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Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Rose Tattoo presents songs and humor of U. Utah Phillips



The Rose Tattoo will present songs and humor of U. Utah Phillips at 8 p.m. Friday at Odd Fellows Hall in Nevada City.
The Rose Tattoo will present songs and humor of U. Utah Phillips at 8 p.m. Friday at Odd Fellows Hall in Nevada City.ENLARGE
The Rose Tattoo will present songs and humor of U. Utah Phillips at 8 p.m. Friday at Odd Fellows Hall in Nevada City.
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What: Rose Tattoo Concert to celebrate the music and humor of U. Utah Phillips
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Odd Fellows Hall, Spring St., Nevada City
Tickets: $15; available at Harmony Books and BriarPatch. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Hospitality House.
Information: Call (530) 575-2200.
“The railroad is a long steel thread that stitches together much of the American experience.” So said Utah Phillips, who was Grand Master of a near-mythological fraternity of tramps, hoboes, and ne’er-do-wells called “The Rose Tattoo.”

Hovering on the edge of reality, The Rose Tattoo brings together a widely dispersed band of nomads who hold in common their experience of travel by freight train, an ability to carry a tune, and the tattoo of a rose somewhere on their persons. Their motto is mors ante servitium, which means “death before employment.”

This years Roses are Kuddie from Nevada City; Mark Ross of Eugene, Ore.; John Weise of Lake Shore, Wash.; Bob and Diana Suckiel in from Kansas City, Mo.; Bodie and Jackson Wagner, over from the Ridge; J.B. Freeman down from Denver, Colo.; and Brendan Phillips, son of Utah from Portland, Ore.


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