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Folk musician Ellis Paul is the featured article today on Wikipedia. Mr. Paul will be performing at The Railway Cafe on Friday, May 25th at 7:30 pm.

From the Wikipedia entry:

Ellis Paul (born January 14, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born Paul Plissey in Aroostook County, Maine, Paul is a chief architect of what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s. While remaining among the most pop-friendly of today’s singer-songwriters with songs that have appeared in movies and on television, Paul has bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger more successfully than many of his songwriting peers.

Read the article, listen to the sound sample and join us on Friday at The Railway Cafe, hosted at MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA.