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Here's an overview of good stuff happening this weekend and notable happ'nin's that follow in upcoming days.
First, an update on status: The editor is enmeshed in a history project. Everyone else who's usually found lurking around here is off doing summer things (of the kinetic-in-the-sunshine sort, which, truth be told, the editor wishes he was doing, too).
Much more seriously (and that's an understatement): One of our folks is facing surgery for, well, something serious. So there has been time spent there, as well, for the practical aspects of helping with preparations, and the obvious dimensions of comfort, if not joy.
Thus, the Guide, in all its intended content, is running behind. So we ask that you accept what we're able to do — especially since it DOES contain word on good stuff YOU can do!
And please keep our staffer in your very best thoughts, and prayers if you're so inclined, for her quick and complete recovery, return to health, and ability to rejoin us soon in tuneful pursuits!
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• Herein are recommendations for — and RESOURCES to find more of — good places to go in the next few days.
• Which brings us to havin' to say it once again — we'll be back soon with a very full edition of MUSIC NEWS.
• Meantime, we invite you to come on along on this uncharacteristically brief but "informationally" worthwhile journey!
• Here's the list of what's in this edition. It maps-out what awaits you in the big ol' tunefulnality!
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CONTENTS / IN THIS EDITION...
1) Special Events this Weekend
2) The Guide's Concert Recommendations for this Weekend
3) Resources for More Weekend Concerts, Club Gigs, Outdoor Concerts
4) Music Venue Sites as Resources — updated
5) Grammy Museum Special Exhibitions — JOHN DENVER exhibit ends July 30th!
6) Upcoming Concerts / Events — Reminders from Our Previous Reports
7) More July Music Festivals Ahead — Here, There, 'n Everywhere
Let's get started!
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# 1 news feature...
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND
Yep. There's one thing that'll let ya, cowboy up, there, pardner.
✔ "NATIONAL DAY OF THE AMERICAN COWBOY" Jul 22 (Norco, CA). The only publicized local expression of this celebratory day, proclaimed in multiple US states and Canadian provinces. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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THE GUIDE'S CONCERT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS WEEKEND
We have only what's reprinted here from our June 30th edition. Remember, we don't do just a music calendar anymore, and we tell you about events in advance as part of our feature coverage of MUSIC NEWS. So here's what we previously published for Saturday and Sunday.
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Jul 22; FREE:
7 pm PACIFIC SYMPHONY performs one of its annual FREE concerts for the "SYMPHONY IN THE CITIES" series, this one in Mission Viejo, at the Norman P. Murray Community & Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA.
* The program for the series is a delightful excursion:
♪ KEY: The Star Spangled Banner
♪ BERNSTEIN: Overture to Candide
♪ BERNSTEIN: Mambo from West Side Story
♪ MASCAGNI: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
♪ SOUSA: Hands Across the Sea
♪ BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5
♪ J. STRAUSS: Thunder and Lightning Polka
♪ J. STRAUSS: Blue Danube Waltz
♪ BACH: Air on a G String
♪ BACH: Vivace from Concerto for 2 Violins
♪ WILLIAMS: Superman March
♪ WILLIAMS: E. T. The Extra Terrestrial: Flying Theme
♪ VARIOUS: Armed Forces Salute
♪ WARD: America the Beautiful
♪ BERLIN: God Bless America
♪ SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever
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* The night brings quite a lineup, with Carl St. Clair conducting the Pacific Symphony; Danielle and Sarah Liu, violin; Yaya Dance Academy — Yaya Zhang, artistic director; and the Southern California Children’s Chorus.
* The symphony tells us, "It's the perfect way to end a lazy summer day. Grab a lawn chair or blanket and join us for FREE music and family fun! Kick back, relax, crack open a picnic basket and enjoy a warm summer evening with family and friends, as Pacific Symphony sends a swirl of glorious music into the air for 'Symphony in the Cities'!"
* Features a "MUSICAL PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN" and "Prelude in the Park" at 4 pm, so plan to get there early to plant your chair or blanket.
* Concert featuring Pacific Symphony begins at 7 pm.
* This performance is supported in large part by the City of Mission Viejo.
* "Each summer, the Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, takes the opportunity to express its gratitude by traveling throughout Orange County to deliver a little fun and inspirational music to old friends and new." Tonight, it's Mission Viejo's turn.
