[RP TownTalk] Stephen Wade @Busboys this Saturday from 5 - 7

[Dwight Holmes]

In a rare local appearance, neighbor, college buddy of yours truly, and
Grammy Award-nominee Stephen Wade will be at Busboys & Poets tomorrow,
2/2/13, from 5-7 p.m.
Here's a link to the B&P Calendar page:
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/2013/2/2

But here's the real scoop:



*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

January 10, 2013



*CONTACT:*

Pamela Pinnock

Pamela at busboysandpoets.com



Chris Taillie (*Banjo Diary*)

Shore Fire Media

ctaillie at shorefire.com



Michael Roux (*The Beautiful Music All Around Us*)

mroux at illinois.edu





*Grammy nominee Stephen Wade explores The Beautiful Music All Around Us
and Banjo Diary at Busboys and Poets*

Hyattsville, MD - On *Saturday, February 2, 2013, Busboys and Poets,
Hyattsville*, welcomes author and musician Stephen Wade in a rare local
appearance, from five to seven p.m., marking national publication of his
critically acclaimed new book, *The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field
Recordings and the American
Experience*<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/55qpr7zm9780252036880.html>(University
of Illinois Press) and the release of his new, Grammy-nominated
album, *Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition*
<http://www.folkways.si.edu/>(Smithsonian Folkways).

This event, a narrated, multimedia, musical presentation brings together
two endeavors, deeply entwined both historically and personally.
Stephen’s *Banjo
Diary: Lessons from Tradition* takes its inspiration from the very
recordings explored in his book *The Beautiful Music All Around Us*.
Innovative and often surprising, *Banjo Diary: Lessons from
Tradition*explores knowledge older musicians have bequeathed to
younger players.
Inspired by past banjo masters of frailing and two- and three-finger
styles, the album mines new creative possibilities with pump organ, piano,
mandolin, fiddle, guitar, Dobro, washboard, rhumba box, and bass.

*The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American
Experience*<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/55qpr7zm9780252036880.html>takes
as its starting point thirteen iconic performances captured on
Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations
reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and on to the
Great Plains. Through decades of research and detective work, Stephen Wade
tracked down surviving performers and their families, fellow musicians, and
community members. Weaving together loving and expert profiles of these
performers with the histories of these songs and tunes, Stephen brings to
life largely unheralded individuals—farm laborers, state prisoners,
schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners—whose
music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. Book/CD
signing follows the presentation.

Listen to *Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition: *
http://www.folkways.si.edu/stephen-wade/banjo-diary-lessons-from-tradition/american-folk-old-time-bluegrass/music/album/smithsonian

Watch video about *The Beautiful Music All Around Us**: **
http://youtu.be/debETxZWoPQ* <http://youtu.be/debETxZWoPQ>

*Busboys @ Hyattsville* <http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/info/hyattsville>

5331 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
301-779-2787(ARTS)

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*Busboys and Poets* is a restaurant, bookstore, fair trade market and
gathering place where people can discuss issues of social justice and peace.



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