Fiddling Cricket Concerts 
February 2012
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Kleptograss
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"Borrowing" Musical Ideas from Everywhere! Move aside Newgrass! Kleptograss is reconvened by flat picker, Eric Thompson (guitar, cuatro), one of the most versatile figures in the traditional music scene (bluegrass, old -time, ceili, Cajun, blue and Latin American). He brings this all together with the help of a consortium of outrageous talent and experience - Paul Shelasky (fiddle), Jody Stecher (mandolin , banjo), Tom Rozum (guitar, mandolin ), and Paul Knight (bass) - too many credits to list for these guys, and a range of music as deep as it is broad. It's 7 years since Kleptograss played for Fiddling Cricket, back at the old Espresso Garden Cafe. It's great to be able to get them back at last! |
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
Soquel |
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Comedian Richard Stockton has
appeared on dozens of TV shows and headlined A List comedy clubs from coast to
coast. He's also an accomplished musician. This rare musical performance
features the funnier side of conquering fear and tips for maintaining a Baby
Boomer's superior sense of cool when your nether regions start to turn grey.
www.richardstockton.com |
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Dave Stamey
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Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him “the Charley Russell of Western Music.” Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. In 2010 True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Solo Musician. Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted three times Entertainer of the Year, three times Male Performer of the Year and twice Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists. He's delighted audiences in twenty states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses. http://davestamey.com |
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Anne and Pete Sibley /
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West |
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In the 2 short years Cahalen Morrison and Eli
West have been playing together they have toured the UK, Netherlands,
Germany and Czech Republic, and cut a successful first CD The Holy Coming of
the Storm. Both multi-instrumentalists (clawhammer banjo, bouzouki,
mandolin and guitar), Cahalen comes from an old-time and roots background in
New Mexico and is the principal song writer. Eli comes from bluegrass roots and
enjoys arranging , with an addiction to syncopation . They both have an "old
soul" approach to playing and harmony.
www.cahalenandeli.com |
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The Foghorn
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The Foghorn Stringband
features Stephen “Sammy” Lind's blazing fiddling and
rough-and-tumble singing interlaced with Caleb Klauder's hard-driving
mandolin picking and dry, dusty voice and adds French Acadian Nadine
Landry on vocals, upright bass and guitar with intertwining harmonies
throughout, and Reeb Willms, the newest member, on guitar and triangle.
The Foghorn Stringband draws from the same repertoire that has always inspired
their work: the tunes and songs of the American South, from the hollers of
Appalachia to the bling of 1950s Nashville. Each member is a
multi-instrumentalist, with Sammy Lind adding guitar and banjo to his fiddling,
and Caleb Klauder adding fiddle and guitar to his mandolin stylings. It's a
whole new world today for folk musicians, and these three traditionalists prove
that they're still riding on the cutting edge, with one foot in the analog past
and one foot in the digital future.
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Laurence Juber
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Fusing folk, jazz,and pop
styles, two-time Grammy-winner Laurence Juber creates a multifaceted
performance that belies the use of only one acoustic guitar. The lead guitarist
for Paul McCartney's Wings (with whom he earned a Grammy award), Juber
is a world-renowned guitar virtuoso, composer and arranger.He has released 19
acclaimed solo albums. His solo arrangement of "The Pink Panther" earned
him a second Grammy. Pop Goes Guitar includes his arrangement of
"Stand By Me" that was heard nationally in a 'Diamonds Are Forever'
commercial. His last CD is a Vol 2 follow-up to LJ Plays The Beatles,
which is one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine's' all-time Top Ten acoustic albums.
His latest release is his original soundtrack to the NBC Dateline
documentary Children of the Harvest.
www.laurencejuber.com/lj.html |
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Acoustic Music Series At The Ugly Mug in
Soquel |
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Deby Benton Grosjean is a resplendent
fiddler, melding the virtuosity of classical techniques with the spontaneity of
Celtic folk. She has appeared on over 40 recordings, including several solo
CD's. She has recorded for NPR and been heard on PBS (Ken Burns
film, Not for Ourselves Alone). She performs all over the world, is a
long time teacher at several music camps (and locally teaches many children),
and has received national and regional fiddle championship awards.
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Lil' Rev / Evo
Bluestein |
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Lil' Rev is an award winning musician, songwriter, and
story teller from Milwaukee, performing on ukulele, banjo, harmonica, mandolin
and guitar. He was voted Wisconsin's #1 folk singer in 2004, was National Blues
Harmonica Champion in 1996, and has been described as "The Jewish Pete Seeger".
He presents an eclectic array of both original and roots oriented music, from
Yiddish and American Folk, to Tin Pan Alley and the blues.
www.lilrev.com |
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The Sweetback
Sisters |
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The Sweetback
Sisters: Honky Tonk Band from Brooklyn, New York . The Sweetback Sisters'
Emily Miller and Zara Bode may not be blood relations, but their
gorgeous family-style harmonies recall the best of country music and their
energy the best of rockabilly. Like the artists they admire, the Sweetbacks are
concerned with the traditional subjects of heartbreak, revenge, remorse and
staying strong in the face of relationships gone wrong, albeit with a
contemporary sensibility. "We're a renegade retro band that mixes up
country, swing and honky tonk," explains Bode. "Sometimes what we
deliver is straight out of the 50s; other times it's BR549 meets The B52s."
New CD is Lookin' For A Fight .
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VNote Ensemble
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Hailed for its spirited performances and fascinating fusion of
Latin and folk rhythms with adventurous jazz explorations, The VNote
Ensemble (formerly The Snake Trio) is a Bay Area world music quartet
making the connection between the music of North America and that of Venezuela.
The group consists of Sam Bevan (acoustic and electric bass), Donna
Viscuso (flutes and alto saxophone), Jackeline Rago (cuatro,
bandola, percussion and vocals), and Lali Meija (percussion). The VNote
Ensemble defiantly ignores musical boundaries to create a new direction that
joins the infectious rhythms of joropo and swing, gaita and soul and be-bop and
calypso among many others. They played for Fiddling Cricket two years ago and
were a huge success, with many requests to bring them back.
www..vnoteensemble.com/ |
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Patrick Landeza
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" Patrick Landeza
is one of the best and most dedicated of the new generation of Slack Key
players" -George Winston. Hawaiian musician, songwriter, producer
and educator Patrick Kahakauwila Kamaholelani Landeza is considered to be a
leading performer of Hawaiian slack key guitar, or ki ho‘alu, one of the
world's great acoustic guitar traditions. In a career that includes having his
original composition featured on a Miss Universe Pageant television special,
becoming the first slack key artist to perform the national anthem at a Major
League Baseball game, opening for legendary Hawaiian musicians
Israel“Bruddah Iz” Kamakawiwo‘ole, Keali‘i
Reichel and HAPA, and cutting two albums, it's no wonder that Jim
Harrington of the Oakland Tribune noted that “Patrick
Landeza's mastery of Hawaiian slack key guitar” keeps him in heavy
demand. http://www.patricklandeza.com |
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Last Updated: 02/07/12