Manitoba Music
Event
- Date
- Friday, Apr 14, 2017 at 8pm
- Performers
- Charlie Parr
- Location
- West End Cultural Centre
- Address
- 586 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Advance Cost
- $15.00
- Door Cost
- $20.00
About
Charlie Parr has been traveling around singing his songs ever since leaving Austin Mennesota in the 1980’s in search of Spider John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar one Saturday night.
It's the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up without a TV but with his dad's recordings of America's musical founding fathers, including Charley Patton and Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. With his long scraggly hair, Father Time beard, thrift-store workingman's flannel and jeans, and emphatic, throaty voice, Parr looks and sounds like he would have fit right into Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music."
Finding Spider John Koerner changed his life, made him more or less unemployable, and brings us to now: 14 recordings, 250 shows in a year or more, 200,000 miles on a well broke in Kia, and a nasty fear of heights. Resonator fueled folk songs from Duluth Minnesota.