♪ ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC is blues, bluegrass, borderlands, Cajun, cowboy, Celtic, Cape Breton, newfangled old-time, accessible classical, folk-Americana from riverboats, mountainsides, front porches, barn dances & honkytonks. NOT a musical museum, it is alive with vibrant traditional music & innovators of the Acoustic Renaissance. NEWS, complete listings & descriptions of festivals EVERYWHERE & performances in Southern California, are here, frequently updated!
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Concerts & More, Long Range UPDATE, Sep 18 & onward, 2013
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Here's a comprehensive long-range edition to bring you all you need while the editor goes on vacation.
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The Guide’s most recent 200 editions (of the 1,074 editions since moving to this site) have received more than a quarter million page views here alone. Ya think maybe people DO like this kind of music?
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Plenty of updates are in this edition: concerts, club gigs, workshops for artists, showcases, benefit shows, and MORE. Check the separate edition for the Guide’s updated CATALOG of FESTIVALS & MUSIC CONFERENCES. The Acoustic Americana Music Guide. We’re on it.
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CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS
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For a good long time to come
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Through Thu, Sep 19,
L.A. FILM PREMIERE,
in Beverly Hills:
Times tba "FIRE IN THE BLOOD," the new award-winning documentary about one aspect of the global work of "DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS," screens twice daily for seven days at Laemmle Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Bl, Beverly Hills; 310-478-3836.
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The effort to provide the best available treatments for diseases throughout the world has frequently been hampered by various industry and government obstacles, like patent laws and trade agreements that drive-up prices for medications and protocols.
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Never was this more clear than in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when millions of people infected with HIV in Africa and other developing areas were denied access to drugs benefitting patients in the West. The production and availability of generic versions of these medications revolutionized the nature of HIV treatment and made it possible to treat millions of people.
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The new award-winning documentary, "Fire in the Blood," provides an in-depth look at the history of that great breakthrough.
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Directed by Dylan Mohan Gray. Featuring Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu, Joseph Stiglitz, James Love, Yusuf Hamied, Zackie Achmat, Peter Mugyenyi, Edwin Cameron, Eric Goemaere, Noor Jehan Majid, Denis Broun, Suniti Solomon, Nomvuselolo Kalolo, and others. Narrated by William Hurt
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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Wed, Sep 18, in Altadena:
7-10 pm Monthly "DAVID HARVEY PRESENTS" brings music from JOHN STOWERS, CYNTHIA CARLE, TIM TURNER, and CLARE MEANS, plus "A Word with DYLAN BRODY," at The Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001. No reservations taken for this show.
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This monthly showcase presents a variety, from Americana to folk, indie-rock to comedy.
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This month brings:
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John Stowers, of whom David Harvey says, "John is not only one of my favorite songwriters but one of my favorite people. He is a masterful storyteller who merges roots music with these insanely beautiful pop hooks that keep your toes tapping, and damn! That song will just play in your head for days! I love it when John tells you how the song was written and then he plays it, and completely nails it. He ought to be in movies!" John is the newest member of THE TALL MEN GROUP, that formidable ensemble with Severin Browne, Ed Tree, Marty Axlerod, Jimmy Yessian, and Jeff Kossack. Of late, they have been selling-out stages up and down the West Coast. More at www.johnstowers.com
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Cynthia Carle, says David Harvey, "is a wonder! She's a multi-talented songwriter, composer, choreographer, director, and actress. Boy can she make words dance! She is a complete original -- and her songs are full of humor, wit, smarts, and style. And she does it all completely unmedicated! She plays with your mind and makes you smile." More at www.cynthiacarlemusic.com
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Tim Turner asks, "Do you love folky pop songs with that indie rock vibe?" Tim Turner sings sweet melodies with catchy hooks. A good songwriter, he can wring it and bring it in a ballad, too. More at www.reverbnation.com/TimTurner
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Clare Means is a rising young singer-songwriter, recently featured in "American Songwriter" magazine. She has one of those memorable voices that makes you feel that her song is just for you, she's bright, fresh, and ageless. From Folk Americana, to an indie pop vibe, every melody and verse can grab you. More at www.claremeansmusic.com
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Dylan Brody is an award winning playwright, thrice-published author, humorist and story-teller. He's a writer for the Huffington Post and a new contributor to "OffRamp" on KPCC radio in L.A. David Harvey cautions, "He is also a martial artist, but those skills will not come into play during the show. Unless something goes horribly wrong." More at http://dylanbrody.com
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More on this show and the series at www.CityOfAngelsAcoustic.weebly.com
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Wed, Sep 18, in South Pas:
7 pm Weekly “WINE & SONG” showcase series brings recording artists and performing host BRAD COLERICK for acoustic sets at Firefly Bistro, 1009 El Centro St, South Pasadena 91030; 626-441-2443.
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Wed, Sep 18, in SFV (Northridge):
7:30 pm ORQUESTA BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB plays the Valley Performing Arts Center, on the CSUN campus, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge 91330; 818-677-3000.
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Wed, Sep 18, in Santa Barbara Co (Santa Ynez):
7:30 pm DEVON SPROULE and A.J. CROCE play the “Tales from the Tavern” concert series at the Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St, Santa Ynez 93460; 805-686-4785.
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Wed, Sep 18, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm HOLLYWOOD HILLBILLIES play the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Wed, Sep 18, in L.A.:
8 pm DUSTBOWL REVIVAL and PATROLLED BY RADAR play The Mint. 6010 W Pico Bl, Los Angeles 90035; 323-954-9630.
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Wed, Sep 18, in Santa Monica:
8:30 pm TRIP TEASE BURLESQUE SHOW, plus MURPHY'S FLAW with their "bluegrass without pity, at the Trip, 2101 Lincoln Bl, Santa Monica 90405.
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The Flaw's John Bryan says, "We're going to use the power of bluegrass to try to save the ladies of the Trip Tease Burlesque show tomorrow night. To get in the door, we've had to pose as the opening act, playing at 8:30 pm. Not to worry, though -- we're professionals. Once inside, we'll sing the old mountain ballad of 'The Stripper on the Pole':"
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The Stripper on the Pole
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'Twas in the year of ought-thirteen, In a town we all know well. My girlfriend was a burlesque gal At the Trip bar she did dwell
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I tried, I tried to make her see The danger to her soul. But she did swear that she would be A Stripper on the Pole.
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And as she did twirl around and round It was a terrible sight. Someone had left the door ajar, Letting in that freezing night
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"Come down, come down, my love," I yelled "You'll catch your death of cold." But she could never hear my cries And froze right to the pole.
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And now we wait in a hospital room And I sing this sad, sad song As doctors try to get her thawed And give her back her thong
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I'll never date another girl Who wears the tassels bold It's love that is the victim true With a Stripper on the Pole.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
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Thu, Sep 19, in Malibu:
8 pm WYNONNA JUDD plays the Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University, 24255 PCH, Malibu 90265; 310-506-4522.
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Thu, Sep 19, in Ventura:
8 pm JENNI ALPERT and IAN TEPPER play Zoey's, 185 E Santa Clara, Ventura 93001. Jenni is endorsed by Luna Guitars.
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Thu, Sep 19, in Altadena:
8 pm THE SALTY SUITES plus ALEX FINAZZO return to the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 92675; reservations, 626-798-6236.
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Thu, Sep 19, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm J.D. BERNAL, known as "JUST DAVE," plays the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Sep 19-Oct 6, in L.A.:
Time tba "LIVE ARTS EXCHANGE (LAX)" at The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles is a new all-local contemporary performance series produced by "Los Angeles Performance Practice" and the Bootleg Theater. It combines dance, theater, film / video, animation, punk opera, and party into one space.
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"LAX 2013" features work from Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera, Show Box LA, Poor Dog Group, Chi-wang Yang, Timur & the Dime Museum, Zoe Aja Moore, and Miwa Matreyek.
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Thu, Sep 19,
Stage Play,
in Topanga:
8 pm “TONE CLUSTERS” by JOYCE CAROL OATES continues at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga 90290 (midway between Pacific Coast Highway and the Ventura Freeway); www.theatricum.com
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Tone Clusters is written by the renowned author Joyce Carol Oates, well known in the literature world for her short stories, novels and poetry; three of her novels were nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. This is one of Oates’ drama pieces, and Oates will be attending the opening tonight, and leading a panel discussion after the play.
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Tone Clusters is a gripping tragic drama about the parents of an alleged killer, and how they are forced to deal with the media. In the story, Frank and Emily Gulick's son Carl has been arrested for the sadistic murder of Edith Kaminsky. They are adamant that their son is innocent, and what unfolds is a clash between the worldly, condescending media and two individuals' desperate attempts to claim ownership of their own lives.
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Performances run Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8 pm
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Tix: adults $25; seniors, students, veterans, AEA, $15; children ages 7-12, $10; children age 6 and under, free.
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Thu, Sep 19, in Hollywood:
8:30 pm "AN EVENING WITH LYNDA KAY" at Three Clubs, 1123 Vine St. Hollywood 90038 (cross st Santa Monica Bl). $5 cover. Free parking. Get there early.
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Thu, Sep 19, in Culver City:
9:15 pm RICH McCULLEY plays the Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City.
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• 8 pm Lindsey Bullen
• 8:30 pm Doug Osborne
• 9:15 pm Rich McCulley & Anna Maria Rosales
• 10 pm Punch-Drunks
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More at www.facebook.com/events/178046302379512/?ref=22
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More on Rich McCulley at www.richmcculley.com
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No cover at the "world's smallest honky-tonk," and barstool seating is competitive. Bring $ for the artists' tip jar.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
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Registration deadline us today for a Sep 28,
WORKSHOP for ARTISTS,
in downtown L.A.:
10:30 am-1 pm "UKULE-ALONG: STRUMMERS IN THE SUMMER" registration just reopened for this final Ukule-Along in the "Active Arts" series at the Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles 90012; www.musiccenter.org
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Perfect for ukulele fans; adult amateur musicians only (18 years and older), beginner to intermediate level. Billed as "A wonderful way to get your summer strum on with mixed level group instruction in strumming, fingerpicking patterns, licks and tricks, and more."
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Read the "Frequently asked questions" at:
www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULE-ALONG-2013/Frequently-Asked-Questions-FAQ/
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Register online no later than September 20, at:
www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULE-ALONG-2013/Ukule-Along-Registration/
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Fri, Sep 20, in Venice:
2 pm-'til-late "MUSICAL MEMORIAL FOR JEB MELINE" at Witzend, 1717 Lincoln Bl Venice 90219, in conjunction with the "VENICE ART CRAWL."
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As artist Jenni Alpert expresses, "a very special person who made a huge difference here in Los Angeles with his charisma and artistic vision creating a west side home for singer songwriters at WitzEnd in Venice. Jeb Meline, you inspire, you are missed, and you will be remembered. This... memorial at WitzEnd... held in Jeb's honor hosted by the Witz Family. Hearts to you Beth for what you are doing over there. All are welcome to attend."
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Watch a video of "Simple Mood" performed by Jenni at WitzEndin and filmed by Jeb, who gave artists fine support with videography, at:
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Jenni Alpert, who is endorsed by Luna Guitars, is among those performing.
