Bill & Kate Isles
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
3:30 pm (doors open at 3pm)
$10 (all monies to musicians)
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It’s been 14 years since Duluth’s Bill Isles suffered the near-fatal heart arrest that changed his life and jump-started his creative energies. When he started performing his heart-felt original songs and stories seven years ago, he never dreamed that his career would develop into a 45,000-mile – and 110-show – per year itinerary. Words like “Transcendent” and “Mesmerizing” are common in audience descriptions of his live concerts and fans of all ages tell of listening to his albums over and over again, finding new gems in his lyrics with each listen. What they’re really finding is something of his story, and something of themselves. “It’s an honor for me to be in a position where I can expand the imaginations of my audience and be an encouragement to those who think it might be ‘too late’ in life to make a change.”, said Isles.
Highlights …
2001 – Winner of the 2001 Minnesota Folk Festival New Folk Songwriting Contest
2002 – Nominee for the 2002 Minnesota Music Awards Song of the Year for “I Can’t Take You Home” a duet with Becky Schlegel (From “Weightless” 2001)
2003 - Nominee for the 2003 Minnesota Music Awards Acoustic/Folk Recording of the Year for “The Threshold” (June, 2003)
2004 – Semi-Finalist in Budweiser True Music Band Contest. (The only solo act in an original field of 25 bands).
2004 – Finalist in the KRCL (Salt Lake City, UT) songwriting contest.
2004 – Song “Big Girl Now” placed on national compilation CD “Before Their Time”
He has shared the stage with the likes of April Verch, Buddy Mondlock, Carol Elliott, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Lynn Miles, Vance Gilbert, Christine Lavin, Rod Picott, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart., David Francey, Sloan Wainwright, Claudia Schmidt, Carrie Newcomer, Pete Morton, Jennifer Daniels, Karen Mal, David Stoddard, Michael Johnson, The Arrogant Worms, Monroe Crossing, Becky Schlegel…
