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Hootenanny (Food Center Benefit)

A later edition of Ken Bradbury's Hootenanny turned the folk sing-along into a benefit — sometimes billed "Foodenanny" — for the Jacksonville Area Community Food Center. Held at Grace Methodist Church on West Morgan in Jacksonville on a Saturday, November 24, at 7 p.m., the evening of "singing, laughter, sing-a-longs, and a few guest artists" was presented by LLCC-Jacksonville and the KB Foundation. In lieu of an admission charge, audience members were asked to bring non-perishable food items or a cash donation. "When you know good people," Bradbury said, "things like this are just plain fun to do."

Bradbury teamed with nationally-known singer-songwriter Barry Cloyd of Peoria — with whom he had spent three summers performing as a musician and storyteller aboard the Spirit of Peoria riverboat — along with "a few of my rowdy friends." In his radio spot for WLDS, Bradbury described the night this way: "Be prepared to sing along because I don't know all the words." Guest artists included Mike Post of LaGrange, Becky McCartney of Pittsfield (a former theatre student of Bradbury's at Triopia), and Luke Crawford and Kristen Jamison of Jacksonville — Crawford a former student and CEO of Higher Plains, and Jamison a local musical and theatrical performer whom Bradbury had first directed as a child in the Jacksonville Theatre Guild's Shenandoah.

Program

The show ran in two acts, with the second act opening from the audience.

Act I: MTA · Cindy, Cindy · St. Louis Blues · Help Me Make It Through the Night · Carpe Carp · Let Him Go On, Mama · Dream a Little Dream (Kristen, solo) · Skinny Dippin' · Mr. Bojangles · Blowin' in the Wind (Luke, solo) · Silver Train · Dooley

Act II: You Are My Sunshine · Too Ra Loo Ra · Irene Goodnight / Tom Dooley · Amazing Grace (Becky, solo) · Time Machine · Yellow Star · Battle of New Orleans · Washing Machine · Mornin's Comin' · Mike's solo · Danny Boy · Finale: This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie, 1940)

Cast