* Tix: IT'S FREE. Info, 714-755-5799; www.PacificSymphony.org
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Jul 23; FREE:
7 pm PACIFIC SYMPHONY performs one of its annual FREE concerts for the "SYMPHONY IN THE CITIES" series, this one in Irvine, at the Mike Ward Community Park Woodbridge, 20 Lake Rd, Irvine, CA.
* The program for the series is a delightful excursion:
♪ KEY: The Star Spangled Banner
♪ BERNSTEIN: Overture to Candide
♪ BERNSTEIN: Mambo from West Side Story
♪ MASCAGNI: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
♪ SOUSA: Hands Across the Sea
♪ BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5
♪ J. STRAUSS: Thunder and Lightning Polka
♪ J. STRAUSS: Blue Danube Waltz
♪ BACH: Air on a G String
♪ BACH: Vivace from Concerto for 2 Violins
♪ WILLIAMS: Superman March
♪ WILLIAMS: E. T. The Extra Terrestrial: Flying Theme
♪ VARIOUS: Armed Forces Salute
♪ WARD: America the Beautiful
♪ BERLIN: God Bless America
♪ SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever
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* The night brings quite a lineup, with Carl St. Clair conducting the Pacific Symphony; Danielle and Sarah Liu, violin; Yaya Dance Academy — Yaya Zhang, artistic director; and the Southern California Children’s Chorus.
* The symphony tells us, "It's the perfect way to end a lazy summer day. Grab a lawn chair or blanket and join us for FREE music and family fun! Kick back, relax, crack open a picnic basket and enjoy a warm summer evening with family and friends, as Pacific Symphony sends a swirl of glorious music into the air for 'Symphony in the Cities'!"
* LOCAL MUSIC ACTS and family activities begin at 5:30 pm, so plan to get there early to plant your chair or blanket.
* Pacific Symphony concert starts at 7 pm.
* This performance is supported in large part by the City of Irvine.
* "Each summer, the Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, takes the opportunity to express its gratitude by traveling throughout Orange County to deliver a little fun and inspirational music to old friends and new." Tonight, it's Mission Viejo's turn.
* Tix: IT'S FREE. Info, 714-755-5799; www.PacificSymphony.org
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# 3 news feature...
RESOURCES FOR MORE WEEKEND CONCERTS, CLUB GIGS, OUTDOOR CONCERTS
It's true that no other source has ever come close to providing EVERYTHING the Guide's events listings have brought you. C'mon now, that's not a "dis," jus' a fact. Each other source has hard workin', conscientious folks who take their own approach to finding what's out there, and deciding what to list. And each of them has compiled plenty of things for you to find. Now, we must defer to them, collectively, as the sources of listings of concerts and club gigs (though our MUSIC NEWS will continue to tell you more about music-related EVENTS than anybody!)
Point is, don't sit home 'n pout, even if finding good stuff will now require diving into multiple sources. Explore! The rewards are in tunefulness, both with the artists 'n bands you know you want to hear, and the discovery of the ones that'll soon be your new favorites!
Here are our recommended source sites, with quick notes on what you'll find at each one.
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✔ The "ALIVE AND PICKING" calendar is focused on traditional Folk-Americana, including acoustic string music, old time, and bluegrass. You can find it at:
http://www.aliveandpicking.org/2014/03/bluegrass-folk-music-calendar.html
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✔ "FOLKWORKS" has a big calendar that includes "world music" with other local live Folk Music events. It has about 40%-60% of what the Guide's events listings covered, and is by far the closest in content to what you could find in the Guide. The Folkworks calendar reaches far into the future, at:
https://folkworks.org/folk-happenings/folkworks-music-calendar
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✔ "DOROTHY'S WEBSITE" is devoted to FREE local live music performances and events in all music genres, including things that happen once and those that recur with different artists/bands to bring variety to audiences of summer series. It's at:
http://www.dorothyswebsite.org
✔ ACOUSTIC MUSIC 101 is an omnibus site that lists some free outdoor concerts, plus venues with addresses, house concerts, acoustic jams and weekly / monthly acoustic series, all with schedules and most with upcoming artists. Its focus is along the geographic spine of the 134 / 101 freeways from Pasadena to Santa Barbara. It's run by the "Russ and Julie's House Concerts" series, and their own house concert offerings (often with bona fide stars) are included, too:
http://www.acousticmusic101.com
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MUSIC VENUE SITES AS RESOURCES — (updated)
No matter where else you turn for news of live music performances, there are some essential Folk-Americana music presenters — the VENUES, some full-time music halls, some establishments of other pursuits (including music stores) that transform themselves into part-time venues, and some house concert and backyard/garden venues. We list them by where you'll find THE MOST live Folk-Americana music.
