Judy Collins News

Submitted by StateTheatre on Wed, 2009-09-02 14:54. Start: 2009-12-18 20:00 End: 2009-12-18 22:00 Timezone: Cost: $40 814-272-0606 www.thestatetheatre.org/Events Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes.

Folk musician Judy Collins led college students in song during the turbulent 1960s.

Main American musician born Dec. 4, 1955, Jackson, Miss., U.S. American musician whose recordings combined such musical genres as jazz , rap , and hip-hop . She performed jazz standards, folk songs , Delta blues, and pop classics as well as many original numbers that defied categorization.

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Denver's RootsFest will celebrate its third anniversary this year with a bill of trans-genre and generation artists.

After three albums of singer-songwriter fare colored with the kind of instrumentation that would get it categorized as Americana, Herring has stripped things down on her fourth.

San Francisco-by-way-of-Connecticut singer-songwriter Sonya Cotton hails from the halcyon peaks of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Judee Sill: shea s a songbird of a soprano, given to praise though drawn to the dark side of folk song.

Although a songwriter, folk icon Judy Collins is best known as an interpreter of material by the most revered stars of the 1960s folk movement.

Mary Travers of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary , who died on Sept. 16 at 72, was remembered on Monday night for both her music and her part in awakening the political consciousness of the baby-boomer generation.

The glittering world of the supper club seems so last century, and area restaurant impresario Tim McLoone knows it.

The Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech announces the addition of Grammy Award-winning vocalist Judy Collins to the 2009-2010 season line-up, for one night only, Sunday, November 8, at 5 p.m. Tickets are available for $34 and $44 at the Ferst Center Box Office at 404-894-9600 and at www.ferstcenter.org . Few singers have the staying power of ...

Friday, Oct. 16 Get some Saturday Night Fever a day early. The 12th Annual Disco Cures Cancer begins at 7 p.m. at the Rothschild Pavilion, 1104 Park St., Rothschild.

Judy Collins has influenced generations of folk singers, some of whom performed on a 2008 tribute album of her music.

Judy Collins, at age 70, still has those penetrating blue eyes and that pure voice, and still burns with the optimism of the social justice activist who has known victories and defeats.

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Already established as a poet and novelist , Cohen became interested in the Greenwich Village folk scene while living in New York City during the mid-1960s, and he began setting his poems to music.

There's an ongoing resurgence of acoustic music and intricate vocal harmonizing among young, so-called "Americana" bands.

The country sound of "American Idol" runner-up Bo Bice. Grammy Award winner Paula Cole.

Staff members at the Performing Arts Foundation are gearing up for Thursday, when single tickets for the Grand Theater's 2009-10 lineup go on sale.

Recent live appearances by Buffy Sainte-Marie show her, once again, setting herself apart from early colleagues like Joan Baez and Judy Collins.