XPost: nf.arts, nf.general, rec.music.folk
XPost: alt.music.blues

This Wednesday, November 18, 9--11:30 p.m., at Folk Night at
The Ship Pub in St. John's, Newfoundland, the headliner
will be Doc MacLean.

Cover is $5, there are door prizes, there is an open
mic set between the two headline sets, and open mic
performers get a free beer. Also the kitchen is open
until 8 p.m.

Here is the blurb from http://nlfolk.com/folknight.php# :

A rare one here for you folks. After pretty much a lifetime on the road
playing and living the blues, Doc MacLean is finally making the trip
over! [Actually this is his second time here.] This is a definite "do
not miss" for any blues fan.

Son of a civil rights lawyer and a fiddle player, Doc MacLean was
exposed to country blues and folklore at an early age. By his early
teens he was performing in coffeehouses and festivals, and was appearing
on radio and television variety shows. Answering the call of the road,
Doc traded a guitar for a 1948 Dodge and set out to explore America.

In a relentless cross country ramble, Doc MacLean sought out every
living old time blues player he could find. Significantly, he met and
became friends with artists such as Son House, Tampa Red, Sippi Wallace,
Yank Rachel, Robert Pete Williams, Rev Robert Wilkins and Bukka White. Meanwhile he toured and performed with artists as diverse as Peg Leg Sam
the Medicine Show Man, Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Rev Pearly Brown, Colin Linden, Mose Scarlett, the Carter
Family, and Sam Chatmon. With Linden, he became a popular opener for
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and John Hammond.

Performing on bottleneck and standard guitar, Doc MacLean now appears
solo and with upright bass and percussion. While his lyrics are mainly contemporary, his approach as a guitarist-songster reflects not only his exposure to southern string bands and jug bands, but also to Delta
players and storytellers such as Charlie Patton, Son House, and Sam
Chatmon.


Doc MacLean's web site is at http://docmaclean.com/ .


Next week (November 25) there will be a traditional session
hosted this month by fiddler Maille Graham Laidlaw.

--
David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"One bright blue rose outlives all those/Two thousand years and still
it goes/To ponder his death and his life eternally." (J. MacCarthy)

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