhandy.com or 732-418-1340. Once I hit the road Saturday afternoon, phone will be the best way to reach me.
Here’s my itinerary of where I looking for places to crash.
Oct 14 – Need place to sleep in southern WI
Oct 15 – Need place to sleep – near WI-MN border
Oct 16 – Need place to sleep – near MN-ND border
Oct 28 – 30: Need places to sleep near Winnipeg or MN
Oct 31: Need a place to sleep in southern MN
Nov 7 – need a place to sleep in OH
And am available for concert or workshop in OH and western PA .
Nov 9 – available in western PA (and would need a place to sleep)
Nov 10-12: available in PA and NY (and would need a place to sleep)
. Here’s my itinerary of where I am playing and where I am available to play.
Oct 11 – State Theater, NB, NJ –
Oct 17 – 27: Home Routes tour of Manitoba and Saskatchwan
Nov 1 – Camelback Workshop – Rochester, MN
Nov 2 – Camelback HC – Rochester, MN
Nov 3 – Music at the Bedside – Rochester, MN
Nov 4 – New Deal in Menomonie WI
Nov 5 – Café Carpe, Ft. Atkinson, WI
Nov 6 – W Bethesda Folk Music Series, Montpelier, OH
Nov 7 – available in OH and western PA
Nov 8 – Belmont Co. Dist. Lib – Martins Ferry, OH
Nov 9 – available in western PA
Nov 10-12: available in PA and NY
Nov 13-16: NERFA – Kerhonson, NY
Nov 17 – Home
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. Peace and Solidarity