Monday’s Quickie Update – Dec 16, 2013

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JOHN PRINE UPDATE

Just a quickie, updating our feature story from December 10:

Legendary singer-songwriter (and songwriter’s songwriter) JOHN PRINE went home from the hospital on Saturday, following cancer surgery. Multiple sources report he is doing very well, making “a model recovery.”
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Mon, Dec 16, in downtown L.A.:
After dark  “GRAND PARK LIGHTS UP THE HOLIDAYS” as the holiday decorations are lighted tonight, with live entertainment, in Grand Park, on a series of terraces between City Hall and the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles. Enjoy the twinkle-twinkle of holiday lights.
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Mon, Dec 16, in Long Beach:
7-9:30 pm "LONG BEACH SATIRICAL SONGWRITERS" performance at Rebel Bite New American Restaurant-Gastropub, 649 E Broadway, Long Beach 90802.
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Featuring ROBBY RAVENWOOD and GEO. McCALIP, with special guest, Trough Records recording artist (and he's played Disneyland, fairly regularly), PHIL WARD.
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Phil and Robby are professional comedians who also write very funny songs. Phil, among other things, has been a substitute Billy for “Billy Hill and the Hillbillies” at Disneyland since 2008. Robby has opened for both Paula Poundstone and Lily Tomlin. Geo. writes and performs protest songs on ukulele, using humor to point out just how absurd some things are.
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It's two and a half hours of music, fun and food.
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Mon, Dec 16, in SFV (NoHo):
7 pm  The Celtic Arts Center’s weekly “IRISH CéILí DANCE” and “IRISH MUSIC SESSION” give way tonight for their “HOLIDAY HOOLIE! FREE CHRISTMAS EVENT” at 8 pm. See listing.
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Mon, Dec 16, in Burbank:
7:30-10:30 pm  THE BROMBIES play their weekly bluegrass residency at Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr (next to the L.A. Equestrian Center), Burbank; www.vivacantina.com
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Viva claims them as its “bluegrass house band.” Featuring L.A. studio star-singer-mandolinist George Doering (who's on the soundtrack of dozens of movies) as well as songwriter JoEllen Doering on guitar, the great Bill Bryson (Bluegrass Cardinals, Desert Rose Band, Chris Hillman Band, mucho mas) on bass, and bluegrass phenom Patrick Sauber on banjo, this is a superb band.
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No cover. Venue is known for its Mexican food and full bar. Park free across the street at Pickwick Bowl (same owners).
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Mon, Dec 16, in SFV (Tarzana):
Time tba  DEBBIE DAVIES brings her award-winning blues to the Maui Sugar Mill Saloon, 18339 Ventura Bl (just E of Reseda Bl), Tarzana 91356.
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"She wields an electric guitar as if it were a wand." - Los Angeles Times.
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"Davies playing is extraordinary - full of propulsion and energy and melodic invention." People Magazine.
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"Davies exhibits guitar playing virtuosity with the likes of Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan." – Music Connection.
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DEBBIE DAVIES’ rise to the upper echelon of blues music started at an early age as she absorbed the music heard constantly in her home. Her (professional) musician parents were either sitting at the piano or spinning discs on their turntable, filling the air with the sounds of big band jazz, harmony vocal groups, or the pop icons of the day. But the young Davies was particularly attracted to the bluesier sounds of her father's Ray Charles records, and by the age of 12 realized that her affinity for an instrument was not for the piano, but for the guitar.
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Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, she found that being a female guitar player meant only one thing: acoustic guitar. Electric guitars were still toys meant only for boys. But when Debbie heard the sounds of the British blues-rock bands, particularly the electric guitar of Eric Clapton with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, she became completely captivated. Going against the grains of society's accepted roles of the time, Debbie pursued her dream with the passion of an artist and the soul of a rebel.
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Davies cut her teeth playing in blues and rock 'n roll bands in the San Francisco Bay area before returning to Los Angeles in 1984, where she landed the lead guitar spot in Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs, an all-female band led by wife of British blues pioneer, John Mayall. In 1988 she was recruited by Albert Collins to join the Icebreakers, and for the next three years she was a featured guitarist performing behind one of the most innovative bluesmen of all time. "I stepped through a door into the real blues world when I joined Albert's band," Davies says. "It's one thing to listen to the records and pull off the licks, or sit in the audience watching these artists play. But actually going out and touring with one, turned the blues into something completely three-dimensional for me. I knew then what a special opportunity this was, but I know it even more now." During her tenure with Albert, Debbie was invited to perform on John Mayall's 1990 album, A Sense of Place, and in 1991 she recorded with Albert Collins and the Icebreakers on the Grammy nominated self-titled release for Point Blank/Virgin Records.
