Elizabeth Butters and Eli Smith
Sunday, March 14
Show starts at 10:30
$10 cover
About Elizabeth Butters and Eli Smith
Elizabeth used to think she was born in the wrong era. Now she knows that she probably wouldn't have fit in any time period. Still, she suffers from nostalgia and false sympathies with the past. She identifies most strongly with the thirties, the highways and open roads, the dust bowl, and Bonnie & Clyde. The only things she prefers to be new have expiration dates.
In her own individual way, Elizabeth is crusading against the tide of modern conformity: the words "digital," "cellular," "upload," "download," "iPod" (does that one count as a word, she wonders?), and "texting," among others, make her cringe, but yet she is here, on Myspace. Why? Like most of us, she is not immune to hypocrisy.
Elizabeth hopes that her sentiments are evident in the presentation of her music. She prefers to work with analog recording equipment, to pay for physical copies of her favorite artists' work, and generally performs pre-war folk blues in dignified and authentic attire.
Eli Smith (host/producer) is a banjo player, writer, researcher and promoter of folk music living in New York City. He plays as part of the Roots ‘n’ Ruckus music collective and hosts Down Home Live, every second Saturday of the month at Banjo Jim’s. He has appeared as a guest on terrestrial radio stations such as WBAI and WDST in New York and KPFA, KPFK and KUCI in California. Eli has presented panels and discussions on folk music at the Left Forum conference at Cooper Union and at the Podcamp podcasting conference in New York City. In 2004 He traveled to Caracas, Venezuela as an American delegate to the Encuentro Mundial de Intelectuales y Artistas “En Defense de la Humanidad” (World Encounter of Intellectuals and Artists “for the Defense of Humanity). Eli also served as music consultant for the Civil War film“Racing Daylight” (2007). He has performed and recorded with Peter Stampfel, John Cohen and Sam Shepard.
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