JAMESTOWN – A Grammy award winning artist will be coming to Jamestown Thursday for a special performance at the Robert H. Jackson Center’s Carl Cappa Theater.
Folk singer and children’s musician Tom Chapin will take the stage to perform a sellout show on Rolling Hills Radio With Ken Hardley.
In a career that spans five decades, 24 albums and three Grammy awards, Chapin has covered an incredible amount of creative ground and has shown no signs of slowing down. He’s scheduled numerous shows and performances for 2017, and he’s close to finishing a new album, with some of the songs likely to be performed in Jamestown Thursday night.
Tom Chapin
“I’m a musician, which means I don’t retire, I reload. I have a brand new album that I’m finishing up this week. It’s called ‘Threads’ and I gave it that kind of generic name because the songs are not of a specific nature,” Chapin recently told WRFA. “Instead of having a really tight idea for an album, I wanted to get these songs out there – songs about where my life is and where my mind is these days.”
As a music-maker, Chapin has maintained two long and productive parallel careers, both as a highly respected contemporary folk artist and as a pioneer in the field of children’s music, something that Chapin is very proud of.
“The music I write is family music,” Chapin said. “So I have 13 family recordings, a body of work that I’m very proud of. I just did a slew of things at public schools in Fairfield, Connecticut where they hired me to play every school. I was playing in gyms and hearing kids sing songs right along with you is pretty magical.”
In addition to his work as a recording artist and concert performer, Chapin has acted on Broadway, as well as working extensively in films, television and radio.
Chapin returns to Jamestown for his first performance headlining Rolling Hills Radio. He performed on The Reg Lenna stage in 2014 in Harry Chapin: A Family Celebration, and in the Studio Theater with his daughters Lily & Abigail as part of the May 2016 Rolling Hills radio performance.
More on Chapin, including a list of albums available for purchase, can be found at his website TomChapin.com.
As previously noted, Thursday’s Rolling Hills Radio show is sold out. However, those who were unable to get tickets will still be able to enjoy the performance when it is broadcast on WRFA next week on Friday, May 5 at 6 p.m. Afterward the show will also be available for listening online at our website’s audio section and our Soundcloud Page.
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