2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020 / info@freightandsalvage.org
The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704 The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
Faith Petric
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)grand dame of folk music’s 95th birthday celebration
$18.50 advance / $19.50 at doorPurchase tickets online September 11 8:00 pm
Tonight's far-ranging entertainment offers an outstanding medley of folk and vaudeville performers, with a little bit of something for just about anyone. Faith performs songs with guitar and harmonies provided by singer and multi-instrumentalist, Peter Kessler. Other guests from Faith's long and illustrious career include "America's Bubble Guy" Tom Noddy; wild comedian Frank Olivier; famed songstress Ronnie Gilbert (of Weavers' fame); Estelle Freedman with Don Burnham (of Lost Weekend fame) and Marisa Malvino; Vaudeville-style rope trick artist Karen Quest; country blues fingerpicker Alan Smithline; and yodeling cowgirl comedienne Cici Dawn. And who knows who else may show up? Born in a log cabin on a homestead in Idaho in 1915, Faith first learned music from her father, an itinerant Methodist preacher. She discovered cowboy and country songs in the mid-'20s, and protest songs during the Spanish Civil War. She marched for civil rights in Selma, took the helm of the San Francisco Folk Club in 1962, and helped found the Portable Folk Festival a decade later. These days, Faith continues to host the Friday night San Francisco Folk Club jam sessions, as well as writing a column in Sing Out! magazine and enlivening festivals, clubs, and protests with her songs of peace and justice. |
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