Last updated April 21, 2008
New Christian Bauman Novel Includes Songwriters' Meeting
New Album: Noir
Article in Autumn 2007 Sing Out!
Jack on Bob Fass's Show on September 27, 2007
Blog about Kerrville
"When Mary Rested on the Rock" on Compilation CD
The Tinker's Coin - Celtic Anthology
Coin of the Realm
Hosting of the Bards Festival
"Bandolier" in Sing Out!
New CD: Bandolier
Christian Bauman Novel Contains Hardy References
Vigil CD Released
Song for Dave Van Ronk
Fast Folk Set
Hardy Song on New Vega Album
What Others Are Saying about Omens
"Eclipse" Covered by Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
Jack Hardy Profiled in New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer
The Collected Works of Jack Hardy (CD Boxed Sets!)
Christian Bauman's third
novel, In Hoboken, includes descriptions of a
songwriters' meeting group and a character
with a vague resemblance to Jack Hardy. It is published by
Melville House Publishing.
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Jack's new album, Noir has just come out.
On this CD Jack is accompanied by musicians who have played with him frequently and the performances are outstanding.
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It may also be ordered for $17.00 postpaid by sending a check made out to "Jack Hardy" to:
Jack Hardy / Great Divide Records 178 W. Houston Street, Suite 9 New York, New York 10014
MP3 files of the songs may be purchased and downloaded at DigStation.
"Liner Notes" for Noir - The songs and the musicians
Jack has a short article on the Sean Nos Festival in Ireland
in the Autumn 2007 issue
of Sing Out!.
Jack will be on Bob Fass's show on WBAI-FM in
New York City on Thursday, September 27, 2007. The show starts around midnight, so
it will actually be the early hours of Friday, September 28.
Reg Meuross's blog includes
notes on the four days he spent with Jack Hardy and others at this year's (June 2007)
Kerrville festival.
Jack's song "When Mary Rested on the Rock" is available only on a compilation CD of Christmas-related songs called No Two Flakes the Same. The CD is put out by Penny for the Guy Records. It may be ordered by sending $8.00, which includes postage, to:
Fran Powers 311 Tompkins Ave. Staten Island, New York 10304
![[Tinker's Coin cover]](./JHTinkersCoin.jpg)
A collection of Jack's Celtic songs is now available on CD.
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Jack has a recorded a new album, Coin of the Realm: Songs for the New American Century. It is available at his shows or by sending a check or money order for $17 ($15 plus $2 shipping) payable to Jack Hardy to:
Jack Hardy / Great Divide Records
178 W. Houston Street, Suite 9
New York, New York 10014
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The Hosting of the Bards, a Catskill Song & Poetry Festival and Symposium, will
take place again this year on July 16 and 17 in Narrowsburg and Calicoon, New York.
For more information, see www.hostingofthebards.com.
Sing Out! magazine features "Bandolier" as one of
the songs in their Winter 2004 issue.
![[Bandolier cover]](./JHBandolier3.jpg)
Bandolier is Jack's new album of "western country" songs. (The title song is set in the Mexican Revolution.) The CD was released November 16, 2002, and may be ordered by sending a check or money order for $17 ($15 plus $2 shipping) payable to Jack Hardy to:
Jack Hardy / Great Divide Records
178 W. Houston Street, Suite 9
New York, New York 10014
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The CD will also be available through amazon.com later in December.
The musicians accompanying Jack are Tom Duval (acoustic guitar and harmony vocals), Jenny Hersch (upright bass), Kate MacLeod (fiddle), Steve Sadler (dobro and mandolin), and Mike Laureanno (harmony vocals).
The songs are:
Christian Bauman's upcoming novel, The Ice Beneath You, contains two references to Jack Hardy. One is in the novel itself, about three-quarters of the way in. The other is in an interview with the author at the back of the book, in which Jack is cited as a mentor/teacher/influence.
