Live sing-along concert of topical and traditional folk songs in folk-jazz fusion

15 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, JAZZ: Jazz Fusion



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About Joe:


Joe Taschetta (pronounced âtass-KET-uhâ) has been a folk singer since the sixties. He has appeared at hundreds of rallies and concerts for peace and justice and other progressive causes, typically performing his own topical songs along with traditional tunes.

Joe is best known as a five-string banjo player. His seminal book âThe Five-String Banjo Primer â or If A Is May Then F# Must Be February,â published by Iowa State University Press, has been helping beginners learn music theory and apply it to stringed instruments since the seventies. Joe also plays guitar, autoharp, and harmonica.

Taschetta, known as âPapa Joe,â has performed throughout the Midwest and Europe. He has toured with the Iowa Arts Council and the Indiana Arts Commission in community programs and as an artist-in-schools. As a solo performing artist, he has received grants through the National Endowment for the Arts. Joeâs performances focus on audience participation; he believes that music comes alive when it is shared.

Over the years, Joe has worn many hats. He has been a design electrical engineer in industry and a university professor, teaching electrical and computer engineering, analog electronics, mathematics, and music. He is also an award-winning visual artist, painting primarily in oils.


About the CD:

âLive â Hilbert Spaceâ was recorded in the Campanile Room at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa on July 2, 1984. This performance was part of an annual series called âJune with Joe,â sponsored by the Iowa State University Committee on Lectures from 1980 to 1987.

Along with Taschetta, Hilbert Space (The groupâs name is taken from a mathematical concept.) includes mathematicians Colby Kegley on piano and Roger Maddux on clarinet and recorder. Taschetta began jamming with the two in 1977 and says he owes much of his knowledge of music to them.

Of the fifteen songs on the CD, Taschetta wrote 12 â most while he was touring with the Iowa Arts Council.