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06/06/08
The ever colorful and entertaining Tom D'Antoni, interviews Lauren.
Lauren Sheehan is an interpreter of songs and she is in no way defensive about that.
Q: Do you ever worry about being known as an "interpreter" of songs written by others?
A: Emmy Lou Harris talks about a widespread predisposition toward singer songwriters, and against interpreters. In a recent interview in Acoustic Guitar Magazine, she says something along the lines of how when she came up there was no stigma attached to singing a beautiful song and being a good interpreter. (pausing) It was a real pleasure for me to read that.
Q: But you're not doing a "cover," trying to recreate what you've heard note for note.
A: What I'm doing is reinterpreting the song with all the tools available to me as a musician in 2008. Chord substitutions, rhythmic changes or different phrasing, or singing in a different way. There are some people who I really like to imitate, they've touched me and there's a quality of the sound.
I try to give the audience a variety of styles and styles within the styles so a Piedmont Country Blues might be a classic sound that one of these old masters plays within their own style or might take it and jazz it up quite a bit or make it folkie or bring old-time mountain elements into it even though that's not how I heard the master play it, but I get an inclination. Little Maggie from my first CD is a good example. It's a classic bluegrass song and I had an old-time fiddler play on it as well as Phil Wiggins who played country blues harp and I skirted the zone between country blues and modal music and I didn't play the bluegrass chords either.
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Florence Folk Festival
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Strawberry Rune, with Elizabeth Nicholson
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Headlining at Seldovia Summer Solstice Festival, Seldoiva AK
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An intimate seasonal show with obscure and familiar music. Expect Elizabeth Nicholson in future folk/Celtic shows with Lauren.
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Produces and hosts Tracy Schwarz and Ginny Hawker for weekend of workshops, concerts and intimate soiree with Tracy.
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01/30/06
Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, syndicated to 462 Stations and over 1 Million radio listeners each week.
Lauren will be appearing on Michael Jonathan's WOODSONGS OLD TIME RADIO HOUR, Monday, January 30th, 7:00 PM EST. Reservations at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington at 859-252-8888. Watch and hear Lauren on the multi-camera web cast FREE at www.woodsongs.com
Lauren Sheehan plays that earthy, acoustic roots and blues music of the south. She learned her art directly for masters like John Jackson, John Cephas, Ginny Hawker, Algia Mae Hinton, Etta Baker, Carl Rutherford, Howard Armstrong, and Smokey McKeen.
Also appearing: The Gibson Brothers carry on the decades-old tradition of sibling harmony singing like the Monroe Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, and the Louvin Brothers. They will be performing songs from their seventh album Red Letter Day.
> www.woodsongs.com
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