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Fri & Sat, Sep 20 & 21,
not music, but cool,
in Santa Monica:
8th Annual "ALT CAR EXPO" is all about experiencing cars that don't burn gasoline. With speakers, panels, more.
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Info, http://altcarexpo.com.
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Advance registration is $25, or $35 at the event, and includes breakfast and lunch. Limited space, so jump in it if you want to go.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Venice:
Time tba "VENICE ART CRAWL" happens in performance venues, galleries, and sidewalks throughout Venice, bringing live music, art exhibitions and demonstrations, food trucks, and more.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Santa Barbara:
5:30-7:30 pm HONEYSUCKLE POSSUMS play EDC, TGIF, Evironmental Defense Center, 906 Garden St, Santa Barbara.
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This Santa Barbara-based folk-bluegrass-old timey all-girl ensemble is inclusive of musicians who have toured widely and recorded on plenty of records. They’re fun and they’re beautiful.
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"The Possums have hearts full of honey. These women clearly love what they're playing. This is true Americana... and they're mighty tight as well. If you could taste the sound, it would be clear country Honeydew Vinewater. Give them a listen! " Johnny Sacko, Santa Barbara, possum friend.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Redondo Beach:
6:30-9:30 pm ANDY & RENEE of HARD RAIN play their residency at On The Rocks, 239 N Harbor Dr, Redondo Beach, 90277; 310-379-7438.
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Fri, Sep 20, in SFV (Northridge):
7-10 pm Weekly "FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC SHOWCASE" at Pho-King Delicious, 9350 Corbin Av, Northridge 91324.
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• 7-7:45 pm -- BRYAN CHAN & JIMMY EATON play "blues music the heart," with the "soul and respect it deserves." Bryan on slide guitar, Jimmy on dobro. You tube video of Bryan Chan at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrIBv1ug4c -- More on Jimmy Eaton at www.jimeatonmusic.com
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• 8-8:45 pm -- BRAINARD & RUSSELL are Mark Brainard & Tim Russell, who have been playing together for over 25 years, fusing ”British Invasion and '70’s California comfort.” Listening to their 2005 release “Life In Java” you can almost list every artist represented in their record collections. They are close to releasing a follow up CD, "Red Rock Canyon," and will perform songs from both albums. More at www.brainardandrussell.com
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• 9-9:45 pm -- MR. OLEVER is an act with North Hollywood-based singer-songwriter Roland Vega and Chris Clifford on guitar providing accompaniment. Roland has a new CD, "In My World," showcasing his rich vocals. More at www.myspace.com/mrolever
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No cover. Venue offers a variety of noodle dishes, salads, spring rolls, soups, sandwiches, and Vietnamese pho.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Santa Monica:
8 pm THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL plus the T-SISTERS opening, at McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-824-4497; www.mccabes.com.
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Fri, Sep 20, in VC (Camarillo):
8 pm PHIL CHRISTIE, plus TERRY HOLDER and MICHAEL VALENTINE, play the "CAMARILLO CAFE CONCERT SERIES" at Camarillo Community Center, 1605 E Burnley St, Camarillo 93010; info, 805-907-8318 or whatshappening@camarilliocafe.com
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Fri, Sep 20, in Santa Monica:
8 pm "BOLD NOSTALGIA NIGHT" hosted by Jocelyn Wright and Broken Electric Records, brings JENNI ALPERT, an artist endorsed by Luna Guitars, to Golightly Gallery, 1431 Ocean Av, Santa Monica 90401.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Altadena:
8 pm TERESA TUDURY and GARY STOCKDALE play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena; reservations, 626-798-6236. Tix, $18.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Universal City:
8 pm LILA DOWNS plays the Gibson Amphitheatre on Universal City Walk, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City 91602; 818-622-4440.
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Fri, Sep 20, in San Pedro:
8 pm CAMBALACHE plays the fall season opener at the Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro; www.grandvision.org
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This Annex season kicks off with a fresh mix of Mexican folk and Caribbean rhythm with soaring, melodic vocals and a palette of traditional instruments. Cambalache brings the “son jarocho” sound of coastal Veracruz. Everybody in the U.S. knows at least one son jarocho tune, or at least a version of it: Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba.”
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Fri, Sep 20, in San Pedro:
8 pm MADE IN MEXICO DUO, Israel Varela and Flamenco dancer Karen Lugo, featuring Otmaro Ruiz and Dave Robaire, play Alva's Showroom, 1417 W 8th St, San Pedro 90732; reservations, 800-403-3447.
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Israel Varela ~ drums & vocals; Karen Lugo ~ flamenco dance; Otmaro Ruiz ~ piano; Dave Robaire ~ double bass.
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Two Mexican artists, two flamenco musicians, two rhythm travelers, two virtuosos "Made in Mexico" perform together for the first time. Inside the duo music of Mexican drummer-composer-singer Israel Varela and Flamenco dancer Karen Lugo is a rare mix among Mexican, Alusian and contemporary jazz colors. Ultimately, though, the surprising Mexican artists from Tijuana and Guadalajara have figured a way to integrate all three in this dynamic and creative act. Blending traditional with contemporary forms.
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Complimentary coffee, tea, hot cocoa and "Alvas" bottled water are provided. Bring your own food & drinks.
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Fri & Sat, Sep 20 & 21, in San Diego:
8 pm BERKLEY HART, EVE SELIS, and MARC TWANG team-up at Swedenborg Hall, 1531 Tyler Av, San Diego.
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You may have heard that San Diego legends Berkley Hart (the duo of multiple award-winning singer-songwriters Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart) and Eve Selis & Marc Twang have been collaborating to write some songs and do some shows, but have you actually been to a show? Now's your chance.
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Make your plans to see all four on either or both nights. Drinks and snacks available.
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Check out some of the songs they've written and recorded at www.eveselis.bandcamp.com/album/ep. This foursome, a "duo of duos," plans to take this show on the road to the UK next spring.
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Advance tix at www.berkleyhart.com or www.eveselis.com/berkley-hart-selis-twang-concert/and use Paypal.
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$25 for each night or get a $40 ticket for both nights.
More info on everything at www.berkleyhart.com
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Fri, Sep 20, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm JIMI NELSON plays the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Pasadena:
8 pm “Piano Spheres: Transcendent Svrcek plays Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata,” at The Theatre at Boston Court, 70 N Mentor Av, Pasadena 91106; 626-683-6883; www.bostoncourt.org
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What do Emerson, Thoreau, Luisa Alcott and Hawthorne have in common? They were writers who embraced transcendental philosophy, and each has a movement named after him/her in Charles Ives’ monumental musical ode to transcendentalism. Rarely performed, not to be missed.
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Tickets $25/$20 for Seniors.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Santa Monica:
8 pm JENNI ALPERT plays an art gallery event at Broken Electric, 1413 Ocean Av, Santa Monica. Open to all.
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
8 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Fri, Sep 20, in Culver City:
9:15 pm THE MODERN SKIFFLE QUARTET -- the ensemble of Ben Vaughn, Dan Janisch, Kevin Jarvis, and Dafni -- celebrate "National Skiffle Month" with two shows at The Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City 90230.
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Twice this month, Sep 14th and Sep 20th, you can celebrate that British interpretation of old-time-meets-Vaudeville-meets-proto-jazz music form. This is quite a band, comprised of leaders of other respected roots-Americana bands that have all "been there, done that." Dafni says, 'I'm thrilled to be sitting in again on the bass guitar."
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
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Sat, Sep 21,
on broadcast & web RADIO:
6-8 am (Pacific) "ROOTS MUSIC & BEYOND" with ART PODELL & JIM MORAN, does "MASTERS OF THE BANJO: 100 YEARS OF AMERICA'S NATIVE FOLK INSTRUMENT," a special edition of their occasional show on KPFK 90.7 FM, simulcast at www.kpfk.org (also will be archived for two weeks at that site).
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Sat, Sep 21, in El Segundo:
2 pm KEN O'MALLEY brings his authentic and original Irish music to the “EL SEGUNDO LIBRARY CONCERT SERIES” at the El Segundo Public Library, 111 W Mariposa Av,El Segundo. More at www.elsegundo.org/library
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Sat, Sep 21, in Claremont:
4-6 pm “WELCOME BACK STUDENTS NIGHT” brings lots of live music throughout the village of downtown Claremont 91711.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Chino Hills:
4:30 pm PHIL WARD plus THE DAVE MORRISON BAND play another in Dave's "Backyard INVASION" house concert series, this one at the home of Heidi and Vance Stearns in Carbon Canyon (Chino Hills).
Dave says, "I'll have the band with me. Greg Krueger on all things stringed, Scott King on bass, and the new kid, Merritt Evan Raff, on drums and percussion."
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Phil Ward, who Dave calls, "one of the best comedic songwriter-performers out there." Dave adds, "A lot of you know him. So funny. And so insightful too. He'd probably deny it, but he brings a depth to his comedy that's always impressed me. And as a person? The warmest, kindest guy. I know, highly unusual for a comic. But there you have it."
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Gathering is at 4:30, music starts at 5. Dinner at 6. Song-Circle follows, so bring a guitar and a song to share.
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Sat, Sep 21, in SFV (Sylmar):
5 pm “J.A.M. SESSIONS” bring a DRUM CIRCLE to El Cariso Regional Park, 13100 Hubbard St, Sylmar 91342.
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Interactive group drumming is fun and you can take a rhythmic journey with Christopher Ramirez. Using a variety of drum and percussion instruments you’ll create beats and sounds that will fill the hills with music and leave you feeling energized. Drums provided courtesy of Remo Drums Inc.
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This is one of three J.A.M. Sessions taking place at El Cariso Regional Park. Info, 323-461-3673.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Whittier:
6-10 pm "PEACE CAFE" series brings top western music award winner JOYCE WOODSON to the Peace Cafe Concert Series at First Friends Church, 13205 Philadelphia St, Whittier; JoNitabd@gmail.com or 562-665-5088 or www.firstfriendswhittier.org/events/peacecafe.html
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Joyce asks, "So are you missing those legendary evenings at the Marine Room in Laguna Beach? Do you wish you could hear more acoustic music? Well, there's going to be a terrific night of music coming up at the PEACE CAFE and you're invited. I'm the featured performer and will do a 30 minute set. There will be others performing throughout the evening, too!"
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Suggested donation is $15. All proceeds go to a youth camp to teach peaceful negotiation skills. Joyce adds, "Something that folks in our government should be attending!"
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Sat, Sep 21, in San Diego:
6:30 pm BAYOU BROTHERS play the San Diego Zoo, at the Bus Depot Stage, 2920 Zoo Dr, Balboa Park, San Diego 92101; 619-718-3000.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Westlake Village:
7-9:30 pm "WORLD PEACE DAY CONCERT" with performances by Teresa Tudury, Raspin, Jami Lula, Cadoan, Bu Notes, Malibu Teen Contingency, Kim Stanwood Terranova, and "a few surprises," at Center for Spiritual Living Westlake Village, 880 Hampshire Rd, Westlake Village; 805-495-0105.
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Tix. $20. Advance tix at https://www.cslwestlake.org/index.php/calendar-of-events?task=view_event&event_id=1017
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Sat, Sep 21, in Altadena:
7 pm THE LOCKE BROTHERS plus STEVE NOONAN share the bill at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info HYPERLINK "http://www.coffeegallery.com" www.coffeegallery.com. (“The venue named by the Guide's editor, writing in FolkWorks, as L.A.’s best intimate acoustic listening room venue”).
