The Red Skies Music Ensemble's "...historical and musical probing of the real story of Katie Casey is one of the most exciting and rewarding projects I've encountered in ages. It's guaranteed to stimulate your mind and tap your feet." Lee Lowenfish, author of the award-winning baseball biography "Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman" and former editor-publisher of Lee Low's New York Jazz Newsletter.
"Take Me Out to the
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Shine On Harvest Moon
Norworth/Bayes (1908) Gee It's a Wonderful Game Ring Lardner/"Doc" White (1910)
The song's lyrics provide the little known, fascinating connection between baseball, music, suffrage, social activism and vaudeville.
Against the background of the tune's Irish-American heroine, her love of baseball, and women's rights activism, this engaging program traces and animates the social and musical interactions by which the song's chorus grew into one of America's most popular refrains. |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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2012 Performance Musicians photo: Kevin Yatarola
Performance photos: Janice Wood Wetzel The music selections provided here were recorded live at the 2012 performance.
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Ensemble
Co-Creator, Artistic Director: Trudy Williams Co-Creator, Music Curator, Music Director: George Boziwick Cast Narrator: George Boziwick Katey Casey: Laura Hankin Sean: Sean Mahony Ida B. Wells: Pier Morton Elihu Root: Jonathan Sonneborn Suffrage Song Leader: Heidi Hackney Musicians Vocals: Laura Hankin (2016/19) Sigali Hamberger (2012) Sean Mahoney Backup vocals: Heidi Hackney Sara Banleigh Piano: Sara Banleigh Clarinet: Matthew Snyder Trombone: Sean Mahony Mandolin, Guitar: Rob Meador Banjo: Leah Wells (2012) Harmonica: George Boziwick Bass: Trudy Williams Percussion: Phil Forbes |
Copyright 2020 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams