BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20171009T000000Z DTEND:20171009T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Charlie Parr DESCRIPTION:Many people play roots music\, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota's Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century\, Parr's heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don't strive for authenticity: They are authentic. 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."\n\nFans who have been following Charlie Parr through his previous 13 full-length albums and decades of nonstop touring already know that the Duluth-based songwriter has a way of carving a path straight to the gut. On his newest record\, Dog\, however\, he seems to be digging deeper and hitting those nerves quicker than ever before.\n\n"I want my son to have this when I'm gone\," Charlie sings not 10 seconds into the opening song on Dog\, "Hobo." His voice sounds weary but insistent\, his accompaniment sparse and sorrowful. By the second line\, the listener has no choice but to be transported on a journey through the burrows of his troubled mind\, following him through shadowy twists and turns as he searches for a way out. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:


\nMany people play roots music\, but few modern musicians live those roots like Minnesota&rsquo\;s Charlie Parr. Recording since the earliest days of the 21st century\, Parr&rsquo\;s heartfelt and plaintive original folk blues and traditional spirituals don&rsquo\;t strive for authenticity: They are authentic. \; It&rsquo\;s the music of a self-taught guitarist and banjo player who grew up without a TV but with his dad&rsquo\;s recordings of America&rsquo\;s musical founding fathers\, including Charley Patton and Lightnin&rsquo\; Hopkins\, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. With his long scraggly hair\, father-time beard\, thrift-store workingman&rsquo\;s flannel and jeans\, and emphatic\, throaty voice\, Parr looks and sounds like he would have fit right into Harry Smith&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Anthology of American Folk Music.&rdquo\;

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Fans who have been following Charlie Parr through his previous 13 full-length albums and decades of nonstop touring already know that the Duluth-based songwriter has a way of carving a path straight to the gut. On his newest record\, Dog\, however\, he seems to be digging deeper and hitting those nerves quicker than ever before.

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&ldquo\;I want my son to have this when I&rsquo\;m gone\,&rdquo\; Charlie sings not 10 seconds into the opening song on Dog\, &ldquo\;Hobo.&rdquo\; His voice sounds weary but insistent\, his accompaniment sparse and sorrowful. By the second line\, the listener has no choice but to be transported on a journey through the burrows of his troubled mind\, following him through shadowy twists and turns as he searches for a way out.

\n LOCATION:Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square Newburyport\, MA UID:e.1189.49673 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260412T144407Z URL:https://business.newburyportchamber.org/events/details/charlie-parr-49673 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR