Coffee with Seth Bernard of Earthwork Music PLUS 3 Earthwork Music Compilation CDs
Item Number: 197
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
This silent auction item will be presented for final bidding at our annual picnic on Thursday, August 6th.
"Seth Bernard is a folk musician. He’s a storyteller, a joker, a trickster, a builder of new communities, and a warden of the old communities. He is kind, warm, and welcoming. At times, he’s a road-weary musician, wizened and weathered by a world needing change. Most days, he lives up to, and transcends, all of the myth and legend surrounding him." - From the Betsie Current
Enjoy a cuppa joe at Higher Grounds Cafe with Seth Bernard, a unique and enigmatic soul, and the founder of the Earthwork Music Collective (a Michigan based record label). A cup of coffee with Seth is not just a cup of coffee, it is a show full of insight, entertainment, and storytelling.
You will also receive 3 Earthwork Music compilation CDs featuring music from some of the most loved Michigan musicians: including everyone from May Erlewine, to Breathe Owl Breathe, to Josh Davis (of the Voice fame), to Seth himself!
The CDs:
Earthwork Music 2
Released: 05/2005
Shine On - May Erlewine
Holy Land - Joshua Davis
I Rode a Careless Road - Daniel Kahn
More, More, More - Darlene
Marshall Street - Jen Sygit
Leaving Song - Luke Winslow-King
When They Git Home - Phil Wintermute
The Creator - Sari Brown
Song of the Burrowing Owl - Seth Bernard
Home - Breathe Owl Breathe
Earthwork Music 3
Released: 06/2006
Luke Winslow-King - Fall Down The Boulders
Breathe Owl Breathe - Kids + Cats
Joshua Davis - The Midnight Ghost
Bates & Foote - Lonesome Whipoorwil
May Erlewine - Gone
Sari Brown - These Sweet Hills
Darlene - Chicken In The Red Dress
Seth Bernard - Dinosaur
Jen Sygit - Black Eye’d Susan
Daniel Kahn - The Ballad Of Edward The Young
Earthwork Music 4 Kids
Released: 01/2007
Let's Play Today - Drew Howard
Never Ptickle Pterodactyls - Susan Fawcett
Monkey Bar Chant - Michael Beauchamp
Going Sliding - Darlene
The Eight Leg Rag - Joshua Davis
What Do You Want To Play? - Rachael Davis
World Soup - Seth Bernard
Marvin The Metric Mouse - Brandon John Foote
The Monster Dance - May Erlewine
Morning Glory - Jen Sygit
Rope Ladderz - Breathe Owl Breathe
The Tale of the Loneliest Whale - Laura Bates
When a Cosmonaut Cries - Daniel Kahn
Harry's Lullaby - Chris Dorman
Special Instructions
Who is That Seth Bernard Guy?
"Seth Bernard has a uniquely Michigan anatomy: knee deep in glacier-folk with a belly full of whiskey and peaches smuggled from the root cellar of a '70s guitar god. Fingers resinous with fresh cut white pine, and sacred north star geometries whirling around his brow.
Born on April Fools Day, and playing the trickster-bard every day since, he's grown from a potent young Interlochen idealist into a black-bearded surprise-eyed psych-rocker singing the woods and water, souls and soils of the Great Lakes.
The tools! He's got a pine-box-full, from his Gretsch (and the chops to play it, mister), to the many iterations of Seth-music. I mean Airborne or Aquatic, bristling with fuzz-poem arena-anthems, to Starlight Six, the madly talented hybrid of Michigan royalty (May Erlewine, Joshua Davis of Steppin' In It, Mike Shimmin of, well, everything, and the power duo of Dominic and Rachael Davis). Or he can roll solo, with a catalog of hundreds of original tunes, thousands of covers and millions of improvisational licks. And the waltzes. By god the waltzes.
And more tools: Earthwork Music Collective, Family Weekend, Harvest Gathering, The Water Festivals, On the Ground, 350.org (you gotta google this stuff, links below), youth engagement, and partnerships with dozens of local non-profits. Like a true old-school folker, he plays the songs because they mean something, and that something they mean drives a life beyond just playing songs.
His most valuable tool, though, doesn't live in that box: two good ears. Seth listens like a priest. To his audience, to his community, to his deep-rooted intuitive star-born aurora borealis campfire ancestor soul. That alone makes every show - EVERY SHOW - worth the price of admission."
-Brad Kik, co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Living, Art and Natural Design (ISLAND)