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THE LOCKE BROTHERS: Russ and Bob are “The Locke Brothers,” who, from an early age, remember listening to their dad rehearsing in their living room with his barbershop quartet. Is it any surprise that their style is built on strong harmonies? The Locke Brothers sing with passion and joy whether it be an original tune, an oldie but goodie, or a contemporary song. They aim to please and before you know it, you (the audience) are smiling, tapping your toe and maybe, just maybe, you will be singing along. If you like good music, brotherly banter, sweet harmonies and an enjoyable evening, come see these guys. This is an introduction party for their new CD, "River Change".
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STEVE NOONAN's music is naked, intimate, close, acoustic and beautiful. It will grab you by the heart and stay with you long after he has finished playing. Coming of age during the great singer-songwriter era of the 1960s, his romantic ballad, “Buy For Me The Rain,” became a hit for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Steve was dubbed one of the “Orange County Three,” along with Tim Buckley and Jackson Browne. He has played with the likes of Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and many others. Steve continues to bring his “socially conscious Americana” to audiences around the world. Everything is good on Steve Noonan’s CD, “Bringing it Back Home” … the intimate atmosphere of a guy face to face with himself, armed with his seasoned voice and supported by a flawless guitar playing on true and honest songs ”
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Sat, Sep 21, in SFV (North Hills):
7 pm THE TALL MEN GROUP plays the Stardust Concerts series in North Hills. Reservations get directions at at stardustconcerts@gmail.com
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TALL MEN GROUP brings together six of the finest singer-songwriters in Los Angeles. Severin Browne, Edward Tree, Jimmy "Muffin" Yessian, Marty Axelrod, Jeff Kossack and John Stowers have been meeting once a month since 2012 to enjoy Jimmy's cooking (a lot!) and bring in songs written to a new theme each month. The very best of those songs are arranged for the band, then included in the stage show.
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The Tall Men show is rich with brotherly rapport, crafted harmonies, stories and musicianship. But that's only the "icing". The "cake" is songwriting at a very high level -- accessible, fresh, original, often funny, always moving. Audiences from Oregon to San Diego rave that "every song is a gem".
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Sat, Sep 21, in OC (Anaheim):
7:30 pm THE MURPHY FAMILY BAND plays “The Living Tradition” concert series at the Anaheim Downtown Community Center, 250 E Center St, Anaheim 92805; 714-955-3807.
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Sat, Sep 21, in San Diego:
7:30 pm JOHN DOYLE plays the “AMSD Concerts” series at 4650 Mansfield St, San Diego 92116; 619-303-8176.
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Sep 21-Oct 6, in L.A.:
Time tba L.A. OPERA PRESENTS "CARMEN" at the Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles 90012; www.musiccenter.org
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Conducted by Plácido Domingo, Carmen runs seven performances only.
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No man can resist Carmen’s gypsy charms, but when she’s ready to move on, watch out! A riveting drama of love and jealousy filled with captivating dances and Bizet’s famously alluring melodies, Carmen is one of the world’s most popular operas.
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Sat, Sep 21, in NoHo:
Time tba LAUREN ADAMS plays a set at Bob's Espresso in NoHo. She tells us, "Finally, I'll get to meet 'Damon' from 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.' I need those tickets to Cheap Trick!" No doubt the mysteries inherent in all that will be solved by Lauren at this show.
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"LAUREN ADAMS BAND: This is an all-star outfit, from superb songwriter / band leader LAUREN ADAMS, to PHIL PARLAPIANO on keys and accordion, and MARK “POCKET” GOLDBERG on bass. This is easily one of L.A.’s top ten electric Americana bands, and Lauren’s originals should be hit songs. Their rendition of ERNEST TROOST’S 'Evangeline' with Lauren’s vocals is powerful and compelling and very different from the classic blues ballad delivery that Ernest gives it. Lauren’s song 'Thirsty,' title track to one of her albums, evokes lost country & western, from a time before Nashville lost the western part and turned it all into dysfunctional relationship, red-state-trailer-park rock. Each band member got a featured song, since all are singer-songwriters with solo albums and dozens of credits on records by big names. Be sure to catch LAUREN ADAMS when she performs in town, or at her monthly 'Americana Music Circle' showcase at Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles." -- Larry Wines, Acoustic Americana Music Guide.
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"One listen and I was hooked. Superb, intelligent, thought-provoking songs. Real songs for real people wrapped in melodies that, promise to capture, inspire and pull the listener in again and again. Songwriters of Lauren Adams' level are few and far between." -- LAURIE JOULIE, Take Back Country Magazine.
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"Lauren Adams has A CD here that is infectious, the lyrics and sweet melodies along with some sweet slide work make you want to keep listening, a very well done recording." -- Jim Moulton, Country Stars Online.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Santa Monica:
8 pm JIM KWESKIN (of jug band fame) with THE CROCKETT SISTERS (late of THE EVANGENITALS), at McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-824-4497; www.mccabes.com.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Covina:
8 pm DAVID ROGERS, classical / crossover guitar master, plays The Fret House, 309 N Citrus Av, Covina 91723; 626-339-7020; HYPERLINK "mailto:frethouse@earthlink.net" frethouse@earthlink.net; HYPERLINK "http://www.frethouse.com" www.frethouse.com.
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“…Playing the vihuela (a guitar relative), David Rogers held everything together with a few poignant plucks, vigorous strumming and the occasional astonishingly florid solo…” -- Washington Post.
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David Rogers was recently termed, ‘a prominent guitarist,’ by the New York Times and praised by The Washington Post for his ‘astonishingly florid’ improvisations, David Rogers presents an evening of solo guitar music with strong leanings towards jazz, folk, world, and classical music.
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As lead guitarist with the Terra Nova Consort, David has toured North America and Europe extensively and opened the Tage Alter und Neuer Musik Regensburg 2003 Festival with the ensemble. His performances have been broadcast on American National Public Radio and Bayrische Rundfunk, including both the nationally syndicated Performance Today (live performance/interview in Washington D.C. NPR studio 4A) and Harmonia programs. David has recorded for Dorian, Callisto and Focus Recordings. He has given recitals and conducted master classes throughout North America, including performances and classes at the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Southern California and The Interlochen National Arts Camp.
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David was the guitarist for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 18 years and taught at Southern Oregon University for 13 years. David has studied historical plucked strings with Hopkinson Smith and Eugen Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland; with Thomas Binkley at Indiana University; and with Lyle Nordstrom at Oakland University. He has studied guitar with Joseph Fava at Wayne State University.
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An endorsed artist by GHS Strings, his music has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre, in Germany. His solo and ensemble performances have been broadcast on American National Public Radio and Bayrische Rundfunk.
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David will play a program based around Spanish guitar favorites, original settings of Leonard Cohen’s songs Hallelujah, Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy and Rolling Stones’, Wild Horses and Under My Thumb. David will also play music by the Beatles, J.S. Bach and Chick Corea. On this tour, David will be premiering an original arrangement of 'More Than This' by Bryan Ferry.
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More at www.davidrogersguitar.com
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
8 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Oak Park:
8 pm PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO plays “Russ and Julie’s House Concerts” series in Oak Park (Agoura Hills / Westlake Village area). Reservations get directions at 818-707-2179 or rsvp@houseconcerts.us
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Sat, Sep 21, in San Pedro:
8 pm DISCOVERY PROJECT, plus JOSH NELSON, at Alva's Showroom, 1417 W 8th St, San Pedro 90732; reservations, 800-403-3447.
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Josh Nelson ~ piano Larry Koonse ~ guitar Dave Robaire ~ bass Dan Schnelle ~ drums Travis Flournoy ~ video projections
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The Discovery Project is an exciting and exploratory multimedia endeavor, featuring original music compositions and interactive visual mediums.
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Originally conceived to accompany Josh Nelson's album "Discoveries", the Project continues to journey into the world of video art and live musical accompaniment. It showcases historically significant science-fiction cinema, with new music inspired by visionaries Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Nikola Tesla. The latest addition to the Project is "The Rovers of Mars", which was conceived to celebrate the 2012 landing of the Curiosity Rover on the Red Planet.
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Josh Nelson, pianist, composer, and educator has made an indelible impression on the international music scene, at only 34 years old. Josh performs with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, Tom Scott, Seamus Blake, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Matt Wilson, Jack Sheldon, Queen Latifah, and Sara Gazarek.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Los Feliz:
8 pm DIANA KRALL plays The Greek Theatre.
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Sat, Sep 21, in San Diego:
8 pm BERKLEY HART, EVE SELIS, and MARC TWANG team-up at Swedenborg Hall, 1531 Tyler Av, San Diego.
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You may have heard that San Diego legends Berkley Hart (the duo of multiple award-winning singer-songwriters Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart) and Eve Selis & Marc Twang have been collaborating to write some songs and do some shows, but have you actually been to a show? Now's your chance.
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Make your plans to see all four on either or both nights. Drinks and snacks available.
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Check out some of the songs they've written and recorded at www.eveselis.bandcamp.com/album/ep. This foursome, a "duo of duos," plans to take this show on the road to the UK next spring.
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Advance tix at www.berkleyhart.com or www.eveselis.com/berkley-hart-selis-twang-concert/and use Paypal.
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$25 for each night or get a $40 ticket for both nights.
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Sat, Sep 21, in San Diego:
8 pm LILA DOWNS plays Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Dr, San Diego 92106; 619-523-1010.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Pasadena:
8 pm “Peabody Southwell: Landscapes of Schoenberg,” at The Theatre at Boston Court, 70 N Mentor Av, Pasadena 91106; 626-683-6883; www.bostoncourt.org
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Peabody Southwell, Mark Robson and James Darrah pair up for an evening of exotic musical landscapes, composed by Arnold Schoenberg. Beginning with his seminal song cycle, “The Book of the Hanging Gardens” with metaphors of love blooming and dying as the “garden” disintegrates, Ms. Southwell guides us on a vocal tour de force of gorgeous and inspiring Schoenberg tonescapes.
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Peabody Southwell, Mezzo Soprano
Mark Robson, Pianist
James Darrah, Director
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Sat, Sep 21, in L.A.:
8 pm CAREY APPEL & FRIENDS play The Mint, 6010 Pico Bl, Los Angeles 90035; www.themintla.com
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Sat, Sep 21, in SFV (West Hills):
8 pm "ACOUSTIC CONCERT SERIES" presents its fall season opener at Jeff Gold's West Valley Music Center, 24424 Vanowen St, West Hills 91307; 818-992-4142; www.westvalleymusiccenter.com
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• Brad Swanson -- acclaimed songsmith and eclectic musician; you’ve heard his songs on hit TV shows, including “CSI” and “Smallville.”
• Jared Swanson -- lead singer of the alternative rock band Abbot Kinney, Jeff says, "He sings with an angst that stokes pulp-era Jarvis Cocker."
• Heather Stewart -- "inspired by a spectrum of genres, she sings with a raw, retro, yet modern sound, layering sultry vocals over soulful, acoustic grooves," days Jeff.
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Reservations recommended. This series brings exceptional singer-songwriters performing in an intimate setting.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Highland Park:
8 pm Monthly “3rd SATURDAY SQUARE DANCE” with music by TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT and caller Jesse Riley, at American Legion Hall Post 206, 227 N Ave 55, Highland Park (Los Angeles) 90042.
