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 Bob
has channeled his passion for folk music into many activities over
the last thirty years. His popular radio show The
Folk Tradition (Sundays at 6:00 p.m. on WKAR-FM 90.5) includes
a wide variety of traditional and contemporary folk music. Bob co-founded
the Ten Pound Fiddle coffeehouse in 1975. He served on the Music
Programming Committee for the National Folk Festival's three year
stay in East Lansing, and now does the same for the Great Lakes
Folk Festival. He has contributed over one hundred articles, columns
and reviews to Sing Out! and other publications, and has
even written a song that was recently recorded by the Short Sisters.
Bob is the computer systems administrator at Elderly Instruments
in Lansing, Michigan.
Community Sing Emcee
Friday Feb. 4, 8 pm
Saturday Feb. 5, 8 pm
| Workshop |
| The
Singing Tradition of the Copper Family
with Finest Kind and Bob Blackman / 11
am to noon
For over 200 years, one family in a small English farming
village has passed down an extraordinary group of traditional
folksongs. The Copper Family of Rottingdean, Sussex, has been
singing for at least seven consecutive generations. Their
songs, and their unique a cappella harmony style, have influenced
many other folksingers throughout England and America. At
this workshop, the Canadian trio Finest Kind will perform
some of their favorite songs from the Coppers' repertoire.
WKAR Radio's Bob Blackman (who wrote a comprehensive article
about the family for Sing Out! magazine in 2001) will talk
about the Coppers and play a few of their recordings.
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