Songwriter Showcase
Our alternate stage for intimate performances by local singer/songwriters with their own story to tell. Special thanks to one of our best local songwriters, Dan Boling for bringing together this collection of colleagues for the songwriter's showcase.
| Time | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Bonnie Bluhm | Bonnie Bluhm has been playing guitar and singing and writing songs since her early days in Greenwich Village in New York in the 60’s. She has lived in Albuquerque since 1973 and has been playing locally and regionally since then. Her latest album is called “Wounded”. She was also the lead singer for Bonnie and the Boomerangs, a country-rock band in the 80’s in Albuquerque. She can be reached at bonniebluhm@earthlink.net |
| 12:00 | Meredith Wilder with Sam Miller and David Schripsema | Meredith Wilder, Sam Miller, and David Schripsema have been playing together for almost half a year. The three of them collaborate to make the songs, each pitching in for melodies, lyrics, and feeling. This is their first year playing at the Albuquerque Folk Festival. |
| 1:00 | Jim Jones | Jim Jones is a native Texan who headed west to New Mexico in 1991. He has received multiple awards and recognition for his songwriting and recorded performances. His guitar-picking and unique vocal style have put him in demand as a performer at house concerts, cowboy gatherings and music festivals throughout the Southwest. |
| 2:00 | Abby Linhart | Abby Linhart is a singer/song writer who began her musical studies at five and her performance career at eleven. She is a mother and grandmother, a piano technician, and does volunteer work as a chaplain and a student of healing with sounds. She is a member of Steadfast Farm,Inc., a non-profit educational corporation with a 265 acre land base near Mountainair, NM, where she pursues her passion of alternative building. |
| 3:00 | Thom Parrott | "Thom" as in "tom-cat." "Parrott" like the bird. Thom Parrott has been writing songs and performing since 1961, first published in Broadside Magazine in 1964 and first recorded by Folkways Records following a Carnegie Hall concert in 1967. Thom has performed solo and with folk, rock, country, blues and jug bands on hundreds of gigs, many in nursing homes. Mr. Parrott was part of the Grammy nominated collection "Best Of Broadside" along with Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, et al. |
| 4:00 | Lee Domann | Award-winning songwriter, storyteller, and modern-day troubadour Lee Domann's eclectic music embraces the roots of folk, rock, country, Celtic, and gospel. |
| 5:00 | Carol Spizman w/ Vakina Dentata | Carol M. Spizman was born in LA and sang all the time growing up, but she never really tried to be a musician until she moved to Albuquerque in '96 and got into an all-woman cover band called "Third Hand". She has been writing and performing her own songs for about seven years, the past two of which have been with her original band, "Vakina Dentata". |