{"id":68437,"date":"2013-09-06T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68437"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:13:01","slug":"folksinger-amidon-maine-country-band-traveling-trees-up-next-on-olin-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/06\/folksinger-amidon-maine-country-band-traveling-trees-up-next-on-olin-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Folksinger Amidon, Maine country band Traveling Trees up next on Olin stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Amidon - As I Roved Out (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCHcH2xCBlE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Touring in support of his recent CD <em>Bright Sunny South<\/em>, Vermont-born folksinger Sam Amidon performs in the Olin Arts Alive music series on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine country songwriter Wesley Allen Hartley and his band Traveling Trees open for Amidon at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is $12, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/batestickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event_listings.asp\">batestickets.com<\/a>. For more information, please contact 207-786-6163.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67826\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Olin13-Sam-Amidon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67826\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67826\" alt=\"Folksinger Sam Amidon. Photo credit: Terry Magson.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Olin13-Sam-Amidon-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Olin13-Sam-Amidon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Olin13-Sam-Amidon-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/Olin13-Sam-Amidon.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folksinger Sam Amidon. Photo credit: Terry Magson.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Bright Sunny South<\/em>, Amidon&#8217;s fourth CD and Nonesuch debut, is &#8220;a lonesome record,&#8221; says the singer and multi-instrumentalist. The folk songs, shape-note hymns and country ballads that he performs deal with the darkest, most fundamental issues. Yet there is beauty and comfort in these time-tested words and melodies and in Amidon&#8217;s simple, emotionally direct delivery.<\/p>\n<p>These songs constitute a patchwork portrait of Amidon himself, each representing a facet of his history, travels and discoveries. Witness his version of &#8220;Weeping Mary,&#8221; a shape-note hymn his parents, Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, recorded with the Vermont-based Word of Mouth Chorus for Nonesuch Records in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Amidon is known for reworking traditional melodies into striking new forms. He delivers these songs in a plainspoken voice that encompasses sadness and stoicism, vulnerability and wisdom. As a writer for Pitchfork said, &#8220;his interpretations are so singular that it stops mattering how (or if) they existed before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amidon started out on fiddle and picked up guitar during a sojourn in New York City. If his foundation is in folk music, he brings influences ranging from free jazz to avant-garde to Irish to Bartok. He also incorporates storytelling and movement, particularly a kind of intense &#8220;liturgical&#8221; dancing, into his shows, and has appeared at experimental venues like Chelsea&#8217;s The Kitchen as well as on more conventional folk stages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68438\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Olin13-Hartley-Trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68438\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68438\" alt=\"Wesley Allen Hartley (second from left) &amp; The Traveling Trees.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Olin13-Hartley-Trees-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Olin13-Hartley-Trees-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Olin13-Hartley-Trees-600x456.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Olin13-Hartley-Trees.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wesley Allen Hartley (second from left) &amp; The Traveling Trees.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wesley Allen Hartley &amp; The Traveling Trees are a country band based in Portland, Maine. Their debut album, <em>Narrow Gauge Quad Trains<\/em> (Burst &amp; Bloom Records) was named one of the top 10 local albums of 2010 by the Portland Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2010, the band recorded its second album, <em>Don\u2019t Peel Your Bloomers Off Just Yet<\/em>, currently self-released.<\/p>\n<p>The Traveling Trees have played numerous shows and festivals from Maine to Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont-born folksinger Sam Amidon performs in the Olin Arts Alive music series on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":67826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010],"tags":[2615,3592,6135,9712,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-68437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-country-music","tag-folk-music","tag-music-tag","tag-olin-arts-alive","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76942,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437\/revisions\/76942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}