* Enrich * Educate * Entertain *

Unbound Booking is an entertainment booking agency specializing in top-quality educational and cultural enrichment programming specifically for libraries, schools and other community venues, offered at affordable rates.

\xA0We promote a return to traditional community values by reinstituting the library, school or town hall as the central community meeting place where all citizenry can enjoy a wide range of professional, family-friendly performances and educational opportunities.

Unbound Booking was founded by a passion to ensure empowerment through the arts - specifically live performing arts - and connect top-quality performers with intimate venues in an affordable way. Artists on our roster are hand-selected and vetted by a team of professional talent booking agents. Each is a professional in his/her field who tour on the regional or national scale. All performances are family-friendly with a focus on educational enrichment and may be played for audiences of any size. Many on our roster are artists who tour nationwide, performing primarily on weekends, allowing them the opportunity to share their gifts mid-week for the community.\xA0Artists of the caliber that you will find on the Unbound Booking roster would traditionally cost a high rate to cover their overhead and additional expenses such as lodging and travel costs, but each of our artists has agreed to perform at discounted rates to ensure that their offerings may be shared with venues with limited budgets.

We have recently added several new performers in the New Jersey area to our roster and wanted to let you know about them. \xA0All of the information below can also be found on our website at http://www.unboundbooking.com\xA0

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Cheers!

Jessica Brawner

Unbound Booking

www.unboundbooking.com

888-526-6587 x711

New Performers Include:

Charles Kiernan - Mark Twain

Storyteller Charles Kiernan, now retired from gainful employment, performs at theaters, listening clubs, schools, libraries, and arts festivals. He is also coordinator for the Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild, Pennsylvania State Representative for the National Youth Storytelling Showcase and Pennsylvania State Liaison for the National Storytelling Network.\xA0

He has, of late, been fobbing himself off as Mark Twain with some success. Twain is wont to ramble on about his boyhood memories, the newspaper publishing business, life on the Mississippi and frogs. Mostly, though, he likes to talk about the river.\xA0

The intent of the show is to give the audience a bit of Twain's biography, his humor and his viewpoint. The subject for his talk is his evolving view on what is man. To illustrate his view on this subject at various points during his life, he feels compelled to give the audience some of his personal history (he being his favorite topic). His conclusions are what you might expect if you know something about Twain. It's the journey to that conclusion that is the fun.\xA0\xA0

A Q&A will follow.\xA0

Marc Black - Stroke of Genius

Dan Mountain, one of Los Angeles\x92 premier advertising creative directors, suffered a massive stroke that left him in a coma for 21 days.\xA0 His doctors gave him a \x93zero chance of meaningful survival\x94 and finally pulled life support. That\x92s when Dan woke up.

Struggling to put his life back together, he found words again.\xA0 First, the rhythm, then the meaning. He worked through his aphasia and wrote poems that his friend, Marc Black, put to music and recorded with help from musical luminaries Art Garfunkel, John Sebastian, Steve Gadd, and the Dixi Hummingbirds. They created a richly human CD, Stroke of Genius.\xA0

Inspired by Dan\x92s courage and by the CD, filmmaker, Bahman Soltani, produced a tender and surprising love story. His film, also entitled Stroke of Genius, expresses both the fragility of our lives and the powerful resilience of the human spirit.\xA0

And now Mr. Black has brought it all together in a presentation that features live performance of his original songs, the documentary film, and finally, a time for questions and sharing of experience. Marc is a seasoned performer that makes his audience feel at home. And leaves them inspired.\xA0

This program is approximately 2 hours in length.

Driftwood Fire

Driftwood Fire is constantly bridging the gap between traditional roots music and contemporary pop.\xA0 They are the First Place winner of the 2007 International Narrative Song Competition's category for original Historical music as well as a VH-1 Suggested Artist.\xA0\xA0

Like a beach-side bonfire celebrating the last days of summer, Driftwood Fire is at once invitingly lighthearted and poetically poignant. Lynn Scharf's vocals are thick with emotional. Charlotte Formichella's guitar and banjo parts are rootsy, inventive and pop-tastically ear-pleasing, making it nearly impossible to stay seated during songs like 'Blown Asunder' and 'Holes in the Sky,' while songs like 'Appalachian Hills' have a lyrical magnetism that leaves every room entirely focused on the performance at hand

From Appalachia to Jazz \x96 A fun filled musical journey!
Charlotte Formichella, a 5-year children's library veteran, leads the audience as Driftwood Fire performs original songs, famous American standards, and invites the audience to participate in the fun. A performance based program, this fun filled hour includes historical and cultural dialogues about the evolution of Americana and roots music.\xA0

