AcousticMusicScene.com Helps Present “WoodSongs at the Movies”
October 27, 2008
Multi-media Celebration of Acoustic Music Set for Wednesday Nights
(New York, N.Y.) Folksinger Michael Johnathon’s WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour has established a new partnership with Clearview Cinemas — WoodSongs at the Movies — that will bring the weekly program to big screens throughout the New York metropolitan area, preceded by 30-minute live sets by regional artists. Showtime is Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. AcousticMusicScene.com, a Long Island-based online publication providing news and commentary for the folk, roots and singer-songwriter communities, has signed on to present artists at Clearview’s 62nd and Broadway Cinema, 1871 Broadway, Manhattan. Tickets are $12.
WoodSongs (www.woodsongs.com), which began in a small recording studio that could barely fit 18 people, has evolved into a multi-media celebration of grassroots music that now airs on nearly 500 radio stations worldwide, XM Satellite Radio, online, and on public television stations across the U.S. People from all over tune in each week to hear WoodSongs, which is recorded before a live audience every Monday night at the historic Kentucky Theater in Lexington, Kentucky. The new venture creates a concert setting for viewers who are unable to make a multi-camera taping of the show, which marked its 500th broadcast milestone on Sept. 18 with a gala evening featuring special guest Richie Havens.
Folk-Rock Singer-Songwriter Joe Iadanza to Perform Live, Oct. 29
AcousticMusicScene.com presents singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza live in the 62nd and Broadway Cinema on Oct. 29. Iadanza is a Long Island-based folk-rock artist who delivers deeply personal and inspiring original music spanning the genres of folk, rock, roots and Americana. His music is permeated with what one British music critic calls a “European jazz” feel that harkens back to a bygone era. Iadanza’s soaring poetic vocals and percussive fingerstyle guitar grooves are accented by his jazz-schooled band, which will be joining him. Following the live performance and a short intermission, during which copies of Iadanza’s debut studio recording, Traveling Salesman, will be available for purchase, theatergoers will enjoy an on-screen performance by Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, featuring Bela Fleck, Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee.
Among artists slated to appear on the big screen in coming weeks are the Del McCoury Band (Nov.19), Tim O’Brien (Dec. 3), Marie Knight (Dec. 10), Over the Rhine (Dec. 17), Rhonda Vincent & The Rage (Jan. 7), Dar Williams (Jan. 14), John McCutcheon (Jan. 21), Band of Heathens and Geoff Atcheson (Jan. 28), and Homemade Jamz Blues Band and the Barra MacNeils (Feb. 4).
Michael Johnathon, a folksinger and songwriter, as well as WoodSongs’ creator and host, views WoodSongs at the Movies as both a natural extension of the show’s outreach efforts, and a logical part of its “WoodSongs Coffeehouse” project establishing local performance venues with the spirit of the radio broadcast in hometowns across North America.
“Clearview Cinemas is pleased to partner with WoodSongs so music fans and moviegoers alike can experience folksinger Michael Johnathon’s world-renowned Old-Time Radio Hour on the big screen for the first time,” said Doug Oines, the cinemas’ senior vice president and general manager. He cited WoodSongs as “another terrific example of Clearview’s commitment to provide unique entertainment choices for all audiences.”
“AcousticMusicScene.com is delighted to join with Clearview Cinemas in presenting WoodSongs at the Movies in Manhattan and looks forward to helping expose New Yorkers to some talented emerging artists from the metropolitan area,” said Michael Kornfeld, the online publication’s editor and publisher. Kornfeld, who also serves on the board of directors for the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA), views AcousticMusicScene.com’s involvement as a natural extension of its hosting of late-night music showcases at the annual NERFA Conference in the Catskills and song swaps at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. He and New York area singer-songwriter Glen Roethel, co-creator of www.AcousticMusicScene.com, will be introducing the artists at the 62nd and Broadway Cinema.
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