WFMA Showcase
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8739 Flower Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20901
http://elgolforestaurant.com
301-608-2121
Sunday, October 13, 2013
7:00 PM
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| Jim Jones |
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| Jim Jones |
Jim Jones was born in a log cabin in Illinois…. (ahh…sorry, wrong bio). Jim Jones’ interest in folk music started in the early 60’s. His first performance was as part of a “Peter, Paul and Mary” type group in high school in Dover, DE. In college, Jim mostly studied folk music (when he should have been studying subjects such as Psychology, English and Math) and played as a solo around Central Pennsylvania. After the end of the “folk scare,” from the early 70’s to the mid 80’s, Jim only played occasionally for his own amusement at home, while concentrating on graduate school, law school and a career. However, after finishing law school in 1985, Jim decided that he needed to get back to the folk music he loved so much. Since then, he has played in the folk duet, “Mutual Company,” in several old time string bands (most recently “The New Southern Cowtippers”), and for the past five years as part of the 60’s retro-folk band, “Kensington Station.” Jim has decided to go back to solo performing, bringing back the music that was so much a part of, and influence on, his early adult life in the 60’s.
Honest, sincere, and often humorous,
has been performing his slice-of-life lyrics to audiences across the United States since the mid-90s.
Described by Billboard Magazine as "intensely sensitive and impressively intelligent,” Gellman’s songwriting captures the simple moments of everyday life and wraps them in notes that will have you humming along – long after the song is over.
On stage, Gellman combines friendly banter with a sonorous, tenor voice that critics have compared to the late John Denver.
Gellman has traveled near and far to perform at renowned acoustic music venues throughout the United States and Canada including The Birchmere in Alexandria, The Ark in Ann Arbor, The Blue Bird Café in Nashville, The Tin Angel in Philadelphia, and Club Passim in Boston.
In Washington, DC, he has performed at the National Theatre and The White House.
Gellman has had the honor to open shows for Dar Williams, Cheryl Wheeler, Richie Havens and Richard Shindell, among others.
invites you to share in the songs and sounds of American folk music, from the 1960s to today, from the esoteric to the toe-tappingly familiar, all treated to the lush six-part vocal harmony and skillful instrumental backing that define the group’s instantly recognizable sound. The group merges the talents of nine musicians with years of combined experience. With their collective insight, intuition, and love of great music, they produce arrangements that are fresh, varied, and often unexpected, while still remaining true to the spirit of the folk-music sound. And they deliver it all with a musical chemistry that delights both audiences and the performers themselves.