Performance
Date
Friday,
May 29
Evening
Concert - Kennedy Outdoor
Theater
Saturday,
May 30 & Sunday, May 31
3:30
pm Children's Concerts - Threadgill Theater
Ellis
Paul is one of the leading voices in American
songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave
of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston
folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the
national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate,
folk pop style that helped renew interest in the
genre in the 1990's.
His
charismatic, personally authentic performance style
has influenced a generation of artists away from the
artifice of pop, and closer towards the realness of
folk. Though he remains among the most pop-friendly
of today's singer-songwriters - his songs regularly
appear in hit movie and TV soundtracks - he has
bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and
the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete
Seeger more successfully than perhaps any of his
songwriting peers.
For more information on Ellis, visit www.ellispaul.com
