‘Bindlestick Bill’ and ‘Sockratease’ in Two Woodstock Appearances This Saturday
‘Bindlestick Bill’ and ‘Sockratease’ in Two Woodstock Appearances This Saturday
“Bindlestick Bill” and Sockratease will perform in two (audience)-participation events in Woodstock on Sat., March 31.
At 11:30 a.m. at the Community Center on Rock City Road, “Bindlestick Bill” (Bill Fiore) introduces his new Ballad of Watchdog Mountain, based on the Alf Evers' children’s book, Treasure of Watchdog Mountain, at the 2nd annual Environmental Expo. (Organized by a Boys Scout troupe at Onteora High School, the Expo features displays by major environmental groups plus presentations.) The audience will join in to create their own lyrics, and Fiore will supply fun music makers (i.e., spoons, bottles, washboards, and clangers).
At 2:00 p.m. at the Golden Notebook’s children’s bookstore, 29 Tinker Street, the guitarist-composer and his sidekick “Sockratease” will perform from his CD-rom entitled Bindlestick Bill.
Fiore based his “Bindlestick Bill” character on the traveling troubadours of an older America. Fiore travels up and down the Hudson River Valley playing his lively songs about the environment, the animals and people who love the land. With his black hat slightly tilted to one side and the bindlestick on his right shoulder, he gathers young and old creating song and laughter wherever he stops. His original compositions are a blend of folk and jazz, with touches of ragtime and the blues.
Fiore, who is also a teacher at the Poughkeepsie Day School, has been performing for 20 years – with Peter Seeger, among many others, at local libraries, children’s museums, in train stations and at community centers. His songs about the wisdom of the Atlantic Sturgeon, called “Benthic Beauties,” has been played on National Public Radio.
Contact: Jo Yanow-Schwartz, (845) 679-4024
Jo Schwartz