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Rick   Lee

Saturday, August 22, 2009


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"You've never seen a show  like Rick's before. He is an encyclopedia of  acoustic music, both tradidional and current, and his ability to tell the tale is unparalleled. He plays banjo and piano  brilliantly, and his voice is like a back rub.I suspect he'll be joined by his old friend, Doug, throughout the evening......
 
Here is a man with a voice that is warm enough to fry eggs on...And this great voice is backed by some consummate musicianship...nothing short of sublime. Above all, I like his eclecticism. Nearest to his heart seems to be the traditional ballad from the British Isles. But hot on its heels, comes a love of country artists like Lefty Frizzell and the Louvin Brothers;  folk icons like Richard Fariña and Kate Wolf, and ace contemporary songwriter Bill  Danoff (Country Roads”), represented with a fine song of his – co-written with autoharp virtuoso Bryan Bowers. "
                              Dai Woosnam---Folk World (Germany)

Michael   Lille

Saturday, July 25, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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Michael has a penchant for melding heartfelt lyrics about love, loss, self-examination and the lure and romance of the open road with a cool, breezy, Southern California-style, country-folk-rock groove.
 
"Some singer-songwriters try to bowl you over; others take a restrained approach that allows their songs to nudge their way subtly into one's consciousness. Michael Lille falls squarely into the latter category. On Never Home To Stay, his third solo CD, Lille offers up a blend of mid-tempo folk rockers and candlelit balladry that's short on fashion and long on substance. Framed in shimmering arrangements that essentially define the phrase, "acoustic pop," Lille's songs exude an upbeat ambience that's refreshing in these times when dour cynicism is all too common"
                                                  Russell  Hall, Performing Songwriter Magazine
 
Don't miss this great artist-- It will a wonderful show.


Re-Scheduled Benefit for Mount Calvary  Sisters Singin' for the Brothers

Saturday, June 27, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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This original concert of Sisters Singing for the Brothers was scheduled for May 9th, but had to be cancelled because of the Jesucita Fire! What irony.. The Brothers lost the Mt. Calvary Monastery in the Tea Fire.
SO-- we will have this concert  in the round on the 27th with as many of the sisters as we can, with the possible addition of some of our favorite local artists. It will be a wonderful evening-- as all in the round shows are--
Please joins us bring a friend and help support the Brothers.-- ALL the money goes to them as they imagine their future.
 
See you there
INFO & table reservations: (805) 962-2970

David  Roth

Saturday, May 23, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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Landslide top vote-getter at the Falcon Ridge (NY) Folk Festival's "Most-Wanted" competition (1996) and NAIRD "Indie" nominee (singer-songwriter album of the year - 1994) for Digging Through My Closet, DAVID ROTH has gained national attention for his unique songs, moving stories, and powerful singing and subject matter.

Since emerging from another nationwide field of several hundred songwriters to open the 1987 Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival as its New Folk winner, the Chicago native (and two-time national anthem singer for the NBA's Michael Jordan-era Bulls) has garnered accolades for his performances, workshops, writing, and recordings. Roth has since been a songwriting judge at the Napa Valley (CA), Tumbleweed (WA), and South Florida Folk Festivals in addition to singing "Earth" at the 40th Anniversary of the United Nations and having his "Rising in Love" performed at the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall in 1991. "Manuel Garcia" and "Nine Gold Medals" both appear in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, and Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary) performed David's "Spacesuits" on the 1999/2000 PPM tours in addition to recording "If You Can't Fly" for his latest children's album. The BOSE Corporation includes "Taller Than My Hair" and "Five Blind Men" on their recent "best of new folk" compilations sold in Bose stores worldwide.


Eric  Taylor

Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.


Steve  Seskin

Saturday, March 28, 2009


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Steve Seskin is one of the most successful writers in Nashville today, with a boatload of songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Neal McCoy, John Michael Montgomery, Kenny Chesney, Collin Raye, Peter Frampton, Waylon Jennings, Alabama, and Mark Wills His song "Don't Laugh At Me" was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, was a finalist for CMA "Song of the Year" in 1999, and became the impetus for the Operation Respect/Don't Laugh at Me Project, a curriculum designed to teach tolerance in schools. This program has already been implemented in more than 20,000 schools across the country. Other Seskin hits include: "I Think About You," "Life's A Dance," "No Doubt About It," "If You've Got Love" and "Grown Men Don't Cry."