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♪ THE COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE in Altadena is L.A.'s most prolific presenter of Folk-Americana in a sit-down "listening room" environment. You find big stars here who often play the giant concert halls — but being that they're ol' pals with impresario Bob Stane, they all play his intimate club setting where no seat is more than 20 feet from the stage. There are always five to ten shows a week. Reservations by phone are recommended and are sometimes an absolute necessity:
www.coffeegallery.com
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♪ CODY'S VIVA CANTINA has two stages in different rooms, plenty of honky-tonk music, some bluegrass, and plenty of other Americana-genre performances. Each room boasts a full bar and a big menu in a restaurant/club setting, centering on an abundant offering of Mexican food. More recently, there's an additional affiliated concert hall across the street (where you park free for either venue). All three stages list offerings at:
http://windsorlivemusic.com/
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♪ McCABE'S GUITAR SHOP features top acts in its truly famous weekend concert hall behind the music & instrument store in Santa Monica. Top acts. Not that it needs to be emphasized — McCabe's was THE sit-down folk music venue during the years when nobody could BUY media coverage for Folk-Americana music in L.A. (Buck Owens built his club in Bakersfield so the music could get traction in those days.) McCabe's, despite being just a weekend venue, is legendary:
www.mccabes.com
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♪ THE HOTEL CAFE is the place in Hollywood where rising and established (mostly younger) acoustic folk-pop acts play one-hour sets amongst rock and other artists. There's live music of one kind or another, seven nights a week — sometimes there are entire evenings of acoustic music, including bluegrass or blues. Record label publicists book it as a stop on many national and international tours. The tricks here: (1) early arrival, grab a seat and hold it by placing a food order; a reservation gets you a seat if you do those things, otherwise plan on standing. (2) Paying one cover for an early evening act may or may not let you stay all evening, depending on the night's announced ticket situation. It IS always worth keeping track of what's up there:
www.hotelcafe.com
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♪ ACOUSTIC MUSIC 101 (re-listed from above) is an omnibus site that lists venues with addresses, plus house concerts, some free outdoor concerts, acoustic jams and weekly / monthly acoustic series, all with schedules and most with upcoming artists. Its focus is along the geographic spine of the 134 / 101 freeways from Pasadena to Santa Barbara. It's run by the "Russ and Julie's House Concerts" series, and their own house concert offerings (often with bona fide stars) are included, too:
http://www.acousticmusic101.com
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♪ BOULEVARD MUSIC in Culver City is a music store that magically transforms into a concert hall with a seat for everyone. It's quite notable as a place where many of the world's top guitarists and others of instrumental excellence play for grateful lil' crowds that line-up in advance (you can make a reservation). The store also produces a free outdoor series during the summer:
www.boulevardmusic.com
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♪ THE FRET HOUSE in Covina has a strong weekend concert series a couple times a month. Their concert hall is hidden away: it's a storied basement beneath the music store where some true folk legends have played. Well worth keeping track of their schedule:
www.frethouse.com
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♪ THE FOLK MUSIC CENTER in Claremont is a music store and the place where you can peruse the fun little museum of unusual instruments. Do that anytime, including before you sit down for the occasional weekend concerts that center on trad folk music. They can go "beyond trad," too — Ben Harper grew up here, so the influences are as broad as the festival they produce:
www.folkmusicenter.com
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GRAMMY MUSEUM SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS — JOHN DENVER EXHIBIT ENDS JULY 30th
Be sure you get to the GRAMMY MUSEUM while the delightful multiplicity of special exhibitions is in place through July 30th.
The museum has an unusually large number of wonderful current temporary exhibitions, all at the GRAMMY Museum, 800 W Olympic Bl (entrance on Figueroa), Los Angeles, CA 90015; 213-765-6800; www.grammymuseum.org
Of extra-special note: the JOHN DENVER exhibit is extended to JULY 30th past its originally scheduled June 18th closing. (Yep, the late sweet-singin' songwriter of sooooo much music that joyfully celebrates Mother Earth and our need to practice stewardship to protect it? Well he IS still that popular!) Go see it while the exhibition is still there!
