CANCELED: Charlie King, Prince Myshkins

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Charlie King (center) with The Prince Myshkins.

press release:

Sadly (but understandably), Prince Myshkins and Charlie King will be cancelling their show for next Thursday, due to the pandemic. We will do everything we can to reschedule them for a future show.

IF YOU PURCHASED TICKETS VIA BROWN PAPER TICKETS: Please check the email you used to purchase tickets and you should have information about your refund.

Madison Folk Music Society concert. $20 ($17 adv.).

Charlie King is a musical storyteller and political satirist. He sings and writes passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Pete Seeger hailed him as “One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time.”

Charlie was born in 1947, and was raised in Brockton, MA. He cites as musical influences the folk music revival of the 1960's, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War era. Also Del Shannon. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, "If we had more Charlie Kings in the world, I'd be less worried," and Tom Paxton adds, "Luckily, we have him!"

Charlie is currently touring with the Prince Myshkins. The trio, which has been touring off and on since the 1990s, have just released their new-ish recording, For the Record. It’s a mix of 15 songs recorded live in concert: first in 2007 in Cedar Rapids Iowa, with Karen Brandow; then in 2008 in Santa Cruz CA. It’s a blend of satire and sorrow, hope and horror, startling harmonies and incendiary lyrics

The Prince Myshkins are Rick Burkhardt and Andy Gricevich. Rick plays accordion and sings; Andy plays guitar and sings. They met in 1995 at the University of Illinois, where Andy studied literature and philosophy and Rick studied music composition. Within a year they had co-founded the Utopia Train theater company, and were traveling around the country with a group of rambunctious Midwestern utopianists.

In 1997 they moved to San Diego to continue their studies and to see what life was like in the land of palm trees, the US Navy and a union-busting city council. In their seven years there they survived by appearing locally as KPBS San Diego’s resident satirists, and by touring nationally to sing at antiwar demonstrations, union rallies, schools, coffeehouses, living rooms, community centers and major urban intersections.

In 1999 they co-founded The Nonsense Company, a group of musicians dedicated to the performance of new works of contemporary classical music by exciting younger composers. Rick and Andy are both enthusiastic readers and writers of experimental poetry, and continue to perform political theater at every opportunity.

Real True Fact : Prince Myshkin is the main character of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. “Myshkin” means “little mouse,” and his first name, Lev, means “lion.” In the first chapter of the novel he tells a fellow rail passenger that “there are no Prince Myshkins left but me.”

Tickets are available online at Brown Paper Tickets: https://pmck2020.bpt.me/ Tickets are $17in advance and $20 at the door.

www.madfolk.org for additional information. The Madison Folk Music Society encourages all attendees to bring an item for donation to our local food pantry.