Health & Fitness
Paul Geremia, Acoustic Blues Artist, to Perform Saturday at Common Fence Music
Students and Seniors: There are free RISCA Tix available for this event. Contact commonfencemusic@yahoo.com : Geremia / RISCA Tix.
Common Fence Music presents Paul Geremia’s Love My Stuff CD release party on Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. The performance will take place at the Common Fence Point Community Hall, 933 Anthony Road, Portsmouth.
Tickets are $20 and are available at the CFM Ticket Desk from 3 to 5 p.m. on concert days; through Ticket Web anytime and at the door until sold out. Call Ticket Web's toll free number at 866-468.7619 or contact them via www.commonfencemusic.org. Call 401-683.5085 or visit the Web site for general information and to leave a message. Doors open at 7 p.m. for the “folk-tailgate party.” Don’t forget your picnic basket.
For almost 40 years, Paul Geremia has survived solely by the fruit of his musical labours. Having abandoned all other means of support in 1966, he has been travelling far and wide ever since, performing in every capacity from street singing to club and concert bookings, throughout the U.S.A., Canada and Europe.
In the years since, Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a "scholar" of early jazz and blues, and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano and a husky soulful voice - and with an innate sense of the humour as well as the drama of the music, he keeps traditional blues fresh and alive with his performances.
Combining his interpretation of the earlier music of people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake, with his original compositions, he has created a style which is very much his own and which has received accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe, too numerous to mention.
Geremia's background isn't typical for a bluesman. He is a third generation Italian-American who, as he laughingly puts it, "was born in the Providence River Delta". Growing up in a family that moved across the country and back numerous times, weaned his appetite for music, history and travel, which served him well later on.
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Paul has been a favorite of the series over 19 seasons, having performed on the Gold Lamé Stage several times. Love My Stuff is Paul’s sixth release on Red House Records. Come on out and celebrate Paul’s continued success on his home turf.
The Common Fence Music venue is a quiet, listening room with a no-smoking policy. Homemade refreshments and soft-drinks are available. The hall is ramp accessible. Common Fence Music is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization.