Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
May 2009
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Kathy Kallick
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Kathy
Kallick has been amongst the elite of contemporary songwriters and singers
since co-founding the 5 person, all female, Good 'Ol Persons bluegrass
band back in 1975. For 20 years and 5 albums she anchored the band with her
luminous voice and original compositions. The band was one of the first to
incorporate swing, Latin and other folk musics into bluegrass. In 1996 the
Kathy Kallick Band was formed. In addition to the two albums the band
released Kathy has 4 other solo albums and a collaboration with Laurie
Lewis. The current line-up is Kathy (vocals and rhythm guitar), Tom
Beckany (mandolin and vocals), Dan Booth (double bass and vocals),
Greg Booth (dobro, banjo and vocals) and Annie Staninec, who
tears it up on fiddle and vocals. Their live performances are always a
delightful mixture of hot bluegrass and cool originals.http://kathykallick.com/KKB/pages/home_page.html |
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Richard
Gilewitz |
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Richard
Gilewitz, virtuoso fingerstyle 6 and 12 string guitarist and composer, is
known for his idiosyncratic style and zany outlook on life. He takes us through
samples of European, Contemporary, and Spanish classical works to the
Traditional Folk, Blues and American Primitive 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 has recorded 5 solo CDs. One
of his songs, "Echoing Wilderness" was covered by Leo Kottke, who
renamed it "Echoing Gilewitz". Richard's command of both 6 and 12 string
guitar, his zany humor and performance style make him the essential
"alternative player". He is based in Florida, but tours extensively and
internationally. http://www.richardgilewitz.com/ |
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Tom Rigney &
Flambeau |
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Tom Rigney is an
electric violinist, fiddler, and composer performing original American roots
music, Cajun and zydeco music, with his band Tom Rigney and Flambeau.
Tom was a member of the Sundogs and featured fiddle in Queen
Ida’s Band. http://www.rigomania.com |
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Avalanche Choir |
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The Avalanche Choir
is a six-piece group that relies on tight harmony and richly orchestrated
instrumentation to deliver its trademark musical experience. The choir’s
four vocalists all play multiple instruments and sing a balanced selection of
original and rarely heard music festival classics. This year the choir has
expanded its idiomatic reach and dynamic punch by adding Dennis
Patterson on percussion. Patterson is THE Dennis of Dennis and the
Sharks a well known and long time Santa Cruz favorite. Avalanche Choir
repertoire features five-part harmonies, accompanied by mandolin, guitar,
Dobro, banjo, bass, piano and more. |
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Euphonia |
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Euphonia
( dictionary definition: the quality of having a pleasing sound), a cafe style
acoustic combo, features the harmony vocals and sophisticated musicianship of
Sylvia Herold (singer and guitarist for Wake the Dead, Cats and
Jammers, Hot Club of SF), Paul Kotapish (mandolinist and vocalist
for Wake the Dead and Kevin Burke's Open House), Charlie Hancock
(accordionist for Swing Farm and Crepes Musette), and Chuck
Ervin (bassist for the Dialtones and Crepes Musette).
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Fishtank Ensemble
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Fishtank Ensemble is a band that offers a unique blend of Gypsy, Balkan, Flamenco, Klezmer and original tunes. The arrangements are always surprising and include instruments from many countries such as violin, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, shamisen, bass, saw and voice. From the smokey cafes of Bucharest to the Gypsy caravans of yesterday, Fishtank Ensemble evokes the spirit of a past age with the sounds of tomorrow. Fishtank Ensemble formed around the arrival in our midst of the gifted young fiddler Fabrice Martinez. Originally from France , he has spent the last seven years traveling around Europe in a mule-drawn caravan learning and playing folk music with the ensemble Croque Mule. Much of that time was spent living in Romania , often in Romani (Gypsy) villages. Artist sites and sounds: www.fishtankensemble.com |
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Paul Geremia |
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For forty years, Paul
Geremia has survived solely by the fruit of his musical labors. Having
abandoned all other means of support in 1966, he has been traveling far and
wide ever since throughout the U.S.A. , Canada and Europe . In the years since,
Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a
"scholar" of early blues, and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever
with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica and a husky soulful
voice - and with an innate sense of the humor as well as the drama of the
music, he keeps traditional blues fresh and alive with his performances.
Combining his interpretation of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind
Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake, with his original
compositions, he has created a style which is very much his own and which has
received accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe, too numerous to mention.
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Stevie Coyle and the
Ten-In-One Band |
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Stevie Coyle was
a co-founder of the Waybacks, fronting them as a songwriter and vocalist, as
well as rhythm and fingerstyle lead guitarist. He recently left the Waybacks
and branched out as a solo singer-songwriter. |
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Stevie Coyle |
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Party for Ten In One Former rhythm, fingerstyle and lap steel guitarist / vocalist with and co-founder of The Waybacks and solo performer. Co-conspirators over the years have included Roy Zimmerman, The Foremen, Bob Frassetto and The Back Room Boys, Rory McNamara and The Frontmen, Marla Fibish & Jamie Bell and The Heart Of The Roll and Doug Adamz. Stevie Coyle (late of the whiz-bang string band The Waybacks) is one lucky bum. His dad ran a radio station in southern California and brought home all the promo LPs that didn't fit the Spanish-language format. The Ventures' Guitar Freakout, The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett and Alvin And The Chipmunks Play The Beatles' Hits all came home on a single fateful day. It didn't hurt, either, that string-meister David Lindley played in a bluegrass band that rehearsed right next door and gave Stevie his very first lessons, or that his dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville and that his sainted mother was a whiz in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s. In 1999 he co-founded and fronted The Waybacks and toured steadily with them from 2001 through 2007. His first solo CD, called Ten-In-One, is produced by singer/songwriter and guitar guru Walter Strauss. www.steviecoyle.com |
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Last Updated: 05/07/09