If you go, you'll see:
✔ "RHYMES & REASONS: THE MUSIC OF JOHN DENVER" extended through Jul 30.
✔ "FOR THE GOOD TIMES: THE ARTISTRY OF KRIS KRISTOFFERSON" through Sep 10.
✔ "ELLA AT 100: CELEBRATING THE ARTISTRY OF ELLA FITZGERALD" through Sep 10.
✔ "MARTY STUART'S WAY OUT WEST: A COUNTRY MUSIC ODYSSEY" through Sep 24.
✔ "MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL: MUSIC, LOVE, AND FLOWERS, 1967" through Oct 22.
* See the Guide's complete "# 1 feature story" in the May 28th edition. It has details and insights into each of these special exhibits, at:
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/05/we-found-best-non-festival-destination_28.html
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# 6 news feature...
UPCOMING CONCERTS / EVENTS — REMINDERS FROM OUR PREVIOUS REPORTS
We don't have an alternative source where we can send you for much of what we cover, like accessible classical music and musical theatre. Though we DO have some of that in what's coming up, repeated from the June 30th edition (and the subsequent late additions to it). Other'n the following, we just can't get into anything new that we haven't already reported in those already published write-ups.
Yes, Virginia, there WILL be select upcoming events included when we come back soon with fresh content in our MUSIC NEWS features, as part of our new and very full editions.
Meanwhile, here ya go...
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Aug 19; CONCERT & SCREENING:
8 pm PACIFIC SYMPHONY performs "JURASSIC PARK," the iconic music of JOHN WILLIAMS, in "A soundtrack 65 million years in the making," as part of "New SummerFest at OC Fair" at the Pacific Amphitheatre @ the OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
* Experience the classic film while Pacific Symphony performs John Williams’ thrilling score live.
* The film, masterfully directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel by Michael Crichton, transports you to a secluded island where scientists have succeeded in reviving the age of dinosaurs. Until we discover that, as Jeff Goldblum's character says, "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should."
* Richard Kaufman conducts the Pacific Symphony for the main program.
* Pre-concert entertainment by the ORANGE COUNTY WIND ENSEMBLE from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Plaza Pacifica entrance.
* The gates open at 6 pm for picnicking. Picnic tables are available at the Plaza Pacifica entrance. Or, if you prefer, picnic at your seats (but read the notes below).
* Bring your own food, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages onto the premises, but note that inside the amphitheater itself, glass containers and glassware are not permitted. Outside beer is not allowed anywhere; beer is available for purchase from several onsite vendors.
* The symphony's website offers a "Pre-Order Picnic Menu." Additional food and beverages may be purchased at the concession stands inside the amphitheater.
* $8 general parking, handicap parking available.
* Tix: Box office, 714-755-5799; www.PacificSymphony.org
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Sep 2:
8 pm PACIFIC SYMPHONY performs "HAIL TO THE HEROES" at the new FivePoint Amphitheatre near the OC Great Park in Irvine, CA
* Tix for this concert can be purchased now by phone from the venue, at 714-755-5799.
* "Music has the unique power to unite, to heal and to celebrate. Enjoy timeless classics evoking the best of the human spirit when Pacific Symphony and all of Orange County join for a concert that celebrates U.S. veterans, the heroes who make our community and our country great!"
* Tickets to Pacific Symphony's inaugural concert in the new FivePoint Amphitheatre near the OC Great Park in Irvine may go quickly, because our society values new as novel and desirable. Tix are only available by phone, above.
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Sep 9; CONCERT with FIREWORKS:
8 pm PACIFIC SYMPHONY performs the "TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR," also with RACHMANINOFF and FIREWORKS, as the closiing performance of "New SummerFest at OC Fair" at the Pacific Amphitheatre @ the OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
* Famous romantic composer Tchaikovsky's greatest hits are on the program, along with Rachmaninoff’s lush "Second Piano Concerto" performed by the freshly minted medal winner of this year’s Van Cliburn Competition. Concluding the evening is Tchaikovsky's electrifying “1812 Overture,” complete with live cannons and brilliant fireworks.
