[Classifieds] Woods Hole Folk Music Society presents singers Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers

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Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers Open Woods Hole Folk Music Society’s 
Final Season

The Woods Hole Folk Music Society’s 47th and final season will begin 
Sunday, October 7 with a performance by singers Archie Fisher and Garnet 
Rogers.The concert will take place at 7:30 PM in Community Hall, 68 
Water Street, Woods Hole. Doors open at 7 PM. Admission is $20 with 
discounts for members, seniors, youth and children; season passes are 
also available. Community Hall is handicapped accessible, and street 
parking is free after 6 PM.

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers will launch the Woods Hole Folk Music 
Society’s final season with a duo performance. Both singers have 
appeared in Woods Hole numerous times, but never together.

A master guitarist, singer and songwriter, Archie Fisher is known as 
Scotland’s foremost folk music troubadour. Mr. Fisher was born in 
Glasgow to a large musical family and was strongly influenced by his 
father’s appreciation of many musical styles (opera, vaudeville, 
traditional ballads) as well as the lyricism of his mother’s native 
fluency in Gaelic. He was strongly influenced in the 1950’s by “skiffle” 
performers such as Lonnie Donegan and Johnny Duncan. During the TV folk 
boom of the 1960s and 70s he appeared regularly with his younger sister 
Ray in a variety of programs including the BBC’s “Hootenanny” series, 
before turning his focus to the traditional music of his homeland.

Starting in the mid-1970s he produced four folk albums with the Irish 
duo Makem and Clancy, performing regularly with them and other groups as 
a backup singer and guitarist. During the 1980s he turned his attention 
to freelance radio work, creating several series of documentary programs 
with his local station, Radio Tweed. He also began a partnership with 
Canadian songwriter Garnet Rogers, touring throughout North America 
together. Mr. Rogers produced several of Mr. Fisher’s recordings, 
including the highly acclaimed album Sunsets I’ve Galloped Into, 
released in 1995.

Archie Fisher is especially well known in Scotland for his 27-year 
tenure as the host of BBC Radio Scotland’s award-winning Traveling Folk 
show. In recognition of his contributions to Scottish folk music he was 
inducted into the Scots TraditionalMusic Hall of Fame, and in 2006 was 
awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire), a prestigious honor 
nominated by his peers and bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. His 2008 CD, 
Windward Away, is a collection of introspective ballads that evoke the 
wild and rough beauty of the Scottish Border country. Mr. Fisher has 
over a dozen albums to his credit, both solo and collaborative.

Garnet Rogers was born in Hamilton, Ontario to parents of Nova Scotian 
descent and spent many hours in front of their old floor model radio 
listening to Grand Ol' Opry broadcasts and harmonizing with his brother, 
the late folk singer and songwriter Stan Rogers.

Garnet Rogers began playing the ukulele at age 8 but soon gave it up and 
taught himself to play flute, fiddle and guitar. Directly after high 
school he began touring with Stan, and the two became one of the most 
influential duo acts in North American folk music. Though his initial 
reputation was as the younger brother of a legendary songwriter, Garnet 
Rogers has enjoyed a substantial singing and songwriting career of his 
own. The two had produced only a few albums together before Stan died in 
a tragic plane accident in 1983. Garnet Rogers’ first solo album 
appeared in 1984 and was followed by successive albums every two years 
into the 1990s. He now has over a dozen CDs to his credit, both solo and 
collaborative.

In concert, the six-foot-six Mr. Rogers holds a commanding presence on 
stage, supported by his rich baritone voice and wide range. He usually 
sits beside a guitar rack featuring three vintage Gibson acoustic 
guitars, a National guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, and sometimes a 
Hammertone Octave 12, a half-scale electric 12-string guitar.

His music is literate, passionate and deeply purposeful, and his songs 
“give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener 
Waterloo Record). A self-declared optimist, Garnet Rogers writes and 
sings about the understated heroes and small victories in everyday life. 
As memorable as his songs are his over-the-top humor and incisive wit, 
offer audiences tears and laughter in equal measure.

Mr. Rogers has been the featured performer on numerous television and 
radio programs, including Mountain Stage and All Things Considered. He 
has headlined such festivals as Wolf Trap, Lincoln Center, and Art Park, 
and has shared the stage with performers from Mary Chapin Carpenter to 
Guy Clark. The Boston Globe praises Garnet Rogers as a “charismatic 
performer and singer,” while Sing Out magazine describes him as “the 
greatest interpreter and vocalist performing in the contemporary folk 
scene.”

Upcoming WHFMS performances include: October 21, Sarah McQuaid; November 
4, Kevin Burke; November 18, John McCutcheon; January 13, 2019, Guy 
Davis; January 27, The Reunion Band; February 10, Troy MacGillivray & 
Andrea Beaton; February 24, Lissa Schneckenburger & Bethany Waickman; 
March 10, Joel Mabus; March 24, William Jackson; and April 7, Bill Staines.

The Woods Hole Folk Music Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated 
to fostering enjoyment of folk music in all its forms. Concerts are made 
possible by support from its members, season subscribers, volunteers, 
and performers. Refreshments are served at intermission, and donations 
of baked goods are especially welcome. More information is available at 
woodsholefolk at gmail.com and www.arts-cape.com/whfolkmusic.

Calendar listing:

Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Woods Hole Folk Music Society presents singers Archie Fisher and 
Garnet Rogers, 7:30pm, at Community Hall, 68 Water Street, Woods Hole. 
Doors open at 7pm. $20, with discounts for members, seniors, youth and 
children. More info at woodsholefolk at gmail.com and 
www.arts-cape.com/whfolkmusic.

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