General Admission $10
Ticket includes onstage post-performance reception
An evening of storytelling & song for adults ... hosted by Fredonia's favorite irishman Doug Manly and featuring acclaimed Adirondack storyteller, singer and songwriter Christopher Shaw, this evening of wild and witty songs & stories is guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you laugh out loud.
Christopher Shaw was raised in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. He was born the son of a commercial steamboat pilot on Lake George. Shaw worked the big boats and grew up listening to the songs and stories passed down from generation to generation, never suspecting he later would bring them to audiences all over the world.
For more than 10 years, Shaw toured for Taylor Guitars traveling from Anchorage to Berlin as a clinician demonstrating American folk and country style guitars. In addition to his trips for Taylor, he has sung songs and told stories at such highly respected venues as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Old Songs Folk Festival and Chautauqua Insitution, as well as in music halls, festivals and coffee houses all across the U.S. and Europe.
He has produced a number of TV soundtracks for Public Television. He wrote the soundtrack for and was the voice of Seneca Ray on the television special "Seneca Ray Stoddard: An American Original," seen coast to coast on PBS. Most recently, a live concert special titled "Chris Shaw: Live in Concert" was shown on PBS stations throughout the country.
Shaw has nine recordings under his belt. His 1988 debut, "Adirondack," has been inducted into the Library of Congress Folk Archives.