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Sat, Sep 21, in SFV (Chatsworth):
9 pm JIMI NELSON plays the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Sat, Sep 21, in Marina del Rey:
9 pm-1 am THE CHUCK McDERMOTT BAND plays Brennan's Pub in Marina del Rey
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Sun, Sep 22, in Santa Monica:
11 am “Matinee Kids' Show” with HEIDI SWEDBERG & THE SUKEY JUMP BAND at McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-828-4497; www.mccabes.com
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Sun, Sep 22, in Murietta:
Noon SLIGO RAGS take a break from playing Disneyland to perform at Get Shamrocked in Murrieta. More at www.sligorags.com
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Sun, Sep 22,
PSEUDO-FESTIVAL,
in Studio City:
Noon "CAR FREE SUNDAY" outdoor fair includes music stages, and JENNI ALPERT, endorsed by Luna Guitars, plays a set on Laurel Cyn in Valleyheart Care. Festival is along the L.A. River. Free.
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Sun, Sep 22, in the local mountains:
2 pm TEDROW & VREELAND, plus SANDY ROSS, play the concert series at Adam's Pack Station in Chantry Flats, N up Santa Anita Av above Arcadia in the Angeles National Forest.
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
2 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Sun, Sep 22, in Long Beach:
2 pm “J.A.M. SESSIONS IN LONG BEACH” bring a DRUM CIRCLE to Atlantic Av & Artesia Bl, Long Beach.
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Interactive group drumming is fun, and you can take a rhythmic journey with Christopher Ramirez. Using a variety of drum and percussion instruments you’ll create music and leave feeling energized. Drums provided courtesy of Remo Drums Inc.
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This is one of three J.A.M. Sessions taking place in different Long Beach locations in partnership with A LOT initiative. A LOT provides opportunities for Long Beach residents to enjoy and engage in the arts in nontraditional spaces.
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Sun, Sep 22, in T.O.:
2:30-5:30 pm MARK "POCKET" GOLDBERG & FRIENDS play their “CD release concert #2” for his new "OFF THE WIRE!" album, at Marc Bachrach's House Concerts, 3118 Rikkard Dr, Thousand Oaks 91362.
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For decades, Mark “Pocket” Goldberg has been a respected “roots” bass player (upright & electric) who has been making music with some of the most talented artists of his day in live performances and tours, with the likes of Mick Fleetwood’s Blue Whale (with Joe Walsh & John Mayall), Floyd Dixon , and many others. If you haven’t heard “Pocket’s” originals or his fine band, here’s a chance in an intimate setting.
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Sun, Sep 22, in Long Beach:
3-7 pm T-LOU & HIS SUPER HOT ZYDECO plays the Cajun-zydeco dance at the Golden Sails Hotel in the PCH Club, 6285 E Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach 90803.
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Sun, Sep 22, in San Pedro:
CANCELLED: 4 pm LED ZEPAGAIN “Unplugged – An All-Acoustic Tribute to Led Zeppelin” at Alva’s Showroom, 1417 W 8th St, Weymouth Corners, San Pedro 90732; HYPERLINK "http://www.alvasshowroom.com" www.alvasshowroom.com; 800-403-3447 or 310-519-1314. You can bring your own food and drinks into this venue and just pay the cover.
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Sun, Sep 22, in Echo Park:
5:30-9 pm Weekly "GRAND OLE ECHO" Americana / alt country / honky-tonk showcase nears the end of its season and brings performances by The Coleman-Dixon Line The Psychedelic Cowboys, The Dave Gleason Trio, and The Easy Leaves, at The Echo, 1822 Sunset Bl, Echo Park 90026; 213-413-8200.
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The Guide strongly recommends The Dave Gleason Trio. Dave is the guy keeping the “Bakersfield Sound” fresh and vibrant. Buck Owens would be proud.
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Sun, Sep 22, in SFV (Northridge):
7-9:30 pm FUR DIXON and band play a house concert in Northridge. Reservations get directions at JayMichtom@yahoo.com or call 818-368-1957.
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Fur Dixon was half the headlining duo, FUR & STEVE, which is no longer together.
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Sun, Sep 22, in Hollywood:
7-10 pm BENEFIT for "SWEET RELIEF" musicians' charity at Hotel Cafe, 1623 N Cahuenga Bl, Hollywood.
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Some of the friendly faces performing are Jenni Alpert, Javier Dunn, Jesse Thomas, Holly Conlan, Nilu, and David & Divine.
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Sun, Sep 22, in downtown L.A.:
7 pm 50th Anniversary celebration concert “LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE” at Walt Disney Concert Hall, L.A. Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, L.A. (downtown) 90012; 213-972-7211; HYPERLINK http://www.musiccenter.org www.musiccenter.org.
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Go early for the “50th Season Exhibition” at 5:30 pm in BP Hall. It’s “A giant wall of LAMC historical moments.”
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For this celebration, 109 alumni singers join the Chorale’s current singers to create one enormous choir for the finale. It is fitting that they will be singing the very first piece the Chorale ever sang at a rehearsal in Walt Disney Concert Hall ten years ago -- Randall Thompson's beloved Alleluia.
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Alan Chapman, hosts a program that explores musical eras and the Chorale’s own history:
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ROGER WAGNER ERA (1964-1986) Vittoria | Ave Maria Passereau |Il est bel et bon Chihara | Missa Carminum Brevis Foster | I Dream of Jeanie (arr. Wagner) Western Songs (arr. Wagner) Ev'ry time I feel the spirit (arr. Dawson) Danny Boy (arr. Wagner)
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JOHN CURRIE ERA (1986-1991) Mozart | Ave verum corpus My Love's in Germany (arr. Wilberg) I'll Ay Call in by Yon Town (arr. Wilberg)
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PAUL SALAMUNOVICH ERA (1991-2001) Veni Creator Spiritus Palestrina | Tu es Petrus Duruflé | Tu es Petrus Duruflé | Ubi caritas Lauridsen | O Magnum Mysterium The Lord Bless You and Keep You (arr. Rutter)
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GRANT GERSHON ERA (2001-present) Tallis | Spem in alium Woo | ME-NA-RI Walker | The Good Old Way Rachmaninoff | Excerpt from All Night Vigil Ellington | The Lord’s Prayer Fernades | Dame Albriçia mano Anton Kirchner | Unclouded Day
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FINALE: Randall Thompson’s Alleluia with LAMC Alumni
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Following the performance, enjoy a celebratory champagne toast with the entire audience, Music Director Grant Gershon, and all of the singers.
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More at www.lamc.org/performances/2013-09-22-50th-season-celebration
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Tix start at $29, and are available 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, at 213-972-7282, or at www.lamc.org
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Sun, Sep 22, in SFV (Chatsworth):
7 pm JIMI NELSON plays the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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It’s L.A.’s last real honky-tonk, with dancing to live music nightly on a big dance floor, friendly folks, a full bar, and free dance lessons if you go early. No cover, except on rare occasions.
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Sun, Sep 22, in L.A.:
7:30 pm LILA DOWNS plus special guest CARLA MORRISON at the the Greek Theatre, 2700 N Vermont Av, Griffith Park (Los Angeles) 90027; www.GreekTheatreLA.com
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Sun, Sep 22, in Hollywood:
8 pm "SWEET RELIEF" benefit for the artists' charity, includes JENNI ALPERT, endorsed by Luna Guitars, plus others at Hotel Cafe, 1623 Cahuenga Bl, just S of Hollywood Bl, Hollywood 90028.
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Sweet Relief provides financial aid to musicians facing crushing medical expenses.
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Sun, Sep 22, in Santa Monica:
8 pm JOHN DOYLE, the Celtic guitar virtuoso, plays McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-824-4497; www.mccabes.com.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Tue, Sep 24, in Culver City:
6-9 pm Pianist MARC BOSSERMAN plays his new weekly residency at Ford’s Filling Station, 9531 Culver Bl, Culver City 90232; 310-202-1470.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
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Thu, Sep 26, in L.A.:
Time tba “JOHN FOGERTY: WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE” exhibit opens at the GRAMMY Museum, 800 W Olympic Bl, Suite A245, Los Angeles 90015, with the entrance on Figueroa St; 213-765-6803; HYPERLINK "http://www.grammymuseum.org" www.grammymuseum.org.
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The exhibit will feature artifacts from his personal collection. JOHN FOGERTY will make an appearance for an intimate interview and audience Q&A in advance of his national concert tour that begins October 10 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
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He’s a national treasure who’s sold over 100 million albums. The GRAMMY Museum’s same-day unveiling of the exhibit is named after his current album “Wrote A Song For Everyone” (Vanguard Records), hailed by fans and critics alike including a rare 5-star lead review in Rolling Stone.
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This reflective exhibit will offer visitors a unique look at the musical career of the singer, songwriter and guitarist, who, for more than 45 years, has been making music that continues to speak in a powerful way to generations of musicians and music lovers alike.
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On display through January 2014, the “John Fogerty: Wrote A Song For Everyone” exhibit will feature:
- Centerfield “Baseball Bat” guitar; played during his solo career;
- Dobro guitar from 1969’s Green River album cover;
- John’s personal scrapbook from his time with Creedence Clearwater Revival;
- Handwritten lyrics to “Proud Mary”;
- Fogerty’s high-school diploma and yearbook;
- Costumes, posters, awards and albums;
- Personal correspondence, tour ephemera and photographs;
- The original recording contract CCR signed with Fantasy Records that came back to haunt him
- And much more.
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On the evening of the launch, Fogerty will participate in The GRAMMY Museum’s popular “An Evening With” public program series. The event will be hosted by GRAMMY Museum executive director Bob Santelli, and will include a candid interview and audience Q&A in the Museum’s Clive Davis Theater.
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Museum admission is $12.95 for adults; $11.95 for senior citizens (65+); $11.95 for students with I.D. (ages 6 – 22); and $10.95 for youth (ages 6-17) and members of the military. GRAMMY Museum members and children 5 and under are admitted free.
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Thu, Sep 26, in Glendale:
8-11 pm Pianist MARC BOSSERMAN plays Left Coast Wine Bar & Art Gallery, 117 E Harvard, Glendale 91205.
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Marc says, "This is a great spot for singers to come and sit in. Or other musicians. I sing. Great PA. Percussion. Classy Comfortable, cool!"
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Friday, September 27, 2013
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Fri, Sep 27, in SFV (Studio City):
6 pm 16th Annual "SILVER SPUR AWARDS" at the Sportsmen's Lodge, 12825 Ventura Bl, Studio City; 818-769-4700.
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JANE BACH (who has written hits for Reba McEntire and JoDee Messina) joins SANDRA PILLER performing. More at www.SandraPiller.com
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Fri, Sep 27, in L.A.:
7:45 pm LIALA BIALI, award-winning Canadian jazz pianist, plays the season's opening concert at the splendid Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, 10361 W Pico Bl, Los Angeles 90064.
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Advance tix at www.trk.us.com
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
8 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Fri, Sep 27, in Arcadia:
8 pm LAURIE MORVAN plus BOBBY BLUEHOUSE play the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr (just E of Santa Anita Av), Arcadia; www.arcadiabluesclub.com
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Food is available from 7 pm until midnight; generous portions. Full bar. Free parking on the street or in the city lot behind Denny's. Fun place. But take earplugs. Seriously.
