Hickory Ridge Concert Series: Chicago Songwriter at Dickson Mounds
- Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
- Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Chicago singer songwriter Andrew Calhoun will return to the Hickory Ridge Concert Series this Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Calhoun is a perpetual student of songcraft with deep respect for both tradition and innovation. In the thirty-odd years that he has been a songwriter and performer he has created an impressive collection of songs from which he draws in live performances. On stage he is disarmingly unpretentious, spontaneous, insightful and darkly witty, as he weaves a tapestry that includes not only his original songs, but Scottish ballads that he has translated from dialect, and poems and songs by such exceptional writers as Dave Carter, Mary Oliver and Robert Frost.
At age seven, Andrew memorized W. B. Yeats' "Song of Wandering Aengus," thus earning a nickel from his mother. He got his first guitar in 1967 at the age of ten, and began writing songs at twelve. By the late seventies, he was performing in the Chicago folk scene. He has since toured internationally, performing at folk clubs and festivals, pubs and house concerts. Now living in Chicago, he recently released his 11th album, Bound to Go, a collection of 35 African American spirituals and secular folksongs.
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