6:30PM - 7:10pm
Rik Palieri and his Clearwater Pals
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and storyteller Rik Palieri has a long history with Pete Seeger, the Great Hudson River Revival, and the Sloop Clearwater. In the mid 1970s, Rik joined Pete Seeger and The Hudson River Sloop Singers, becoming a regular performer at Clearwater events and river front festivals, like Clearwater’s Pumpkin Sail, and the Great Hudson River Revival. With the Sloop Singers, Rik performed with Pete onstage at Carnegie Hall, and was featured on two albums, The Great Hudson River Revival 1979 (Flying Fish Record Label) and The Hudson River Sloop Singers, Broad Old River (produced for the Clearwater).
Rik’s eight albums span a range of performance styles – old ballads played on fretless banjo, Leadbelly style blues played on 12 string guitar, instrumentals performed on the Polish bagpipes, tunes played on the Ozark mouth bow or Native American flute. Rik has performed at concert halls, schools and festivals throughout the lower 48 states, toured Alaska by float plane, rode camelback in Australia and sung on trains throughout Europe. Over the years Rik has performed and worked with legends of American Folk Music such as Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Jimmie Driftwood, Utah Phillips, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and in 2009 Rik was featured on the Grammy nominated Singing Through The Hard Times: a tribute to Utah Phillips.
Rik has toured internationally, playing in Canada, France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Poland, Mexico and Argentina, and appeared at venues such as The Kennedy Center, The Country Music Hall Of Fame, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, The Port Ferry Old Songs Folk Festival, The Hudson River Revival, The Vancouver festival, plus countless TV & radio programs. Rik is also the host & producer of “The Song Writer’s Notebook “, a TV show, archived in the American Folk Life Center in the new “Rik Palieri Collection”, at The American Folk Life Center Archives in Washington D.C.