James Durst

and Marc Black

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18 at 7 PM

TICKETS $10

Includes FREE beer from our sponsor—Hudson Valley’s award-winning
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company—bring your own mug!

JAMES DURST has performed spirited, lighthearted, and relevant concerts in 49 states and 45 countries, drawing from a rich repertoire of songs that reflect the  interconnectedness we share with all of life.

“A talented entertainer…sometimes funny, more often poignant songs were always fascinating. Their ultimate message of peace and understanding left a warm impression.”
— Don Anderson, Winnipeg Free Press

Accompanying himself on 6 and 12-string guitars & autoharp, James Durst has shared the stage with the likes of John Sebastian, Leo Kottke, Magpie, Richard Thompson, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Don McLean, Bob Gibson, Christine Lavin, Tom Paxton, Lui Collins, Stone Soup, Josh White Jr., Allen Wayne Damron, Kinky Friedman, David Roth, Jana Stanfield, Steve Goodman, Terence Martin, Peter Rowan, Susan Werner, Sally Fingerett, Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Steve Martin, Pham Duy & Thai Hien and The Dreamers, Richard and Karen Carpenter, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus, Stephen Longfellow Fiske, Jim Scott, Molly Scott and Ferne Bork as well as Barbara Marx Hubbard, Willis Harmon, Marilyn Ferguson, Matthew Fox, Robert Kennedy, Jr, Marianne Williamson, Patricia Sun, David Spangler, Alan Cohen, Swami Beyondananda, Jean Houston, and others

James Durst has emceed events ranging from a Coptic Conference to a Mrs. USA Pageant, was a member of the German cast of Hair (with Donna Summer) in 1970, sang & laughed & cried with Russians in Red Square at the dawn of glasnost/perestroika in 1985, and in 2003, he cofounded Work o’ the Weavers to celebrate the musical legacy of America’s pioneering folk quartet. And so much more … don’t miss this chance to experience one of the world’s true minstrels.

www.jamesdurst.com

MARC BLACK is a well-loved, longtime Hudson Valley singer-songwriter whose music has found a home on both folk and pop radio as well as avant guarde shows like Jonn Schaeffer’s New Sounds on WNYC.

“His songs are great and his singing is superb.”    Paul Winter

Marc was a finalist in this year’s Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk” competition. He also recently won “Artist of the Year” honors from ABC Radio’s Fame Games, the New Jersey Folk Festival and the Austin Songwriters’ competition. His Youtube videos have been viewed as many as 35,000 times. He was a featured performer at the Sundance Film Festival (with Donovan), Levon Helm invited him to perform at one the “Rambles”  in Woodstock; and Marc’s song, “Lies in Red, White & Blue” has been as high as #33 on Neil Young’s Living with War’ site. Marc has received the Mobius and the London International Advertising Awards for Best Original Music and has also been noted for songwriting, production and performance by Rolling Stone Magazine, the American Library Association, and Billboard Magazine. He has recorded with an array of luminaries including Taj Mahal, Jack DeJonnette, Rick Danko, PDQ Bach, and Garth Hudson (keyboardist for the ‘Band’); collaborated with Richie Havens on the title cut of the award-winning, American children CD, and the song he wrote for the NY Mets this year was featured on the Diamond Vision screen at the new Stadium.

“So he’s playing and singing, just him and his old guitar and a speaker, the old t-shirt and jeans and cool sneakers and old white hat, and pure creativity is rolling off him like water. He’s humming to himself and grinning and making those sounds that old black blues musicians make when they’re picking, and it was just fabulous, like we were somewhere inside his head as he created music from nothing.”                          –a blogger in Texas about a Marc Black concert

Marc’s song about Martha Stewart and her attempt to trademark ‘Katonah’ (his hometown’s name) was covered in Business Week Magazine and a host of other print publications.  And in the advertising world, he recently completed spots for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cobra Golf, Hartford Insurance, Hot Wheels and Airheads Candy.

His most recent full CD, Stroke of Genius, features a supporting cast that includes Warren Bernhardt, Steve Gadd, Art Garfunkel, John Sebastian, and the Dixie Hummingbirds. The lyrics on this new album are based on the inspired poetry of a man who was in a coma for 21 days and miraculously woke up after his doctors had pulled life support.

www.marcblack.com