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Online tix, $10 + $1.50 fees. At door, $15.
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Saturday, September 28, 2013
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Sep 28,
WORKSHOP for ARTISTS,
in downtown L.A.:
10:30 am-1 pm "UKULE-ALONG: STRUMMERS IN THE SUMMER" registration just reopened for this final Ukule-Along in the "Active Arts" series at the Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles 90012; www.musiccenter.org
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Perfect for ukulele fans; adult amateur musicians only (18 years and older), beginner to intermediate level. Billed as "A wonderful way to get your summer strum on with mixed level group instruction in strumming, fingerpicking patterns, licks and tricks, and more."
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Read the "Frequently asked questions" at:
www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULE-ALONG-2013/Frequently-Asked-Questions-FAQ/
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Register online no later than September 20, at:
www.musiccenter.org/events/activearts/UKULE-ALONG-2013/Ukule-Along-Registration/
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Sat, Sep 28, in Covina:
6 pm "BOB MORLEY’S BARN HOOT" brings a rare full-set concert appearance by Trough Records recording artist MARK HUMPHREYS, accompanied by guitarist JOHN-MICHAEL KAYE and bassist TIM CUPPS, plus the songs and stories of BOB MORLEY opening, in a lovely setting in the hills above the San Gabriel Valley in Covina 91724. Reservations get directions by email to smearman_322@yahoo.com
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This is that "sleeper" show you're always seeking, the one you'll brag about to friends because you were there. MARK HUMPHREYS is a wonderful performing songwriter.
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He spent the '90s criss-crossing the map of North America, playing every folk venue you've ever heard of, and many you haven't. He was a true troubadour and pioneer of the acoustic renaissance, even before he founded the multi-artist co-op label, Trough Records. But these days, a high-power job makes his live performances -- especially a full-set concert appearance -- precious and rare. Southern California-based singer-songwriter MARK HUMPHREYS has marvelous originals that should have been iconic hits, and a fine voice that delivers them. He's that good. If you've never heard him, don't miss this chance. If you have heard him, you're already making reservations.
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Opening and hosting the evening is singer-songwriter-storyteller BOB MORLEY.
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There is NO SET-PRICE ADMISSION for this concert, plus, it is a POTLUCK. "So," Mark tells the Guide, "all you need to bring is something to eat – it can be as fancy or as simple (or somewhere in-between) as you like – a leg of lamb or a twelve pack of soda; a casserole or a bag of potato chips – whatever you like - and everybody gets dinner and a show. And it's FAMILY FRIENDLY - so bring everybody!"
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It's music, then dinner, then music. Bob Morley opens the evening at 6 pm. Then dinner is served. After dinner, MARK HUMPHREYS performs.
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Voluntary donations will be accepted at the end of the evening.
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Sat, Sep 28, in Pasadena:
6:30 pm "MOUNTAIN MUSIC FROM ULSTER TO NASHVILLE" at the Urban Homestead, 631 Cypress Av (near Lincoln & Orange Grove), Pasadena 91103; reservations, info@urbanhomestead.org or 626-844-4586.
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Here's the lineup:
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REBECCA STOUT: Los Angeles-based Appalachian flatfoot dance instructor Rebecca Stout began clogging as a child in Cordele,Georgia, as part of the community mountain-style clogging group THE DIXIELAND CLOGGERS. She went on to spend the next three decades developing and fine-tuning her unique “Tennessee Shuffle” style of free-form flatfoot and buck dance. "There was never a question that I would sing and dance," says Rebecca. “In my family, it was about the same as breathing air or drinking water.” Rebecca feels she owes a great deal of her personal flatfooting style to the abundance of African-American music and culture in the southeast. “I got into clogging at about the same time The Sugarhill Gang came out with ‘Rapper's Delight’. To me, they are forever intertwined. Everybody in the fifth grade was obsessed with learning all the lyrics to ‘Rapper's Delight,’ me included. And it didn’t take long to figure out that hip-hop and flatfoot go together like bread and butter.” Rebecca's husband, June Kato, will join her on upright bass.
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THE WIMBERLEY BLUEGRASS BAND includes members endorsed by major instrument makers. They are four siblings – Danielle (mandolin), twins James (banjo) and Mark (guitar) and Michael (fiddle and lead vocalist). The youthful Wimberley Bluegrass Band is based in Orange County. Inspired by the likes of Bill Monroe and Ricky Skaggs (with whom they recently shared the bill), the Wimberleys display tight, soaring harmonies with a natural vocal blend characteristic of family singing. They deliver fun and wholesome musical entertainment and strive to keep traditional sounds of bluegrass alive while taking it to new audiences.
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TOM FAIR: For twenty-two years a classroom music teacher and private music instructor in the L.A. area, as well as a lifetime musical performer and producer of events, he crafts the "Musi-cational Concert Series." Tom established it in 2011 to give an overview of American music that parallels the history of the nation, and to provide an income source for his music student scholarship fund. This is the latest in that concert series.
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Venue has limited seating, and reservations are in excess of expectations, so purchase seats online. If oversold, a second show will be added. Tom Fair adds, "The 6:30 show makes an ideal family activity."
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Sat, Sep 28, in Tehachapi:
7 pm BERKLEY HART, the San Diego-based duo of multiple award-winning singer-songwriters Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart, play Fiddlers Crossing, 206 East F St (at Robinson St), downtown Tehachapi.
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The combination of Kerrville "New Folk Songwriter Award" winner Jeff Berkley and stand-out wordsmith Calman Hart, who together have repeatedly won top honors in San Diego, creates a pairing that has become one of the premier acoustic duos touring the country. (And they're currently planning another UK tour.)
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Each song they present is a little slice of contemporary life, like a little movie. It’s storytelling at its best and most succinct, whether told from the point of view of the family dog or a single father consoling his heartbroken daughter after a disastrous prom date. The ups and downs of life are explored in their six CDs, with the piercing twists of observation in their lyrics accompanied by stunning harmonies and virtuosic guitar playing. Their live show is laced with comedy and their obvious comraderie.
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Hailing from San Diego, both Berkley and Hart emerged from the Southern California coffeehouse circuit, each building sizeable followings on their own before joining forces. As a duo for more than ten years now, they have become fixtures on the folk circuit, making appearances at the Kerrville Folk Festival, as well as playing some of folk’s most prestigious venues.
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To see a slice of the world through the eyes of these masterful storytellers, go to www.fiddlerscrossing.org or www.berkleyhart.com
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As the venue observes, "Storytelling is still alive and well in acoustic music. Fiddlers Crossing is bringing some of the best musical storytellers to Tehachapi." A lot of prominent folk / nu-folk artists love this venue.
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Tickets by credit card at 661-823-9994 (add $1 per ticket for processing with a credit card).
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Tix $20 and include coffee and goodies. Doors open at 6:30 pm for the best seats.
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Sat, Sep 28, in Altadena:
7 pm THE GOOD INTENTIONS play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info HYPERLINK "http://www.coffeegallery.com" www.coffeegallery.com. (“The venue named by the Guide's editor, writing in FolkWorks, as L.A.’s best intimate acoustic listening room venue”).
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Winners of the British Country Music Awards - Best Americana Act of the Year 2011. New album, now available, on Drumfire Records "Travelling Companion". "In this world of bang-crash pop records masquerading as country it is refreshing to hear an act like this – they are the real deal." Stuart Cameron - CMR Nashville Radio “If you can have such a thing as the perfect British Americana sound, they’ve got it”. Alan Cackett -Maverick Magazine.eFormed in 2005, The Good Intentions is built around the three part vocal harmonies of song writer, R Peter Davies, Gabrielle Monk and Francesco Roskell, with stripped down instrumentation of guitar, autoharp, mandolin, banjo, and accordion.
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“We have been hugely lucky to work with Rick Shea of Dave Alvins 'Guilty Men' and a great songwriter in his own right, on the production of our newest album, 'Someone else's Time'. We were also joined by musicians Brantley Kearns on fiddle who has played with Dwight Yoakam and Heather Myles, Dave Raven on percussion, and David Jackson on doghouse base and accordion, as well as Rick on pedal steel and mandolin. Country music just like it used to sound when you were young...”. -- Andy Zeihli, Americana Gazette.
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Bob Stane says, “Coincidentally, I have been following a documentary called, ‘7 Up,’ which covers a group of Londoners, then seven years old, in seven year increments until, lately, a recap, as they are at 56 years of age. As it happens, Peter Davies, of the group Good Intentions, was in that group. Art comes to life from London to the stage of The Coffee Gallery Backstage. Go to the links, below, and find out how life, London, a documentary and The Coffee Gallery Backstage share moments in history and time. As you can see this subject was explored on TV, in movies and in newspapers, worldwide. Check it out at www.ocweekly.com/2013-01-03/film/56-up-michael-apted-series/
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There’s more at www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/booming/56-up-shows-generations-commitment-to-family.html? _r=0
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And check them out at www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/56-up-hamptons-review-377283 Or Google: “ 56 Up.”
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Tix, $15.
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
8 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Sat, Sep 28, in Arcadia:
8 pm BB CHUNGKING plus BOBBY BLUEHOUSE play the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr (just E of Santa Anita Av), Arcadia; www.arcadiabluesclub.com
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Food is available from 7 pm until midnight; generous portions. Full bar. Free parking on the street or in the city lot behind Denny's. Fun place. But take earplugs. Seriously.
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Online tix, $10 + $1.50 fees. At door, $15.
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Sat, Sep 28, in Santa Monica:
8 pm THE DEL-LORDS play McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-824-4497; www.mccabes.com.
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
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Fridays-Sundays, through Oct 20,
MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
2 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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Sep 29, in downtown L.A.:
Time tba "L.A. PHIL SIMULCAST" on a giant screen in Grand Park, downtown L.A., lets you relax on the lawn with family and friends to watch the Los Angeles Philharmonic live on the screen.
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Sun, Sep 29, in Santa Barbara:
4-5 pm HONEYSUCKLE POSSUMS close the all-day “ART WALK” at the Natural History Museum in Santa Barbara
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This is NOT a free art walk (it costs $10), but the Possums tell us it has “tons of great music all weekend before us -- we are closing down the event with a bang, 4-5 pm.”
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This Santa Barbara-based folk-bluegrass-old timey all-girl ensemble is inclusive of musicians who have toured widely and recorded on plenty of records. They’re fun and they’re beautiful.
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"The Possums have hearts full of honey. These women clearly love what they're playing. This is true Americana... and they're mighty tight as well. If you could taste the sound, it would be clear country Honeydew Vinewater. Give them a listen! " Johnny Sacko, Santa Barbara, possum friend.
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Sun, Sep 29, in Pasadena:
4:30 pm HARRIET SCHOCK, multi-platinum seling songwriter, plays the Ice House, on Mentor just N of Colorado Bl, Pasadena.
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Harriet says, “I am thrilled to announce that we have been invited to perform “IT’S JUST MY LIFE” at The Ice House in Pasadena! ONE NIGHT ONLY, on Stage 2 at The Ice House. There will be a champagne reception prior to the show at 4:30 pm. Tickets are now available at www.icehousecomedy.com. Enter the site, go to calendar, Stage 2 and then click on the date (Septermber 29th) to purchase tickets.”
