**Take advantage of advance ticket prices, as they go up the day of the show!** ADV: $22/19 MEM; DOS: $25/22 MEM
Gordon Bok grew up around the boatyards of Camden, Maine. In his early years, he worked on a variety of vessels, from passenger schooners to yachts. He learned many tunes, sea songs, stories, legends and ballads from the people with whom he worked. Paul Stookey of the folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, produced Bok’s first album for Verve.
At a time when folk music was experiencing a great revival, Bok became a leader in collecting, preserving, creating, and sharing a wide variety of rich and intensely beautiful songs of both land and sea. He has made more than a score of albums and many other musicians have recorded his songs. His music has been used in films and is published in folk music anthologies, including Rise Up Singing and his own collections, Time and the Flying Snow and One to Sing, One to Haul.
In addition to performing in concert halls, coffeehouses, and festivals through the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Scandinavia, New Zealand, and Australia, Gordon has taught choral singing and song writing at summer music camps and other gatherings. He has served both as Artist-in-Residence and faculty member of the College of the Atlantic, and he received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the Maine Maritime Academy in 1997.
Modern minstrel-troubadour John Winn, whose deep folk roots include coffee house gigs alongside Bob Dylan to hoots at Carnegie Hall, will open.
