Rod MacDonald, a well-known folk musician, will be playing at the Uptown Coffee House. on Sunday June 7 at 5 pm.The Uptown Coffeehouse is an organization run entirely by volunteers dedicated to bringing live, traditional & contemporary folk music to the Bronx, New York., They have been in existence since 1987.
Throughout a 35-year performing career, Rod MacDonald has been entertaining audiences worldwide with his timeless ballads, modern folk songs, and his musical versatility. Possessing the heart of a troubadour, the soul of a poet and the voice of a virtuoso, he is as distinctive an entertainer as he is a songwriter. Known for his passionate interest in the events that shape our world's societies, Rod is a prolific and poignant communicator who is regarded as "one of the most politically and socially aware lyricists of our time." (All Music Guide).
Rod has released 9 solo albums, and has performed at many of the world's finest clubs and major international festivals in the U.S., Europe and Canada. The first American folksinger to tour the liberated Czech Republic, Rod performed frequently at the 3-4 day Straznice Festival for audiences of 10,000, where he debuted his passionate anthem "For The People", a tribute to the newly freed Czechs. He summered with the Oglala Sioux Indians on their South Dakota reservation where he met Frank Fool's Crow, ceremonial chief and medicine healer and to whom he dedicated his 2nd album, "White Buffalo" featuring the song of the same name. Said Rod, "he is a great inspiration to me, and to everyone who knows him."
Find out more about Rod's work at his website, listed below
www.rodmacdonald.net
Rod will be playing the Uptown Coffee House on Sunday June 7, 2009 at 5 pm Tickets are $15.
Read more about the Uptown Coffee House at http://www.uptowncoffeehouse.org/
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