Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
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Garnet Rogers
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In a darkened bedroom, lit only be the amber glow from an old floor model radio, two young brothers aged 6 and 12 lay in their beds, listening to the country music broadcasts from the Grand Ol' Opry, and practiced their harmonies. Two years later, the youngest one was playing the definitive 8-year-old's version of "Desolation Row" on his ukulele. Garnet Rogers soon abandoned that instrument to teach himself the flute, violin and guitar. www.garnetrogers.com |
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Brian Gore/ Richard
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Brian Gore is a Bay Area self-taught fingerstyle guitarist who has developed "one of the most unique new guitar styles on the scene today" (News and Reviews), and has emerged in the last decade as "a leading figure in the new acoustic music movement pioneered by the late Michael Hedges" (Contra Costa Times). In addition to solo shows he performs as the founder of the internationally successful International Guitar Night, where 2 to 4 musicians from different parts of the world tour together as a group. His latest CD, Legacy, has been described as "one of the best steel-string acoustic guitar recordings I have ever heard!" …. Tony Morris, producer/host of Classical Guitar Alive. http://www.guitarpoet.com |
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Richard Gilewitz is
a virtuoso 6 and 12 string guitarist and composer, who has 4 solo CD's to his
credit, and is known for his idiosyncratic style and zany outlook on life. He
has visited us several times before, but has recently developed a
"Fingerstyle Guitar Though Time" performance, which takes us through
samples of European, Contemporary, and Spanish classical works to the
Traditional Folk, Blues and American Primative eras - all adapted for the
acoustic steel string guitar and incorporating his own arrangements and
personality. Richard has shared stages with the likes of John Renbourn, John
Fahey, Leo Kottke, Greg Brown and others. He is based in Florida, but tours
extensively and internationally. He comes to us this time as a side trip from
his "Gilla Camp" guitar camp, being hosted by Gilroy Guitar Gallery 7-9
April. www.richardgilewitz.com |
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End of Fiddling Cricket
Series Party! |
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This is a Fiddling Cricket
party to thank all the local musicians who have supported the series by playing
in it, running sound for others, and generally helping with the organization.
It's also to thank Gene annd Judy Hackett for keeping the Espresso Garden going
for 8 years and making it a center for acoustic music. |
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Claudia Schmidt
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Expect* anything at a Claudia Schmidt concert, hymn, poem, bawdy verse, torch song, satire, and the gamut of emotions. Her live performances are not to be missed. Her musicality is astonishing. Her joy and love of performing are contagious. She can weave the elements of music and stage into a program so unified and full of life that one critic has described a Claudia Schmidt concert as " . . . a lot like falling in love. You never know what's going to happen next, chances are it's going to be wonderful, every moment is burned into your memory, and you know you'll never be the same again." She has recorded eleven albums of mostly original songs, exploring folk, blues, and jazz idioms featuring her acclaimed 12 string guitar, mountain dulcimer, and incredible vocals. Recently, she collaborated with the New Reformation Jazz Band on a dixieland gospel recording and a tribute to Gershwin and Ellington in celebration of their hundredth birthdays. Claudia's latest release on R! edhouse Records, Wings of Wonder, features many new songs with instrumental support by Dean Magraw and Peter Ostroushko. Her latest work in the Jazz field has her leading her own swinging sextet - Claudia Schmidt & The JumpBoys. www.homestead.com/claudiasings |
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Ricardo Peixoto plus
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This concert will reunite Adventure Music recording artists, 7-string guitarist and composer Ricardo Peixoto and pianist and composer Jovino Santos Neto, in their first collaboration of 2006. Set to recapture the magic of their Bay Area and Seattle performances of 2005, this evening will bring together two of the best exponents of Brazilian music in the U.S. today. The show will present compositions of the two artists, as well as selected Brazilian classics. Their captivating music is always upbeat and rhythmic, and at the same time expressive and sensitive, and dazzling in its delivery. Don't miss it. www.ricardopeixoto.com www.jovisan.net/portal.htm |
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Jimmy Chickenpants plus
Michael Stadler |
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Who IS
JIMMY
CHICKENPANTS ? No one really knows, but the band hales from the Santa
Cruz area. They traditionally put the 'hick' in 'chicken' with music that
combines bluegrass, newergrass, jazzgrass, and originalgrass, otherwise known
as "poultry in motion". Jimmy's influences apparently include Bill Monroe,
Gillian Welch, Bela Fleck, Duke Ellington, and most significantly, Rocky
the Petaluma Free Range Chicken. In this split show with Michael
Stadler, Michael will also sit in with them on fiddle as an honorary
Chickenpants. Jimmy has been touted as one of Santa Cruz's best kept secrets by
KPIG radio. www.jimmychickenpants.com |
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Matt Haimovitz
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From ABC's NIGHTLINE
: "Who would think of moving classical music from the reverence of a
symphony hall to a punk rock club? When we first discovered Matt Haimovitz, he
was preparing to play New York's famed CBGB, an underground rock club that had
never featured a classical artist. This was part of the Listening-Room Tour,
Matt's effort to bring classical music to venues where people of his generation
could listen to classical music in a relaxed setting." |
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Dale Ann Bradley Band
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Described by Music Row magazine as a "gentle mountain songbird with a shimmering delivery," Dale Ann has been making a name for herself within bluegrass circles and beyond since 1992, but she has been singing forever. She is most definitely a mountain songbird, born and raised in the small Eastern Kentucky town of Pineville, where she first sang in a Primitive Baptist church and at school contests. But Dale Ann is more quietly determined than gentle, her pure, sweet vocals backed by the force it takes to propel a small-town girl from her humble beginnings to the national respect and acclaim she and the band Coon Creek now hold. After two highly successful recordings, "East Kentucky Morning" and "Old Southern Porches", the new release, "Cumberland River Dreams," only further emphasizes their determination to keep moving forward. www.daleann.com |
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Devil Makes Three
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Mixing styles from the ragtime and country music of the twenties and thirties to the rock and roll and punk music of their adolescence, The Devil Makes Three pushes the boundaries of acoustic music. Citing influences as varied as Steve Earle, the Reverend Gary Davis, Memphis Jug Band, and Django Reinhardt, the band combines tight vocal harmonies with idiot-savant finger style guitar to create an exciting and original sound www.thedevilmakesthree.com |
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Last Updated: 12/07