Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
September 2010
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
Soquel |
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Monica Pasqual is a founding member of the
all-women San Francisco group, Blame Sally, whose popularity and
critical acclaim continues to increase with each performance. Monica herself
has had a prolific career making music since the mid 90's. In addition to
composing and singing lead on much of Blame Sally's material, she has a
background in classical piano and composition, which is useful in her side
career composing film scores. Her solo recording career preceded Blame Sally
with three CDs and a film score. Her most recent CD, released last year,
This Cold Desire, and solo performances explore her sense of place,
love, war, and dreams in a folk and world music setting. |
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George Kincheloe and Keith
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George and
Keith have both appeared for Fiddling Cricket before - George with the
Atkinson Kincheloe Band and Keith both solo, and with his band, several
times over the years. In this show they team up to swap back and forth and play
on each others songs. |
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David Grier, Solo
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David Grier has lived
in Nashville since the age of 3 and has been fully immersed in the bluegrass
music world since about then. Today, he is regarded as one of the nation's
premier acoustic guitarists, along with his early influences, Doc
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Del Rey |
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Del Rey started playing classical guitar when she was four. As a teenager, she met bluesman Sam Chatmon who inspired her to become a blues queen. Her guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park esthete. Her live show is full of complex guitar grooves and sly humor. She collaborates and tours frequently with Austin guitarist Steve James and she plays ukulele with Ukeshack . She is featured on Maria Muldaur's cd Sweet Lovin' Old Soul . She has contributed to projects in honor of The Mississippi Sheiks , Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Johnny Cash. http://www.hobemianrecords.com |
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
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Rick Shea is a deeply evocative singer and
a formidable acoustic and electric guitarist. Growing up where East LA met the
desert of San Bernadino, he became immersed in the coffee house folk and the
country scenes of that time (1978), playing 7 nights a week as a sideman and
singer. Since then he has worked as a multi-instrumental sideman with several
well-known groups, most notably touring with, and opening for, Dave Alvin
and The Guilty Men for 6 years. He covers a wide range of styles from hard
country to traditional folk, all with equal ease and confidence, as
demonstrated on his new solo CD, Shelter Valley Blues.http://www.rickshea.net
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Laurence Juber
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Laurence Juber is
most famous for his 3 years spent recording and touring with Paul
McCartney, as the lead guitarist of Wings, when in his 20's (he had
already made a successful career as a session guitarist, following a music
degree at London University -classical guitar and lute). During that time he
won his first Grammy as Best Rock Instrumentalist. When Wings disbanded in 1981
he moved to the US and resumed work as a session musician, recording music for
many TV shows and films, including the theme tune for the Bond movie, "The
Spy Who Loved Me". He also embarked on a career as a solo artist, composer
and arranger, rapidly becoming recognized as a world class fingerstyle
virtuoso. |
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Laurence
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As a young working musician
in London , England in the 1970s, Laurence Juber got an extraordinary,
life-changing break when Paul McCartney picked him to become Wings' lead
guitarist. Juber spent three years recording and touring with the band. During
that time he won a Best Rock Instrumental GRAMMY for the track
"Rockestra" from the Wings album, Back To The Egg.. After Wings
folded in 1981, Juber embarked on a career as a solo artist, composer and
arranger, and soon developed a reputation as a world-class guitar virtuoso,
being voted #1 by Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has released 14 critically
acclaimed solo albums , including LJ Plays the Beatles,Guitarist
and PCH . I've Got The World On 6 Strings is a collection of solo
guitar arrangements of classic tunes by Harold Arlen . Juber's DVD,Guitar
Noir, is DVD Etc. magazine's top pick for surround-sound 5.1 audio and
earned a 2005 CEA "Demmy" award for sonic excellence. His solo guitar
arrangement of The Pink Panther Theme is featured on the Best Pop
Instrumental GRAMMY winning album Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar. His
arrangement of Stand By Me was featured in the Diamonds Are
Forever TV commercial. Folios and DVDs of his compositions and arrangements
are published by Alfred Publications. The venerable C.F. Martin
Company currently offers an ‘LJ' Signature model guitar and GHS
Strings market Juber's Signature guitar strings.His latest release, Wooden
Horses, showcases LJ's composing for solo guitar.
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Bluegrass Intentions
Reunion! |
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The Bluegrass Intentions
are back with their one-of-a-kind blend of traditional bluegrass, old-time,
Cajun and blues. A veritable Bay Area Roots music super group, the Bluegrass
Intentions are Suzy Thompson on violin and accordion; Eric
Thompson on mandolin and guitar; Bill Evans on five-string banjo;
Alan Senauke on guitar and mandolin and Markie Sanders on bass.
They intend to play bluegrass, but along the way you might hear anything from
Muddy Waters song to Cajun dance music or a Bill Evans original
banjo tune. |
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Red Hot
Chachkas |
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The Red Hot Chachkas'
klezmer sound swings, shakes, and serenades. Featuring multi-talented
performers on violin, clarinet, mandolin, accordion, bass, and drums, the group
plays traditional Eastern European dance tunes, ranging from frenzied freylekhs
to tranquil tantsn, with many original compositions, arrangements, and
improvisations, building on the klezmer tradition and fusing with a variety of
traditional and contemporary musical styles. They are based in the San
Francisco Bay Area of California and led by the inspirational violin of
Julie Egger. The band has recorded 3 CDs, the latest being "Beats
without Borders", in 2010. |
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Ledward Kaapana plus Fran
Guidry |
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Ledward Kaapana is
Hawaii's incomparable slack key master. Led's fret board technique and soaring
vocals are unique and legendary. Led is a multiple Grammy-winner who has
collaborated onstage with a dazzling list of musicians including Alison
Krauss , Sonny Landreth , Chet Atkins , Leo Kotke , Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder
and Tal Farlow to name a few.
http://www.ledkaapana.com |
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Last Updated: 08/29/10