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April 15, 2008
RIPON, Wis. –Milwaukee folk singer and storyteller, Marc Revenson, otherwise known as “Lil’ Rev,” will perform a musical Passover program from noon – 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 22 in the Heritage Room of Ripon College’s Pickard Commons.
Lil’ Rev tours extensively throughout the Midwest with concerts at schools, folk festivals, theaters and music camps. He also performs therapeutic folk songs for the elderly in nursing homes and care facilities, and for children in schools, libraries, museums and health care centers. Musical workshops and lessons on the ukulele, recorder, guitar, mandolin and harmonica are also in his vast stable of talents.
He is most well known for his performances of his one-man show, “The Jews of Tin Pan Alley,” in which he performs songs from a variety of well-known Jewish artists to underscore the Jewish influences on American pop music.
This multi-instrumentalist was the 1996 National Blues Harmonica Champion, and was voted the Best Acoustic Act in Milwaukee 1996-1997 and Best Harmonica Instrumentalist in 2000. He was inducted into the Traditional Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003, and in 2004 was voted the Best Folk Singer in Wisconsin.
Lil’ Rev’s visit is sponsored by Ripon College’s Department of Religion and the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning. The performance is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Brian Smith, Ripon College Chair of the Religion Department, at (920) 748-8139 or the Ripon College Religion Department Assistant, Erin Maguire, at (920) 748-7420.
About Ripon College
Ripon College, founded in 1851, prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Ripon’s liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education. Ripon has consistently been recognized as a “best value” and “Best 366 College” by The Princeton Review, a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s, a “Best Liberal-Arts College” by Washington Monthly, and is listed among the 160 best schools in the nation by Colleges of Distinction.
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