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Fri, 424 Tribute to Citizen Kafka

Thursday, April 23, 2009

 

 

On March 24, 2009, we lost a brilliant musician, radio personality and folk music icon, Richie Shulberg, best known by his stage name ‘Citizen Kafka’. This Friday, (4/24) from 10 am – 12 noon ET, former band mates, fiddler, Kenny Kosek and banjoist, Marty Cutler will appear on WFDU-FM to present a tribute to the genius of Citizen Kafka on “Lonesome Pine RFD”, hosted by Carol Beaugard. Listeners in the New York City metropolitan area can tune in live to 89.1 FM on their radio dials and those outside the station’s signal range can listen via live streaming on the internet at www.wfdu.fm. The interview will be recorded for later broadcast on ‘Open Mic’ on WAMU’s ‘Bluegrass Country’.
 
For two decades beginning in the late 1970s, the Citizen produced and hosted a number of radio programs in New York on Pacifica Foundation’s WBAI-FM of eclectic live and recorded music, comedy and poetry. One of his most renowned programs was the "Citizen Kafka Show", which he co-created in 1979 with then-unknown actor John Goodman and musician Kenny Kosek. The “Citizen Kafka Show” ran during much of the 1980s and featured live improvisational sketch comedy by Goodman and Kosek along with music DJ'd by Kafka.
In the 1990’s, Kafka co-hosted a program with Pat Conte called The Secret Museum of the Air, which also ran on WBAI and later on WFMU. That show presented primarily pre-war multi-cultural music from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Shulberg took 40 hours to digitalise each instalment, filtering out physical clicks and scratches by ear and audio technology. After the Shirah Kober Zeller Foundation underwrote the project, Shulberg was able to concentrate on his passion for archiving. The Yazoo label, which specialises in early American blues, country and jazz, released a series of Secret Museum volumes.
 
Shulberg, born in the Bronx, grew up in Canarsie in Brooklyn. As a teenager he played violin in orchestral and folk settings, although his real passion was for bluegrass music: He formed the bluegrass group, the Wretched Refuse String Band, fronted by Shulberg himself, with lineups drawing on a pool of top-notch musicians including Kosek, the electric guitarist Jon Sholle, the mandolinist and wind player Andy Statman and the banjo maestro Tony Trischka. A movement called “newgrass” was redefining and reinventing bluegrass music and the Wretched Refuse String Band were the feral force behind the New York scene.
 
The Wretcheds’ ‘only-child’ LP was reissued in 1994 in an expanded CD edition. Founding and/or/into later Wretcheds included banjoist Marty Cutler, drummer and percussionist Larry Eagle, guitarist Bob Jones, fiddler Alan Kaufman, bassist Roger Mason and mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff.   Richie Shulberg, a.k.a., Citizen Kafka, succumbed to a heart attack on March 14, 2009 in Brooklyn.
 
On Sat, May 9th, fans of Citizen Kafka and the Wretched Refuse String Band are invited to attend the annual “Thank God the Citizen is Still Alive” memorial concert at The Jalopy, located at 315 Columbia Street in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.jalopy.biz.
 
 Since 1985, Carol Beaugard has hosted “Lonesome Pine RFD” heard every Thursday morning (6:00 – 9:00 am) and every Friday (9:00 am – 12:00noon) (ET) on 89.1, WFDU-FM and streamed live on www.wfdu.fm. “Lonesome Pine RFD” is also broadcast on WAMU’s ‘Bluegrass Country’ every Monday (12-3 am) and Wednesday nights (9 pm – midnight). ‘Bluegrass Country’ airs in Washington, D.C. on HD radio at WAMU, 88-5 channel 2, on FM radio at 105.5 in Reston, Virginia, and online around the world at www.BluegrassCountry.org. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/carolbeaugard or email carolradio@yahoo.com.
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Since 1986, Carol Beaugard has hosted “Lonesome Pine RFD” heard in the New York Metropolitan area on 89.1, WFDU-FM (streamed live on www.wfdu.fm). The show is also broadcast on WAMU’s ‘Bluegrass Country’ in Washington D.C on HD Radio, 88.5, Channel 2 and worldwide on www.BluegrassCountry.org. She spotlight a mix of bluegrass and progressive string music and features live in-studio performances and interviews with many of today’s top artists. Carol’s professional broadcast credits include on-air work with WGBH-FM (Boston), WMCA-AM (NYC), Jukebox Radio, WMTR-AM, WCTC-AM and WVNJ-AM (NJ). Her radio work has been profiled in “Bluegrass Unlimited” and “Bluegrass Now” magazines. She has had the privilege to emcee at Lincoln Center, The Bottom Line, Carnegie Hall, The Emelin Theater and The Windgap, Gettysburg, Delaware Valley and Peaceful Valley Bluegrass Festivals. Carol was the emcee for John Duffey’s last live concert appearance at the John Harms Center for the Arts in Englewood, NJ, just three days before his untimely passing. In addition to radio, Carol is a professional singer and works as a lead vocalist and guitarist performing a mix of bluegrass, country, swing and celtic music in a band with her fiancé, Wayne Fugate on mandolin. She is currently learning to play fiddle and also aspires to master mandolin one day. Carol is also the President and Founder of her own event planning company, Affairs of Distinction, headquartered in Montclair, NJ. She has been featured as one of the country’s leading event planners on The Style Network’s “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?”, TLC-TV’s “The Wedding Story”, and numerous magazines. She is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA (Bachelor of Science and Speech). Website: www.myspace.com/carolbeaugard

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