Lisa Null--CD ReRelease *FULL* (Special Event)

Lisa Nullhas a rich, skillful voice that gets to the heart of a song.She researches forgotten gems, mines them from obscure sources and polishes them?many other performers have acquired some of their best material when Lisa brought it to their attention.Performing with guitarist Bill Shute throughout England, Canada, and America during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lisa appeared several times on A Prairie Home Companion and at major venues such as the Philadelphia, Winfield, and Winnipeg Folk Festivals. She also developed thematic concerts for the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History and co-directed folk festivals at the University of Maine, Wesleyan University, and in metropolitan Washington. Since moving to Washington, D.C. in 1991, Lisa sings mostly in small spaces?intimate places where she can draw audiences into a deeply shared experience. She is as comfortable with a British ballad as an obscure labor anthem or a Gene Autry cowboy song. The songs she has written herself pop up with some frequency in the repertoires of other performers. Her early Green Linnet recordings with Bill Shute (Feathered Maiden and American Primitive) have recently been reissued as CDs on Folk-Legacy Records of Sharon, Connecticut, and this concert celebrates that reissue. Lisa?s interests led her to co-found Green Linnet Records with Pat Sky. While Green Linnet was originally dedicated to old Irish airs and piping tunes, the two soon broadened its mission to include traditional music of both America and the British Isles. Eventually, Lisa sold the company and returned to college and graduate school in order to study folklore and history. Her collecting efforts have taken her to such locales as Indonesia, Newfoundland, and Waterbury, Connecticut, and she eventually taught several courses in American Musical Life at Georgetown University. Nowadays, she worries less about the scholarly side of folk music, and simply sings the old songs she loves best, from oral tradition to early Tin Pan Alley. The rare singer develops an authoritative but humble presence when communicating the true spirit of a song, and Lisa Null gets in touch with that spirit as few singers can.Contact the Cooks in advance to reserve a seat for the evening. They can also give you precise driving or travel directions.