Stephen Baird - Street Performer

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"Street Singer," WHA TV Wisconsin Public Television, Produced by Steven Jandacek, nationally-distributed PBS documentary filmed in Madison, 1979.

Clip one is the introduction of the documentary with Picker and Grinner, a song about street performer, Ramblin' Conrad by Bob Zentz http://www.bobzentz.com/. Click on image below to launch movie

Clip two is my version of Beetoven's Ode to Joy on Appalachian Mountain dulcimer. Click on image below to launch movie

Clip three is Jordie, an English music hall song, I learned from the singing of John Roberts and Tony Barrand. Click on image below to launch movie

Clip four is two traditional tunes on Hammered Dulcimer at a Stoneham Theater children's concert. Click on image below to launch movie

 

Clip five is Woody Guthrie's Put Your Fingers in the Air with puppet at a Stoneham Theater children's concert. Click on image below to launch movie

Clip six is last verse of The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton www.tompaxton.com with lots of children help with the toy noises on instruments at a Stoneham Theater children's concert. Click on image below to launch movie




YouTube video busking on Boston Common, December 2006 singing The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton www.tompaxton.com.
Click on image or link below to launch the flick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr1r45XHOoE&feature=em-share_video_user

"Joanne Little" recorded by Stephen Baird and Mark Dann. 
Song written by Bob Holmes. Recorded on Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 6) Street Singing, July 1982
(Now on Smithsonian Folkways Records)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ZNg9Dcllk


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