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Roger Knox & Dave Alvin: “The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards”

Roger Knox and Kelly Hogan: “Blue gums calling me back”

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.

Wikipedia article

American Dreams

PBS Special

His songs

Hideout Chicago, 21:30, w/ Jim Elkington

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.”

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