The Root Hoot at The Americana Sessions! Every First Sunday at The Falcon Underground.

Special Guests: Open Book
https://www.reverbnation.com/openbook
As Open Book, Rick and Michele Gedney’s original music features melody invention and vocal harmonies backed by a tapestry of interweaving guitars. They have been touring in the Northeast since 2000.
Open Book’s first two albums received national airplay and critical acclaim. For the past four years, they have been working with Dar Williams as part of the facilitating team at Williams’ retreat called, “Writing a Song That Matters”, heading into its fifth season at The Garrison Institute in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Host: Jacob Bernz
http://www.folkmusiclives.com/p/about-me.html
Jacob Bernz was born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley surrounded by the musical friends and colleagues of his father, two-time Grammy winning producer and musician David Bernz. Pete Seeger was a family friend and frequent presence in Jacob’s life. Jacob has had the opportunity to play at many distinguished venues including The Guthrie Center, New York’s Symphony Space and Lincoln Center Out Of Doors. He’s been fortunate to share the stage with notable musicians including David Amram, Guy Davis, Livingston Taylor, Jackson Browne, Tom Chapin and Arlo Guthrie.

Co-Host: David Bernz
http://workotheweavers.com/bios/
David is the Grammy Award-winning producer of Pete Seeger’s “At 89” (2009), and “Tomorrow’s Children” (2011), as well as the releases of their later collaborations, “A More Perfect Union” and “Pete Remembers Woody”, Pete’s spoken-word recollections of traveling with Woody Guthrie, with music by Work o’ the Weavers, the Vanaver Caravan, Cathy Fink and Pete & Woody, themselves. David also produced and released Pete Seeger’s 2003 post-9/11 offering, “Take It From Dr. King”.