Chuck Brodsky brings his unique sound, one-of-a-kind stories, and two new (to us) CDs to Sundilla on Friday, September 26. Showtime at the AUUF is 7:30; admission at the door is $25, but $20 advance tickets are available at Spicer’s Music, Ross House Coffee, and online at
https://buytickets.at/sundillaconcertseriesradiohour/1521429. Students can get in for just $15.
Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, a songwriter, a troubadour, a modern-day bard. His acoustic guitar and voice draw you in with genuine, down-to-earth warmth and quirky, rootsy, finely crafted songs. Chuck’s wit and irony, set to haunting melodies delivered over syncopated guitar strumming or sweet fingerpicking, tells stories of oddball and underdog characters. His songs celebrate the goodness in people, the eccentric, the holy, the profound, the courageous, the inspiring, the beautiful. They poke fun at what needs poking, and sometimes challenge what needs to be challenged. They’re sworn to tell the truth.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, and influenced by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Lowell George, John Hartford, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Greg Brown, The Rolling Stones, and Nic Jones, Chuck began writing songs in a unique style of his own while paying homage to the traditions.
After hitch-hiking to San Francisco and performing weekly at the Tattoo Rose Café open mic, Chuck spent a few years singing for tips on the streets of Europe, and worked as a fruit picker back in the USA. He played in coffeehouses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980’s. Chuck won the "Emerging Songwriter Award" at the Napa Valley Folk Festival in 1992, and was warmly embraced at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas the following year. Over the past 20 years Chuck has performed at festivals and in concert all across the USA, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, England, Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Wales, and the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
His albums have received worldwide critical acclaim. Since his last Sundilla appearance Chuck has released two albums: “Them and Us,” and “Gravity, Wings and Heavy Things.” (He also watched his house almost get washed away in Hurricane Helene; fortunately it was mostly spared, though quite a bit of work was needed to repair his back deck and retaining wall.)
Though Chuck’s songs cover a lot of ground, he has written quite a few about baseball. Chuck’s favorite player from childhood is Richie Allen, and Chuck wrote a song about Allen getting booed by hometown fans. Chuck will perform this song, “Letters in the Dirt,” at Allen’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame two months before playing Sundilla!
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