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SUMMARY:Bill Staines
DESCRIPTION:From the Archives:\n \nTen Pound Fiddle · Bill Staines Live From The Ten Pound Fiddle – October 2\, 2015\n\nDonation links:\nDirect donations to billstaines@comcast.net via Paypal. \n\nFor more than forty years\, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America\, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals\, folksong societies\, colleges\, concerts\, clubs\, and coffeehouses. A New England native\, Bill became involved with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960’s and for a time\, emceed the Sunday Hootenanny at the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. From the time in 1971 when a reviewer from the Boston Phoenix stated that he was “simply Boston’s best performer”\, Bill has continually appeared on folk music radio listener polls as one of the top all time favorite folk artists. Now\, well into his fifth decade as a folk performer\, he has gained an international reputation as a gifted songwriter and performer. \nSinging mostly his own songs\, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today\, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65\,000 miles annually. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances and one reviewer wrote\, “He has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic.” \nBill’s music is a slice of Americana\, reflecting with the same ease his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon\, the on-the-road truckers\, or the everyday workers that make up this land. \nMany of Bill’s songs have appeared in grade school music books\, church hymnals\, and scouting campfire songbooks; he is one of only a few songwriters to have eight songs published in the classic song collection\, Rise up Singing. Composer David Amram recently described Bill as “a modern day Stephen Foster…his songs will be around 100 years from now.” \nOver the decades\, you have heard Bill singing on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion\, HBO’s award winning series Deadwood\, and Public Radio’s Mountain Stage. Additionally\, his music has been used in a number of films including Off and Running\, with Cyndi Lauper\, and The Return of the Secaucus Seven\, John Sayles’ debut as a writer- director. \nIn 1975\, Bill won National Yodeling Championship in Kerrville Texas. Another important recognition was given to him in 2007. Presented by the Boston Area Coffeehouse Association\, The Jerry Christen Award recognized Bill’s contribution to New England folk music. \nCurrently\, Bill has recorded 26 albums; The Happy Wanderer and One More River were winners of the prestigiousParents’ Choice Award\, taking a gold medal and silver medal respectively. His songs have been recorded by many artists including Peter\, Paul\, and Mary\, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy\, The Highwaymen\, Mason Williams\, Grandpa Jones\, Jerry Jeff Walker\, Nanci Griffith\, Glen Yarborough and others. \nAs well as recordings\, over 100 of Bill’s songs have been published in three songbooks: If I Were a Word\, Then I’d Be a Song\, Movin’ It Down the Line\, and Music to Me\, the latter published by Hal Leonard Corporation. His song\, All God’s Critters\, has been recently released as a Simon and Schuster children’s book with illustrations by Caldecott honor-winning artist\, Kadir Nelson. \n“Folk music is rich in the human spirit and experience. I’ve always wanted to bring something of value to people through my songs.” With these thoughts\, Bill continues to drive the highways and back roads of the country year after year\, bringing his music to listeners\, young and old. \nIn the fall of 2015 Yankee Magazine\, New England’s premiere magazine\, published it’s “80th Anniversary Issue.”In the issue\, along with the likes of Stephen King and Katherine Hepburn\, Bill was chosen as “One of the 80 gifts New England has given to America.”\nA true honor. \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
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