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In the summer of 1991 Debbie became lead guitarist for Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfingers Revue, which served as the opening act for Jimmy Buffett's "Outpost" tour. In September 1993 she came out with her debut solo release, “Picture This,” on Blind Pig Records, which featured a cameo by Collins on "I Wonder Why." People like to ask Debbie if she learned her technique from Collins, to which she gently points out that she had to play well from the start to hold her own with Albert at every performance. However, the experience taught her lessons in being a better musician, both onstage and off. Says Davies, "It was the most powerful band I had ever played with, so I learned to dig even deeper into myself to pull out the music. Albert was a man of so much grace and kindness, so I can only hope that I was able to absorb some of his humanity too."
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Since 1993, Debbie has produced nine solo recordings and two collaborative CD's, one with guitarists Tab Benoit and Kenny Neal, and another with guitarists Anson Funderburgh and Otis Grand. The roster of other artists who have joined Debbie in the studio on her recordings reads like a who's who of the blues: Albert Collins, Ike Turner, James Cotton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Coco Montoya, Duke Robillard, Tommy Shannon, Chris "Whipper" Layton, Sugar Ray Norcia, Mudcat Ward, Charlie Musselwhite, Bruce Katz, Per Hanson, Noel Neal, and Rod Carey. She has received eight nominations for Blues Music Awards, and in 1997 won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist. She was nominated yet again in this category for 2008.
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Mon, Dec 16, in SFV (NoHo):
8 pm  Annual “HOLIDAY HOOLIE! FREE CHRISTMAS EVENT” at The Celtic Arts Center’s shared location, the Mayflower Club, 11110 Victory Bl, North Hollywood 91606; 818-760-8322; www.celticartscenter.com
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Free, open to the public, with a pot-luck and raffle. Doors at 7:30 pm. Come early and get a head start looking over the raffle prizes. Donations of food and raffle items are welcome. For info, or if you'd like to donate something, contact Susan Winsberg at susanwinsberg@sbcglobal.net.
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There will be live music and song performances / participation opportunities, as well as dancing, poetry, story-telling, and drama. And lots of old fashioned Celtic Christmas Cheer.
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Mon, Dec 16, in L.A.:
8 pm PHOEBE BRIDGERS, with BUSTER, plays Room 5, above Amalfi Ristorante.
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You can order from the Room 5 menu, or ask for the big menu from downstairs.
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$10 cover, all ages.
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Mon, Dec 16, in SFV (NoHo):
8-10 pm  Weekly “OPEN MIC WITH WEB SIMULCAST” at Kulak's Woodshed, 5230 Laurel Canyon Bl (just N of Magnolia, E side of street), North Hollywood.
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Yelp Page for Kulak's: http://www.yelp.com/biz/kulaks-woodshed-north-hollywood
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Live streaming webcast at:
www.kulakswoodshed.com
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Admission by donation. Artists contribute performances to the venue.
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Mon, Dec 16, in SFV (Chatsworth):
CLOSED FOR FILMING TONIGHT: 8 pm  The Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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This is L.A.’s last real honky tonk. No cover, full bar, lots of fun. Go early for the nightly free dance lesson.
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Mon, Dec 16, in Silverlake (L.A.):
9 pm-1 am  THE WILD REEDS host their December residency and showcase other bands tonight at the Satellite Lounge, 1717 Silverlake Bl, Los Angeles 90026; www.thesatellitela.com
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THE WILD REEDS are an excellent band who impressed crowds at the Claremont Folk Festival.
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Tonight’s schedule and lineup:
BROTHER GRAND (from San Jose) at 9 pm
THE HERBERT BALL ORCHESTRA at 10 pm.
THE WILD REEDS at 11 pm.
MOONSVILLE COLLECTIVE at midnight.
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Venue is 21+. Go early for Happy Hour from 8-9 pm for $2 well drinks and beers.
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More in the Guide’s “Dec 16 onward, waaaay into the future” edition, published Dec 12; it’s available by clicking below, or by accessing the left sidebar in the “Full Wed Edition” if you’re reading this on your cell phone.

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