Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
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Monica
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Monica Pasqual, vocalist and keyboard player for Blame Sally, grew up as an un-Mormon in Salt Lake City, playing classical piano and apparently getting into trouble for using too much pedal while playing Bach. |
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Since Monica and three other singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists (Renee Harcourt, Jeri Jones, Pam Delgano) formed Blame Sally, they have been the talk of the town (San Francisco, that is) and have appeared at major festivals, as well playing for Fiddling Cricket three times. Monica's solo shows are warm, personal, and delightful. She gets to strut her stuff as a song-writer and singer, as well as an outstanding instrumentalist (piano, keyboards and accordion). Her material encompasses folk, world music, and pop. Her most popular composition to date is "If you tell a Lie", written on the inauguration of George W. Bush and since made into a video. Recently she has composed a Mediterranean Suite - songs about her relationship with that area as the daughter of a mother from Majorca. |
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Brian Joseph plus Lila
Nelson |
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Brian Joseph is tall
and bizarre and brilliant. He is known for not only his "exquisite
tenderness and laugh-out-loud lyrics," but also for his outrageous live
show, which teeters between mayhem and poignancy, hilarity and depth, great
taste and less filling. He plays every musical instrument you've ever heard of,
and gives a damn good shiatsu massage to boot. Brian's fourth cd is called
If I Never Sleep Again, and is widely known to be the greatest thing in
the history of recorded music. Kenny Edwards, who has been called "...one of
the brilliant architects of the American Folk-Rock movement," co-produced
the record, and he's a freaking genius. Listening to it is guaranteed to make
you more sexually attractive, and will increase your odds of winning the
lottery. Same goes for the other three awesome Brian Joseph records. Brian gave
up his job as an actor (yup that was him you saw on TV) and now he travels
around all over the place singing songs for people. Brian's show is a
guaranteed good time. Everywhere he's ever performed has invited him to come
back and do it again. Ingenious, fun and taller than most, Brian Joseph is
coming to Don Quixote's to freak you out and leave you smiling.
www.brianjosephmusic.com
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Peter Rowan & the
Free Mexican Airforce |
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The Free Mexican Airforce is riding high again. This is the band that allow Peter to cut loose across all the roots genres he loves. What a career singing and pickin' with: Bill Monroe, Seatrain, Old & In The Way, The Free Mexican Air Force and so much more.. Peter possesses that rare quadruple whammy: Great voice, songs, pickin' and stage presence. www.peter-rowan.com |
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Lost Weekend Western
Swing Band |
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Don Burnham's mighty eight piece all-star band LOST WEEKEND returns to Don Quixote's Music Hall, for an evening of classic Western Swing, LW-style. That means guitarist/vocalist Burnham (recently inducted into the WS Hall of Fame) plus steel guitar Hall-of-Famer Bobby Black (Asleep At The Wheel); fiddle ace Paul Shelasky (Good Ol Persons, Lost Highway); Mark Holzinger take-off guitar wizard; veteran swing master Bing Nathan, bass; sensational new vocalist Pam Brandon (Chazz Cats, Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys); Rick Alegria, drums (Maria Muldaur, Bo Diddley, Asleep at the Wheel); and Dan Barrett, horn player extraordinaire. Dan is one of the premiere jazz trombonists and cornet players of his generation, and is also acknowledged as a top-notch composer and arranger. Don and the LOST WEEKEND gang will have the band's hot new CD, SWINGIN' OUT WEST – LOST WEEKEND LIVE!, in their saddlebags. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy one of Western music's finest bands. www.lostweekend.ws |
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Broceliande plus Mike
Simpson |
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Join Us for an Evening of Merry Music-Making featuring Celtic Tunes, Medieval Carols, Spirited Singing, Inspired Instrumentals, and More...brought to you in Honor of the Winter Season by Bay Area Favorites Brocelïande: Margaret Davis, Kris Yenney, Kristoph Klover and Karl Franzen. Brocelïande blends finely woven four-part vocal harmonies and artful instrumental arrangements featuring the Celtic Harp, Guitars, Cello, Oboe, Flute, Melodian, Whistles, Mandola, Recorders, Percussion, Bodhran. Renowned for their Seasonal Fare, Brocelïande will perform selections from their Winter Collection as recorded on their Songs of the Season series cd, Sir Christemas, plus some new arrangements and Olde World madrigals. You haven't heard holiday music like this and in Don Quixote's fine acoustic setting you're sure to enjoy a soul-warming Winter / Solstice celebration.. The evening opens with area Singer/Songwwriter, Mike Simpson welcoming and warming one and all with his soothing baritone voice and various guitars. www.broceliande.org |
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Last Updated: 12/07