44th Annual Charlie King Concert
Join us for the 44th annual Charlie King concert at Haley House! This year, Charlie will be joined again by Rick Burkhardt for an evening of music and community. Join us at 23 Dartmouth Street as we continue one of our longest standing traditions. Tickets are on a sliding scale, and all proceeds help support Haley House to maintain our various programs, from our soup kitchen, to our affordable housing, to our reentry and culinary education programs. We will serve warm drinks (cider, cocoa, tea) at the event, and encourage you to explore the surrounding neighborhood for a bite to eat before or after the show.
About the performers:
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 has been at the heart of American folk music for over half a century and has been writing songs for the past 45 years. In October of 2017 he received the annual the Phil Ochs Award, in recognition of his music and activism for social and political justice in the spirit of Phil Ochs. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small.
“With encouraging regularity, Charlie King emerges from his self-reflection to remind us of the happy resilience of the human spirit. His message songs vary between the funny and the frightening, but he pulls them off with unvarying taste, musical skill, and charm.” – Billboard
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Rick Burkhardt studied music composition at Harvard University, the University of Illinois, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2006. He received an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University in 2016.
He has received commissions, grants, and performances from many organizations and performers. During the early 1990’s, he toured the US, Germany, and Switzerland performing new music and theater with the Performers’ Workshop Ensemble. In 1997, he began studying music with Chaya Czernowin and took classes in poetry from Rae Armantrout. He spent the following years inventing idiosyncratic methods for producing critical interactions of oddly integrated music and text.
His hobby, the satirical political cabaret duo the Prince Myshkins (with virtuoso guitarist, singer and lifelong collaborator Andy Gricevich), became a full-time job in 2002, once the “War on Terror” had provided an alarming overflow of material to satirize. He is a founding member of the Nonsense Company, an experimental music / theater trio dedicated to new works and new venues. Along with Alec Duffy, Dave Malloy, and Rachel Chavkin, he received an Obie Award for creating the play “Three Pianos” at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in 2010. From 2013-2016 he studied Playwriting (Writing for Performance) at Brown University with Erik Ehn. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.