Sunday Street Concerts at LIM in The Gillespie Room


Sunday Street Concerts at LIM in The Gillespie Room

We are pleased to announce that our concerts will take place in the beautiful Gillespie Room at the Long Island Museum, Route 25A in Stony Brook Village. We’ll be able to accommodate one hundred people and will have soft drinks available at the shows.


Long Island Celebrates Lightfoot

Sunday, March 24th at 5 P.M.

A celebration of the songs of Gordon Lightfoot, the renowned Canadian songwriter and singer, remembering his incredible catalogue as we approach the first anniversary of his passing on May 1st, 2023. Sharing their versions of well-known and lesser-known Lightfoot songs are:

Gene Casey, Caroline Doctorow, Andrew, Cole & Angie Fortier, Mick Hargreaves, Ray Lambiase, Mary Lamont with Jim Marchese, Rich Lanahan, Russ Seeger, Hank Stone, and Bob Westcott.

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Tickets: $ 25.00 advance sale (until Friday, March 22nd. Tickets at door, if available $ 30.00 (cash only)


Scotland’s Renowned Tannahill Weavers 

Sunday. April 28th at 5 P.M.

We are delighted to be able to once again present Scotland’s premier traditional band now in its 56th year. 

The “Tannies” have been trailblazers for Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes.  From reflective ballads to foot stomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits. 

The current lineup of the Tannahill Weavers is  Roy Gullane, (guitar, vocals), Phil Smillie (flute, tin whistles, bodhran, vocals), Malcolm Busby (fiddlebouzouki, vocals) and Iain MacGillivray (Highland bagpipes, Scottish small pipes,fiddle whistles, vocals).

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Tickets $ 25.00 until Friday, April 26th  (door admission: $ 30 cash only)


Bob Dylan’s 83rd Birthday Celebration

Sunday, May 19th at 7:00 PM

‘Blood on the Tracks’ at 50

September 16-19th, 1974  found Bob Dylan in a Manhattan studio to record what would be regarded as one of his greatest albums, Blood on the Tracks. In late December of that year, he suddenly decided to re-record several of the tracks in advance of the release of the album in January, 1975.

This year’s Dylan birthday celebration centers on the 50th anniversary of its recording. While you’ll hear many of the songs from that esteemed album, you’ll also hear other Dylan songs — both familiar as well as possibly unfamiliar — from his extensive catalogue.

The artists include:  The Kennedys, Rod MacDonald, Russ Seeger, Steve Kaplan, Tom Ryan and Mark Mancini with special guest Mary Lee Kortes (who, in 2002  recorded a track by track cover of the ‘Blood on the Tracks’ album.)

Seats are limited to 100 for this annual event, which is always a sell-out.

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The Sunday Street Series is a collaboration of WUSB’s Sunday Street Series, The Long Island Museum, and The Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council.

Please send any email inquiries to charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu.


Ian Tyson remembered on Sunday Street on WUSB-FM

Sunday Street is heard Sundays from 9 AM to 12 noon on WUSB, 90.1 fm and wusb.fm from Stony Brook, New York. The program is now in its 44th year. You can reach the program’s host, Charlie Backfish, at charles.backfish@stonybrook.edu

January 8th’s edition of Sunday Street was devoted to the music of Ian Tyson who passed away, at age 89, on December 29th. 

As the first paragraph in his obituary in the New York Times noted, ‘before Canadian musicians like Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, or Leonard Cohen, there was Ian Tyson.’

We shared some recently-recorded reflections from Tom Russell who co-wrote many songs with Ian Tyson along with stories and observations from Tyson himself, Sylvia Tyson,  and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. 

