![]() Please check the website in the coming weeks and I will post photos and blogs from Ireland! Plans are already underway for a tour in the summer of 2008, which will likely include Pinkie Bergman (Cello & Voice) and Helena Nash (Voice) playing and touring with me! I am looking forward to it very much! I will be co-leading a tour with Irish guide and musician Tom Piggott. I am excited about this first new step in a global touring career. In the next few years I will be touring more and more in Ireland, the UK and in the EU. This is the first chance I have ever had to go sing and play and be a tourist in my other homeland. My Granddad came over in 1914 from Athy, in County Kildare. Not your usual Joe Jencks show! And well worth the effort to attend! A once in a lifetime musical experience.įor more information on Kirtan, check out their website Monday, October 15th, 2007 You can really feel the spirit move when these folks take the stage, and it is my immense pleasure to share a concert with them. And when we perform together, Heather and Benjy and I usually bring in some Greek, Hebrew and occasionally other chanting languages and traditions. ![]() It is an amazing musical experience though. ![]() But that some how does not really explain it. People gather and participate in a call and response singing session. The Kirtan tradition is one of group singing and community. The music they create together is simply out of this world. Heather was working as a singer songwriter and yoga instructor when she and I met more than 10 years ago. He is a life long student of the Northern Classical music tradition of India. Benjy was a founder and long-term member of Ancient Future, a pioneering world-beat music group. Shantala - Heather & Benjy Wertheimer are two of my best friends. Kirtan: Joe Jencks in Concert with Shantala $45 price includes admission to the evening concert at the same location.45 From songs about railroad workers and steel workers to intimate songs of family history Joe jas received national acclaim for his talents in this arena. In this workshop, Joe focuses twenty years of songwriting experience and a strong social conscience on to the idea that our creative process has a valuable place in preserving and passing on stories that might be lost to time with our the benefit of our art and craft. How many people know about the plane crash in Los Gatos Canyon 1948, because Woody Guthrie wrote "Deportees?" How many people know about the Wreck of the Great Lakes ore boat The Edmund Fitzgerald because of Gordon Lightfoot? No matter the subject, songwriting is an amazing vehicle for sharing ideas and information, and it is a vehicle for preserving out history. We will also look at the art of storytelling, and how it relates to songwriting, the editing process, and the difference between the facts and the truth. Website: will lead a songwriting workshop titled "Songwriting as Journalism." The class will look at ways to use songwriting to tell stories from our lives and communities that may be newsworthy, but seem to slip below the radar of the mainstream. The Hyde Park Free Library - Library Annex Songwriting As Journalism: Joe Jencks Songwriting Workshop
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