Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen concert

Lake Flower Landing in Saranac Lake will host a special concert with folk
legends Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen.
Since their 1981 Greenwich Village coffeehouse encounter this duo has built
a folk reputation throughout the U.S.A. and Canada, even appearing on
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion show. With 2 albums together
on the Flying Fish label, they each have other recordings and musical
adventures.
Frets magazine says Rogers’ voice is “clear as the queen’s diamonds”, and the
Washington Post brands her instrumental work “sterling.” Her second album
was voted “Best Folk Album of the Year” by the National Association of
Independent Record Distributors. Pete Seeger said she “has a beautiful voice
and has written many extraordinarily good songs that are going to reach out
and touch large numbers of people. They sure are great songs!” Rogers was
official 1997 Connecticut State Troubadour, and is a Master Teaching Artist
for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts as well as a K-4 music teacher
and adjunct professor at Lesley University. She wrote music for 4 Mennonite
folk operas. Thrushwood Kids, her recording label, houses her 5 award-
winning recordings for young people. She has songs in Quaker and Unitarian
hymnals and two major national music textbooks and also has had a
children’s picture book published.
Bursen is known for his warm baritone voice, devilish sense of humor, red-
hot banjo wizardry and inventive guitar arrangements. Chicago Magazine
said of him, “stunning guitar arrangements…easily one of the finest banjo
players ever heard.” Feature articles in Banjo Newsletter and Frets followed
the release of Bursen’s first solo album on Folk Legacy Records. His song
“Small Business Blues” is included in Seeger’s book, Carry It On. Bursen
holds a Cornell Ph.D. in Philosophy. A professor-turned-grape grower, he
makes wine at Sharpe Hill Vineyards in Pomfret, CT. His last album “Banjo
Mannikin” highlighting his banjo pyrotechnics received national airplay.