Pete Coe (House Concert)

Friday, March 8, 2002, 8pm
in Brookline, MA
$10 for all at the door

"A One-Man Folk Industry!" was how Jim Lloyd described Pete Coe. With a vast repertoire of traditional & original songs, dance tunes & dances playing bouzouki, melodeon, dulcimer, banjo & step percussion, he's been a professional musician since 1971.

Pete looks to the tradition, but doesn't shrink from adapting and reinventing in order to move forward. He is essentially a storyteller, equally at home with lengthy traditional ballads as with pithy self-penned songs. He has recorded ten albums, broadcasts regularly on local and BBC radio and has appeared in several television programs.

Pete has frequently worked and recorded with other musicians throughout his career ... with Chris Coe as a duo... with Chris, Nic Jones and Tony Rose as Banddoggs ... with the legendary New Victory Band and with Red Shift. He continues to work as a caller with dance band Raw Material as well as other local and nationally known dance bands, but his main work is solo.

Pete is a prolific songwriter and his songs include "Joseph Baker" (performed by The Chieftains), "The Wizard of Alderley Edge" (an early classic), "The Alimony Run" (recorded by Token Women), "Sold Down the River Again" (recorded with Red Shift), "The Jackdaw", "The Waves of Tory" (a comment on the Thatcher Era in Britain), "Bring the New Year In" (on the new album) and numerous others.

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