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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
Tb help raise funds for a broad range of community programs, Ki Theatre on June 12 is sponsoring a gala benefit dinner and concert featuring the legendary folksinger and songwriter, Tom Paxton.
The intimate dinner (limited to only 30 people) and a concert following will be held at “Patria,” the home of Fran Moore Krebser near Flint Hill.
Tbm Paxton, nominated for a Grammy for “Best Contemporary Folk Album of 2003,” is one of America’s most popular and bestknown songwriters and folksingers today.
“Tom Paxton ranks up there with the Beatles and Bob Dylan for the number of songs he’s written that everyone seems to know,” according to folksong magazine Dirty Linen.
Pete Seeger, a mentor and old friend, adds: “Tbm’s songs have a way of sneaking up on you. You find yourself humming them, whistling them, and singing a verse to a friend. Like the songs of Woody Guthrie, they’re becoming part of America.”
Another luminary in the world of folksongs, Judy Collins, captures the reason for Tbm Paxton’s popularity: “(His) songs are so powerful and lyrical, written from the heart and the conscience, and they reach their mark, our innermost being.”
In a recent interview in his Alexandria home, Tom Paxton reviewed his 40 year career, beginning with his education in Oklahoma (which he calls his home state) to his first real exposure to folk music as an army private in the reserve spending his weekends at the musical coffeehouses of Greenwich Village.
It was in the Village that Raxton got his first job singing and playing the guitar at $10 per night. He has now performed thousands of concerts around the world and his current schedule looks like that of a rock star still.
Some 23 concerts (many of them benefits for other worthy causes, often dedicated to children) are on his tight schedule for the next several months.
Paxton’s connection with Rappahannock County-and his generosity in donating his time and talent to this benefit concert-comes
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