| FALL/WINTER CONCERT SERIES 2003-2004
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POP WAGNER
7:30 pm | November 14, 2003 | Zandbroz Variety
$10 - Adults | $5 - Students
Pop has quite the reputation as a singer, picker, lasso twirler, and downright funny guy. He appeared quite frequently on A Prairie Home Companion during the show's formative years and for the last quarter century he has worked his cowboy magic throughout 44 states and ten countries. His cowboy anthems crackle with the warmth of a prairie campfire and his old time fiddle tunes set toes a-tappin' while he serves up spellbinding rope tricks and tall stories - all with a good dose of friendly humor. Visit the website. |
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Annual David Everist Memorial Event
Square Dance Featuring:
FIDDLER NELSON with DWIGHT LAMB
7:30pm Instruction, 8pm Dance | November 15, 2003 | Knights of Columbus Hall
$8 - Adults | $5 - Students
Bill Peterson hails from Canton, SD and formerly played fiddle for the Celtic band "Slainte". His new band "Fiddler Nelson" was formed in January of 2003 and plays mostly fiddle tunes in the Missouri Valley style, which he learned from Dwight "Red" Lamb from Onawa, IA. Bill currently leads the fiddle club, an offshoot of the Sioux Empire Youth Symphony, at monthly meetings. He also helped found the Sioux River Folk Festival, 25 years ago.
Dwight Lamb plays folk music as played by folks from a particular place, with particular traditions. Lamb hails from Iowa, and he learned his tunes from his family, including several Danish tunes his grandfather brought over, and from the local radio shows from the mid-century. Lamb's style is Old Time music that blends Ozark/Appalachian sensibility with strong northern European roots.
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Valentine's Day Dance
Featuring: Poker Alice
8pm | February 14, 2004 | Knights of Columbus Hall
$10 - Adults | $5 - Students
In the beginning, the Clay County group played mostly country; two decades later, the Poker Alice band is known not only for virtuosity, but for its vast range of songs. "The band has been a revolutionary process," guitarist Nick Schwebach said. "It's a great, eclectic mix. If people want a country band, we can be a country band. If they want blues or rock-a-billy, we can do that. I think I could safely say that over the years we've played more than 300 different songs. Our last gig we played three songs we'd never played together before. You get those songs in your reptilian brain, and every now and then they resurface. I can just look at the boys and say Ôit's one-four-five with a two somewhere in there,' and that's about all it takes. Everybody kind of thinks on the same wave length."
Owen DeJong, Nick Schwebach, Al Remund, Dennis Jensen, and Larry Rohrer, make up Poker Alice, which plays somewhere almost every weekend. They're the "houseband" with the perenially popular "Always Patsy Cline" show.
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annual ceili
March 6, 2004 | Knights of Columbus Hall
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Irish Music Night
Featuring: bohola
7:30pm | March 20, 2004 | Jeschke Auditorium - USF Campus
$20 - Adults | $10 - Students | Ages 12 & Under FREE
bohola play a driving, muscular, and yet very emotive style of Irish music with deep roots in the 'pure drop' tradition, which has been forged with the raw and gritty urbanized musical vernacular of the Irish-American experience. www.bohola.com
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Sparky & Rhonda Rucker
7:30pm | April 17, 2004 | Sioux Falls Woman's Club
Annual FOTM Meeting | No Charge for Admission
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker have performed throughout the US, singing songs and telling stories from the American tradition. www.sparkyandrhonda.com
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A South Dakota Acoustic Christmas
December 12 & 13th, Washing Pavillion
For tickets call 605.367.6000 or toll free at 1.877.927.4723
SAM COFFEY
Sam was raised in the Ozarks with his younger brother, Kent. Both boys started playing stringed instruments before they were teenagers. Their father, Lynn, was a very talented musician. Sam always says, "Around our house, you learn to play an instrument, or you couldn't live there!" Sam has played music shows in Branson for 15 years. Sam has played with Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright, Mac Wiseman, Johnny Paycheck, Louise Mandrell, Johnny Russell, the Whites, Tiny Tim and many others. Sam currently is part of "Coffey and Company" in Sioux Falls where he has the privilege to play with his wife, son, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Also, Sam and his brother-in-law spend their spare time building custom acoustic instruments for themselves to play, and for other fellow musicians. His years of experience playing and building instruments is evident the first time you hear him play!!
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