* Carl St. Clair conducts the Pacific Symphony tonight. The program features the 2017 "Van Cliburn Competition" winner on piano.
* Pre-concert entertainment by the Huntington Beach Concert Band from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Plaza Pacifica entrance.
* The gates open at 6 pm for picnicking. Picnic tables are available at the Plaza Pacifica entrance. Or, if you prefer, picnic at your seats (but read the notes below).
* Bring your own food, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages onto the premises, but note that inside the amphitheater itself, glass containers and glassware are not permitted. Outside beer is not allowed anywhere; beer is available for purchase from several onsite vendors.
* The symphony's website offers a "Pre-Order Picnic Menu." Additional food and beverages may be purchased at the concession stands inside the amphitheater.
* Fireworks — Pacific Symphony's annual season-closing bang 'n boom spectacular — completes the program of live music, timed to the "1812 Overture."
* Unlike previous seasons, you will be able to leave the venue immediately after the fireworks show. Fireworks will be shot from a secure location that will not interfere with patrons needing to exit early.
* $8 general parking, handicap parking available.
* Tix: Box office, 714-755-5799; www.PacificSymphony.org
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COMING UP in the 2017-2018 PACIFIC SYMPHONY Season, with tix / season tix / custom pkg series tix / all now available:
♪ "Beethoven's Fifth," Sep 14–16, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Beethoven's Fifth Revealed," Sep 17, 2017, 3 pm.
♪ "An Evening with Joshua Bell," Sep 23, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Beethoven & Schubert," Oct 8, 2017, 3 pm.
♪ "David Foster with special guests," Oct 13–14, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Mozart & Rachmaninoff," Oct 19–21, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Halloween Goes Hollywood," Oct 21, 2017, 10 am & 11:30 am.
♪ "Tribute to Ella," Nov 3–4, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Cathedrals of Sound," Nov 9–11, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Mozart - The Final Concertos," Nov 12, 2017, 3 pm.
♪ "Gershwin's Concerto," Nov 30–Dec 2, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Nutcracker for Kids!" Dec 2, 2017, 10 am & 11:30 am.
♪ "Handel's Glorious Messiah," Dec 3, 2017, 3 pm.
♪ "Celebrate the Holidays with Seth MacFarlane," Dec 22 & 23, 2017, 8 pm.
♪ "Beethoven's Violin Concerto," Jan 11–13, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Vivaldi's Four Seasons," Jan 21, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "Brahms & Prokofiev," Feb 1–3, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Fledermaus: The Bat-Man's Revenge - Opera for Kids!" Feb 3, 2018, 10 am & 11:30 am.
♪ "Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2," Feb 4, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "Chinese New Year — Year of the Dog," Feb 10, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Happy Birthday, Bernstein," Feb 11, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "Christopher Cross," Feb 16 & 17, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "The Magic Flute," Feb 22–27, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Pinchas Zukerman," Mar 15–17, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Video Game Odyssey," Mar 17, 2018, 10 am & 11:30 am.
♪ "Zukerman Plays Bruch," Mar 18, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "A Night at the Copa," Mar 23 & 24, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Cirque de la Symphonie," Apr 6 & 7, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Cirque for Kids!" Apr 7, 2018, 10 am & 11:30 am.
♪ "Glass & Shankar," Apr 12–14, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Beethoven's Ninth," Apr 15, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "Bach & Fauré," Apr 29, 2018, 3 pm.
♪ "Watts Plays Beethoven," May 3–5, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Rach 2," May 31–Jun 2, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Saturday Night Fever - Music of the Bee Gees," Jun 8 & 9, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Sounds of Hollywood," Jun 14–16, 2018, 8 pm.
♪ "Cinematic Violin," Jun 17, 2018, 3 pm.
* Tix / season tix / custom pkg series tix / now available: Box office, 714-755-5799; www.PacificSymphony.org
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# 7 news feature...
MORE JULY MUSIC FESTIVALS AHEAD — HERE, THERE, 'N EVERYWHERE
Used to be that festivals took the middle of summer off, and returned with vigor in the fall. Maybe year-arond school schedules changed everything so that people really aren't gone for the summer anymore. Or maybe too many years of Big Oil extortion ruined the idea of being away on a summer vacation at all. Or maybe the music itself became "destination tourism." Whatever it is? Nowadays, the festival momentum just keeps rollin' along.
