One of the last true links to the great folk troubadour artists of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt, Ramblin' Jack Elliott is considered one of the legendary masters of modern American folk music.

Jack’s life reads like a movie, a folk song, or perhaps a folk tale turned into a movie. At 14, Jack ran away from his Brooklyn home to join the rodeo and learned to play guitar from a cowboy. In 1950, he met Woody Guthrie, moved in with the Guthrie family and traveled with Woody to California and Florida. In 1954, along with folk singing pals Frank Robinson and Guy Carawan, Jack journeyed south through Appalachia to Nashville and then to New Orleans to hear American country music. He later made this the basis for his talking song, 912 Greens.

In 1955, Jack married and traveled to Europe, inspiring a new generation of budding British rockers, from Mick Jagger to Eric Clapton. When he returned to America in 1961, he met a young Bob Dylan at Woody Guthrie's bedside, and became his mentor. Jack has continued as an inspiration for every roots-inspired performer since.

Along the way, he learned the blues first-hand from Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, the Reverend Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie Mcghee and Sonny Terry, Jesse Fuller, and Champion Jack Dupree.

He has recorded forty albums; wrote one of the first trucking songs, Cup of Coffee, recorded by Johnny Cash; championed the works of new singer-songwriters from Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson to Tim Hardin; became a founding member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue; and continued the life of the traveling troubadour, influencing Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, Tom Russell, The Grateful Dead, and countless others.

Ramblin’ Jack is still ramblin’ and picking up stories along the way. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a legend.

Flanagan Smith plays where Weird Old America and Weird New America meet. Blending blistering interpretations of traditional folk music with original narrative songs about family, love, money and sex. Smith draws as much from his experiences as a struggling actor in New York City as he does from his time working rigs in North Dakota's oil boom offering a distinct and idiosyncratic vision of American working life. YANKEE CHARM, Smith's first full length record of original material is due out this spring on Emperor Records.