Rod MacDonald Live & In Concert

Rod Macdonald is the most down-to-earth legendary figure you’ll ever run into. His amazingness goes all the way back to the late ‘70s, when he was an active and prolific figure in Greenwich Village’s vibrant folk world. Endowed with the sweetest voice on the planet and the most discerning songwriter chops, Rod’s songs have been sung in many places by lots of people including Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin' Babes, Jonathan Edwards, and Garnet Rogers. Rod MacDonald has become one of CCB's favorite cyber-Sunday meeting musicians. He joins us often here is Boston, online all the way from where he lives in Florida. But this time, he’s with us live in- person, in Copley Square. Join us! with Special Guest Dean Stevens (me).

Rod MacDonald is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator. He was a “big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs”, performing at the Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the “Songwriter’s Exchange” at the Cornelia Street Cafe. He co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival. He is perhaps best known for his songs “American Jerusalem“, about the “contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan” (Sing Out!), “A Sailor’s Prayer”, “Coming of the Snow”, “Every Living Thing”, and “My Neighbors in Delray”, a description of the September 11 hijackers’ last days in Delray Beach, Florida, where MacDonald has lived since 1995. His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin’ Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others. His 1985 recording “White Buffalo” is dedicated to Lakota Sioux ceremonial chief and healer Frank Fools Crow, whom he visited in 1981 and 1985, and who appears with MacDonald in the cover photograph. Since 1995 MacDonald has lived in south Florida, where his cd, “Later that Night” was named “Best Local Cd of 2014” by The Palm Beach Post and reached the top ten in national roots music charts. His first novel, The Open Mike, about a young man in the open mike scene of Greenwich Village, was published on December 5, 2014, by Archway Publishing. On May 1, 2018, MacDonald released his 13th solo recording, “Beginning Again,” on Blue Flute Music.

Come and enjoy their music and their exemplary body of work. It’s a free concert, but buy a ticket in person or online, all proceeds go to the musicians.

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This concert is FREE and hosted by The Community Church of Boston. The links to Zoom and YouTube are listed below. But we hope you will donate generously to THE PERFORMERS. You can buy a ticket from this Eventbrite page, or make a sliding scale donation. Or you can feed the Paypal Tipjar on the night of the show”….ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE PERFORMERS.

Join us In Person in the Lothrop Auditorium, on Zoom or YouTube:

Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.

CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or the Green line-Copley T Stops. Limited on Street Parking or at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street. Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.

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