[MusicFriends] Joe Hickerson at Chautauqua

[Howard Blumenthal]

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Folk music archivist/performer Joe Hickerson will be making a special  
appearance at the first of this season's Midweek Vespers at Hurlbut  
Church on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution. The service will  
begin at 6 pm Wednesday, September 6, and will be followed by a  
lecture by Mr. Hickerson at 7:15. The service is free of charge, open  
to the public, and everyone is invited to a 5:30 pm dinner preceding  
the service.

For more than 50 years, Joe Hickerson has performed over a thousand  
times throughout the U.S.A. and in Canada, Finland, and Ukraine. His  
repertoire includes a vast array of folksongs and allied forms in the  
English language, many with choruses. Pete Seeger has called him "a  
great songleader." Joe calls himself a "vintage pre-plugged paleo- 
acoustic folksinger." In 1960 he wrote the 4th and 5th verses of  
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone." He has recordings on the Folk- 
Legacy and Folkways labels, ranging from 1957 to 2003. His concerts  
are guaranteed to "Drive Dull Care Away." Joe also has a career as a  
folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, and librarian; For 35 years  
(1963-1998) he was Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song/ 
Culture at the Library of Congress. He lectures and writes on a  
variety of folk music topics, and is available for song and copyright  
researches. For more information on him, visit www.joehickerson.com.

The Midweek Vespers is a weekly music and arts-based worship service  
with a minimum of spoken word. It is presented every Wednesday in  
Hurlbut Church, Pratt at Scott Avenues, Chautauqua NY. ?Faith  
Weaver,? a children?s supervised bible experience, is provided  
separately during the service.



Best regards,

Howard Blumenthal
howard at blumenthals.com
(814) 368-4057
(814) 368-5822 fax
(716) 378-9366 cell