Baltimore Weekly: Child Ballads Closing Reception - GSpot: Audio/Visual Playground

The Child Ballad Show Closing at The G-Spot

The Closing of The Child Ballad Show at the G-Spot Audio Visual Playground (2980 Falls Road Baltimore MD,21212) will be on Saturday November 13, 2010 7-9PM Come celebrate with us before the art comes down.

Teddy Johnson
Child #4 Lady Isabel and The Elfin Knight: False Sir John, 1776
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 1

Elias Necol Melad
Child #10 The Twa Sisters: The Bow and the Balance, circa 1656
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 1
Ryan Jedlicka
Child #12 Edward, as sung by Jean Ritchie, British Traditional Ballads
in the Southern Mountains. Child Ballads vol. 2, 1961

Shaun Preston
Child #22 Saint Stephen and Herod, 1856
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 1

Jeremy Hughs
Child #26 The Three Ravens: Twa Corbies, 1803 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 1

The Paintings Part 2

Eberhard Froehlich
Child #53 Lord Beichan: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, 1839 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 1

Art Rosenbaum
Child #81 Lord Daniel, as Sung by Mary Lomax Art of Field Recording, 2007

Rachel Wolfson
Child #68 Young Hunting Henry Lee, 1802, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 2

Jovan Erfan
Child #77 Sweet William’s Ghost, circa 1740, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 2

The Paintings Part 1

Bart Lynch
Child #90 Jellon Grame, 1802
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 2

Annie Ewaskio
Child #200 Black Jack Davy: Gypsy Laddie Version, as sung by the White Stripes
Seven Nation Army album, 2003
Ben Mckee
Child #209 Geordie, as sung by
Sandy Denny, home demo release, 1967

Ty Lytton
Child #278 The Farmer’s Curst Wife, 1892
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. 5

What Weekly Article

Child Ballads at The G Spot
Article and Photos by Phil Laubner for What Weekly.

September 11, 2010 Opening

Some images of the opening.
Photos by Jeremy Hughes and Tonya Smith.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who participated in and attended The Child Ballads
show! The artwork will be on view by appointment through Oct. 11. Feel free to contact teddyschool@hotmail.com or heatherrounds@gmail.com to set up a viewing. Images of the show will be posted here later this week.

Check Child Ballad Show performers, Walker and Jay this Friday September 10 on 88.1 WYPR's The Signal! They will be both talking about and playing Child Ballads! 12:00 AM and 7PM.

Advance Press:

Local artist and curator René Treviño was nice enough to mention The Child Ballad Show to Urbanite as one of the exhibits he is most excited about for fall 2010. Check out the article here.

The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 distinct ballads from England and Scotland and their American variants, all of which were collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The Ballads compiled by Child consists of songs which have survived through oral traditions for several hundred years, some of which continue to be sung today. These songs deal with morality, murder, romance, supernatural experiences, historical events, riddles, and folk heroes. More than just a collection of songs in an old dusty book, these songs found their way across the Atlantic to become part of the core of traditional Appalachian music. They continue to be sung today in both America and Europe. The Child Ballad Show is an exploration and continuation of these beautiful and strange old songs.

The artists featured in this forthcoming show have each chosen a different ballad from the 305 for interpretation. Much like the singers through the ages, who have brought their own voice, inflection, and life experience to the Child Ballads, these artists have their own diverse approaches to narrative in their painting. The artists represent 6 different states, including Maryland, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Indiana.

The art opening will be followed by a musical performance of the ballads by Baltimore's own old time and country favorites Walker and Jay, Brooklyn's haunting H. Honne Welles, and Grammy Award winning collector of traditional music, Georgia music icon, and banjo wiz Art Rosenbaum.