Buddy Mondlock

Buddy Mondlock

Nashville singer-songwriter set for Port Townsend show

PORT TOWNSEND — Northwind Arts Center and Rainshadow Recording will welcome Nashville, Tenn., singer-songwriter Buddy Mondlock in concert at 7:30 tonight.

This series, usually presented at Northwind, is moving to Rainshadow at Fort Worden, 200 Battery Way, for this show due to remodeling in the gallery.

Tickets are $15 from buddynorthwind.brown papertickets.com, at Northwind Arts Center or at the door.

Mondlock’s songs have been recorded by such great songwriters as Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; and Janis Ian, according to his website at buddymondlock.com.

“But there’s nothing like hearing the guy who wrote ’em, sing ’em,” the website says.

Mondlock also will teach a songwriting workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Rainshadow.

Tickets for the workshop are $50 each at mondlock workshop.brownpaper tickets.com.

At the age of 21, Chicago native Mondlock opened for Steve Goodman there on New Year’s Eve.

Mondlock has said he could have walked out of there that night, gotten hit by a bus and wouldn’t have felt like life cheated him at all.

On his first trip to Texas, country and folk singer Guy Clark heard him singing one of his songs under a tree at the Kerrville Folk Festival, liked it and spread the word of the new singer. A publishing deal and move to Nashville soon followed.

In 1987, Mondlock was a New Folk Award Winner at Kerrville and he released his first album called “On the Line.” Throughout the next few years as David Wilcox recorded Mondlock’s “The Kid,” Mondlock wrote with Garth Brooks. “Every Now and Then” ended up on his album, “The Chase.”

A song written by Mondlock and Janis Ian, “Amsterdam,” was recorded by Joan Baez. Nanci Griffith asked Mondlock to sing on a show she was taping for Irish television. She ended up liking that song so much that she recorded “Comin’ Down In the Rain” on her Grammy Award-winning collection “Other Voices, Other Rooms.”

In 1996, Peter, Paul and Mary recorded “The Kid” and then asked Mondlock to sing with them on their “Great Performances” PBS special. He won a Kerrville Music Award for song of the year that autumn for “The Kid,” too.

And in 2003 the singer toured North America and Europe with Art Garfunkel and Maia Sharp in support of their album “Everything Waits To Be Noticed” which they wrote and recorded together as a trio.

For more information, contact Northwind Arts Center at 360-379-1086 or email songwriters@north windarts.org.

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