All please sound!
A concert to serve the greater good of sound!
Held in conjunction with the the Harry Smith PDX
at the Hollywood Theatre on May 16 2013
Starring:
M.C: Miz Kitty
Ural Thomas
Richard Cranium & the
Phoreheads
Joe McMurrian & Woodbrain
James Low
MidLo
Mark Lemhouse
Anne Weiss
Whiskey Puppy
Lauren Sheehan
W.C Beck & PDX Underground
Darka Dusty
Thad Beckman
Tevis Hodge Jr.
Kenzel & Hyde
Otis Heat
Tin Pan Alley cats
Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller
Portland Shape Note Singers
The Locust Ridge Saints Whirligig Orchestra
The Locust Ridge Saints Whirligig Orchestra
3 White Horses in a Line
and a box of surprises!
A multi-act show
featuring original interpretations of material from Harry Smith’s Anthology of
American Folk Music. This concert will be held in Harry’s place of birth,
Portland Oregon and will serve as a proper tribute to one of the most important
creative minds in history.
Produced by Joe
McMurrian and One Kind Favor Productions
The
"Anthology of American Folk Music" was put together by Harry Smith
for Folkways music was originally issued in 1952 in three volumes of 2 LPs
each, with a total of 84 tracks collected from old records. It is said that
this collection played a seminal role in the folk music revival of the late
1950s and early 1960s, influencing and inspiring the generation of Bob Dylan
and Joan Baez. Smith stated that he wanted to create a cultural change with
music, and he did. His vision represented not a limited traditionalist point of view based on maintaining the status quo and retaining songs the way they were then. Smith believed in the eternal progression and morphing of the songs them selves. The songs were archetype forms to build upon, not hold up behind bars in a museum.
It is
like looking back in time, sort of like the Hubble telescope, only we are
looking at images from our own human heritage, and perhaps ourselves.
a
"genetic code" for modern music
Harry Everett Smith was born in Portland, Oregon on May 29,
1923.
Harry Smith was also a self taught experimental
filmmaker. He grew up in Washington State, in Anacortes and Bellingham.
His father worked in canneries and his mother taught on the Lummi Reservation.
Harry Smith received the Chairman’s Merit Award at the 1991
Grammy Awards ceremony in recognition of his impact on American culture.
His thank you speech was simple. He said, “I’m glad to say my dreams came
true. I saw America changed by music.”
He died later that year, at the Chelsea Hotel, NYC, on November
27, 1991.
Links:
Harry Smith PDX at the Hollywood Theatre on May 16 2013 in conjunction with the Portland Animation Festival
Harry
Smith Archives:
Song clips and
downloadable liner notes:
Some Crazy Magic: Meeting Harry Smith
Lifetime achievement award soon before his death
Info on Smith’s NW time:
Harry recording NW indians while only a teenager.
This recording machine has been refurbished and will be on view at the show! and recording!