The Ice Beneath You is being published by Simon & Schuster, with a release date of
October 2, 2002.
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Vigil, a CD by Suzanne Vega and The Greenwich Village Songwriter's Exchange for the benefit of 9/11 victims, was released officially on April 30, 2002. Contributing performers are Suzanne Vega, Christine Lavin, Jack Hardy, Tim Robinson, Wendy Beckerman, Bob Hillman, Jon Albrink, Ina May Wool, Dawn Landes, Brian Rose, Richard Julian, Jill Gerwitz, Amy Marie Keller, Andy Germank, Noam, Weinstein and Richard Meyer.
The album may be ordered now from Amazon.com.
Profits from sales of the album will go to the Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund.
The New York Times ran
an article on the project
on April 21st.
Jack has written a song for his friend Dave Van Ronk, who died February 10th, 2002. Dave was an early supporter of Fast Folk, contributing a song on the very first album.
Jack performed the song during an interview with Otto Bost of WDIY-FM that was recorded on February 12th.
Listen to Jack's introduction and the song:
introduction to the song (mp3 format, 128Kbps stereo, 1074KB)
"Song for Dave Van Ronk" (mp3 format, 128Kbps stereo, 2013KB)
introduction to the song (mp3 format, 256Kbps stereo, 2150KB)
"Song for Dave Van Ronk" (mp3 format, 256Kbps stereo, 4030KB)
Thanks to Otto Bost and WDIY (Allentown, Pennsylvania) for the recording.
Smithsonian Folkways will release a two-CD set of songs from the original Fast Folk albums, including Jack's "Forget-Me-Not" from volume 8, number 6.
In addition to the compilation which will receive wide-spread distribution, all of the original albums may now be ordered in digital format as "custom CDs" from Smithsonian Folkways.
Billboard's article on the Fast Folk set
Suzanne Vega's new album, Songs in Red and Gray, includes her version of Jack's previously unreleased song "St. Clare."
The album was released on September 24, 2001.
Some comments on Suzanne's rendition of "St. Clare":
"reactions during second hearing: But St. Clare is my favorite song as of now.
"Suzanne knows how much I appreciate her work (I hope), but Jack Hardy does
not. Thank you for a lovely song, Jack... did you have Suzanne in mind when
you wrote this song? because I can't think of someone else who could sing
it so beautifully."
"But 'St. Clare' isn't for me 'healing energy'. Just opposite. My mind becomes
more and more unquiet because of this song. When Penitent seems to refer to
path 'to', St.Clare seems to refer to path 'from'. The first one brings me
sweet memories from my teenages. The second one worries me. Does she
(St.Clare or God) really be there that time when suffering brings my love
back for her (God)?"
See below for more information on the album.
"Eclipse," on Jack's most recent album Omens, will be covered by Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen on their forthcoming CD A Sense of Place on the Redwing Music label. The official release date is February 27, 2001.
These sets make available Jack Hardy's early and out-of-print albums on CD for the first time, and include his more recent albums, some of which have never been released in the U.S. Lyrics and liner notes for the albums are part of the package.
Part I contains:
Vol. 1: Early and Rare (PCD 051), including selected songs from the album Jack Hardy
(1970), plus early and rare songs from 1965-1974.
Vol. 2: The Mirror of My Madness (1976) (PCD 052)
Vol. 3: The Nameless One (1978) (PCD 053)
Vol. 4: Landmark (1979-80) (PCD 054)
Vol. 5: White Shoes (1982) (PCD 055)
Part II contains:
Vol. 6: The Cauldron (1984) (PCD 056) Vol. 7: The Hunter (1984) (PCD 057) Vol. 8: Through (1989) (PCD 058) Vol. 9: Two of Swords (1991) (PCD 059) Vol. 10: Civil Wars (1993) (PCD 060)
Several of the CDs contain bonus tracks that were not available on the original albums.
One may order from Fifty-Fifty Music.