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♪ *** LOCAL FESTIVALS, THIS WEEKEND OR STILL AHEAD IN JULY...
✔ "NATIONAL DAY OF THE AMERICAN COWBOY" Jul 22 (Norco, CA). The only publicized local expression of this celebratory day, proclaimed in multiple US states and Canadian provinces. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ 7th Annual "GUITARFISH FESTIVAL" Jul 27-30 (Joshua Tree, CA) with ♪ lineup not yet announced when the Guide's "Encyclopedia Festivanica" went to press. See the event's website: http://joshuatreemusicfestival.com/index.html
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MORE LOCAL FESTIVALS happening in August and beyond are in the Guide's "ENCYCLOPEDIA FESTIVANICA" (updated regularly) at:
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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♪ *** FESTIVALS ELSEWHERE, THIS WEEKEND OR STILL AHEAD IN JULY...
✔ "WANDERLUST SQUAW VALLEY" Jul 20-23 (Squaw Valley, CA). ♪ Lineup not yet announced when the Guide's "Encyclopedia Festivanica" went to press. Check their website: http://squaw.wanderlustfestival.com
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✔ "COUNTRY JAM USA" Jul 20-22 (Eau Claire, WI) with ♪ Dierks Bentley ♪ Cole Swindell ♪ Locash ♪ Kane Brown ♪ Carly Pearce ♪ Miranda Lambert ♪ Gary Allan ♪ Old Dominion ♪ Jana Kramer ♪ Tim Sigler ♪ Luke Bryan ♪ Brett Eldredge ♪ Trace Adkins ♪ High Valley ♪ Cody Johnson. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "SOMERSET FOLK HARP FESTIVAL" Jul 20-23 (Parsippany, NJ) with ♪ Bedside Harp Ensemble directed by Leslie Stickley ♪ Dominique Dodge ♪ Kim Robertson ♪ Alfredo ♪ Martha Gallagher; evening concerts headliners to be announced in June, 2017. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "EDGEWOOD ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL" Jul 26-29 (Edgewood, NM) with ♪ Colorado Blue Canyon Boys ♪ Hot Texas Swing Band (they played the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, in June) ♪ JeeZ LaWeeZ ♪ and 10 more bands on 2 stages. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "FLOYDFEST" Jul 26-30 (Floyd, VA) with ♪ Thievery Corporation ♪ Michael Franti & Spearhead ♪ St. Paul & The Broken Bones ♪ Leftover Salmon ♪ Railroad Earth ♪ Steel Pulse ♪ Shovels & Rope ♪ Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives ♪ White Denim ♪ Turkuaz ♪ Fruition ♪ The Hip Abduction ♪ Larry Keel Experience ♪ Nicola Cruz ♪ Keller Williams/Keller Williams’ KWahtro/Keller & The Keels ♪ Tauk ♪ The Steel Wheels ♪ HoneyHoney ♪ Big Something ♪ Shook Twins ♪ Baskery ♪ Aaron Lee Tasjan ♪ Zach Deputy ♪ That 1 Guy ♪ Jack Broadbent ♪ Davy Knowles ♪ Trae Pierce & The T-Stones ♪ The Lil’ Smokies ♪ People’s Blues Of Richmond ♪ Rebekah Todd & The Odyssey ♪ Hillbilly Casino ♪ Urban Soil ♪ T Sisters ♪ Banditos ♪ Jon Stickley Trio ♪ The Tillers ♪ Alanna Royale ♪ The Stash! Band ♪ Strange Americans ♪ Whiskerman ♪ The Brother Brothers ♪ Honey Island Swamp Band ♪ The Mantras ♪ Edward David Anderson ♪ Dead 27s ♪ McLovins ♪ Hayley Jane & The Primates ♪ The Drunken Hearts ♪ Strange Machines ♪ Kansas Bible Company ♪ Liver Down The River ♪ Broccoli Samurai ♪ Howard Falco ♪ Dixon’s Violin ♪ Oakley The Greenman. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL" Jul 28-30 (Newport, RI) with ♪ Fleet Foxes ♪ Aaron Lee Tasjan ♪ Seratones ♪ Big Thief ♪ Drive-By Truckers ♪ Angel Olsen ♪ Marlon Williams ♪ Rhiannon Giddens ♪ Margaret Glaspy ♪ Choir! Choir! Choir! ♪ Punch Brothers ♪ I’m With Her ♪ Julian Lage ♪ John Prine. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "ROCKYGRASS FESTIVAL" Jul 28-30 (Lyons, CO) with ♪ Sam Bush Bluegrass Band ♪ The Del McCoury Band ♪ Earls of Leicester featuring Jerry Douglas ♪ The Infamous Stringdusters ♪ Tim O’Brien Band ♪ Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band ♪ Peter Rowan ♪ Kruger Brothers with the Kontras Quartet ♪ Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands ♪ Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen ♪ Becky Buller ♪ Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley ♪ Molsky’s Mountain Drifters ♪ Sister Sadie ♪ Front Country ♪ The Lil’ Smokies ♪ Trout Steak Revival ♪ The Lonely Heartstring Band ♪ The Wooks. