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Downtown Crossing Boston

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Wednesday, October 14, 1987
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'Downtown Crossing Fall Country Festival' Summer Street between Jordan Marsh and Filene's.

NYC Old Time Minifest

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Saturday, April 11, 1987
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First Annual New York City Old Time Mini Festival, Band Contest, and Dance
Heartbeats, Chicken Chokers, Horseflies
Public School 3 on Hudson Street

Wallace White, Our Far-Flung Correspondents, "FIDDLING," The New Yorker, July 20, 1987, p. 74

...they all seem to regard old-time music as a point of departure, bringing to it a variety of more modern influences, and I was reminded of what Mike Seeger had said about the music's continuing to grow.

"a Saturday in April" so the day may be wrong
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/07/20/1987_07_20_074_TNY_CARDS_000...

Primitive Characters

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Sunday, January 1, 1995 - Wednesday, September 30, 1998
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Primitive Characters string band: Sandy, Mike, Chip, Jim, Paul - ended with Hockey's 100th Birthday Party gig

Primitive Characters

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Sunday, January 1, 1995 - Wednesday, September 30, 1998
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Primitive Characters string band: Sandy, Mike, Chip, Jim, Paul - ended with Hockey's 100th Birthday Party gig

Dirty Linen: 'Old Time with a Twist'

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Dirty Linen #133, Dec '07 / Jan '08 - article by Bill Chaissson

It is this exuberance and absolute absence of ironic distance from this music that makes listening to the Chokers such an uplifting experience.

The cover art by Q. Cassetti continues the tradition of putting arresting modern design out front instead of a picture of guys in hats stooped over banjos.

Dirty Linen: 'Old Time with a Twist'

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Dirty Linen #133, Dec '07 / Jan '08 - article by Bill Chaissson

It is this exuberance and absolute absence of ironic distance from this music that makes listening to the Chokers such an uplifting experience.

The cover art by Q. Cassetti continues the tradition of putting arresting modern design out front instead of a picture of guys in hats stooped over banjos.

Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Oct 22, 1996

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Wednesday, October 23, 1996
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Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Oct 22, 1996. pg. C.3
'The Primitive Characters, preservers of traditional string band music, play tomorrow at the Old Vienna Kaffeehaus, 22 South St., Westboro. Born out of the Chicken Chokers, the Primitive Characters now include guitarist Chip Smith, banjo player Michael Donoghue, fiddler Sandy Stark, banjo and ukele player Jim Reidy and bassist Paul Stother. The band is wrapping up work on an album due out this winter.'

Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Oct 22, 1996

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Wednesday, October 23, 1996
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Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Oct 22, 1996. pg. C.3
'The Primitive Characters, preservers of traditional string band music, play tomorrow at the Old Vienna Kaffeehaus, 22 South St., Westboro. Born out of the Chicken Chokers, the Primitive Characters now include guitarist Chip Smith, banjo player Michael Donoghue, fiddler Sandy Stark, banjo and ukele player Jim Reidy and bassist Paul Stother. The band is wrapping up work on an album due out this winter.'

Kudos: Cajun and Bluegrass Festival - Escoheag RI

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Jeff McLaughlin / The Boston Globe

"Members of the Boston-based old-timey band, The Chicken Chokers, who turned in a scorching set to close the Friday night concert, were the most indefatigable jammers, with at least one Choker wailing away until dawn yesterday morning."

Kudos: Cajun and Bluegrass Festival - Escoheag RI

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Jeff McLaughlin / The Boston Globe

"Members of the Boston-based old-timey band, The Chicken Chokers, who turned in a scorching set to close the Friday night concert, were the most indefatigable jammers, with at least one Choker wailing away until dawn yesterday morning."

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