ARTIST | Jim Murdoch
Jim Murdoch
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Last update: 08 Mar 2010 09:51 PM
Home: AMERICA NORTH: USA: California (CA)
Joined: 01/05/08 17:20:22
Members: one
Genre: World
Influences: carlos gardel, john prine, leonard cohen, tom waits and thelonoius monk
Website: http://www.jimmurdoch.org
Biography
you can see Jim's electronic press kit at
www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=98244
"Appalachian Monk," chirping crickets, evening fireflys, Thelonious Monk out on a front porch up in the hills of West Virginia.
Original and traditional songs of Appalachia, Scotland, Spain and Argentina are sung and played on accordion, flute, mountain dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, castanets, piano
Originally from Montana, Jim first performed in the San Francisco Bay Area with The Pickle Family Circus as an apprentice clown and roustabout, appearing in clown and club juggling routines. Outside the ring, Jim pursued a variety of interests: jazz and classical piano, accordion, movement and dance, including five years studying flamenco dance, castanets and music with Rosa Montoya (niece of flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya) in San Francisco.
Jim performs at festivals and fairs up and down the west coast from 'Lompoc to Puyallup,' playing his own compositions, as well as traditional songs and presenting his solo clown show, "The Dogs Bark but the Caravan Moves On," (more info at www.jimmurdoch.org/clown.html ) :
* Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts
* The Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival
* The Great Monterey Squid Festival
* The San Francisco Festival of the Sea
In October of 2005 Jim presented a literary symposium at the University of California Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies, "A Musical Tour of The Accordion Music of Immigration in America, based on E. Annie Proulx's Novel "Accordion Crimes." Jim has since presented this music appreciation program describing the influence of immigration on traditional European and Celtic music at several branches of the San Francisco Public Library.
Jim released his first CD, in the spring of 2006, "Waltz to the Sea," a collection of original and traditional music, including songs for cedar flute, dulcimer, accordion, guitar, piano, vocals, harmonica and castanets.
In January of 2008 Jim began recording his second cd, "Yonder Shore." A collection of his new songs, including collaborations with good musical friends, who perform on Hawaiian guitar, violin, percussion, organ and vocals. Two demos are included here, 'Lovely Little Marley' and 'Dusk & Dawn'
Jim has worked with the support of The California Arts Council to involve elderly people with creative projects, using music, dance, movement, oral history, video and visual art. In 2002, the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum transcribed and published Jim's oral history of a Bay Area Vaudevillian, "Thelma Langston, A Life in Vaudeville."
For the past fifteen years Jim has been working as a musician at the University California San Francisco Mount Zion Comprehensive Cancer Center performing original and traditional music for patients who are recovering from surgery (including the intensive care unit), receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments, and for staff and visitors. In 2008 Jim began a new songwriting project. ‘Songs from the Heart,’ a collaboration with patients and staff to create individual songs, based on their experiences at the medical center.
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Since 1988 Jim has taught classes, workshops and led peer support programs to provide individual and group support through creative expression. Jim uses his training and experience in movement and dance, creative writing, oral history, music and composition, group discussion, collaboration and sometimes humor to give participants a broader understanding of issues in their lives involving change, loss, bereavement, growth, transformation and healing.
Jim works throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with a variety of populations, presenting 15 to 20 programs every month. Over the past twenty years he has presented programs and facilitated support workshops for the following
* Pediatric Oncology
* Kaiser Hospital San Francisco
* Stanford University Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
* Oakland Children's Hospital
* San Francisco Domestic Violence Women's Shelter
* UCSF Cancer Center - Husband’s Support Group for men whose wives are dealing with cancer, ongoing
* Elderly and Aging
* retirement communities
* board & care homes
* skilled nursing facilities
* Hospice & End of Life
* Recently :
* taught flamenco dance class for seniors at Mendelsohn House retirement community in San Francisco
www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.asp?epk_id=98244
"Appalachian Monk," chirping crickets, evening fireflys, Thelonious Monk out on a front porch up in the hills of West Virginia.
Original and traditional songs of Appalachia, Scotland, Spain and Argentina are sung and played on accordion, flute, mountain dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, castanets, piano
Originally from Montana, Jim first performed in the San Francisco Bay Area with The Pickle Family Circus as an apprentice clown and roustabout, appearing in clown and club juggling routines. Outside the ring, Jim pursued a variety of interests: jazz and classical piano, accordion, movement and dance, including five years studying flamenco dance, castanets and music with Rosa Montoya (niece of flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya) in San Francisco.
Jim performs at festivals and fairs up and down the west coast from 'Lompoc to Puyallup,' playing his own compositions, as well as traditional songs and presenting his solo clown show, "The Dogs Bark but the Caravan Moves On," (more info at www.jimmurdoch.org/clown.html ) :
* Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts
* The Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival
* The Great Monterey Squid Festival
* The San Francisco Festival of the Sea
In October of 2005 Jim presented a literary symposium at the University of California Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies, "A Musical Tour of The Accordion Music of Immigration in America, based on E. Annie Proulx's Novel "Accordion Crimes." Jim has since presented this music appreciation program describing the influence of immigration on traditional European and Celtic music at several branches of the San Francisco Public Library.
Jim released his first CD, in the spring of 2006, "Waltz to the Sea," a collection of original and traditional music, including songs for cedar flute, dulcimer, accordion, guitar, piano, vocals, harmonica and castanets.
In January of 2008 Jim began recording his second cd, "Yonder Shore." A collection of his new songs, including collaborations with good musical friends, who perform on Hawaiian guitar, violin, percussion, organ and vocals. Two demos are included here, 'Lovely Little Marley' and 'Dusk & Dawn'
Jim has worked with the support of The California Arts Council to involve elderly people with creative projects, using music, dance, movement, oral history, video and visual art. In 2002, the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum transcribed and published Jim's oral history of a Bay Area Vaudevillian, "Thelma Langston, A Life in Vaudeville."
For the past fifteen years Jim has been working as a musician at the University California San Francisco Mount Zion Comprehensive Cancer Center performing original and traditional music for patients who are recovering from surgery (including the intensive care unit), receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments, and for staff and visitors. In 2008 Jim began a new songwriting project. ‘Songs from the Heart,’ a collaboration with patients and staff to create individual songs, based on their experiences at the medical center.
* * *
Since 1988 Jim has taught classes, workshops and led peer support programs to provide individual and group support through creative expression. Jim uses his training and experience in movement and dance, creative writing, oral history, music and composition, group discussion, collaboration and sometimes humor to give participants a broader understanding of issues in their lives involving change, loss, bereavement, growth, transformation and healing.
Jim works throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with a variety of populations, presenting 15 to 20 programs every month. Over the past twenty years he has presented programs and facilitated support workshops for the following
* Pediatric Oncology
* Kaiser Hospital San Francisco
* Stanford University Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
* Oakland Children's Hospital
* San Francisco Domestic Violence Women's Shelter
* UCSF Cancer Center - Husband’s Support Group for men whose wives are dealing with cancer, ongoing
* Elderly and Aging
* retirement communities
* board & care homes
* skilled nursing facilities
* Hospice & End of Life
* Recently :
* taught flamenco dance class for seniors at Mendelsohn House retirement community in San Francisco
