JIM Kweskin - LIVE STREAM
SunDAY, Oct 18 @7pm
Jim Kweskin Livestream Sunday Oct 18 @7pm
Jim Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band which successfully
transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a springboard for good-humored
performances. No other group attained its unique blend of youthful energy and antiquarian expertise,
tight musicianship, loose camaraderie, and infectious swing.
These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock
guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John
Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz. He has maintained a remarkably
consistent musical vision since his jug band days, continuing to explore traditional folk and blues with
the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist.
Because of his vast repertoire and love of the music, Kweskin is recognized as one of the best
interpreters of the great American songbook.
Jim Kweskin has also recently released two critically acclaimed albums:
Unjugged, a solo album recorded in the UK, on iTunes and Amazon
Penny's Farm a duo album with long-time collaborator Geoff Muldau on iTunes and Amazon
Kweskin’s latest release is 2020’s I Just Want to Be Horizontal, a 17 track recording featuring longtime
partner and dynamic vocalist, Samoa Wilson.
Jim Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band which successfully
transformed the sounds of pre-World War II rural music into a springboard for good-humored
performances. No other group attained its unique blend of youthful energy and antiquarian expertise,
tight musicianship, loose camaraderie, and infectious swing.
These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock
guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John
Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz. He has maintained a remarkably
consistent musical vision since his jug band days, continuing to explore traditional folk and blues with
the sophisticated sensibility of a jazz musician, and jazz with the communal simplicity of a folk artist.
Because of his vast repertoire and love of the music, Kweskin is recognized as one of the best
interpreters of the great American songbook.
Jim Kweskin has also recently released two critically acclaimed albums:
Unjugged, a solo album recorded in the UK, on iTunes and Amazon
Penny's Farm a duo album with long-time collaborator Geoff Muldau on iTunes and Amazon
Kweskin’s latest release is 2020’s I Just Want to Be Horizontal, a 17 track recording featuring longtime
partner and dynamic vocalist, Samoa Wilson.
This concert is sponsored in part by a generous grant from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. Common Fence Music is a Rhode Island-based 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization whose mission it is to celebrate and preserve diverse folk music traditions by creating community-based opportunities for cultural exchange.