 

A Steve Seskin concert will have you wiping away a tear one minute and laughing out loud the next. His songs all have messages that touch the hearts of everyone: from the feelings of a little boy missing his father, to growing up and being true to yourself, to one of his most well know themes of being considerate to and respectful of one another as expressed in “Don’t Laugh at Me.

 

 


Annie  Gallup

Saturday, February 28, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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“She sounds like the musical daughter of Joni Mitchell and Lou Reed, simultaneously confident and vulnerable, a practiced storyteller and poet whose stream-of-consciousness narratives of strange but vivid characters share space with diamond-cut confessional vignettes of off-center and sometimes reckless romances. Her lyrics are complex and often non-linear, but well worth following, her quiet but careful guitar accompaniment a well-matched frame".       DIRTY LINEN


Tom  Kimmel

Saturday, January 17, 2009
8:00 p.m.

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Tom  Kimmel

Saturday, January 17, 2009
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HOLIDAY SHOW IN THE ROUND!!!  Kate Wallace, Peter Gallway, Rebecca Troon

Saturday, December 13, 2008
8:00 p.m.

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Every year, Kate/Doug put together a few friends to raise money for a good cause in the spirit of the season. It is definately one of the most popular shows of the year.  This year we will be benefiting Community Kitchen and an exciting water project win Mexico-- more details later--Not that it's always Christmas-y.. Last year, guest Michael Dewberry opened the show  with a completely rousing and stomping version of Dixie Chicken...Big fun for everyone. A great way to come together during the holiday season. It's a  chance to see cool local players and we're really tickled to have Rebecca with us.. AND, there will be guest artists in the Pilgrim Chair....

Jack   Williams

Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:00 p.m.

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".... his artistry... is nothing short of amazing. Dazzling picking, expressive voice, unique and interesting songs. He is a showman in the best sense of the word and just wowed our audience. I think they would have followed him anywhere."
                                   Rich Warren, WFMT "Midnight Special", Chicago IL

 

 South Carolinian Jack Williams, guitarist/singer/songwriter/storyteller, is outstanding among a handful of artists who - in skill, depth and integrity – stand head and shoulders above the many performers flooding today’s folk circuit.  Among acoustic guitarists he is near-legendary. Having avoided the compromises of the commercial music industry during his 50+-year professional career, he prefers touring “under the radar”, playing concerts, large and small, week in and week out, from the sheer love of music and performing.
As a hired-gun guitarist in the Deep South of the Civil Rights-Easy Rider 60's, Jack worked shows with John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, Jerry Butler, Z.Z. Hill, Hank Ballard and many others. During that era, his bands also backed up artists such as the Shirelles, the Del-Vikings, the Coasters, the Drifters, and the Platters.

  Jack's career has been nothing if not eclectic. He played trumpet in a jazz quartet in a beatnik coffeehouse in Seattle in 1959 - reading poetry to the audience during breaks. He learned banjo and mandolin to spice up folk groups in the 60's in Georgia. He played pedal-steel guitar in a country-rock band, and classical guitar/lute in a Renaissance ensemble. His skill with instrumentalcomposition won him a national arts grant in 1967. This led to his later arrangements for other artists’ recordings (Jonnell Mosser, The Malvinas, Mickey Newbury, Ronny Cox).

Vic Heyman in SING OUT! says  “…one of the strongest guitar players in contemporary folk.”



Chuck  Pyle

Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:00 p.m.

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Called respectfully by his musical peers,"The Zen Cowboy", Chuck is admired as a sly humorist and an innovative guitarist, and has performed for the Colorado Legislature, on Austin City Limits, and at Bill Gates' home. He's had his songs recorded by John Denver, Chris LeDoux, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Jerry Jeff Walker. He sees what's best about America, writing songs about love lost & love found, forgetful cowboys, heroic highway patrolmen, and brain stems gone "critical".


       
       
       
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