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Rootz: The Green City Music Festival
Saturday, July 12
Mellon Park (Shadyside)
Noon to 10:00pm
FREE!
Main
Stage:
Rani
Arbo & daisy mayhem
Steve Forbert
Ernie Hawkins Band
Road to the Isles
Lackawanna
Longnecks
Hooley
Lohio
Mon
River Ramblers
Artistic Youth Ambassadors of Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Songwriters' Project (featuring
Tom Breiding & Rick Malis)
Pavillion
Stage:
Peter King & Marc Reisman
Devilish Merry
Mark Weakland
George Kantor
Mike & Janet Reing
Steve Pellegrino
Jack Erdie
Rolling Scones
John & Wendy Mackin
Children's
Tent:
Youth members of The
Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra
Hands All Around
Members of the Zany
Umbrella Circus
Charlie Anderson & Daphne Pappas
Silk Screening with Amy Garbark
In 1977, Calliope held its first outdoor music
festival—The Smoky City Folk Festival. The SCFF was
held for the next 23 years and created the opportunity for
local artists to perform in front of thousands of people.
The SCFF helped to launch the careers of many Pittsburgh musicians
and brought a variety of young people into the organization,
young people who over the years have grown into some of Calliope’s
most dedicated members and donors.
On Saturday, July 12, Calliope will hold an
updated version of the Smoky City Folk Festival—Rootz:
The Green City Music Festival. Through the festival, we will
remember Pittsburgh’s past as a smoky city while celebrating
its new incarnation as one of the country’s most livable
cities. The festival will emphasize that, though Pittsburgh
is no longer a smoky city, its rich traditions continue to
flourish and have grown to take on new meaning as the smog
has lifted.
The festival will kick off with a performance
by bagpiper and Calliope founder George Balderose and will
continue throughout the day, with performances by a variety
of regional artists in styles from bluegrass and American
traditional to singer-songwriters and blues. Concerts will
take place on the main stage in Mellon Park and on the newly
constructed pavilion at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
The festival will also include a children’s tent and
a silk-screening station, where festival-goers can print their
own Calliope t-shirts using eco-friendly recycled t-shirts.
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Rootz Festival Kick-off featuring
 Mike
Seeger in Concert
Wednesday,
July 9
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Shadyside)
6:00pm-Reception, 7:30pm-Music
"His instrumental technique borders on
the astonishing. He switches easily from guitar to banjo to
autoharp to fiddle to mouth harp, singing and foot stomping
all the while. Just playing with authenticity and style is
a trick in itself, but Seeger does it with class and jovial
spirit."
--Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner
As a full-time musician and collector, Mike has toured throughout
the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
and Japan. In the music he makes, he strives for both variety
and depth of feeling while maintaining his own identity by
creating within the boundaries of true traditional music.
$75
(reception and concert)
$30 (concert only)
Help
support Calliope by attending the pre-concert reception featuring
drinks, hors d'oeuvres and music by local artists.
Purchase tickets online
or
Contact the Calliope office for tickets to this special performance
(412) 361-1915 / calliope@calliopehouse.org
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Save the Date!
Blues at the Crossroads
 September
24
Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts (Shadyside)
6:00pm-Reception
7:30pm-Concert
$100 (pre-concert BBQ reception and concert)
$40 (concert only)
Featuring:
Cephas
& Wiggins
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2007 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds
from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
CD's are available for sale at Calliope events, and at cdbaby.com
 CD
Release
Thursday, June 26, 8:00-10:00pm (doors open at 7:00pm)
Your Inner Vagabond
(4130 Butler St., Lawrenceville)
412-683-1623
featuring Peter Donovan, Sam Flesher, David King
Cover charge=$5. All proceeds (including CD sales) will go toward defraying the cost of this year's CD. Exotic coffees, teas, snacks, desserts will be available for purchase. BYOB is permitted.
We come together once a month in the back of Pittsburgh's
Bloomfield Bridge Tavern to make ourselves heard, to support
and challenge each other, and to celebrate the intoxicating
joy of making music. We are the Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle,
a program of Calliope: the Pittsburgh Folk Music Society.
Our faces and voices and stories are as diverse as the songs
on this disc, but a shared commitment to the art and craft
of songwriting is our common thread.
This CD is the third collection of our work. Like its predecessors,
it gives us the opportunity to present our songs to the world
as we first experienced them — as a group. Each song
was written and performed by a member of the Circle, often
with the help of a few friends. It is a labor of love if there
ever was one.
Read
a Pittsburgh City Paper review of this CD!
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2006 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit
Calliope.
This album can be purchased at Calliope concerts, and at Threepenny
Opry events.
Dan Bench
Howard Davidson
Peter Donovan
Bruce Hoffman
Nancy Deckant
George Kantor
Dennis McCurdy
David Wells
Cathasaigh
Sue Gartland
Randy Hoffman
Jack Knight
George Salamacha
Another Country with DJ Danger
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2005 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
To purchase this CD, visit cdbaby.com
 1.
Pennsylvania (Jonathan Ritz)
2. Last Chance Band (David Wells)
3. Bartender (Andy Tinker)
4. Thoughts of Missouri (Sue Gartland)
5. Cocaine Don't Care (Robert Wagner)
6. Sweetness (Dan Bench)
7. Naked Mole Rat (Randy Hoffman)
8. Shades of Green (Howard Davidson)
9. Richard Jewell (John Hayes)
10. Take it in Stride (George Kantor)
11. Big Time (Patti Spinner)
12. Seven or Fewer (David LaRose)
13. S.W. (Peter Donovan)
14. I'm a Walker (Jack Erdie)
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