Lost At Sea & Sally Barris

Posted at 7:00 AM on September 26, 2009 by Dale Connelly (1 Comments)

Tonight on Radio Heartland on MPR News stations, hour one will feature songs of longing and loss at sea.

The library is full of tunes where one character is leaving the other to go away to sea, perhaps never to be heard from again. This is very troubling especially when you take a look at how often a ship that appears inside a song winds up on the bottom. Almost always. Sigh.

We'll sink the Titanic, the Bismarck and the Edmund Fitzgerald, of course.

In hour two, we'll consider how quickly a person's career path can change in a positive direction.

For former Chaska resident, now Nashville songwriter Sally Barris, it all came down to a single afternoon. She went to the Homestead Pickin' Parlor in Richfield to buy a disc by guitarist Will Ackerman, and found her calling instead.

Sally is performing tonight in Grand Marais, Minnesota at the North House Folk School's Unplugged VIII concert with Jon Vezner and Dougie MacLean. She'll be in Rochester Minnesota on Wednesday to take part in an Americana Showcase with Don Henry and Brandon Sampson at the Rochester Civic Theater.

That's tonight on Radio Heartland from 9 to 11 pm on Minnesota Public Radio News.

Comments (1)

Did MPR tape the AMERICANA SHOWCASE on 9/30?
If not, MPR missed an incredible opportunity to showcase these incredible artists?

Posted by Reid Meyer | October 1, 2009 10:18 AM