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Roots Cafe: The Billy Kemp-Geoffrey Himes Songbook

Roots Cafe - Billy Kemp and Geoffrey Himes

 

The Roots Cafe Singer-Songwriter Series presents
“The Billy Kemp-Geoffrey Himes Songbook: Two Songwriters Discuss and play their Collaborations”    

Billy Kemp & Geoffrey Himes celebrate their 37 years of collaboration by performing songs they’ve written together,  accompanied by violinist Willem Elsevier.

Sunday, March 8, at 2 pm (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME)

Billy Kemp was born and raised in Baltimore, where he led the area’s best country-rock band of the ‘70s and ‘80s (the Paradise Pickers) and its best rock'n'roll band of the ‘80s and ‘90s (the Paradise Rockers). The singer-guitarist has played with Tommy Conwell at the Meadowlands, with Jeanne Pruett at the Grand Ole Opry and with Tommy Overstreet in Europe. He produced albums for Edge City and Linda Nelson and composed music for “Bo and Mo: A Rockabilly Musical,” Maryland Public Television and the American Visionary Art Museum. For most of this century, he has been writing, recording and touring North America and Europe as half of the Appalachian folk duo Jeni & Billy. He has relaunched his solo career with his first solo album in 12 years: “Another Life,” a celebration of his roots in Maryland, followed by an anthology of unreleased vintage tracks, “The Painter's Bucket.” Both albums feature co-writes with Geoffrey Himes, who will join Kemp for this show.  www.billykemp.com 

Though he is best known as a music critic for the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Baltimore City Paper, Nashville Scene, Jazz Times, No Depression, Paste and many more,  Geoffrey Himes is also a longtime singer-songwriter who has co-written songs with Si Kahn, Fred Koller, Walter Egan, Sonia Rutstein, Billy Kemp, Stephen Wade, Jim Patton, Tony Denikos, Alan MacEwan, Ed Pettersen, Andrew Grimm, Bob Kannenberg and others. This month Himes will premiere a new song: “Willbilly's Got the Willies.”   http://www.facebook.com/RootsCafeBaltimore

Willem Elsevier is a conservatory trained violinist who has found success in both the classical and jazz worlds. He is best known, however, for his role in Love Riot, the Baltimore rock band that recorded with producer Eric Ambel and toured widely. Elsevier’s sophisticated solos helped the band beat out 2,500 other bands from around the globe to win the Yamaha Music Quest competition  in Japan in 1994. Elsevier has also recorded with such acts as Billy Kemp and Milkshake. Since 2012, he has been a performer and songwriter in a duo with Geoffrey Himes.

Tickets: $10 in advance and full-time students with ID/ $13 at door

Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 2:00pm

An Die Musik
409 N. Charles Street, 2nd floor, Baltimore, MD 21201

Event Type

Music

Audience

Everyone

Website

https://www.instantseats.com/index.cf...

Cost

Tickets: $10 in advance and full-time students with ID/ $13 at door

Contact Email

erinconnellytpt@gmail.com

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