May 13, 2005
Eddie From Ohio, a band known for its lush harmonies, humorous lyrics and deft acoustic instrumentation, will perform in a MUSIC for a CHANGE concert on
Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Millard Auditorium, Fuller Music Center, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford. Tickets for the show are $18.
The University of Hartford, in cooperation with WWUH radio (91.3 FM), has created a way to use music to help its Hartford-area neighbors. The MUSIC for a CHANGE benefit concert series, launched in the spring of 2000, has raised more than $30,000 for Greater Hartford charities and nonprofit organizations. Proceeds from this show will benefit the Interval House, which provides free and confidential support services to victims of domestic violence throughout the Hartford area.
“Eddie From Ohio is actually a quartet from Virginia, among the hottest new folk bands. Its quirky, hilariously smart-alecky songs are bringing young fans to folk and a welcome spirit of fun to the often dour world of songwriting,” noted a review of the band in
The Boston Globe.
“To be sure, this folk outfit engages in so much genre-mixing hijinks – jazz, ska, four-part harmonies, Latin flavors. But to redeem themselves, Eddie from Ohio wraps the whole of its musical package in so much charm and intelligence it’s hard to resist. Like an ice-cube floating on the water of its own melting, Julie Murphy Wells makes her words seem simultaneously silly and slyly profound,” noted the
Salt Lake City Weekly.
Formed in 1991, the band has self-produced nine CDs, toured from Maine to California, and been invited to play the main stage at prestigious festivals like Philadelphia Folk, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Eddie From Ohio was named “Best Contemporary Folk Group” for 1998, 2000 and 2001 by the Washington Area Music Association.
Opening for Eddie From Ohio will be Paul and Storm, two members of the widely acclaimed comedy-a cappella group DaVinci’s Notebook. After spending more than a decade writing and performing original music as part of DaVinci’s Notebook, Paul Sabourin and Greg “Storm” DiCostanzo have bravely picked up instruments and hit the road with their recently self produced first CD,
Shame and Cookie Dough.
For tickets, call the University box office at 860.768.4228 or 1.800.274.8587, or purchase them online at
www.hartford.edu/tickets. For more information about the MUSIC for a CHANGE concert series, visit
www.musicforachange.com.
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