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SUMMARY:Jonathan Edwards
DESCRIPTION:ADVANCE PURCHASE: $35\nDAY-OF: $45\n10% MEMBER DISCOUNT\nMas
 ks required for this show.\n\nFifty years in music! Yes\, it seems like 
 quite an accomplishment. But if you look a little closer\, you’ll find
  a boy fairly unconcerned with issues and events that most people think 
 of as the future. You’ll see a guy who’s wondering what he did wrong
  to have to spend his high school years marching to English class in a m
 ilitary school uniform. Picture him putting down the rifle he was issued
  and picking up a guitar for the first time\, and the look on his face w
 hen\, at last\, something made sense. And then\, you might peer into the
  psyche of a young fella who loved the music of words enough to postpone
  the last stages of an art degree to follow his cellular desire to learn
  about that love and begin to understand. He understood that he was of a
 n age to be sent against his will to southeast Asia to become a soldier.
  He had a different idea. Songs and the need to write them… Concerts m
 ade up of those songs and the joy of performing them in front of listeni
 ng\, responsive people.\n\nThese are the endeavors that propelled this y
 oung fella to follow his heart and refine his focus. Bigger and bigger a
 udiences were soon to take notice and embrace this artist who so selfles
 sly engaged with them. 250 shows a year in those early years. 19 albums 
 and collaborations as evidence of his commitment. A little broadway\, a 
 touch of acting\, some producing and “50 years goes.” Formative time
 s with the horses in Nova Scotia\, a decade or so in the Caribbean with 
 the Rastas\, a stubborn adherence to the sound of bronze strings on rose
 wood\, an abiding love of the earth and all her daily miracles\; these a
 re a few of the colors on his palette that inform the man he has now bec
 ome. You will discover a certain reverence and a sardonic humor in equal
  measure. You will now find an outward maturity and an inner\, youthful 
 exuberance combined in an intense and contagious love of life. When aske
 d if he ever gets weary of singing “Sunshine” or “Shanty” or any
  of his earlier compositions\, he replies\, “Every night is a new nigh
 t\, every crowd is a different context and every performance feels like 
 the first time.”\n\nSo\, whether it’s a “Toys For Tots” Christma
 s Show for forty thousand people or a house concert down the street for 
 25 friends and neighbors and a couple of dogs\, you receive the best fro
 m this man–every time he takes the stage. These are honest emotions to
  which wings are attached. An authentic story of art for the sake of art
 . This is original music based in history and tradition. Pianos\, mandol
 ins and fiddles…harmonicas\, stand-up bass and lots of guitars\; the r
 ecordings and the concerts both create an environment and an atmosphere 
 that make his singing seem effortless and a spontaneous natural occurren
 ce. And all of this without much concern for the future.\n\nPeace\, Love
  and Understanding through the gift of Music.
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LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\,  Maine  04101\,  US
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