SONG LIST FOR THE EVENING:
Henry Lee - WC Beck and PCU
Fatal
flower garden
|
The house
carpenter - Darka Dusty
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Drunkard's
special
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Old lady
and the devil - James Low
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The
butcher's boy - Darka Dusty
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The
wagoner's lad -Lauren Sheehan
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King kong
kitchie kitchie ki-me-o
|
Old shoes
and leggins
|
Willie
Moore
|
A lazy
farmer boy
|
Peg and
awl -Whiskey Puppy
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Ommie
Wise - lewi Longmire
|
My name
is John Johanna
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Bandit
Cole Younger
|
Charles
Giteau
|
John
Hardy was a desperate little man - Whiskey Puppy
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Gonna die
with my hammer in my hand (John Henry) - Tony Furtado
|
Stackalee
(Stagger Lee) - Richard Cranium& the Phoreheads
|
White
House blues
|
Frankie - Jacob Miller
|
When that
great ship went down (The Titanic) - Midlo
|
Engine
143
|
Kassie
Jones, Parts 1 and 2 -
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Down on
Penny's Farm - James Low
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Mississippi
Boweavil (Boll Weevil) Blues
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Got the
farm land blues
|
Sail away
lady
|
The wild
wagoner
|
Wake up
Jacob
|
La
danseuse
|
Georgia
stomp
|
Brilliancy
medley
|
Indian
war whoop - David Lipkind, Joe McMurrian & the Locust Ridge Saints all star band
|
Old
country stomp
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Old dog
blue - Joe McMurrian
|
Saut
Crapaud
|
Acadian
One-Step - Kenzel and Hyde
|
Home
Sweet Home
|
The
Newport Blues
|
Moonshiner's
Dance Part One
|
Must Be
Born Again
|
Oh Death
Where Is Thy Sting
|
Rocky
Road -
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Present
Joys -
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This Song
of Love
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Judgement - Darka Dusty
|
He Got
Better Things For You
|
Since I
Laid My Burden Down - Kenzel & Hyde w/ Joe McMurrian & Ural Thomas
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John the
Baptist - Ural Thomas
|
Dry Bones
|
John the
Revelator - Ural Thomas
|
Little
Moses
|
Shine on
Me - Ural Thomas
|
Fifty
Miles of Elbow Room - Ural Thomas
|
I'm In
the Battlefield for My Lord
|
The Coo
Coo Bird - Joe
McMurrian
|
East
Virginia -Joe
McMurrian
|
Minglewood
Blues - Joe McMurrian
|
I Woke Up
One Morning In May
|
James
Alley Blues - Thad Beckman
|
Sugar
Baby –
Lauren Sheehan
|
I Wish I
Was a Mole in the Ground - Mark lemhouse
|
The
Mountaineer's Courtship - Midlo
|
The
Spanish Merchant's Daughter (No, Sir No)
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Bob Lee
Junior Blues
|
Single
Girl, Married Girl - Whiskey Puppy
|
Le Vieux
Soulard et Sa Femme (The Drunkard and His Wife)(bon viuex mari)
|
Rabbit
Foot Blues
|
Expressman
Blues
|
Poor Boy
Blues - Anne
weiss
|
Feather
Bed
|
Country
Blues
|
99 Year
Blues-
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Prison
Cell Blues
|
See That
My Grave Is Kept Clean - Joe McMurrian
|
C'est Si
Triste Sans Lui
|
Way Down
the Old Plank Road -Mark Lemhouse
|
Buddy
Won't You Roll Down the Line - Whiskey Puppy
|
Spike
Driver Blues - Thad Beckman
|
K.C. Moan -Tin Pan Alley cats
|
Train on
the Island
|
The Lone
Star Trail -WC Beck/PCU
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Fishing
Blues - Tevis Hodge
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Song clips and downloadable liner notes:
Other Smith events this week!
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May 16th :
Harry Smith In The Pacific Northwest @ Hollywood Theatre
Thurs, May 16, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Free
On May 16, 2013, Oregon Cartoon Institute presents the first ever Harry Smith Seance, in partnership with Northwest Animation Festival and Hollywood Theatre.
Rani Singh, the director of the Harry Smith Archives at the Getty Institute will introduce films by Harry Smith, projected in 16mm. Panel discussion after the films with Sheldon Renan, Darrin Daniel, and Rani Singh, followed by Q & A.
May 19th:
Harry Smith Free For All @ The Cleaners, May 19, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
A series of short, accessible, interactive presentations about the life and work of Oregon born genius Harry Everett Smith (1923 – 1991)
Free.
Hosted by Oregon Cartoon Institute’s artist in residence, Leo Daedalus, of The Late Now.
11:00 AM Kaveh Askari screens his new 7 minute experimental documentary about Harry Smith’s Bellingham years, and takes questions.
11:30 AM Doug Stewart demonstrates the recording technology Harry Smith used as a teenager when he recorded Lummi Indian rituals.
12:00 PM Recreation of selected String Figures from Harry Smith’s collection
12:30 PM Anne Richardson places Harry Smith within a timeline of Oregon film history
1:00 PM Joe McMurrian discusses Harry Smith’s curation of his 1952 Anthology Of American Folk Music
1:30 PM Demonstration of Harry Smith’s performance art approach to projection of his 16mm films: a talk by Dennis Nyback
2:00 PM Andrew Ritchey discusses sound as an element in avant garde film
2:30 PM Leo Daedalus of The Late Now takes on Harry Smith’s unpredictable relationship to the concept of “truth” .