The program begins in the Scottish based traditions of Appalachian music and follows American history through 1920's jazz and explores the continued influence of roots music on contemporary folk, rock and country.\xA0 Join Driftwood Fire in a warm and inviting performance on this musical journey.\xA0\xA0

Children's Quiet Hour (ages 0-10)

Take a break at your local library.\xA0 Join us for an hour of quiet music and stories.\xA0 This program provides an interactive musical learning experience that is both relaxing and entertaining.\xA0 Material includes familiar and original songs and stories.\xA0 A great way to give both children and parents an hour to recharge.

"You were amazing!!!\xA0 I am so very glad you made it to our event and hope you can make it again next year too.\xA0 What a sweet addition."
- Jenny Gamble - Festival Director, Hyperactive Festival

Son Lewis

Son Lewis has been an active figure on the Blues music scene for some time. His work as a modern day exponent of the Blues, and R&B, has led him to recognition as a performer and recording artist. Son began playing Blues guitar in the 1960\x92s, influenced greatly by artists as diverse as Robert Johnson, Otis Rush, and Elmore James. His own particular guitar style developed under the guidance of Blues guitarist Danny Kalb (founder of the Blues Project, a seminal Bluesband of the 1960's). Lewis' reputation has been built upon solid live solo performances and with his own SON LEWIS BluesBand, which has featured former members of MINK DEVILLE, THE RICKI LEE JONES BAND, THE JITTERZ, EXUMA, IMPACT, THE SHOTS, and CASTLE BROWNE.

As a solo artist, performing the traditional country Blues, and with his band, rocking juke joints with electric blues, Son has become known as a faithful, and loving interpreter of this nearly lost musical art form. In live performance, TV, radio, and on recordings, Son Lewis has proved to audiences everywhere that the Blues is a vibrant, and exciting form of musical entertainment!

In his performance \x93Son Lewis- An evening with the Blues\x94 acclaimed performer and recording artist Son Lewis takes his audience on a three hour musical walk down the fabled highways, juke joints, back ally\x92s and fields in an historical musical retrospective of over sixty years of American Blues music.

Blues are America\x92s only truly indigenous musical art form. No doubt any number of musical scholars can delineate and identify the formal structure that defines that category of American Music. The flatted thirds, and the I-IV-V chord structure, twelve or sixteen bars, and other theoretical definitions may give some explanation of the Blues, but the real definition eludes us all. It is because, as a musical format, the Blues is the single most consistent musical form in American Music, retaining most all of its original theoretical form, yet able to evolve over seventy years of sociological change reflecting each particular decade as if it were a slice of anthropological study. It form, structure and personal emotional content has most assuredly impacted and influenced all other forms of American Popular Music since the early beginning of our 20th Century.

Programs:

One man - one guitar....

The intensely personal nature of the Blues has always been represented by a man sharing his feelings with his guitar. With this in mind, the Texas blues of "I've had my fun", and "Mighty Crazy" (Lighting Hopkins) juxtapose the sad and happy feelings of the rural world, while John Lee Hooker's Detroit style "Hobo Blues" show the urban blues singer reminiscence's of his rural roots. The Rev. Gary Davis "Candy Man" was selected to represent the up-tempo Piedmont influences in the Blues.

My home is the Delta....

The Delta area of Mississippi is legend as the birthplace of the blues in the US. The material selected from the repertoire of Son House, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Blind Joe Reynolds reflect thirty years of structural and technical development of the Delta Blues (from Solo Acoustic to Electric Ensemble).

Blues came up the river....

As the itinerant workers moved from the farms to the urban centers in the aftermath of World War II, their blues moved with them, and evolved as they moved. The development of a more sophisticated "city/country blues", which surrounded the towns like Memphis, is represented in the selections by Roosevelt Sykes, Leroy Carr, Tampa Red, and Sleepy John Estes.

Down on the South Side...

From 1950 to the 1990's, the urban communities in Detroit, Memphis, Oakland, and Chicago attempted to shed themselves of their "country" roots, and their music developed into a hard edged club and dance oriented blues sound, which itself evolved into more sophisticated Rhythm & Blues variant. The material selected from the repertoires of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Albert King, Junior Wells, Luther Johnson, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, Otis Rush and Elmore James were selected because they represent development and evolution of the Electric Band sound over a thirty year cycle.

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