John Gorka and Chris Hillman, will perform at the live taping of e-town at the Boulder theater on February 25, 2007, 7 p.m.
In addition to performances by John Gorka and Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Chris Hillman, a dedicated e-chievement award winner visits in person to tell her story.
For ticket buying information, click here: http://www.etown.org/attend.tickets.shtml
John Gorka John Gorka's "textbook case" of a singer/songwriter's rise to fame starts with John's first guitar, a Christmas present received at age 10, being appropriated by his brother. Gorka retaliated by learning the banjo. While at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, he frequented the Godfrey Daniels coffeehouse, where he worked his way up from counter worker, to usher, to sound man, to MC and ultimately to the virtual house opener. Fortuitous meetings there with Nanci Griffith and Jack Hardy led him firstly to Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Competition, which he won in 1984, and then to the "Fast Folk" scene in New York City, where he fell in with the revitalized Greenwich Village folk crowd. Playing along with Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian and Lucy Kaplansky, Gorka became known in the group as "the intense white guy from New Jersey." Gorka has released ten albums; the latest is "Writing In The Margins," on Red House Records. Etown is always delighted when John brings his brilliant songbook and his well-loved rich baritone back to the radio show.
In addition to performances by John Gorka and Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Chris Hillman, a dedicated e-chievement award winner visits in person to tell her story.
For ticket buying information, click here: http://www.etown.org/attend.tickets.shtml
John Gorka John Gorka's "textbook case" of a singer/songwriter's rise to fame starts with John's first guitar, a Christmas present received at age 10, being appropriated by his brother. Gorka retaliated by learning the banjo. While at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, he frequented the Godfrey Daniels coffeehouse, where he worked his way up from counter worker, to usher, to sound man, to MC and ultimately to the virtual house opener. Fortuitous meetings there with Nanci Griffith and Jack Hardy led him firstly to Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Competition, which he won in 1984, and then to the "Fast Folk" scene in New York City, where he fell in with the revitalized Greenwich Village folk crowd. Playing along with Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian and Lucy Kaplansky, Gorka became known in the group as "the intense white guy from New Jersey." Gorka has released ten albums; the latest is "Writing In The Margins," on Red House Records. Etown is always delighted when John brings his brilliant songbook and his well-loved rich baritone back to the radio show.
