{"id":12905,"date":"2024-07-20T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T13:22:23","slug":"just-wild-about-harry-chapin-tribute-concert-to-be-livestreamed-july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticmusicscene.com\/2024\/07\/20\/just-wild-about-harry-chapin-tribute-concert-to-be-livestreamed-july-21\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Just Wild About Harry’ Chapin Tribute Concert to be Livestreamed, July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harry Chapin (Photo: Robert Berkowitz\/RSBImageWorks.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>The annual \u201cJust Wild About Harry\u201d Chapin tribute concert performed by primarily Long Island-based artists has a new venue this year: The Chapin Rainbow Stage in Huntington, New York\u2019s Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue. The free concert is slated for Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 7 p.m. ET and will also be livestreamed via a number of social media channels. Presented by the Huntington Arts Council, with promotional assistance from the Folk Music Society of Huntington, it is part of the 59th Huntington Summer Arts Festival produced by the Town of Huntington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve long thought it would be wonderful and extremely appropriate to do the show in Huntington, where Harry and Sandy lived and raised their family,\u201d said Stuart Markus, the concert\u2019s organizer and emcee. \u201cHarry is still held in such beloved regard by residents of the town and public officials at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eighteen acts — comprised of nearly three dozen of Long Island\u2019s top musicians and songwriters — will take to the stage that bears his name to honor the late Grammy Award-winning songwriter, humanitarian and anti-hunger activist. They\u2019ll perform his breakthrough hit, \u201cTaxi,\u201d his best-known song \u201cCat\u2019s in the Cradle\u201d (which topped the charts in December 1974), fan favorites like \u201cFlowers Are Red\u201d and \u201cMr. Tanner,\u201d and some of Chapin\u2019s more obscure songs as well. Concertgoers are asked to bring donations of nonperishable food to support Long Island Cares, Inc., the regional food bank founded by Chapin in 1980.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the performers are pro-caliber full-time and part-time musicians who perform regularly at local venues and\/or tour on the folk circuit,\u201d Markus said. \u201cThroughout the two decades that we\u2019ve been presenting the show, I\u2019ve always encouraged them to treat the songs as their own — however they imagine them. The results have been some very creative interpretations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Click on the image to view the ‘Just Wild About Harry” concert program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited that the annual Just Wild About Harry concert is being held at Heckscher Park in Huntington this year,\u201d said Paule Pachter, President & CEO of Long Island Cares, Inc. \u201cThis event has been held for the past two decades to support Long Island Cares and it\u2019s raised more than a half-million pounds of food and thousands of dollars in donations to support The Harry Chapin Regional Food Bank. It\u2019s very meaningful that the concert will take place on The Chapin Rainbow Stage, and our volunteers and staff are looking forward to being there with the talented musicians that have kept Harry Chapin\u2019s legacy alive for all these years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides Markus and his folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time, this year\u2019s roster of performers includes Akiva the Believer, Karen Bella, John Cardone, Roger Street Friedman, Grand Folk Railroad, Robin Greenstein, Lora Kendall, Mara Levine, Vicky Liotta, Debra Lynne & Lora Kendall, Media Crime, Judy Merrick, Miles & Mafale, Matthew Ponsot, Patricia Shih & Stephen Fricker, Robin Eve, Roger Silverberg, Talya Smilowitz, Christine Solimeno, Hank Stone, Martha Trachtenberg, Frank Walker, Lisa Ann Wharton, and Judith Zweiman & Duane Michael Tucker. Jen Chapin, Harry\u2019s daughter and a touring artist in her own right, also will perform.<\/p>\n

Long Island Cares\u2019 staff and volunteers will be collecting donations of non-perishable food at a tent at the entrance to the Chapin Rainbow Stage and also selling t-shirts and Harry Chapin CDs, as well as distributing literature about the nonprofit organization\u2019s programs and services. Concertgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs and blankets. <\/p>\n

Where to View the \u2018Just Wild About Harry\u2019 Concert Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those are unable to attend the concert in-person, it will also be livestreamed via a number of social media channels that follow. Although the concert is set for 7 p.m. ET, viewers are advised to log on earlier since there may be a few pre-show interviews with performing artists and members of the Chapin family.<\/p>\n

Harry Chapin Fans<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/954037953400184\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry Chapin Foundation<\/strong> YouTube Channel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/dFZjPTrpqLo<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry Chapin Foundation<\/strong> Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/488328867019092\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry Chapin Memories<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/835691325191299\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry Chapin Music<\/strong> Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/812448574320945\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey Long Island, Do You Remember…?<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/889951243173302\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I Grew Up in Huntington Township NY USA 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1731745810691338\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Just Wild About Harry (The Harry Chapin Tribute Show)<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1495851031039195<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

L.I. Fans & Friends of Folk Music<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1029824552128240\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Long Island Cares<\/strong> Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1604518290389306\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Long Live Harry Chapin<\/strong> Facebook Group: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/849747593717608\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>: A public relations and strategic communications professional, as well as the longtime president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington, I have been helping to promote the annual \u201cJust Wild About Harry\u201d tribute concerts pro bono for many years.<\/p>\n

I first met Harry Chapin some 50 years ago at a Long Island rally for the United Farm Workers during the lettuce and grape boycott of the early 1970s. I was 12 years-old at the time, and I remember joining hands with him and Richard Chavez (brother of the late UFW leader Caesar Chavez) as we marched, chanted and sang. Several years later, Harry led the winning delegate slate for the late Rep. Mo Udall in the 1976 Democratic Presidential primary in my Congressional district, while my late dad coordinated the campaign. Over the next few years, I saw Harry many times \u2014 in concert, at various events, and around town with his wife, Sandy. While studying abroad and working in the British House of Commons, I was Harry\u2019s guest at what turned out to be his last concerts in London, England in February 1981. He was in top form, and I had looked forward to seeing him again that July 16 in concert at Eisenhower Park here on Long Island. Tragically, Harry died in an auto accident on the Long Island Expressway while en route there. He was just 38 and has now been gone for longer than he lived.<\/p>\n

I still have fond memories of Harry\u2019s concerts. Yet as much as I appreciated him as a singer-songwriter who helped to forge my love of folk and folk-rock music, I so respected him for his activism, his community involvement, and his commitment to making this \u201cA Better Place to Be.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual \u201cJust Wild About Harry\u201d Chapin tribute concert performed by primarily Long Island-based artists has a new venue this year: The Chapin Rainbow Stage in Huntington, New York\u2019s Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue. The free concert is slated for Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 7 p.m. ET and will also be livestreamed via a number of social media channels.<\/p>\n

[Click on the headline to continue reading this article, view the concert program, and see where you can view the concert online if you are unable to attend in 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