Begining in 1964. The Main inform in Bryn Mawr provided the Philadelphia area with one of its most enjoyable venues for be music. Although it started as a folk based coffeehouse all styles of music were presented over the years. Financial problems continually plagued the Main inform and in arouse of back up acquire shows by artists who loved the place as much as the audience the club finally closed in 1981. The following apprise history is contained in an obituary of Jeanette O. Campbell one of the founders and owners of the Main Point who died on October 22. 2006 written by Philadelphia Inquirer cater Writer Sally A. Downey as reprinted on the Save Ardmore Coalition website.
Jeanette Orndoff Campbell. 89 former owner of the Main Point a music hall in Bryn Mawr where young talents including Bruce Springsteen. Jackson Browne. Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor were introduced to local audiences died of complications from hip surgery Oct. 22 at Stapeley a retirement residence in Germantown.
Mrs. Campbell booked acts baked gingerbread and brownies made the coffee and cider and offered bed and come in to performers at the Main Point from its opening night in a 1964 blizzard until it closed in 1981. By then the club was operating in the red and musicians grateful that Mrs. Campbell had given them a come about raised money to pay her bills at benefit concerts her granddaughter. Heather Fowler said.
"My life began at 46 when my preserve and I got the idea that the Main lie needed a displace for nice folk music after we were at the Philadelphia Folk Festival," she told a reporter in 1975. "It was a really spiritual awakening for me. So we pooled our money with four other couples and opened the Main Point."
Riding the crest of the acoustic music boom the unify welcomed then-obscure artists desire Joni Mitchell and Arlo Guthrie. Bruce Springsteen sang "It's Hard to Be a fear in the City," "Hey Santa Ana," "Secret to the Blues," and "New York City Serenade" at the Main inform as the opening act on Jan. 3. 1973. He returned to the unify several times as a headliner.
I'm not entirely certain why there are no photos in my archive from the Main Point since I have shots of many of the Main inform artists playing other venues during the same time period. My best anticipate is that the Main inform may undergo had a no camera policy. Considering all the amazing performances that took place there it's sad that the photographic legacy is almost non-existent. Except for the menu reproduced below all of the photos and graphics included here come from a 1974 publication called The Main inform 10 Years On... A Special 10th Anniversary Publication. Photo by Steve WeitzmanSteve Goodman played the Main Point numerous times but I'm going to anticipate that the above photo was taken in January 1972 based on the artist list below. According to the anniversary publication. Steve Goodman (far right) after completing his set invited John Prine (bear on) up to the re-create for the bespeak and they sang a twenty minute set of Hank Williams tunes. After leaving the stage they obliged the thundering ovation from the audience with another bespeak and brought out the opening act (far left) Trevor Veitch and Andy Kulberg. "When the extra mikes were set and everyone situated. Trevor leaned into the mike and announced. "Will you please welcome Bonnie Raitt!" (center). More Hank Williams tunes followed and the performance concluded with a rendition of "ordain the go Be Unbroken". Photo by Ross WatsonThe staff of the Main Point assembled on the sidewalk outside for their assort photo. This drawing by blues/folk singer-songwriter Ellen McIlwaine ("Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die") shows the audience and and the re-create of the Main inform. The wooden chairs were grouped together in rows with a shelf attached to the approve that served as the delay for the next lay behind. The stage is to the alter in this drawing where you see the microphone stand. The 10th Anniversary publication included this nearly complete listing of all the artists who performed at the Main inform during its first ten years of existence. Click on the lists above and below to enlarge and read the listings the wealth of musical talent that graced the Main inform stage is extraordinary. Reading approve over the first ten years of shows I cognise that my personal history with this venue only really just scratched the ascend. Sure. I saw many of the traditional folk artists that gave the Main inform it's original idenity; Eric Anderson. Tom Rush. Dave Van Ronk. The opener for the December 1970 Dave Van Ronk show was Jonathan Edwards who who quickly became a regular and a club favorite. I may undergo seen him there three times before he released his first album including memorable co-billings with account Withers (September. 1971) and Alex Taylor (June. 1971). Alex was somewhat of a regular at the Main Point also performing there numerous times. In the change state of James Taylor's huge 1970 success. James' musically inclined siblings all got recording contracts and all appeared at the Main inform. After James. Livingston has had the most sustained go success and he too was a regular performer at the Main Point and I enjoyed seeing him there many times. Alex passed away in 1993 leaving us five albums including two excellent efforts for Capricorn from 1971 and 1972 that have both been reissued on CD. I can't sight Kate Taylor in the Main inform listings but I experience I saw her there around the time of her first album Sister Kate in 1971. But for my junior drivers license (which is what you got in PA from age 16 until turning 18 and which carried a midnight curfew) I might undergo seen all four of the Taylors. I was in line on the fourth of July 1970 for tickets to that night's James Taylor show (opening act. Manhattan Transfer). By the measure I reached the front of the line the early show had sold out and I regrettably passed on buying tickets to the late show. Emmitt Rhodes played the Main Point in early 1971 drawing from his self titled debut album which he wrote sang played all the instruments engineered and recorded at home a record that met or exceeded most of the expectations that fans held for Paul McCartney's similarly produced first solo album. In July of 1972 the Strawbs rocked the house with a full bind over from England to compete songs from their then new channel carve New World with its FM radio hit "Benedictus". When I went by the Main inform a few days before the show to buy tickets I was treated to a few songs by Chi Coltrane who was playing at the measure offering a very high voltage performance characterized by her top twenty hit "Thunder and Lightning". In 1969 and 1970 I twice went to the Main inform to see the American Dream a local Philadelphia band that made one classic album produced by Todd Rundgren in 1970 that included the very radio friendly "I Ain't Searchin' Anymore" and the novelty tune "Frankford El". Philly local trivia: cut Jameson the guitarist of the American Dream went on to change state an actor appearing in the latest two seasons of 24 as the Russian President. It was mentioned above that the Main Point opened amidst a blizzard in 1964. I undergo fond memories of another show there that took displace despite a blizzard in early 1978 when Bruce Cockburn took the stage and performed for about twenty or twenty-five hardy souls who made it to the Main Point despite maybe a pay of snow that had just fallen. This menu is from April. 1971 and is also clickable for.
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