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“For all of you who have supported IT’S JUST MY LIFE over the past three years, we are eternally grateful! We hope you will bring all of your friends out to The Ice House to support us one more time!
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“The Ice House was the club that got me my first and second record deals in the seventies. I haven’t played there in a long while. Now I’m going back with this amazing show of 11 monologues from real women’s lives (and three songs—I sing one of them). If you’ve never seen this, do come to this one! If you have, come back!”
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Sun, Sep 29, in Echo Park:
5:30-9 pm Weekly "GRAND OLE ECHO" Americana / alt country / honky-tonk showcase nears the end of its season and brings performances by Son Ark, Greg Felden, David Serby (playing his Record Release Party), and The Groovy Rednecks, at The Echo, 1822 Sunset Bl, Echo Park 90026; 213-413-8200.
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Sun, Sep 29, in VC (Ojai):
7 pm THE BILLS, that fabulous band from Vancouver Island, play Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Dr, Ojai.
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Canadian roots band THE BILLS return to the US for a highly anticipated tour, suppotring their new album “Yes Please” on Red House Records.
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Their first album in seven years, this highly anticipated release follows their Juno Award-nominated Red House debut “Let ’Em Run” and proves that this virtuosic roots quintet is making “the most innovative original and traditional music in recent decades” -- Christian Science Monitor.
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Known the world over for their exquisite songcraft, superb arrangements and dynamic live performances, The Bills feature an all-star line-up of talent from Canada's west coast, including Chris Frye (guitar, lead vocals), Marc Atkinson (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Adrian Dolan (fiddle, accordion, piano, vocals), Richard Moody (violin, viola, vocals) and Scott White (upright bass). All busy musicians, The Bills had been working on other musical projects until they recently reunited to record this new album.
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“The Bills knew 2012 was the time to record,” says singer / guitarist Chris Frye. “With the imminent end of the world approaching, we had to lay down our song ‘Not the End’ and other new hits as quickly as we could! Not to mention the fact that fans of the band had been clamoring for new material for years.”
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With their signature high energy performances and clever wit, The Bills do not disappoint fans on this long-awaited album. Yes Please features some of their finest collaborative songwriting to date, including the bluegrassy “Blackberry Ivy and Broom,” the Gypsy-flavored “Gale in My Sail,” the sea-faring song “Pandora’s in Flames” and of course, their rollicking anti-apocalypse song “Not the End.” Showing off their first-class musicianship, the album also features several instrumentals, including the Celtic-inspired “Scotch Bonnet” and Richard Moody’s melodic “The Gardenton Waltz.”
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With twelve original compositions and one lush arrangement of a medley of gypsy-jazz ballads, these tracks draw all the beauty and energy you can imagine out of acoustic instruments and multi-layered vocal harmonies. Influenced in equal parts by Django Reinhardt, Sam Bush, Stan Rogers and Chopin, The Bills have crafted an album that appeals to acoustic music fans of all ages and styles--from bluegrass and gypsy jazz to classical and folk music from around the globe. When asked if they want another helping of The Bills’ tasty tunes and lively performances, folks everywhere can’t help but say “Yes Please!”
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An enhanced CD with additional lyric booklet and other special content, “Yes Please” also includes a video of “Shining Face,” one of the fan favorites on the album.
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Tix, $20; buy in advance by calling 805-640-4355 x1660 or online at http://www.ojaievents.com
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Sun, Sep 29, in West L.A.:
7 pm RAY JESSEL, the award-winning raconteur, songwriter (and Einstein doppelganger) returns for “An Irreverent and Tuneful Evening” at the Parlor Performances series at Cornerstone Music Conservatory, above Fields Pianos, 12121 W Pico Bl (one door W of Bundy); free parking; when used for “Parlor Performances” series, make reservations with HYPERLINK "mailto:Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com" Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com or 310-476-6735.
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CONCERTS, etc.,
from October onward in 2013 & 2014
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MUSICAL play with Appalachian mountain music,
in L.A.:
8 pm West Coast premiere of “THE BURNT PART BOYS,” a coming-of-age musical set in a West Virginia mining town, features a soaring Appalachian-inspired score, at the Third Street Theatre, 8115 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048; reservations, 323-655-9232 or www.thirdstreettheatre.org
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Adventure and redemption are at the heart of this new musical inflected with the rich musical sounds of the Appalachia region. Richard Israel directs an unforgettable coming-of-age story that follows a group of teenagers in West Virginia's coal country on their life-altering journey to “the burnt part” –the section of the coal mine that took their fathers’ lives. Musical director Gregory Nabours shepherds the vocally complex score inflected with the rich acoustic sounds of rural Appalachia. Book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, lyrics by Nathan Tysen. Opens Sep 14 at Third Street Theatre.
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“The Burnt Part Boys is an engrossing story in which a group of friends goes up a mountain as kids, but comes back down as adults,” says Israel. “By setting the story in the West Virginia coalmines of the early 1960s, the creators look at the American idea of expectation versus aspiration – how we fulfill the life that has been set out for us, and what we do when the path our fathers took isn't necessarily the path we choose for ourselves.”
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The Burnt Part Boys was a finalist for an American Theatre Critics New Play Award and received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 as a co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre in 2010, receiving a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Musical. Variety called The Burnt Part Boys “an adventurous, innovative and gripping musical,” and the The New York Times wrote “the spirit of youthful high jinks recall[s] the exploits of Mark Twain’s beloved roughhousers, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.”
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Composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen started collaborating in 1999 at New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In addition to The Burnt Part Boys, they have written the scores to Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Revue) and the current Broadway-bound adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting. Other work includes a song for the revue Stars of David; commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley; and an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company.
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Gregory Nabours’ musical director credits include The Color Purple (Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards for Best Musical Direction), Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, The Full Monty and Rent. Gregory's original song cycle, The Trouble With Words, debuted in 2011 and was awarded the Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory is the resident composer and music director for the Coeurage Theatre Company and can be seen weekly playing for Ryan Black's 88’s Cabaret.
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The Burnt Part Boys runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm, Sep 14 through Oct 20. Tickets range from $29-$34 (reserved seating); children age 16 and under are $15 with purchase of an adult ticket – for that, use promo code KIDS.
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File under "you've gotta be kiddin' me: FIVE MONTHS in advance?"
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LADY ANTEBELLUM with KIP MOORE and KACEY MUSGRAVES will perform Mar 15, 2014 at Citizens Business Bank Arena, and Mar 18, 2014 at STAPLES Center; tix for both shows go on sale Oct 4 at 10 am.
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Oct 4-Nov 2,
LIVE OUTDOOR THEATRE,
in Altadena:
7 pm Annual "WICKED LIT" live performance season happens each year around Halloween, at the Mountain View Mausoleum & Cemetery in Altadena. Advance tix required (see below).
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The shows will all sell out. Get tix promptly. Wicked Lit 2013 runs Oct 4 - Nov 2.
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Here's the Line-up for 2013
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The New Catacomb" is adapted by Jonathan Josephson and directed by Douglas Clayton: "Two friends, and rivals, put their friendship to the ultimate test when one makes a life-altering discovery in the depths of a long-since forgotten Roman crypt."
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Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," adapted by Jonathan Josephson and directed by Jeff G. Rack, is "A lyrical reimagining of the beloved tale of the good-hearted schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his cemetery encounter with the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow."
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There's H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear," adapted by Jeff G. Rack & Jonathan Josephson and directed by Paul Millet: "Something is killing our people, and hiding amongst our dead . We need to find it, kill it – or die trying."
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Beginning at 7 pm, "The Masque of the Red Death Experience," conceived and directed by Paul Millet, is inspired by the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Singers, dancers, improvisational actors, and a buffoon surround you in the macabre world of Wicked Lit. Designed as a gothic masquerade, "The Masque of the Red Death Experience" draws text and tone from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe and presents a theatrical framework for your immersive journey through the mausoleum and cemetery.
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The Cast includes some well-known L.A. theatre scenesters:
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Chairman Barnes ~ Jennifer Novak Chun ~ Stephen Devalos ~ Eric DeLoretta ~ Bianca Gisselle ~ Jaclyn Friedlander ~ Eric Harris ~ LizAnne Keigley ~ Eric Keitel ~ Ilona Kulinska ~ Richard Large ~ Carlos Larkin ~ Brandon Massey ~ Susannah Myrvold ~ Katie Pelensky ~ Brian David Pope ~ Michael Prichard ~ Teena Pugliese ~ David Reynolds ~ Shawn Savage ~ Tory N. Thompson ~ Jonah Zimmerberg-Helms.
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Tix & more info at
www.UnboundProductions.org
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Friday, October 4, 2013
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Oct 4, in Claremont:
6-10 pm Monthly "CLAREMONT ART WALK" brings live music performances, gallery exhibitions and demonstrations, plenty of food offerings, and more, to the village in downtown Claremont 91711.
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Fri, Oct 4, in Malibu:
8 pm GEORGE WINSTON, the multi-instrumentalist and piano virtuoso, plays the Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University Malibu, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.
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Winston will also play some Hawaiian slack key guitar, in addition to selections from his piano repertoire that will include his own style of melodic instrumental music on solo piano,called "folk piano," and R&B piano, stride piano, Vince Guaraldi's "Peanuts" pieces, and more.
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He's a musician and activist who has supported many causes. The audience is invited to join in support of a local food bank by bringing a donation of canned food to the concert. There will be collection baskets at the entrances.
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"The popular, unassuming pianist's songs are pastoral wonders that purposefully evoke nature and landscapes in a way that's as understated as it is beautiful." -- Ben Salmon, Bend Bulletin.
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Winston's latest solo piano release is "Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions 2" -- A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit (2012). Since 1972 he has released 12 other solo piano albums.
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In 2001 Winston released "Remembrance -- A Memorial Benefit," a six-song CD of piano, guitar, and harmonica solos to benefit those affected by 9/11. He also worked with the late George Levenson of "Informed Democracy" on three projects: a solo guitar soundtrack for "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" and soundtracks of piano, guitar, and harmonica solos for "Pumpkin Circle" and "Bread Comes to Life." In 1984, he did the solo piano soundtrack for the children's story "The Velveteen Rabbit" for Rabbit Ears Productions.
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Winston is presently concentrating mainly on live performances, and most of the time he is touring and playing solo piano concerts, solo guitar concerts,solo harmonica concerts, and solo piano dances (with R&B and slow dance songs).
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He is studying the playing of the great New Orleans pianists Henry Butler, James Booker, Professor Longhair, Dr. John, and Jon Cleary, and working on interpreting pieces on solo piano by his favorite composers, including Guaraldi, Professor Longhair, the Doors, Frank Zappa, Randy Newman, Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, Laura Nyro, Al Kooper, Dr. John, Henry Butler, James Booker, Jon Cleary, Ralph Towner, Arthur Lee, Milt Jackson, John Hartford, Oliver Schroer, Taj Mahal (who performs at Pepperdine on October 6), Philip Aaberg, and others.
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Additionally, Winston is working on solo guitar and recording the masters of Hawaiian slack key guitar (named for the beautiful solo finger-style guitar tradition unique to Hawaii) for an extensive series of albums for Dancing Cat Records. He is also recording his main inspirations for his harmonica playing: Sam Hinton, Rick Epping, and Curt Bouterse.
