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.<br>
Here's a link to the B&P Calendar page: <a href="http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/2013/2/2">http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/2013/2/2</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chris Taillie (<b style><i style><u>Banjo
Diary</u></i></b>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Michael Roux (<b style><i style><u>The
Beautiful Music All Around Us</u></i></b>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">Grammy nominee Stephen Wade explores <i>The Beautiful Music All
Around Us</i> <span style> </span>and <i>Banjo Diary </i>at
Busboys and Poets</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:19.0pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">Hyattsville, MD - On
<b style>Saturday, February 2, 2013, Busboys and
Poets, Hyattsville</b>, 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, </span><a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/55qpr7zm9780252036880.html"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0c46da;text-decoration:none">The Beautiful Music All Around Us:
Field Recordings and the American Experience</span></i></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">
(University of Illinois Press) and the release of his new, Grammy-nominated
album, </span><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0c46da;text-decoration:none">Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition</span></i></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">
(Smithsonian Folkways).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">This event, a
narrated, multimedia, musical presentation brings together two endeavors,
deeply entwined both historically and personally. Stephen’s <b><i>Banjo Diary:
Lessons from Tradition</i></b> takes its inspiration from the very recordings
explored in his book <b><i>The Beautiful Music All Around Us</i></b>.
Innovative and often surprising, <b><i>Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition</i></b>
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.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/55qpr7zm9780252036880.html"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">The Beautiful Music All Around Us:
Field Recordings and the American Experience</span></i></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">
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.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:19.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">Listen to <b><i>Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition: </i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0c46da"><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/stephen-wade/banjo-diary-lessons-from-tradition/american-folk-old-time-bluegrass/music/album/smithsonian">http://www.folkways.si.edu/stephen-wade/banjo-diary-lessons-from-tradition/american-folk-old-time-bluegrass/music/album/smithsonian</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:19.0pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a">Watch video about <b><i>The
Beautiful Music All Around Us</i></b><i>: </i></span><a href="http://youtu.be/debETxZWoPQ"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0c46da;text-decoration:none">http://youtu.be/debETxZWoPQ</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
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Baltimore Avenue <br>
Hyattsville, MD 20781 <br>
301-779-2787(ARTS)<span style="color:#1a1a1a"></span></span></p>
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and Poets</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> is a restaurant, bookstore, fair
trade market and gathering place where people can discuss issues of social
justice and peace.</span></p>
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