Roger Knox and Kelly Hogan: “Blue gums calling me back”
Beautiful Dreamer: The Foster Project
Sat, February 2, 2013
Pitman Theatre
8:00 PM
Stephen Foster was the guy who wrote ‘Oh Susannah’, ‘Hard times come again no more’ and numerous other songs we often considert as public domain. He was the first man to earn his living solely through his music. He died as a forgotten alcoholic at the age of 37.
With Juniper Tar as house band, The Foster Project features performances from Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers), Christopher Porterfield (Field Report), Robbie Fulks, Blueprint, Betty Strigens, and a community choir of 20 voices from Milwaukee’s various music scenes.
Pine Valley Cosmonauts pre sale
Bloodshot Records
ON PRE-SALE NOW: Roger Knox and The Pine Valley Cosmonauts, ‘Stranger In My Land.’ When you pre-order, you’ll be entered to win one of two Jon Langford limited- edition digital prints mounted on plywood, like the one pictured below. Get to it! http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/roger-knox-stranger-my-land
Feb 01 Hideout
February 01
Hideout Chicago, 21:30, w/ Jim Elkington
Through Disobedience We Progress i
Opening event: Saturday 27 October. 1pm – 3.30pm. Four veteran activists have been invited to speak at the opening: Hanif Bhanjee, former secretary Wales Anti-Apartheid; Ray Davies, left wing activist; Ray Lawrence, former NUM; Jill Gough, Wales CND. This is a free event, open to the public and includes refreshments and musical entertainment from The Chartists and Roy Zeal.
The exhibition Through Disobedience We Progress is a collection of newly commissioned radical Christmas card designs which compliment Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife. The designs reflect the spirit of Llew and Pam Smith’s collection and feature work by thirteen contemporary artists and designers including: Jamie Reid, Jeff Pigott and Julia Warin, Brian Jones, Control, Jon Langford, Maurice Burns, Terry Sandhu, David J Morris, David Mabb, Chris Partridge, Robert Rubbish, Jac Saorsa and Steve Smith. Themes include animal rights, greed and social justice, free speech, anti-war, austerity and anti-cuts, consumerism/capitalism, peace and anti-nuclear sentiment. The designs will be available for sale as limited edition cards during the exhibition, individually and as a set.
“Jamie Reid is best known for the graphic montage designs for the sex pistols in the late 1970’s, his work has consistently maintained a political edge; Jon Langford is a musician from Newport often associated with the ‘left’ he now lives in Chicago, his bands include the Mekons and The Three Johns; David Mabb works almost exclusively with original William Morris designs, subverting, exploiting and reinvigorating their political potential; Jeff Pigott and Julia Warin often work together on projects with a political, socially commentative theme; David J Morris is a designer with longstanding roots within the activist tradition; Control, Chris Partridge and Terry Sandhu all live and work in the Newport area and often producing work of a satirical nature; Steve Smith (brother of Llew) is a graduate of Newport Art School, he has been producing radical Christmas cards for several decades; Maurice Burns is an artist and illustrator living in Manchester, and artist Robert Rubbish lives in London – both create works which often reflects a social, political dimension; Brian Jones is a contemporary pop artist living in mid-Wales and Jac Saorsa is a drawing specialist and academic from Cardiff. Seven of the artists were also featured in the recent anti jubilee publication ‘the great frock n robe swindle’ published independently by the curator, Shaun Featherstone.”
October so far
10.05.12 CA San Francisco HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL at 4:45 Arrow Stage
Jon Langford with his Sadies, Sally Timms
10.05.12 CA San Francisco THE SWEDISH AMERICAN HALL Acoustic Set at 8:30 pm
w/ Roger Knox, Sally Timms, Walter Salas-Humara (Silos)
10.05.12 CA San Francisco CAFE DU NORD at 11pm
w/ Jon Langford and his Sadies, the Sadies
10.06.12 CA San FranciscoHARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL at 11am Star Stage
w/Roger Knox, The Sadies, Sally Timms
10.08.12 CA Davis HOUSE PARTY
w/ Roger Knox, Walter Salas-Humara (Silos)
10.10.12 WI Madison The Frequency
w/ Roger Knox & Pine Valley Cosmonauts
10.11.12 IL Chicago Old Town School of Folk Music
w/ Roger Knox & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Sally Timms
JL & Skull Orchard mini-tour
IOTA Arlington VA May31st
MOTR PUB Cincinnati OH June 1st
HORSESHOE TAVERN Toronto June 2nd w. SADIES and BURLINGTON WELSH MALE CHORUS
Three Johns Report
A fine report on the Three Johns Reunion Tour of 2012:
Hank Williams must die
April 24 2010 at Kiki’s House of Righteous Music, Madison, Wisconsin:
