Jim Clare Folk Music

    Phil Shapiro                                   Carrie Shore

Tunes By the Tracks Features Phil Shapiro & Carrie Shore for the November 18th show!!

Hosts Jim Clare, Cathy McGrath and Allen Hopkins are pleased and excited to have this popular regional duo as our headliners this month...!!

Phil and Carrie choose fascinating, energetic  songs of American traditional folk, and add newer songs written squarely in the folk tradition.

A fine finger-style guitarist, creative and lively, Phil is adept at getting his guitar to "talk", as part of the song and the story.  Carrie is an excellent  classically trained violinist. who loves playing traditional tunes, and bluesy and slinky

improvisations.

...PLUS...our own Cathy McGrath & the STEPPIN' OUT STRING BAND ~

Barbara Jablonski, Kathleen Cappon, Becky Schneider & Cathy McGrath

Button accordion, washboard, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, guitar, flute, whistle, mandolin, banjo, and bass accompany folk songs and ballads with beautiful close vocal harmonies, lively traditional dance tunes and American patriotic music.

• Tunes By the Tracks
• Wednesday, November 18th
• Clifton Springs Library, 4 Railroad Ave, Clifton Springs, NY
• 7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
• FREE Admission (a $3.00 donation is suggested for artists and refreshments)
  
• Finger Lakes Acoustic Folk Music at its finest....hope you'll join us!!
  

Allen Hopkins                  Jim Clare                Perry Cleaveland

We had a wonderful time at The Gridley Inn B&B in Waterloo, NY last night.  I got to play the songs from my new CD, Old Empty Hall, with a plethora of support from my musician friends!  Many thanks, in no particular order, to Perry Cleaveland, Allen Hopkins, Brooke Pevear, Elaine Verstraete and Doug Henrie for sharing your wonderful talents.  The folks who came to listen in the warm elegant room, and your musical help, created a thoroughly memorable evening!

CD Release Party for OLD EMPTY HALL on Friday, October 30th at The Gridley Inn, 36 West Main St in Waterloo, NY...

Come enjoy an evening of live folk music, from 7:30pm - 9:00pm. 

Refreshments will be served, and admission is FREE!

Jim will be singing songs from his new CD, OLD EMPTY HALL...with considerable help from Perry Cleaveland, and perhaps Allen Hopkins.

The CD's will be available for $15.00...so tap into that cookie jar stash, and buy one for your very own!!

We'll see you at The Gridley Inn....

Leslie Lee          Steve Gretz

Tunes By the Tracks on Wednesday, October 21st will Feature the lovely vocals of ~ Leslie Lee & Steve Gretz ~

http://leslieandsteve.com/general/home.php

Jim Clare and co-hosts Allen Hopkins, Cathy McGrath will be joined by The Mystery Pickers for the second half of the show....and of course the wildly popular Grand Finale will get all the performers back for a couple of sing-along songs to ring down the curtain!!

• Tunes By the Tracks with LESLIE LEE & STEVE GRETZ and The Mystery Pickers
  

• Clifton Springs LIbrary Meeting Room, 4 Railroad Ave, Clifton Springs, NY (1 block North of Main St)

• Wednesday, Oct 21st from 7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

• FREE Admission ($3.00 per person donation suggested for coffee, cookies and artists)

My new CD is finally here!!! 

OLD EMPTY HALL is 12 original songs of home, love, loss, redemption, and life in America...listen free to some of the songs here on the Music Page.  If you'd like to hear these, plus some new ones with a higher quality sound....

ORDER your OLD EMPTY HALL CD on CD BABY ~ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/clarejim

...or...Send check for $15.00 to:

Jim Clare

OLD EMPTY HALL

4192 Middle Cheshire Road

Canandaigua, NY 14424

We'll mail you your CD on receipt...

Thanks and good listening,

Jim

Brooke Pevear& Elaine Verstraete

Tunes By the Tracks ... your hosts Jim Clare, Allen Hopkins and Cathy McGrath are very pleased to FEATURE

~ BIRDS ON A WIRE ~

Brooke Pevear and Elaine Verstraete will treat us to an hour of their sweet songs and tightly woven harmonies!!

The "Birds" will have major musical backup, with Perry Cleaveland's magic Mandolin and tasty harmony...and...honorary bird for the evening...Perrin Yang, second violin and associate concertmaster for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will round out the flock!!

As if that wasn't dazzling enough, the impossibly tight arrangements and subtly nuanced songs of The MYSTERY PICKERS will round out the second hour of the show...!!

• Wednesday, September 16th
  

• Clifton Springs Library, 4 Railroad Ave, Clifton Springs, NY

• 7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm) 

• Free Admission (a $3.00 donation is suggested for coffee, cookies and the artists)

~ Come join us at Tunes By the Tracks, for a delightful evening of music and fun in a great room...!!!

Jim Clare and Cathy McGrath at The Granger Homestead

The Granger Homestead, 295 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY is having their COUNTRY FAIR, and Cathy McGrath & Jim Clare will be providing live music for the enjoyment of strolling visitors...come enjoy the lovely old Mansion, and visit the exhbits and vendors on the grounds...

• GRANGER HOMESTEAD COUNTRY FAIR
• Sunday, August 30th
• 12:00pm - 3:00pm
• The Granger Homestead ~ http://www.grangerhomestead.org/
• Jim Clare & Cathy McGrath ~ acoustic Americana music
  

                   Annie Wells

ANNIE WELLS will be our FEATURED Artist for TUNES BY the TRACKS on August 19th!!

Your hosts, Jim Clare, Cathy McGrath and Allen Hopkin are very pleased that Clifton Springs' own hometown gal, Annie Wells will be our headliner for August. 

Annie is a gifted musician.  She is a compelling vocalist and a sensitive songwriter, so this should be another wonderful evening of acoustic music to delight everyone.

Of course, The Mystery Pickers* will once more leap into the fray to dazzle the unwary during the second half of the show, so please mark your calendars, and we hope to see all of you at ....

TUNES BY the TRACKS

Clifton Springs Library, 4 Railroad Ave, Clifton Springs, NY

7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

Wednesday, August 19th

FREE Admission (a donation of $3.00 is greatly appreciated for coffee, cookies and the artists)

*If you'd like to play a 10 minute mini-set as a Mystery Picker, contact Jim, Cathy or Allen and we'll work you into our tightly woven scheme...

                                  Bristol Mountain Bluegrass

Tunes By the Tracks next Wednesday, July 15th is back in our familiar setting in the Clifton Springs Library.

Your hosts Jim Clare, Cathy McGrath and Allen Hopkins, along with The Mystery Pickers, are very excited about an evening FEATURING perennial favorites:

• BRISTOL MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS (with original member Richard Hood on Banjo)
• Wednesday, July 15th
  
• Clifton Springs Library, 4 Railroad Ave, Clifton Springs, NY (large Meeting Room)
• 7:00pm - 9:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
• FREE Admission ...a $3.00 donation is greatly appreciated

Hope to see all you Finger Lakes Folk Fans at Tunes By the Tracks next Wednesday!!

jim pickin' at joe dady's...a fine day it was..!!

I'm very excited to be part of the season finale of Brian Coughlin's Songwriters in the Round this Saturday, June 20th at The Mez at 389 Gregory Street, Rochester, NY.

Check their website ~  http://www.houseofhamez.com                                             

I'll be joining Brian, and Rochester songwriters Steve Gretz & Leslie Lee to share original songs in a user friendly setting.

The music starts at 8:00pm and goes until 10:00pm for a modest $8.00 fee.  I hope some of you folks will come spend some time with us, to enjoy the music, the food and drinks and the relaxed atmosphere at James Rowe's House of Hamez!!