LARRY LONG & PETE WATERCOTT with LARRY DALTON--Friday, Oct 18 in Nisswa
LARRY LONG & PETE WATERCOTT with LARRY DALTON
Friday, Oct 18, 2024
Larry Long, Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott, and Larry Dalton celebrate five decades of friendship rooted in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Hank Williams, and Bob Wills.
Long is an American singer-songwriter who has made his life’s work the celebration of everyday heroes. Author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Studs Terkel called Larry “a true American Troubadour.”
Watercott has been playing music for over 50 years. At age 10 he began playing the viola. In 1964 his sister Kit brought a plywood sunburst “Stella” guitar into the Watercott home. Pete took to strummin’ out the folk ballads of Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Phil Oaks, Pete Seeger, and anything that Sing Out! Magazine would print.
Dalton, a symphony musician, is one-third of the trio of brothers Dalton from the Illinois-Wisconsin area.
Through their early twenties, Long and Watercott hitched and hopped freight trains through the West performing music deeply rooted in American song tradition. Now 50 years later both have had successful solo careers.
In the course of their travels they joined up with bassist Dalton, whom they met in the High Sierra Mountain Range town of Truckee, Calif., in 1976.
Long has written and performed hundreds of ballads celebrating community and history makers. His work has taken him from rural Alabama to the Lakota communities in South Dakota. He has given musical voice to struggling Midwest farmers, embattled workers, and veterans. He was the troubadour for peace on Soviet/American peace cruises, sang for Mrs. Rosa Parks at the 45th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and organized the Mississippi River Revival, a decade-long campaign to clean-up the Mississippi river.
Long assembled the first hometown tribute to Woody Guthrie in Okemah, Okla., which today has evolved into the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 2014 Larry was inducted into the National Old Time Music Hall of Fame.
He has been a Grassroots Concerts guest on four occasions, first in 1990 and most recently 2012. Long’s work in schools and communities sparked the creation of an international non-profit organization, Community Celebration of Place, which creates intergenerational and multicultural opportunities for students to learn and grow through a program called Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song.
Celebrating the wild Mustang’s heritage in the West Watercott has led horseback songwriting groups with Rock Creek Pack Station, drawing inspiration from the wild horses. Now in a seventh season, Pete has self produced a popular summer dinner concert series at the Pokonobe Lodge in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Pete has also produced six albums, including “Songs of Curley Fletcher” the only recording dedicated to the work of the great Western poet.
Dalton has been performing and recording with bluegrass, jazz, rock, rockabilly, gypsy jazz, big band and orchestral groups.
General admission to the concert is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 6:30.
Grassroots Concerts, which has been going since 1988, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2024 --LUCY KAPLANSKY
Lucy Kaplansky is an acclaimed singer-songwriter as well as a former clinical psychologist. She started out singing in Chicago folk music clubs as a teenager, then took off for New York City where she found a fertile community of songwriters. Kaplansky's latest release, Last Days of Summer, was created during the Covid pandemic, offering a mix of both the personal & political. "Utterly beautiful and affecting. Lucy sings songs from her life that have resonance in ours." -Scott Simon, NPR
LARRY LONG & PETE WATERCOTT--Friday, Oct 18, 2024 http://www.larrylong.org
Throughout their early 20's, Larry Long and Fiddlin' Pete Watercott hitchhiked and hopped freight trains throughout the West performing music deeply rooted in American song tradition, songs of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. Now fifty years later, both have had successful solo careers. Join us as Long and Watercott are coming back together along with bassist Larry Dalton for this 2024 Reunion Tour celebrating five decades of friendship.
CHARLEY WAGNER--Friday, NOV 22, 2024 https://www.charleywagnermusic.com
Charley Wagner is a singer/songwriter from the town of Longville in the woods of northern Minnesota. Music and writing have been passions and good friends to Charlie since an early age. He has worked as an arborist most of his life, climbing trees around the world, collecting stories and perspective. Charley now making his stories in song a priority, creating original music that captures the human experience and reverence for nature, and he hopes you find a connection.
GRASSROOTS CONCERTS are held at the LIVE WELL NIGHTCLUB AND COFFEE BAR at the Journey Church, 5459 Lakers Lane, Nisswa, MN.
Admission is $15 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12 with listening attention, when accompanied by an adult. At all shows, seating is first-come, first-served.
Show-time is 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:30), and you are encouraged to come early to claim your choice of seats.
At each concert, decidedly the best family entertainment in the Brainerd Lakes area, GRASSROOTS welcomes your nonperishable food (or cash) donation to a local food shelf.
"Grassroots Concerts are the nonprofit cultural offerings of a small, happy society of largely omnivorous but gentle folk dedicated to the preservation of live entertainment in vicarious times."
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COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR CONCERTS: Masks are optional and will be available for anyone who would like one.
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