Bill Staines In Concert

BILL STAINES IN CONCERT – Friday, November 12, 2010 at 7:30 PM. Trinity Covenant Church, 7 Clematis Road, Lexington, MA. Tickets: Adults $15, Children (18 and under)  $10.  Tickets will be available at the door, or for reservations, call Betsy at: (781) 237-7417.

Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special treat.

Bill Staines has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today. For more than forty years, since his early days in the Boston-Cambridge folk music scene, 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, Staines writes and sings songs that reflect 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. His humorous tales of life on the road and observations of everyday people provide an entertaining blend of American story and song.

Bill Staines has twenty-six recordings to his credit and has written over three hundred songs, many of which have been recorded by artists including Peter, Paul, and Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Glen Yarborough, and Jerry Jeff Walker. His music is sung at campfires and folk music gatherings, in homes and churches, all around the country. Songs like "All God's Critters,"  "The Roseville Fair,"  "Child of Mine," and "River," have become folk music classics. Composer David Amram once described Bill as "a modern day Stephen Foster. His music will be around a hundred years from now."

"I have always wanted to bring something of value to people with my songs. I think that is important, to try to write beyond myself, to write to the great things that we all experience in our lives."  For Bill, that is what folk music is all about--a music rich in the human experience and spirit.