Sunday, November 20, 2022
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music
$30 VIP
$15 Advance General Admission // $21 At The Door
All Ages
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Mother Banjo's Ellen Stanley celebrates her 20th anniversary hosting the long-running
Womenfolk radio show.
Featuring some of the top regional folk, roots and bluegrass talent the show has championed over the years, the special event will include performances by Ann Reed, Molly Maher, Jonatha Brooke, Becky Schlegel, Mary Cutrufello, Ellis Delaney, The OK Factor and more.
All proceeds will benefit KFAI Community Radio.
Womenfolk Radio host Ellen Stanley (she/her) began her radio journey while a student at Oberlin College, where she hosted a women’s music program for four years on WOBC. Since 2002, she has been hosting the long-running Womenfolk radio show on KFAI in Minneapolis, MN. Now carried on other stations across the country, Womenfolk features a wide variety of folk/acoustic music from women and non-binary artists, including Americana, blues, bluegrass, traditional country, singer/songwriter and roots music from around the globe. As a banjo player, publicist and music writer, Ellen brings an insider’s perspective to the music with exclusive interviews, live guests and tasty bits of fun folk trivia. She has been a guest host and contributor on SiriusXM, The Current, Folk Alley, KBEM-Jazz88 and Minnesota Public Radio. She also co-hosts the weekly Back Catalog Listening Party, revisiting old albums with guest artists who talk about the writing and recording of the songs and answer fan questions live on YouTube.
Hailed by Billboard as "one of the most gifted and unique artists of the decade," Jonatha Brooke has co-written songs with Katy Perry and members of The Chicks and has written music for four Disney films. In addition to these collaborations, she continues to release her own award-winning albums, writes music for the theater and tours with Rebecca Arons as part of The Cello Songs Project.
Songwriter, singer and author Ann Reed has been a performing artist for more than 45 years with her rich, dark-chocolate voice, storytelling from the human experience, and songs that find a permanent place in the heart. Her most recent recordings are are: Winter Springs, Summer Falls, a collection of songs inspired by the seasons, A Short CD By Ann Reed From Somewhere Outside Her House, and Other People’s Songs, a collection of favorite standard tunes with guitarist/bassist Joan Griffith. Ann has two books available: Citizens of Campbell, a novel, and The Less Said: A Collection of Short Form Poems.
St. Paul roots-rock singer-songwriter Mary Cutrufello has been a mainstay in the Americana scene here and in Texas for thirty years. She's performed on The Tonight Show and Austin City Limits, and toured in all 50 states and several European countries. Hailed by USA Today as "a fierce guitarist with with a blistered-throat voice," Cutrufello mixes original songs and classics of American music (think Willie Nelson and Steve Earle) into a captivating, heartland-proud musical stew at once timeless and immediate.
Called “one of the Twin Cities’ most enduring and endearing folk singers of the past two decades," (Star Tribune), Ellis Delaney is an engaging and wholehearted writer, singer and performer who is full of light and spirit. They got their start performing the women’s festival circuit in 2000, with regular performances at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival. Since then, they have won numerous songwriting awards, including the Kerrville New Folk Contest. Their latest album Ordinary Love is about finding joy in family and community.
Organic and genuine, The OK Factor create original compositions that feel both comfortingly familiar and uniquely fresh, and have been described as "genre-bending" (Minnesota Public Radio) and "pure magic" (Wausau Pilot & Review). The ease with which they write and perform has caught the attention of the Minnesota music community in which they live and work, bringing them success throughout the Midwest and in Sweden, where they have started touring and collaborating with the award-winning folk band Jaerv. Their distinct compositional and performance style awarded them the honor of being finalists for the prestigious McKnight Fellowships for Musicians in 2018.
Featured on various national public radio shows, Minnesota Music Award Winner Becky Schlegel is a songwriter who draws on the influence of classic country, bluegrass, folk, and her own thoughtful spirit. Becky's incredible voice floats, whispers then soars above music of the highest quality. She takes her listeners on a musical journey, exploring new places and meeting new people in every song. She is a 5-time IBMA Songwriter Showcase Participant and an inductee into the Legends of South Dakota Country Music Association.
Molly Maher resides on the border between the lands of Americana and the Blues and moves beautifully between them, blending simmering guitars and cutting lyrics. She has traveled the roads of roots music traditions and returned to sing about it with an authentic and sage voice. With songs that ring true, her singing is a fine balance of deep and soulful, somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt. Her music is twangy and lament-filled spirit, guitar driven country-folk-jam with a blues swagger. Of her latest album Follow, Louie Perez of Los Lobos says, "Molly Maher has done it. She combines simplicity and heartfelt melody and creates something that is equally haunting and hypnotic. I can't stop listening."
