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!!! WE'RE THROWING A PARTY TO CELEBRATE... AND YOU'RE INVITED !!!

WHO? Activist songwriter, community organizer and playwright SI KAHN, local star GEOFF BARTLEY,
           and artist management professional KARI ESTRIN 
   
WHY? 1) Because both SI KAHN and GEOFF BARTLEY have had a No.1 CD on FolkDJ Radio 
           2) Because both CDs were taken to No.1 by KARI ESTRIN 
           3) Because SI KAHN's new play Silver Spoon* opens at the Nora Theatre in Central Square
	             on Thursday, May 19 for a one-month run before heading to New York
  
WHEN? Monday, May 23 at 8:00pm

HOW MUCH? $10 requested donation in-the-hat.  All proceeds go to The New England Folk Music Archives.

WHERE? The Cantab Lounge
               738 Massachusetts Avenue
              Central Square)
              Cambridge MA 02139
              PHONE 617 354-2685
              PARKING all meters go out-of-effect at 6:00PM.  Read signs at other parking areas.
              The Cantab has Christmas lights up and on all year long.  You must be 21.

SCHEDULE
8:15 to 8:45 Geoff plays
9:00 to 10:15 Si leads the crowd in singing along w/ his songs 
10:30 CAKE IS SERVED!
10:45 Invitational Open Mic starts... the first 4 performers are booked in advance 
11:30 regular open mic starts
12:45AM closing

Si's latest CD "Courage" and Geoff's latest CD "Put the Big Stone Down" were promoted by Kari Estrin**. 
Kari is promoting this celebration at the Cantab, and the girl knows how to throw a party.  So come out.  There will be cake.

* Si Kahn's new play Silver Spoon opens Thursday, May 19 at the Nora Theatre in Central Square
  for a one-month run before heading to New York.  Go here: http://www.sikahn.com/index.shtml
   for more information about Silver Spoon, links to the Nora Theatre, tickets & reservations.

** Kari Estrin was a Boston-area publisher and concert promoter in the 1980s.  Her Black Sheep Review was one of a very few
   acoustic music publications in the country in the early '80s, and it united the New England folk music scene through the power
   of publishing and distribution.  Before Black Sheep, many folk scenes in the northeast and around the country were going under.
   But by being a clearinghouse and disseminating information, the Review breathed new life into the folk and traditional music
    communities in New England and elsewhere. 

Kari also produced one of the largest folk music concert series in the country and was the first promoter
to open up Harvard's Sanders Theatre as a folk concert venue.  In those days, one had to have an affiliation with Harvard
to have access.  Folk agent legend Mitch Greenhill encouraged her to affiliate through the Harvard Folklore and Mythology Department,
which she did.  Over the years she took artists like Doc Watson and David Bromberg and Steve Goodman out of the rock clubs and into
concert halls.  Kari's Black Sheep Concerts promoted the first tour of DeDannan with Maura O’Connell back in the early 80s, as well as
Celtic icons Silly Wizard, Delores Keane and others, also Tony Rice, David Grisman, Nanci Griffith, John Renbourn, and others.

Kari was my first manager 1978 through 1980.  She then managed Tony Rice during the recording and promotion of his
Church Street Blues record.  She has over thirty five years experience in nearly every facet of the traditional and contemporary acoustic
music scenes.  Maybe we can get her to work a little of her magic again up here in southern New England... we all would benefit.   ~ Geoff  

Kari Estrin Management & Consulting
Acoustic Music Radio Promotion
EuroAmericana Chart Promotion
PO Box 60232  Nashville TN 37206
615/262-0883
Email: kari@kariestrin.com 
Website: www.kariestrin.com

Si Kahn's website: www.sikahn.com
Geoff Bartley's website: www.geoffbartley.com 

On Saturday, November 7, Geoff was the invited speaker at the English Lunch Club (part of the Thoreau Society) at Bigelow Chapel in the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. He gave a talk on songwriting entitled "An Independent Music Professional Stares into the Abyss." Past speakers at the English Lunch Club have included Robert Frost, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Seamus Heaney.

(Fall 2008)
"Blackbirds in the Pie" is out!

Find it in Geoff's online store

A new CD of seventeen songs and instrumentals, half of them originals, has been released! Material ranges from a humorous version of Bessie Smith’s Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair with a guest appearance by Billy Novick on clarinet to the heart-warming Song of Imaginary Gifts to the personal and mystical Open Any Door, both Bartley originals. Production values range from solo resonator guitar to full band.

* * * Also released * * *

"The Song of Imaginary Gifts"
CD single is a gift item suitable for birthdays and other Special Events.
The CD package includes a blank panel on which to write your personal message
(like a greeting card) and comes with a mailing envelope.
Complete lyrics are printed on back cover.
Available for $5 in Geoff's online store

Geoff Bartley song on the big screen!

'A Letter From Prison'
in a recording by The Infamous Stringdusters
on their 2007 album 'Fork in the Road'
appeared in the Lionsgate Film 'The Lucky Ones'
which opened Friday 9/26/08.