Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
May 2011
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Hot Club Of Cowtown
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Since their first recording in 1998, Austin-based Hot Club of Cowtown have grown to be the most globe-trotting, hardest-swinging Western swing trio on the planet. The first American band to tour Azerbaijan, they have opened stadiums for such artists as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and continue to bring their brand of western swing to a wide range of festival audiences all over the world. But for guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James and bassist Jake Erwin, it has always been about staying true to their roots. Remaining willfully out of the musical mainstream, Hot Club of Cowtown have created an international cult following for their sonic personification of joy and unique sound inspired by their namesakes: “Hot Club” from the hot jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli's Hot Club of France, and “Cowtown” from the Western swing influence of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. http://www.hotclubofcowtown.com |
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Eddie & Martha
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This is bluegrass royalty. Eddie Adcock and Tom Gray were both in the pioneering bluegrass band The Country Gentlemen. Eddie Adcock is the first five string banjo player to play Carnegie Hall. Among the major-league talent emerging from the folk music boom of the late '50s were the Country Gentlemen , a D.C.-based quartet that introduced bluegrass to a generation of city folks and college students, people who had never heard of Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, or the Stanly Brothers. The Country Gentlemen in playing the old bluegrass standards but playing them "different," were in a sense the first newgrass group. Eddie Adcock was the band's banjo player and he was a player of distinction -- his style was as innovative as Don Reno's. Tom Gray is a bluegrass musician is widely considered one of the best bass bass players in the genre. He is probably best known for his bass bass playing with the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene. The dynamic duo of Eddie and Martha Adcock (guitar and vocals) has become known as “the biggest little band in Bluegrass”—add Tom Gray to the mix and the dynamics are even richer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Adcock |
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The Kathy Kallick Band
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Kathy Kallick has been
leading West Coast bluegrass bands since co-founding the 5 person, all female,
Good 'Ol Persons bluegrass band back in 1975. Kathy hits the sweet spot
in the center of traditional bluegrass, folk, and original songwriting. After
releasing 15 albums containing over 100 of her original songs, she continues to
evolve as one of the music's outstanding composers and vocalists. Along the way
she has won a Grammy and two IBMA awards and appeared on 3 high-profile Rounder
collections of bluegrass songs by women, plus a large number of other
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David Francey
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David Francey, who
was born in Scotland and arrived in Canada aged 12, is now recognized as one of
today's finest singer songwriters in the folk style. After spending much of his
life as a carpenter and laborer, his 1999 recording debut, Torn Screen
Door contained much of his experiences in working class life, and was an
immediate success. Since then he has won the coveted Canadian Juno Award in the
Roots and Traditional category 3 times in 6 years and has produced 9 CDs, his
most recent, Late Edition having just been released.
http://www.davidfrancey.com/index.html |
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
Soquel |
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Born without sight but not without soul, and
formally trained since the age of 2, Dayan Kai is a Singer-Songwriter,
Arranger and Producer with a lifelong commitment to music. Dayan has worked
with numerous artists from around the world in many styles and traditions. Most
notably for the Santa Cruz area he has had long time collaboration with
singer-songwriter, Keith Greeninger, the band Water, and recently
bassist and composer Steve Uccello. |
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Eliza Gilkyson & Nina
Gerber |
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Eliza Gilkyson is a
politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of
the most respected musicians in roots, folk and Americana circles. The
Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR , Austin City Limits, Mountain
Stage , etown, XM, Air America Radio and has toured with Richard
Thompson , Patty Griffin and Mary Chapin Carpenter . The
daughter of successful songwriter Terry Gilkyson, Eliza is a third
generation musician who grew up in Los Angeles knowing that her life would
revolve around music. “I got into it for all the wrong reasons, more as
a survival tool than anything else, but it proved to serve me more than I dared
to imagine.” As a teenager, she recorded demos for her father.
adventurous--political an accomplished songwriter whose songs have been covered
by artists as diverse as Dean Martin, Johnny Cash (Memories
Are Made of This) and The White Stripes (Look Me Over
Closely), and whose credits include such standards as Greenfields,
Marianne and The Bare Necessities (from the Disney film Jungle
Book). http://www.elizagilkyson.com |
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Del Rey & Suzy
Thompson |
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Del Rey, who plays a
syncopated style of guitar based on prewar blues and barrelhouse piano
traditions, is one of the best fingerpickers of this or any generation. Suzy
Thompson is a consummate blues fiddler who's stolen more than her fair
share of music festivals with her room-filling, vibrato-laden vocals. The pair
has known each other for decades as members of the West Coast blues community ,
and that familiarity adds to the richness of their jazz and vaudeville numbers
to country blues. Del Rey's metal resonator guitar and ukulele providing the
groove and Thompson's fiddle the filigree, as they trade vocal duties or sing
together in close harmony .
www.hobemianrecords.com and
http://ericandsuzy.com/suzy.htm |
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
Soquel |
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Soquel's own band, The Hobnobbers, bring their own delightful mix of Swing, Jazz, Western Swing, Country and Folk to the Ugly Mug series in downtown Soquel. Joining leaders Dave McClellan (five string electric mandolin inspired by Bob Wills longtime mando player Tiny Moore) and Jay Bowyer (Johnny Smith L5 Gibson arch top guitar, influences: Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass and Jim Hall) will be local favorite Stan Meidinger on fiddle (he has played with Merle Haggard and Larry Hosford among many others), Terry Shields (a master of blues and jazz bass), and Jazz Birds member, Vicki Coffis, with some great vocals. |
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Lost Weekend Western Swing
Band |
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The allstar Lost Weekend band rides back into Don Quixote's for a Sunday dance and show matinee - downbeat in Felton will be at 1:00 PM! Come on out and see old friends and make some new ones, as California's favorite Western Swing band takes the stage. Lost Weekend's ace lineup: Bobby Black, steel guitar; Pamela Brandon, featured vocalist; Mark Holzinger, takeoff guitar; Paul Shelasky, fiddle, humor; Rick Alegria, drums; Jim Rothermel, sax and clarinet; Bob Schulz , cornet; Kevin Porter , trombone; Shota Osabe, piano; Bing Nathan, bass; Don Burnham, rhythm guitar, vocals. http://www.lostweekend.ws |
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Claude Bourbon / Dorian
Michael |
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Born in France in the early
60's, Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically
trained for many years. He now lives in England. This finger picking guitarist
has performed and studied all over the world; he has crafted a wonderful fusion
of classical and jazz, with ethereal Eastern influences, and Spanish and Latin
elements with strains of Western folk. The unique Monsieur Bourbon is a
formidable performer. He may have his roots in the blues, but he is inspired by
music and song from all around the world, taking these sounds and weaving them
into a performance of blues, rock, jazz, songs and melodies that defy a label,
all delivered with a gravely voice reminiscent of an Eric Clapton. Watch him
play Sitting on the Cliff and Summertime on YouTube.
http://www.claudebourbon.org/ |
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Last Updated: 04/18/11