On Your Radar with WFUV's John Platt

Landmark on Main Street is very excited to present a special evening of "On Your Radar with WFUV's John Platt" featuring Brother Sun, Amy Speace and Martyn Joseph.  Landmark thanks our Fabulous Folk Series Sponsors Hicks Nurseries and WFUV Radio and our Program Sponsors Maureen & Joe Wekselblatt.



Brother Sun: National Touring Artists Greg Greenway, Pat Wictor, and Joe Jencks have made their mark as veteran touring singer-songwriters, but Brother Sun is no songwriter's round. The trio's harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock, and a cappella singing, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest of male singing traditions.
http://brothersunmusic.com/

“Amy Speace’s songs hang together like a short story collection, united by a common vantage point and common predicaments…it’s a gift to hear a heart so modest even when it’s wide open,” says legendary rock critic Dave Marsh in his liner notes to Amy Speace’s newest collection “How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat” (WindBone/Tone Tree). Marsh continues, “It is the most daring, confident, ambitious and beautiful album Amy Speace has made since she began recording.” Speace, once an actress with The National Shakespeare Company, has crafted a document to living gracefully with grief that weaves a most unlikely yet beautifully poetic narrative between her very modern lamentings and the characters in Shakespeare’s plays. The New York Times wrote “For those who argue that poetry is a dying genre, I suggest listening to Amy Speace.” The Tennessean writes, “What Speace says – what she sings -- she says with a confluence of poetry and honesty, of emotional specificity.” And she was recently featured in NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Martin Joseph: Edgy and charismatic acoustic singer songwriter, delivering songs of “outstanding lyrical intelligence” (Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2), coupled with a high energy electrifying live performance with an uncanny fusion of material, from feisty, pull no punches big issue numbers to fragile love songs.

“Springsteen-indebted Americana, suspended folk chords glistening beneath troubadour tales, his lyrical eloquence still inspired almost 30 years on from his debut” – MOJO

You can hear songs by the artists here: http://www.reverbnation.com/plattsonyourradar?profile_view_source=profile_box

Tickets: 516-767-6444 or www.landmarkonmainstreet.org,