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This fully seated show gives you a chance to sit and listen. Who wants tickets for Saturday night?
To win, just tell us what great American sport Brodsky is known to sing about. Be the first to comment with the right answer (please include your full first and last name so we can tell the Grey Eagle who to hold tix for), and two tickets are yours. We’ll email you with details.
This down to earth musical storyteller, with his dry, barb-witted social commentary combined with a deep underlying compassion, knows that the best stories are the little things in the lives of everyday people trying to muddle through with some grace. His great gift as a writer is to infuse these stories with humanity and humor, making them resonate profoundly with his listeners. His spoken introductions to his songs can be as spellbinding as his colorful lyrics, which he brings to life with a well-travelled voice and a delivery that’s natural and conversational. His groove-oriented strumming and fingerpicking draw on influences from here in the mountains of Western North Carolina where he lives, and from lots of different good old traditional folk stuff of all kinds.
Chuck Brodsky’s songwriting pokes fun at political corruption, road rage, mischief he made as a kid, even dumping garbage in the river; he sings about unsung heroes and forgotten but incredible people…migrant fruit pickers, the Goat Man, a clown, or with “Radio,” a developmentally disabled man and the love showered on him for 40 years at a high school in South Carolina (this song was used in the 2003 movie “Radio”). In addition to being fixtures on the Dr. Demento show, his songs have been recorded by Kathy Mattea, David Wilcox, Sara Hickman, Chuck Pyle, and many others. He’s appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs “Mountain Stage,” “Acoustic Cafe” and “River City Folk.”
Chuck has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Ireland for 12 years, playing at folk festivals such as Tonder in Denmark, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Kerrville, Philadelphia, and Strawberry, as well as the Lincoln Center Out of Door series in New York, among others. Some of the artists he’s appeared in concert with include Arlo Guthrie, Janis Ian, Pete Seeger, Tim O’Brien, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, John Hartford, Greg Brown, Gillian Welch, Dick Gaughan, Tom Paxton, Ferron, Richie Havens, Patty Larkin, Steve Forbert, The Kingston Trio, and Christine Lavin. His influences include John Hartford, Mark Twain, Nic Jones, Bob Dylan, Lowell George, Jackson Browne, Steve Forbert, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, and David Massengill.
baseball
Baseball, of course!
Karen, you’re our winner. Baseball is indeed Chuck’s thing. Enjoy the show!