Joe Hickerson (www.joehickerson.com) is coming to Buffalo tomorrow! “He’s a great songleader – not just a good songleader, a great one.” -Pete Seeger
Legendary folk singer and music historian Joe Hickerson will be making a rare area appearance in a special North Buffalo house concert on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 7pm. WHEN: Thursday, Sept 7, 2006 at 7pm. WHERE: 141 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo. ADMISSION: $10 with reservation. CONTACT: (716) 833-6288 for reservations, directions and more info. Bob Dylan talks about Hickerson on page 241 of his autobiograpy CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004), and the New York Times called one of his concerts “a delightful and different evening of folk singing.” (John S. Wilson, The New York Times).
For more than 50 years, Joe Hickerson has performed over a thousand times throughout the U.S.A. and in Canada, Finland, and Ukraine. His repertoire includes a vast array of folksongs and allied forms in the English language, many with choruses. Pete Seeger has called him “a great songleader.” Joe calls himself a “vintage pre-plugged paleo-acoustic folksinger.” In 1960 he wrote the 4th and 5th verses of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
He has recordings on the Folk-Legacy and Folkways labels, ranging from 1957 to 2003. His concerts are guaranteed to “Drive Dull Care Away.” Joe also has a career as a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, and librarian; For 35 years (1963-1998) he was Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song/Culture at the Library of Congress. He lectures and writes on a variety of folk music topics, and is available for song and copyright researches.