(Tom Russell did the painting of Ian Tyson posted with this playlist)

This program was pre-recorded on Saturday, January 7, 2023

Theme:  Dave Van Ronk, Sunday Street (SUNDAY STREET, Philo)

Opening set

Neil Young, Four Strong Winds (COMES A TIME, Reprise)
Gordon Lightfoot, Red Velvet (A PAINTER PASSING THROUGH, Reprise)
Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown, Summer Wages (FRIEND OF MINE, Philo)
Lucy Kaplansky, Someday Soon (OVER THE HILLS, Red House)
Fourtold, Four Rode By (FOURTOLD, Appleseed Recordings)

Set # 2

Ian & Sylvia, Wild Geese (SO MUCH FOR DREAMING, Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia, Play One More (LIVE AT NEWPORT, Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia, Farewell to the North (NASHVILLE, Vanguard)
Tom Russell on Ian & Sylvia and on recording an album of their songs
Tom Russell, These Friends of Mine (PLAY ONE MORE: THE SONGS OF IAN & SYLVIA, True North)

Set # 3

Sylvia Tyson on Ian & Sylvia and Great Speckled Bird (from a 2018 interview with David Ward via YouTube)
Great Speckled Bird, Rio Grande (GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Ampex)

Set # 4

Jerry Jeff Walker speaks with Ian Tyson (television program 1991 via YouTube)
Jez Lowe & James Keelaghan, Four Strong Winds (live at The University Café 10/20/2013)
Great Specked Bird, Calgary (GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Ampex)
Ian Tyson on Great Speckled Bird and his television program 2010 (via YouTube)

Set # 5

Tom Russell on great Ian Tyson songs post Ian and Sylvia
Ian Tyson, The Gift (Charlie Russell) (at the Cowboy Poets Conference 2014 via YouTube)
*Corb Lund, Montana Waltz (SONGS MY FRIENDS WROTE, New West) 
Corb Lund, MC Horses (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
Michael Martin Murphey, Cowboy Pride (COWBOY SONGS, WB)
Ian Tyson, Fifty Years Ago (LIVE AT LONGVIEW, Vanguard)

Set # 6

Tom Russell, Old Cheyenne (PLAY ONE MORE: THE SONGS OF IAN & SYLVIA, True North)
Corb Lund w/Ian Tyson, The Rodeo’s Over (HAIR IN MY EYES LIKE A HIGHLAND STEER, Stony Plain)
Ian Tyson w/Nanci Griffith, Canadian Whiskey (OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS, Elektra)
Cindy Church w/Ian Tyson, What Does She See? (CINDY CHURCH, Stony Plain)

Set # 7

Marianne Faithfull, Four Strong Winds (COME MY WAY, Decca)
Ramblin Jack Elliott, on Ian Tyson/ Will James (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
The McDades, Smuggler’s Cove (THE GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO IAN TYSON, Stony Plain)
Gretchen Peters w/ Tom Russell, The Blue Mountains of Mexico (ONE TO THE HEART, ONE TO THE HEAD, Frontera)

Set # 8

Tom Russell on first meeting Ian Tyson
Tom Russell, Navaho Rug (COWBOY REAL, Philo)
Tom Russell on co-writing songs with Ian Tyson
Tom Russell, Claude Dallas (SONG OF THE WEST: THE COWBOY COLLECTION, Hightone)
Tom Russell, When the Wolves No Longer Sing (PLAY ONE MORE; THE SONGS OF IAN AND SYLVIA, True North)
Tom Russell, The Rose of the San Joaquin (THE ROSE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN, Hightone)

Set # 9

Tom Russell on his last co-write with Ian Tyson
Ian Tyson, Ross Knox (YELLOWHEAD TO YELLOWSTONE AND OTHER LOVE STORIES, Stony Plain)
Ian Tyson, Colorado Horses (CARNERO VAQUERO, Stony Plain)

Dylan

Ian & Sylvia, Tomorrow is a Long Time (FOUR STRONG WINDS, Vanguard)
Ian Tyson on Dylan and weed, 2013 (via YouTube)
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead, The French Girl (1987 rehearsal via YouTube)
Bob Dylan & the Band, Song for Canada (BOOTLEG SERIES V.11 :THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: Columbia)
Bob Dylan & the Band, Four Strong Winds (BOOTLEG SERIES V.11 :THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: Columbia)

(*indicates new release or recent re-issue)