* The Bull Run Presents:Rod MacDonald

Rod MacDonald

8-9-2014 (Ballroom)

Rod MacDonald is an ingenious songwriter who has recorded nine critically lauded albums over the past 15 years or so. During the '80s he was at the forefront of a Greenwich Village music scene known as Fast Folk, which, produced hugely successful artists such as Shawn Colvin and Suzanne Vega. The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings have made available the entire Fast Folk collection - more than 100 albums - on compact disc and MacDonald is one of the most heavily represented artists on the recordings with 29 songs.
His newest CD, "Songs Of Freedom", contains 16 new (mostly) acoustic songs, with a mix of socially prog tunes and some personal things, including one song co-written by his kids 6 & 3, perhaps the youngest published songwriters around.