ESRM - First Post Flood Concert

WCA member Dakin Morehouse (who is also President of the ESRM) has gotten the Empire State Railway Museum up and running again after all the damage caused by Hurricane Irene. Flying Cat Music will do their first post flood concert on Sunday October 16th featuring Vance Gilbert. I am very excited about this because I have been a fan of his for many years. You can read below for the details of the show. Hope to see you there!!

Flying Cat Music Presents
An Event Not To Be Missed
Vance Gilbert in Concert
at the Empire State Railway Museum
Sunday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Door opens at 7:00

70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia
off of Route 28, just east of the village

$18 or $15 w/RSVP to flyingcatmusic@gmail.com

For information call 845-688-9453
Artist Website: http://vancegilbert.com/


Flying Cat Music is glad to return to the now reopened Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia on Sunday, October 16 to feature an Evening with Vance Gilbert. We couldn’t ask for a finer artist than Vance to resume our concert series at this very special venue--now restored after a brief, flood-imposed shut down. The show begins promptly at 7:30 p.m. with the door opening at 7:00. Admission is $18 at the door or $15 with RSVP to flyingcatmusic@gmail.com or by calling 845-688-9453.

Vance Gilbert is a man of whom Music Matters Review says “He expresses yearning like Einstein expresses cosmic concepts… There’s no one like him." That last thought especially can’t be overemphasized. It’s hard to imagine an artist who both Shawn Colvin and George Carlin would ask to open for them on tour; unless of course you’ve seen Vance Gilbert perform. And few, other than Vance, could win billing as the featured special artist for both a Janis Ian concert and an Aretha Franklin concert.

Make no mistake; Vance Gilbert is a folk singer, one who started out in music singing jazz. Those intonations still show in his voice, in his guitar work, and in subtle melodic shifts within his songs. But content matters in folk music, and content matters to Vance. The Boston Globe describes Vance Gilbert’s music this way: “His catchy, pop friendly melodies support keenly crafted, hardhitting lyrics. His guitar is supple, his milk-warm tenor honest and gently acrobatic…he does not duck hard truths and never succumbs to the temptation to tie his points up in neat platitudes or truthisms. He writes powerfully and uncompromisingly about the wrenching separation suffered by single parents, the tug between love’s desire and its demands and the bitterness of being nonwhite in this Eurocentric culture.”

Dirty Linen calls Vance Gilbert, "Among the quintessential musical poets," while New Texas Magazine writes “Gilbert’s songs have the piercing quality of a dart shot right through the heart." But none of that prepares you for the warmth and whimsical humor that also floods a live Vance Gilbert show.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram hints at that when it says of Gilbert "The voice of an angel, the wit of a devil…” The Boston Globe review of Vance Gilbert cited above also notes: “He is that rare performer for whom people lean forward in their seats as eagerly between songs as they do during them.” George Carlin clearly knew what he was doing when he asked Vance Gilbert to open for him at some of his final shows.

Ever since we saw Vance Gilbert transfigure the crowd, while playing the main stage at Falcon Ridge, we wanted to someday have him at the train station in Phoenicia. Now that that day is coming we hope you can be there for it.

The Empire State Railway Museum is located at 70 Lower High Street which is about one quarter mile east of the Bridge Street entrance to Phoenicia off of Route 28.