My Dad’s Truck Holiday Show

Will Return To Music’s Roots

DANBURY — Roots Music Coffeehouse will present My Dad’s Truck Holiday Show on Saturday, December 13, at the Common Ground Annex Dance Studio.

Doors will open at 6:30 pm. There will be a family set at 7 with an open mic at 8 and the evening set will be at 9. Suggested donation is $10 online at RootsMusicCoffeeHouse.com or $12 at the door, students and seniors $5. Reservations can also be made by calling 417-9607. Coffee from Molten Java Coffee Roasters in Bethel will be featured.

My Dad’s Truck -— Susan Lang, Leif Smith and Bill Wisnowski — is a group of acoustic players with diverse backgrounds ranging from porch playing to classical performance. They draw their musical selections from the best songs of the last six hundred years, and perform them with a vigorous and contemporary edge.

The band was founded during a production of the musical review Woody Guthrie’s American Song in 1997. They re-visited that show as the show band in the Sherman Players’ 2004 production. The founding principle of My Dad’s Truck was to keep alive the American song: music that survives on the strength of the words and ideas within the song.

Through this approach to music they have found themselves addressing swing, jazz standards and traditional American music, as well as Celtic, European and Latin pieces, and the best of the new acoustic and folk rock genres.

My Dad’s Truck performs these songs with rich harmonies, diverse instrumentation, and an improvisational spirit. All of the members play multiple instruments, which include percussion from around the world, bluegrass instruments, assorted reeds and horns, ukulele, accordion, guitarron (a fretless Mexican bass) and, of course, guitar.

The diverse backgrounds in My Dad’s Truck mesh together and result in a multi-faceted presentation of music that all ages enjoy.  The Truck brings a combination of rich, youthful rhythm, classic harmony lines, and far-reaching improvisation to everything they play.

Performing around a single ribbon microphone in the tradition of The Carter Family, My Dad’s Truck draws from a repertoire of more than 200 songs, always with an eye towards getting the audience involved.

For this weekend’s special holiday show the band will welcome special guest Bonnie Wisnowski.

The Common Ground Annex Dance Studio is in the former CityCenter Dance Factory space, at 345 Main Street. For additional information visit RootsMusicCoffeeHouse.com or call 417-9607.