3:00 The Harry Smith Paper Airplane Invitational, an Indoor Air Show in honor of Harry Smith’s world class paper airplane collection.
3:30 Sacred Harp Singers perform traditional shaped note singing, one of Harry Smith’s obsessions, and invite the audience to sing along
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PRESS RELEASE:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“HARRY SMITH’S
ONE KIND FAVOR” –
A 90TH
BIRTHDAY HOMETOWN TRIBUTE SHOW
Portland Celebrates Harry Smith With Two Nights of
Film, Music, Dance, Curious Demonstrations and a Séance – May 16 & 18 -
Hollywood Theatre & Mission Theater
Portland, OR – April 16, 2013 – Genius. Eccentric.
Archivist. Mystic. Filmmaker.
And native Portlander. Harry
Everett Smith (1923 – 1991) is best known for inspiring a generation of
musicians and changing the course of American music with his touchstone
collection of classic blues and jazz records, “The Anthology of American Folk
Music” (Folkways Records). Released in
1952, the compilation of 82 songs originally recorded between 1927 and 1932
introduced performers like Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Lemon Jefferson to
the exploding Greenwich Village folk scene (Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez,
etc.). But “collector” was just one of
the odd hats that Harry Smith wore. He was
also an experimental filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, painter and
an occultist who claimed to have received shamanic initiation at an early
age. To commemorate his 90th
birthday, Portlanders will have two quirky nights to explore them all.
One kind favor I ask of you
That you see that my grave is kept clean
(Blind Lemon Jefferson)
The climactic event will be at
the Mission Theater on May 18th (1624 NW Glisan St / 7pm / $20 adv /
$25 door) with “One Kind Favor” - a huge gathering of over 20 Portland
musicians who will perform their own versions of songs from “The Anthology of American Folk
Music”. As a youth, Smith recorded many
NW Native American singers, so the event will open with a rare demonstration of
his original paper disc recording machine and an Indian dance troupe.
Blues musician and producer of “One
Kind Favor”, Joe McMurrian, said, “The real power behind the Anthology was the
way it drew our attention to those eight years [1927-1932] before there were
any categories and labels to music.
Harry Smith taught Dylan and all those other guys who were so influenced
by the Anthology that there had once been such wild and exotic music in
America. And then they went and made
their own wild new music.”
Artists include: Ural Thomas /
Richard Cranium & the Phoreheads / Alice Stuart / Joe McMurrian / James Low
/ Midlo / Mark Lemhouse / Anne Weiss / Whiskey Puppy / Lauren Sheehan / Tony
Furtado / W.C. Beck & PCU / Darka Dusty / Rootjack / Otis Heat / Thad
Beckman / Kenzel & Hyde / Michael Tevis Hodge Band / Tin Pan Alley Cats /
Lewi Longmire / Steve Kerin / MC Miz Kitty
More info: http://deadpanfolk.blogspot.com/
Leading up to the concert, the
Hollywood Theater (4122 NE Sandy Blvd) will host two events both on May
16. At 3pm, a free event featuring
lectures and panel discussions will explore Harry Smith’s Northwest roots and
in particular his deep populism, DIY aesthetic, and permanent outsider
status. At 7pm ($10), in partnership
with the Oregon Cartoon Institute, there will be viewings of some of Harry
Smith’s animated films along with a presentation by Rani Singh, the director of
the Harry Smith Archives at the Getty Institute, who was with Smith when he
died at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC. In a
nod to Smith’s devotion to the occult, a séance will be held in the hopes of
communicating with him somewhere beyond this mortal plane.
More info: http://harrysmithpdx.wordpress.com/
Contact:
Matt Kalinowski
Noctilucent Arts
(503) 333-2049 / noctilucent@q.com
or Joe McMurrian @ joemcmurrian@yahoo.com
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