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 Music Selections
The selection provided here were recorded live at the 2012 performance. Images The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Music and Recorded Sound Division; Billy Rose Theatre Division. The New York Public Library: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. |
Ensemble
Artistic Director/Curator: Trudy Williams Curator/Music Director: George Boziwick Co-Authors: George Boziwick, Trudy Williams Roles 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: Sara Banleigh; Heidi Hackney Piano: Sara Banleigh, Ed Alstrum (special guest, 2016) Clarinet: Matthew Snyder Trombone: Sean Mahony Mandolin, Guitar: Rob Meador Banjo: Leah Wells (2012) Harmonica: George Boziwick Bass: Trudy Williams Percussion: Phil Forbes |
Copyright 2022 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams