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SUMMARY:Brother\, Can You Spare a Dime? Laughin’ to Keep from Cryin’
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Music and Storytelling at Veteran’s Memorial Park\, 100 Main Street\, Stevensville\, MT with Montana Humanities Scholar\, Bill Rossiter!\nThe Great Depression of the “Dirty Thirties” left Americans with a wicked gallows humor\, a sense that if they could keep laughing\, they wouldn’t have to start crying.  This program shows that spit-in-the-demon’s-eye spirit\, not through history and literature\, but through folklore and “illiterature.”   Americans survived a disaster by using a great national resource: their sense of humor. \nMontana newspapers from the ’20s tell of bank failures\, crop losses\, and deserted homesteads—issues not widely reported in the rest of the nation until a decade later. This “bareknuckle” musical report is accompanied by banjo\, guitar and autoharp.   Participants are encouraged to share recollections\, family lore\, stories and songs from the Depression. \nSponsored in part by Humanities Montana \nBring your lawn chair and please register so we have a head count.  \nBill Rossiter has been playing traditional finger-style guitar\, autoharp and old-time “clawhammer” banjo music in bars\, concert halls and back rooms for a reeeeelly long time. About his singing\, reviewers have raved\, “Yikes!” as well as
“Hmmmm!” and “What the. . . ?”\nBill has been a farm laborer\, brakeman\, Capuchin friar\, factory worker\, newspaper columnist\, carpenter\, public relations flack\, disk jockey\, ghostwriter and bartender. \nHe is a 2015 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Service to the Humanities in Montana. \nBill chaired the Humanities Division and taught literature and
illiterature (folklore) for twenty-five years at Flathead Valley
Community College and as an adjunct at the University of Montana\, retiring
in 1999. He currently rambles around Montana\, Idaho\,
Wyoming and Colorado singing songs of the railroad\, heroes
and outlaws\, the Irish immigration\, the Western frontier\, the Civil War\, cowboys and sodbusters\, mines and miners\, the Great Depression\, and other eras of American history. \nHe says he learned most of his songs at his mother’s knee and other low joints.
URL:https://bitterrootstar.com/event/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-laughin-to-keep-from-cryin/
LOCATION:Veteran’s Memorial Park\, 100 Main Street\, Stevensville\, 59870
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Valley Public Library":MAILTO:nancyb@northvalleylibrary.org
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