Artists:Rik Palieri
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Hi! My name is Rik Palieri,(pronounced Pal-air-re). It's an Italian occupational name that means the shovel maker. I come from a family of storytellers with ancestors from both Poland and Italy.
I sing and perform both original and traditional songs on a variety of folk instruments, including the banjo, 6 & 12 string guitars, mouth bow, Native American flute and a collection of rare Polish bagpipes.
I have performed in some famous places like The 40th Philadelphia Folk Festival, The Vancouver Folk Festival, The Port Fairy Folk Festival, Cafe Lena, The Hudson River Revival, The Bitter End, The Blue Bird Cafe, and Trumps Taj Mahal. I've also performed in little known venues like "Bojangels" (out in the heart of the Australian Outback), The Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, The Poor Man's Shanty in Phoenix, Arizona and The Polish Coal Miners Union Hall in Southern Poland. I have appeared at festivals, clubs and radio shows in Australia, Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Scotland, Canada and in every state in the USA except Hawaii.
In all my shows I feature a fun evening of fast banjo picking, exotic instruments, sing-a-longs, original song writing and a little bit of yodeling. I also like to sprinkle my songs with stories.
I grew up listening to stories and songs around my mother's kitchen table and fell in love with music at a young age. In grade school, I experimented with a baritone horn in a drum & bugle Corps called The Black Hawks. I spent most of my weekends marching in parades. One of our greatest shows was at the 1964 New York World's Fair. We marched around the grounds and performed at the New Jersey Pavilion, billed with "Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs."
When I was fifteen, I taught myself the 5-string banjo from Pete Seeger's book. In no time I was having hootenannies in my basement and performing in local coffee houses, at festivals and on radio shows.
After high school, I hoboed across America, playing my guitar and banjo for nickels and dimes and collecting songs wherever I went. I learned a variety of banjo styles from Erik Darling, Leadbelly songs from Rev. Frederick Kirkpatrick and Union songs from "Almanac Singer" Sis Cunningham.
In the mid 70's I joined up with Pete Seeger and The Hudson River Sloop Singers. I organized and directed The Festival of Blueberries in Perth Amboy NJ, and became a regular performer at Clearwater events. Back then, The Sloop Singers were a small rag tag army of singing environmentalists that often shared the stage with Pete Seeger. We sang at river front festivals, The Clearwater's Pumpkin Sail, and even sung once as Pete's backup chorus on stage at Carnegie Hall. I was recorded singing with the Sloop singers chorus on two albums, "The Great Hudson River Revival" on Flying Fish and The Hudson River Sloop Singers "Broad Old River."
One day in the late 70's I came across a photo of a Polish Bagpiper in an old National Geographic. After a long search I found a set of Polish pipes and was later invited to perform at the 1980 Rzeszow world festival in Poland. At the festival I won a contest, met Polish piper Jozef Broda, and was awarded the title of "Outstanding Solo Musician."
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