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Still, he mostly known as a pianist. Winston plays Steinway pianos.
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More at www.georgewinston.com
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Tix $45, $40, $20; $10 for full-time Pepperdine students. Now available at 310-506-4522 or at http://arts.pepperdine.edu
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
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Sat, Oct 5,
PSEUDO-FESTIVAL,
in the Eastern Desert:
1 pm-1 am Huge "40th Anniversary Gram Parsons Tribute" with I See Hawks In L.A. and many others performing, at The Joshua Tree Inn, 61259 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree 92252.
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"10X THE PARTY" as Walt Disney Concert Hall is turning 10 and The Music Center is hosting "10 different ways to party, all on one day."
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"Join in the fun on Grand Avenue," says the Music Center, "because nothing says fun like a party for a ten-year-old!"
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At the Walt Disney Concert Hall, part of the Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles 90012; www.musiccenter.org
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Sat, Oct 5, on Topanga:
6 pm "UNSUNG HEROES: A TRIBUTE TO ELENI MANDELL & FRIENDS" with performances by JACKSON BROWNE and VAN DYKE PARKS, as part of "INARA GEORGE & FRIENDS," which include Priscilla Ahn, Mike Andrews, Jackson Browne, FMLY, Benji Hughes, Alex Lilly, The Living Sisters, Van Dyke Parks, Gus Seyffert, Harper Simon, Becky Stark and Charlie Wadhams, all celebrating the songs and music of Living Sister Eleni Mandell, “one of the best kept secrets of Los Angeles,” at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga 90290 (midway between PCH & the Ventura Freeway); 310-455-3723; www.theatricum.com
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Homegrown Topangan and acclaimed singer-songwriter Inara George returns to Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum for her annual tribute concert that benefits the theater’s educational programs.
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Sponsored by 89.9 KCRW , which, the last time we checked, did not play any if these artists' music.
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The outdoor amphitheater at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum is terraced into the hillside of the rustic canyon. Audience members are advised to dress casually and warmly and bring cushions for bench seating. Snacks are available at the Hamlet Hut, and picnickers are welcome before and after the performance.
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Sat, Oct 5, in Palmdale:
7 pm JOHN M, plus CHAPPELL & DAVE HOLT, play Butler's Coffee, 40125 10th St West Suite I, (just N of AV Mall and 14 Fwy overpass), Palmdale 93551; 661-272-9530; www.butlerscoffee.com
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These veteran performers have been traveling separately but team-up before hitting the road again for Irvine and the Far-West Conference.
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The Holts (Chappell & Dave) and John M first met at a FAR-West conference.
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"I'm talking music that's bursting with heart and soul and passion and brains and guts. The kinda music that JOHN M. delivers – in spades," says Kevin Burton-Smith, the venue's music director.
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KEVIN SPACEY, the Oscar winning actor, singer, director, producer, says, "I love that honest, straight from the heart sound! His lyrics hold up without the music. But the music lifts it to the truly sublime."
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John will perform songs from his recently re-released album, “A Taste Of Things To Come,” as well as an upcoming CD in production and scheduled for release this year.
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CHAPPELL & DAVE HOLT, who bring "The Jazzy Side of Americana," says Kevin Burton-Smith.
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Andrea Van Dyke, OCA Event Coordinator, Occidental Center for the Arts, said in October 2012, “Chappell and Dave Holt are seasoned performers who can move fluidly between all the musical genres - jazz, Native American, old-timey or blues - that their well-honed talents lead them to. Along with their guests, they presented a rollicking good time and a wide variety of tunes in 'A Celebration of the American Song.' What an enjoyable way to get a history lesson in song!"
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No cover. One purchase (food or drink) minimum.
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Sat, Oct 5, in Pasadena:
8 pm CHRIS PROCTOR plays the “PASADENA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY at CALTECH" series in Beckman Institute Auditorium (aka “Little Beckman”) on the Caltech campus in Pasadena; 626-395-4652.
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Sat, Oct 5, in Malibu:
8 pm HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN plays the Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.
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"If rosin were flammable, violinist Elana [James] would be charged with arson." -- ink19.com
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Hot Club of Cowtown, the Austin-based band has grown to be the most globetrotting, hard-swinging Western swing trio on the planet. Hot Club of Cowtown has created an international cult following for its sizzling blend of hot jazz and Western swing inspired by its namesakes: "Hot Club" from Reinhardt and Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France, and "Cowtown" from the influence of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
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With appearances on A Prairie Home Companion and at the Grand Ole Opry, the group has both critics and audiences alike raving. The Onion's A. V. Club wrote, "Hot Club of Cowtown sounds like it's spent the last 40 years in tiny rural clubs," while The Times (London) remarked, "Unfussy and unpretentious, their blend of down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation harks back to a lost era of so-called western swing. When they plunge into 'Orange Blossom Special' your thoughts turn not so much to runaway trains as to a B-52 tearing up a runway."
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The band's members are Elana James, fiddle and vocals; Whit Smith, guitar and vocals; and Jake Erwin, bass and vocals. Its latest album, Rendezvous in Rhythm, was released earlier this year on Gold Strike Records.
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Elana James grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, and began playing Suzuki violin at age four. It took her almost 20 years to decide between the violin and the fiddle, but in her mid-20s, after much soul-searching, she found her calling in American roots music and has never looked back.
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In 2006,performing with the Hot Club of Cowtown, she had the honor of representing the US State Department as a musical ambassador throughout Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, playing everything from Texas hoedowns to American Songbook standards.
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In 2005 she became the first dedicated female instrumentalist in Bob Dylan's touring band in more than 30 years, then toured with him in 2006 as the opening act for his US summer tour. In addition to tours and recording with Dylan, she has also recorded with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard, and more. In 2004 she was inducted, along with her Hot Club bandmates, into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame.
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Whit Smith was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent his earliest years in New Canaan, Connecticut, and later Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Born to musical parents, Smith was exposed right away to a life of practicing and performing.
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Born in 1974,upright bassist Jake Erwin hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma, location of the legendary Cain's Ballroom, home of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He took an interest in American roots music at an early age and decided to explore its variations through the sound of the double bass.
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He has become one of the country's premier practitioners of percussive "slap bass," a style begun in early New Orleans jazz that continues through country, blues, and even rock 'n' roll today.
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Erwin has been inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame (one of the youngest members ever) and been a featured performer (with the Hot Club of Cowtown) on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, Later...with Jools Holland on BBC television, and at World Cafe Live, the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, the Smithsonian Institution, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Midsummer Night's Swing (also at Lincoln Center),to name a few, and he has toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, the Mavericks, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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In addition to the Hot Club of Cowtown, he has had the honor of recording and playing with some of Texas' finest performers and songwriters, including Wayne Hancock, Ronnie Dawson ,the Asylum Street Spankers, Max Stalling, and Kim Lenz.
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Tix, $35, $25,$15 for the public and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling 310-506-4522 or online at http://arts.pepperdine.edu
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Sat, Oct 5, in downtown L.A.:
7:30 pm LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC presents “DUDAMEL and BRONFMAN” at Walt Disney Concert Hall, atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles.
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As part of the tenth anniversary celebration of Walt Disney Concert Hall, world-renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman will perform with the dynamic Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program includes Schubert’s Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 and a world-premiere commission by the L.A. Phil. Get tix soon.
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Monday, October 7, 2013
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Mon, Oct 7, In L.A.:
9 pm THE WATERBOYS play the only L.A. show on their US / Canada tour (the first in six years), at the El Rey Theater, 5515 Wilshire Bl, L.A.; www.theelrey.com/calendar.php?y=2013&m=10
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Who else does modern Irish folk / folk-rock with lyrics written by legendary Irish poet W.B. Yeats? In fact, they're touring the release of their first new album in five years, "An Appointment with Mr. Yeats," on Proper Records.
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“Romantic Ireland may be dead and gone, but Mike Scott and the Waterboys certainly aren’t, and neither is W.B. himself.” -- NoDepression.com.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
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Tue, Oct 8, in Venice:
7 pm MARCI GELLER plays The Talking Stick, 1411-C Lincoln Bl, Venice 90291; 310-450-6052.
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Named an “Editor’s Choice” in 2010 as one of its favorite songwriters of the last decade by Independent Songwriter Magazine, Geller was selected earlier this year to showcase at both the annual Singer Songwriter Cape May conference and the NERFA 1-Day Capital Region Conference (NERFA stands for North East Regional Folk Alliance). She’s performed on “Live with Regis,” “Good Day NY” and “Fox Morning Show,” and her music can be heard in soundtracks on MTV, VH-1, PBS, ABC Family, A&E, Discovery channel, USA Network and others. Geller also toured for two years as the support act and back-up vocalist for Ritchie Blackmore’s band, Blackmore’s Night.
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Marci Geller believes that “we should all do things that terrify us as often as possible.” Luckily performing is not one of them.
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In recent years, Geller has been touring as a piano-based solo artist in the folk circuit. In a relatively short time she has racked up some prestigious credentials. After catching the ear of the well respected band “Buskin and Batteau,” she was invited to sit in during their shows in order to introduce her and her music to their audience. David Buskin is quoted as saying Geller is “one of the finest singer/songwriters we’ve come across.” She was honored with an opening performance for them at the famed Guthrie Center in June of 2013, which set off a sequence of events that she never could have predicted.
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She accepted a performance opportunity in South Florida that was slated for the day after July 4th, and given the holiday weekend, she was not anticipating stellar attendance. Several audience members that had recently seen her for the first time at the Guthrie Center took it upon themselves to write to several listservs that are populated by the folk community urging people to go to Geller’s Florida shows. The result was “record breaking attendance” and a series of standing room only shows that included the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. As her touring continued through Maryland, she was once again astonished at the packed houses, especially when one of the venues air-conditioning went out mid-show leaving a sweaty, but ever-enthusiastic audience who stayed until the last note. “With intelligent lyrics, captivating melodies and inspired vocal pairings with James Maddock and Vance Gilbert, Marci Geller’s latest release, Open Book, is a great listen from the first song to the last,” says Alan Marzelli, curator of the Words & Music concert series at the Ossining (NY) Public Library in the Budarz Theater. Noted singer-songwriter Lori Lieberman calls Open Book “a lovely collection of songs that reflect the artist’s inner strength and positivity. Songs/music/arrangements/vocals – just beautiful.”
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Tue, Oct 8, in Arcadia:
7-9:30 pm JULIE CHRISTENSEN, accompanied by JOHN McDUFFIE, plays the weekly “SONGWRITER SERENADE” with performing host JC HYKE and other invited recording artists, at Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant & Bar, 145 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia 91006. No cover / pass the hat.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
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Wed, Oct 9, in Ventura:
7-9 pm JULIE CHRISTENSEN, with DAN WILSON and BARNEY TOWER, plays Green Art People, 140 N Ventura Av, Ventura 93001.
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Wed, Oct 9, in L.A.:
8 pm THE AVETT BROTHERS plus musical guest NICHOLAS DAVID play the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall, 665 W Jefferson Bl, Los Angeles 90007.
