BRIGHT MORNING STAR REUNION CONCERT
March 29th Benefit for ‘Safe & Green’ Campaign

8 pm

All Souls Church, Greenfield, MA

$15 ($8 for children under 12)
World Eye Bookshop (Greenfield), Boswell’s Books (Shelburne Falls), Food for Thought Bookstore (Amherst), and Everyone’s Books (Brattleboro).
$18 at the door

BRIGHT MORNING STAR toured North America from 1978 - 1990, mixing folk, country, blues, jazz and a good dose of theatre. Almost 20 years later they're back, re-grouped with two decades of individual performance experience under their collective belt, livelier and more astute then ever.

Their backgrounds range from classical music to rock and roll, from folk to top 40, from symphony orchestra to avant-garde theater. They combine their musical and theatrical skills in a journey through the worlds of drama, politics, people, humor, satire, and spirituality.

The band has energized its repertoire with new material while holding onto classics just old enough to sound brand new (given recurring social and political realities). Their songs are a rare combination of powerful, often original lyrics and rich melodies that shine in intricate harmonies – often a capella or seven voices with piano accompaniment. In the course of a concert, they pass around guitars, fiddle, bass, banjo, harmonica, recorder, trombone, piano, and the occasional kazoo. Their cabaret style adds a comic irony to traditional songs and a surprising depth to contemporary pieces. Lyrical, fun, dramatic and incendiary, this is a show not to be missed!

‘Bright Morning Star reunites to bring harmony and spirit to community in a time when it is most desperately needed. Cabaret-style fun mixed with truth-telling folk and a bit of the romantic on the side. So glad they are doing the long awaited return engagement!’
-- Holly Near

‘They’re doing exactly what Woody Guthrie and I tried to do forty years ago.’ -- Pete Seeger

BRIGHT MORNING STAR is comprised of Court Dorsey (Wendell, MA), Cheryl Fox (Turners Falls, MA), George Fulginiti-Shakar (Washington, D.C.), Ken Giles (Washington, D.C.), Charlie King (Shelburne Falls, MA), Laura Kolb (Columbus, OH), and Marcia Taylor (Providence, R.I.). Laura Kolb will be providing interpreting for the hearing-impaired.

for tour info http://www.charlieking.org/bms.html

The ‘Safe & Green’ campaign, a grassroots education and action effort that aims to replace nuclear power with energy conservation and efficiency coupled with safe, sustainable, and affordable power sources. We are working to organize the towns in the 20 mile radius of Vermont Yankee in VT, MA and NH to fight the relicense of Entergy Nuclear's Vermont Yankee Reactor.

For further information, please contact:
Claire Chang (413) 863-8952, cchang@nukebusters.com
Betsy Williams (413) 774-7469, (802) 387-2765, ewilliams@communityaction.us