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Little Rock Folk Club presents Singer/Songwriter Rod MacDonald in concert Sat Apr 5th 2025
Singer/songwriter Rod MacDonald is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator, and a big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs, where he performed at The Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the "Songwriter's Exchange" at the Cornelia Street Cafe, and along the way he co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, now a non-profit, and is still the President and co-producer of its events.
He is perhaps best known for his songs "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" (Sing Out!), "A Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow", "Every Living Thing", and "My Neighbors in Delray", a description of the September 11 hijackers' last days in Delray Beach, Florida, where MacDonald has lived since 1995. His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin' Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others. His 1985 recording "White Buffalo" is dedicated to Lakota Sioux ceremonial chief and healer Frank Fools Crow, whom he visited in 1981 and 1985, and who appears with MacDonald in the cover photograph
MacDonald's 14th solo album, Rants And Romance, the 17-song collection charted at #5 on the Folk Alliance national folk music chart in summer 2023. Writing in Goldmine, Lee Zimmerman called it "flush with astute observations and commentary on the current stage of politics and populism at a time when courtesy and common sense seem to have gone wholly astray. The material is pointed and prophetic, with melodies that ring, resonate and make emphatic impressions." Accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica, MacDonald, a tenor with a clear voice and wide range, is often cited for both his musicality and the content of his songs about political and social events, delivered with conviction.
Need a little more convincing?... trust your own ears here---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKs0c9DYkQs
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LocationHibernia Irish Tavern (View)
9700 North Rodney Parham
Little Rock, AR 72227
United States
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