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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✔ "WATERSHED FESTIVAL" Jul 28-30 (George, WA) with ♪ Bailey Bryan ♪ Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots ♪ Chase Rice ♪ Chris Stapleton ♪ Darius Rucker ♪ Eric Paslay ♪ High Valley ♪ Josh Abbott Band ♪ Lauren Alaina ♪ Lee Brice ♪ Luke Bryan ♪ Maddie And Tae ♪ Michael Ray ♪ Old Dominion ♪ Randy Houser ♪ The Cadillac Three ♪ William Michael Morgan. Details: http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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MANY MORE FESTIVALS happen all over North America (including Southern Cal) in August, Septober, Octember, Nowonder, beyond (we love that old Stan Laurel joke). See the Guide's "ENCYCLOPEDIA FESTIVANICA" (updated regularly) for many more options on tuneful destinations (and remember, festivals give you the best bang for your buck, oftentimes even with travel figured-in). The whoooole enchilada is at:
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/04/2017-music-festival-guide-current.html
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Ahead in the Guide...
THE PROGRESSING SUMMER...
We'll keep you updated on MUSIC NEWS, all the festivals that feature Folk-Americana and/or acoustic music, and we'll bring you plenty of feature stories on whose in the studio, who's collaborating or touring with who, and what they're working on. And we'll continue to bring you news of special events, along with some previews, reviews and select "picks" (the recommendations kind, not the kind you use on strings; we've never had any of those printed with our logo, though we would if someone wanted to sponsor that.)
That said... contrary to appearances the last three months or so, we have NOT going back into the daily music calendar bid'ness. But there was SUCH an irresistible bridge of tunefulness between the arrival of all the spring weekends of festivals and when summer heat descended with a vengeance. So we DID provide very full-blown music calendars through the end of the July 4th holiday.
We all know that if you rely on corporate mainstream media for your supposed news, you miss all such things.
Along with 'purt near everything else we bring you.
It certainly does seem like Big Corporate Media only promotes and reports on soundalike pop pablum with incongruously unnecessary vocal gymnastics... we don't do that, and we wouldn't cover that stuff even if they didn't.
But the point is, big corporate media just plain refuses things and then claims those things are "non-commercial." (Which might explain why cable news, exclusively sponsored by Big Pharma ads, is so bad.) Big media certainly refuses to cover real organic acoustic music made without loops of electrocution sound effects — from Frankenstein's lightning storm or wherever they find that annoying stuff.
So just hit the mute button on them and turn here, often. We cover all kinds 'o real acoustic music and offer plenty of links to hear it in our news and reviews features. And, yes, we'll feature some select picks of concerts, etc., as NEWS FEATURES, as we navigate the summer together.
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As always, we invite you to join us and to let us know what YOU are listening to, and what artists or bands just sent you swooning and need to be shared with others.
That's your part, so you'll know that a whole lot more is always coming soon — including fresh MUSIC NEWS, PREVIEWS & REVIEWS, and more additions to our massive guide to the MUSIC FESTIVALS of 2017.
Meantime, with everything happening through these festival-packed, arrival-of-summer weekends? Go get tuneful!
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Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?
What "boilerplate"? Who came up with that goofy term for the basic essential informational stuff...
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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS — and views of interest to artists everywhere — more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
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The Acoustic Americana Music Guide. Thanks for sittin' a spell. The porch'll be here anytime you come back from the road.
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