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Norwood Village Green hosting 10th anniversary singer-songwriter concert in memory of Harriet Liotta

Posted 8/3/15

NORWOOD -- A 10th anniversary singer and songwriter concert in remembrance of Harriet (Mickey) Liotta will be held at the Norwood Village Green Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. featuring Pierce Pettis and Alex …

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Norwood Village Green hosting 10th anniversary singer-songwriter concert in memory of Harriet Liotta

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NORWOOD -- A 10th anniversary singer and songwriter concert in remembrance of Harriet (Mickey) Liotta will be held at the Norwood Village Green Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. featuring Pierce Pettis and Alex Smith. The concert series concludes its 42nd season with a performance of Double Axel on Sunday, Aug. 9, at 6 p.m.

Mickey Liotta, co-founder of this series, maintained an extensive record library of her favorites, including Pettis.

Pettis will perform the music of rural Alabama. Smith will perform original music of the Adirondacks.

Pettis has performed in all 48 continental states, Canada, Europe, on American Public Radio’s Mountain Stage National Public Radio’s E-town, Morning Edition, World Café, VH-1, CBS News and the Nashville Network.

Pettis has been a writer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama, recorded for Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York, won the New Folk songwriting competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and was a staff songwriter at Polygram/Universal Music Publishing in Nashville. He has received numerous songwriting awards including a 1999 ASCAP Country Music Award for “You Move Me,” recorded by Garth Brooks. He has written some of Brooks’s most prominent hits

Pettis’ two most recent recordings are “State of Grace” and “The New Agrarians.” Both recordings are about his home state and hometown, Fort Payne, Alabama. He shares his small, rural, hometown with the one of country music’s super groups, Alabama.

Smith grew up in Long Lake. The son of a boat-builder-writer and historian, Smith was immersed in folk tradition from a very young age, starting to write songs at the age of 12. His influences include the work of Adirondack folk musicians Dan Berggren, Chris Shaw, and Peggy Lynn, as well as Canadian artist Stan Rogers.

Smith began touring while in college at St. Lawrence University, releasing his first two albums “Sawdust” and “Live with Dylan Rice.” Now, five years later, he tours and records extensively both solo and with his band The Mountain Sound. He signed in 2012 with Wepecket Island Records. On that label, he released “Hamilton County,” his third record to date.

Playing rock for more than 40 years in the north country and beyond, Double Axel will perform an acoustic set.

In arranging this concert, Vangellow said that they’ve only tried this type of concert once before at the Edwards Opera House, and the members were pleased by the outcome and would like to try it again.

Admission is free. Donations will be accepted. For more information about the series, visit nvgcs.org or call 353-2437 or 261-2866.