Concerts

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Grinnell College has had a succession of fantastic popular music concerts over the years[1]. The College has correctly realized that it needs to provide entertainment on campus, given its geographic challenges. This has translated into both money and staffing. For many years, Georgia Dentel ran the concert program. In addition, year after year, dedicated students such as Fay Hazelcorn ('72), Peter Keepnews ('72) and Ron Stanford ('71) put in volunteer effort and utilized their own expertise, connections, and passion to book the acts and put on the concerts. We owe these students and staff a deep debt of gratitude for providing not only outstanding entertainment, but also exposure to new music. It was, for instance, a gutsy move to have Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys ($750 reported fee) perform in the South Lounge of the Forum in 1970/1971.

Frequently (e.g., Jefferson Airplane and Bruce Springsteen), Grinnell booked acts when they were just emerging on the national scene and got them to perform inexpensively and in this small venue. Legend has it that the Jackson Five performed for $750.


Here's an editing suggestion -- rather than creating this page, which needs to be manually updated every time a concert is added, put the category "concerts" at the bottom of each page you create about a concert and a summary page will be automatically updated. Here's a link to the [Concerts] category page. I've gone through and added the "concerts" category to the three pages on this list that actually have concerts (as well as this page) to show how this works.

Mike

My vision, for whatever it is worth, is to create a main chron file here with concerts over the decades. Any concert that people want to write about will be a separate article where people can put down the specific facts (date, venue), link to the band's website or wikipedia article, and attributed personal reminsicences.

This is a start. It needs manymany more concerts added, even from my era. It also needs chronological organization it also needs people to write memories... Have at it!

I've made a table of contents, I've started adding concerts from the past few years. Anything that you can add would be fantastic! —Josh

Contents

1950s

1960s

  • Ralph Kirkpatrick, a musician, musicologist, and harpsichordist, performs at the college. Winter 1962
  • Dizzy Gillespie, an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer, performs at the college. Winter 1962
  • Odetta , an African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” performs at the college. Winter 1962

Grinnell’s Folk Festival brings in several folk artists in Fall 1963. Artists who visit include:

  • [[Bonnie Dobson, a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist
  • The New Lost City Ramblers, a contemporary old-time string band that formed during the Folk Revival and continued to directly influence countless musicians
  • Reverend Gary Davis “Blind Gary Davis,” an African-American blues and gospel singer and guitarist with a unique finger-picking style



1970s

  • Lester Flatt, one of the pioneers of bluegrass music, performs at the college. February 17, 1978

1980s

  • Gary Burton, one of the best vibraphonists in music, plays a concert. Fall 1980
  • Jack Bruce, ex-bassist for the ‘60s group Cream plays at a Thanksgiving Eve concert. Nov 1980

1990s


2000s

2005

2006

2007

2008

Unsorted


Links

References

  1. ↑ Scarlet and Black V. 123 No. 9, November 10, 2006 page 6.
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