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Listen to The Avett Brothers "Another Is Waiting" streaming from NPR (which is rich with music, except in L.A.), at http://n.pr/1480uTe
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Tickets are $39.50-$49.50, plus Ticketmaster's usual ridiculously high extortion charge, at http://bit.ly/14m9xlp
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
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Thu, Oct 10, in downtown L.A.:
Time tba "GRAND PARK TURNS ONE" celebration commemorates a year of events and friendships made in the heart of LA., as local and international artists join forces as part of "Daniel Pearl World Music Days," celebrating various genres of music there and throughout the nation and the world.
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Annual "DANIEL PEARL WORLD MUSIC DAYS" arrives with many public performances in many genres of music, in L.A. and throughout the world.
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Journalist Daniel Pearl was also a violinist / fiddle player who grew up in music circles in Southern California. He was murdered by terrorists, but those who knew him have established "Daniel Pearl World Music Days" to remember the joy of his life rather than how it ended.
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Thu, Oct 10, in Malibu:
8 pm ROGER McGUINN and MARTY STUART with THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES play the “President's Choice Series” at Pepperdine University Center for the Arts, in the Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA
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Folk-rock music icon Roger McGuinn teams up with country music singer-songwriter Marty Stuart and his band,the Fabulous Superlatives, to perform such classics as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," and "Turn,Turn, Turn."
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McGuinn and Stuart are an unbeatable combination, but for guitar fans the show offers even more. While it may not be a Byrds reunion,it's a reunion of sorts as McGuinn's signature 12-string Rickenbacker guitar blends again with Stuart's B-Bender guitar.
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Stuart's well-known B-Bender started life as a 1954 Fender Telecaster and was the main electric "axe" of legendary country-rock pioneer Clarence White of The Byrds. White and multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons fashioned a steel-guitar-inspired mechanism that raised the B string a whole step when downward pressure was applied on the strap and the string was "bent." White used the guitar almost exclusively until his untimely end in 1973; its distinctive sound is heard blending seamlessly with McGuinn's 12-string on many Byrds recordings.
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After White's passing,the "Clarence White Tele" sat unused at his home in Kentucky until his widow,Suzy,contacted Stuart. "The guitar really found me," recalls Stuart. "Roland White, Clarence's brother,got me my gig with Lester Flatt,and I was friends with the family. The guitar already had a following of its own by that time -- I was always fascinated by it, lusted after it,and I'd even had a similar bender put in another guitar to try and duplicate the effect.
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"I've never considered it my guitar,really. It's his,and now it kind of has a life of its own. The spring gets dry and squeaks,so I spray WD-40 on it now and then,but I've never cleaned it. All the dirt inside and behind the strings is the original dirt. We call it 'Clarence.'"
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For many who hear the name Roger McGuinn, the first thing that comes to mind is that unmistakable Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. McGuinn has been associated with the guitar since his earliest days as a member of The Byrds. McGuinn has played other electric guitars over the years and is also known as an acoustic folk artist of considerable magnitude, but he still remains the undisputed "King of the Rick 12." When he started playing it, McGuinn couldn't have known that the 12-string Rickenbacker would become his signature sound.
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Tix, $55, $49, and $40; $10 for full-time Pepperdine students.
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Thu, Oct 10, in Culver City:
8:30 pm-midnight JULIE CHRISTENSEN with JOHN McDUFFIE, plus BLISS BOWEN and her special musical guests (and she knows everybody), play The Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City 90230; 310-390-1328.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
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Fri, Oct 11, in Malibu:
8 pm THE DUNWELLS play the Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.
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Fri, Oct 11, in Beverly Hills:
9 pm ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS play "a live performance of his hits, old and new," at the Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Bl, Beverly Hills,
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American Songwriter magazine writes, "[Eric Burdon's] voice is gruffly wizened but still unmistakably the person who mesmerized '60s youngsters singing 'House of the Rising Sun' with booming angst. With a top notch band behind him led by co-producer/drummer Tony Braunagel and a batch of pretty good rockers that reflect on a life filled with more ups and downs than most of us will ever experience,this is a well-earned victory lap. Eric Burdon’s river is far from running dry."
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Eric Burdon wraps-up the summer leg of his hectic and ongoing World Tour that includes the "Bumbershoot Festival" in Seattle and this one stop in L.A.
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Some of music's most articulate voices, from Bruce Springsteen to Patti Smith and Iggy Pop, have cited his strong influence upon their work.
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Earlier this year, Eric released "'Til Your River Runs Dry," (on ABKCO) heralded as his most personal album to date. It has been met with critical acclaim worldwide and is making an impact on AAA radio. Hailed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time,” Eric Burdon has long been a groundbreaker while maintaining a commanding presence in music with the Animals, with WAR and simply as Eric Burdon.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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Tue, Oct 15, in Pasadena:
7-9 pm Monthly "GUITAR NIGHTS" series brings CELIA LIU on pipa and CABALACHE on son jarocho to Guitars on Hill, 130 N Hill Av, Pasadena.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
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Fri, Oct 18, on Mt. Baldy:
7:30-10 pm "MOONLIGHT HIKE & BBQ" concert series brings RON ELY for a return to the “Top of the Notch” Lodge, at the top of the Mount Baldy Ski Lifts; park at the North end of Mt Baldy Rd (take Mountain Av North from the 210 Freeway, then right on Mt Baldy Rd to the end) Mount Baldy.
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The lift is an exhilarating ride up (and down) the canyon, or you can hike one or both ways in the moonlight. The food is good there, too, with huge portions, and they have a full bar.
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Contact Ron in advance for a FREE ski lift pass (that'll save you about $20 and pay for your dinner!) His email is ronely@altrio.net
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
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Sat, Oct 19, in San Pedro:
2-5:30 pm JOELLEN LAPIDUS on mountain dulcimer, YVETTE DEVEREAUX on violin, & OLIVER STEINBERG on upright bass, in a free concert at Crafted, 110 E 22nd St #100, at the Port of L.A., San Pedro 90731; www.craftedportofla.com
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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7:30 pm BLUES TRAVELER plays at the El Rey Theatre in L.A.; doors at 7 pm. Tix are general admission, $32.
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Tue, Oct 22, in L.A.:
8 pm "DANNY ELFMAN’S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON" with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and The Page L.A. Choir, conducted By John Mauceri, featuring Danny Elfman’s first live US performance in 18 years; at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live. Doors at 7:15 pm. Tix, $45, $65, $75, $95, $125.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
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Fri, Oct 25, in Santa Monica:
8 pm STEPHEN KELLOGG, plus special guest FORT ATLANTIC, plays McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-824-4497; www.mccabes.com.
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
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Sat, Oct 26, in Acton:
4 pm 5th Annual "FALL COWBOY ROUNDUP" with performances by DAVE STAMEY, JERRY "BROOKSIE" BROOKS, and FIDDLIN' PETE WATERCOTT, at Mike and Paulette Tcherkassky's Whistle Stop Ranch in Acton. (Off the 14 Fwy, in the mountains between L.A. and Palmdale).
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The ranch gate opens at 4 pm for visiting and dinner, show starts promptly at 7 pm. Make reservations early. This books to capacity.
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Sat, Oct 26, in Beverly Hills:
Time tba Blues prodigy JONNY LANG plays the California Canyon Theater in Beverly Hills.
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He's touring his first new studio album in seven years, "Fight For My Soul," which comes out Sep 17 on Concord Records, and it's getting fine reviews.
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Lang’s songwriting on "Fight For My Soul," the follow up to his 2006 GRAMMY Award-winning "Turn Around," takes a major leap forward, as he explores the struggle for love and family with startling heart and depth.
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The Wall Street Journal, who premiered the album with a pre-release album stream observed, “Lang has done plenty of growing up since his precocious teenage years, and it shows in the 11 songs on 'Fight for My Soul'.”
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USA Today calls “Blew Up (The House)”, the album’s first single, “…an incendiary blues-rock stomper about taking extreme measures to make a fresh start.”
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“This album is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time,” offers Lang. “Some of these songs may surprise people, but that’s what it's all about. It keeps it fresh, and it keeps me growing. Creatively, I think there is a lot more going on inside of me than I’ve been sharing on record so far. Much of what I've experienced through music and life in general is in these songs.”
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Lang has toured non-stop since his first major label album "Lie To Me" was released in 1997 when he was 16. That won him a large and incredibly loyal audience, along with a well deserved reputation as one of the best live performers and guitarists of his generation.
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Now in the midst of touring to support the new album, Jonny will make a special hometown "CD Release Day" stop in Fargo, North Dakota at The Fargo Theatre. Fargo may not be a blues town, but it will be that day.
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Watch the “Blew Up My House” lyric video at:
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Sat, Oct 26, in Santa Monica:
8 pm KEN O'MALLEY and THE NE'ER DUWELLS, an L.A.-based all-star Irish band, play the "FOLKWORKS CONCERT SERIES" at the Santa Monica History Museum, 1350 7th St, Santa Monica 90401.
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
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Sun, Oct 27, in NoHo:
3 & 7 pm “SAMHAIN: THE STORY OF HALLOWEEN & TALES OF THE CELTIC SUPERNATURAL” told through song, story, music & dance, is presented by Celtic Rhythms in association with The Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles, at the Mayflower Club, 11110 Victory Bl, North Hollywood 91606.
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This is the third year for "Samhain: The Story of Halloween,” and it’s a brand new show with tales of fairies and otherworldly creatures from Celtic mythology. It’s told in the format people have come to love -- a Celtic Halloween extravaganza with high energy Irish dances, traditional Celtic tunes that will bewitch your feet and keep your toes a-tappin', ghostly love songs that will rip your heart out, and exciting dances with real swords and axe handles for a start.
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Tix, www.celtic-rhythms/samhaintickets
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$15 general seating, $18 preferred seating at the 3 pm show; at 7 pm, it’s $18 general seating, $22 preferred seating. This always sells-out.
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November & December, 2013
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Noon-3 pm WIMBERLEY BLUEGRASS BAND plays Riley's at Los Rios Rancho, 39611 Oak Glen Road #13, Oak Glen 92399.
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Sun, Nov 3, in Hollywood:
5th Annual "REMEMBER THE MUSIC" benefit for Alzheimer's disease research presented by "BETTY'S FOUNDATION" at The Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Bl (half a block S of Hollywood Bl), Hollywood 90028.
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Sun, Nov 3, in Santa Monica:
8 pm TISH HINOJOSA plus special guest JOEL RAPHAEL play McCabe's, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica 90405; 310-828-4497; www.mccabes.com
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Dec 31, in Beverly Hills:
8 pm DON McLEAN, with MICHAEL ANN AZOULAI opening, at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills.
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Michael Ann asks, "Please purchase tickets through me," at michaelannmusic@gmail.com
or, she adds, "I will have a link to my Amazon direct pay... for Don McLean tickets."
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January, 2014
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Jan 23-26, 2014,
MUSIC TRADE SHOW & CONFERENCE,
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Annual NAMM SHOW at the Anaheim Convention and in all the meeting and convention facilities of all the surrounding hotels, in Anaheim. More, as the date approaches.
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June, 2014
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MUSIC CAMP,
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5th Annual "NEW ORLEANS TRAD JAZZ CAMP" in New Orleans, Louisiana 70175.
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Click the registration button on the home page, or call 504-895-0037.
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