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Jack Hardy Live At 12 Bar Club London
Jack Hardy takes the stage at the legendary 12 Bar Club in London to a small but intimate crowd and within minutes the bar empties and the club fills with the songs that made Jack Hardy famous. This incredible 50+ minute set allows you to see an amazing folk hero onstage giving a performance that gives Jack a chance to talk, sing, and play with his audience. A truly remarkable solo performance by this legend in folk music history.
Who is Jack Hardy?
Hardy was a lyrical singer songwriter and his songs were mostly political, although usually subtly. His music was often tinged with a Celtic flavor as well as the folk styles from his days in his New York Greenwich Village apartment. Both from his frugality (folk music never paid well) and disdainful of self-important artistic egos, Hardy recorded all of his 15 albums in a 40-year career with the same manner: by rehearsing a small band and then recording the entire album “live to tape” in a period of 48 hours or less.
“He clearly seems to enjoy making his listeners think. He may dare his audience to figure out what he is saying, but he also credits them with the intelligence to do so” – Tom Nelligan, Dirty Linen, 1998
There were hundreds of songwriters who frequented Hardy’s New York apartment gatherings over the years included names both unknown and famous – among them, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Brian Rose, Richard Shindell, John Gorka, Wendy Beckerman, Tracy Allard, Frank Tedesso, Christian Bauman, Linda Sharar, Rod MacDonald, Lucy Kaplansky, Matthias Clark, Bob Chabot, and Christine Lavin,and “Boulevardiers” by Suzanne Vega.
Jack Hardy died March 2011 at age 63, a loss to the world.
Rita Lynch Video Stats Oct 23, 1999:
Date of Recording:
Video: NTSC
Audio:Stereo
Time: 52 min
Digital File Size: 519Meg
Taster Video From Jack Hardy’s solo show:
Courtesy Lost Concerts
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