Tuneful Alternatives to TV Baseball. Wed & Thu, Oct 24 & 25 2018

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You know the Dodgers are going to break your heart. It's what they do. So you can endure the excruciating ordeal of another 7th inning that goes hopelessly awry, or you can lose yourself in tuneage. We don't stand at anybody's door and knock, but we do offer plenty of choices.

Herewith is the acoustic and Americana music landscape for Wednesday and Thursday. Pre-game, post-game, and instead-of-game.

LATE ADDITION...
More on Friday. We had expected to publish for the weekend on Thursday, but we kept getting slammed with word of more and more events. Didn't let-up all day, and we're writing this added note after 5 pm Thursday. But we will be back Friday with more for the weekend and beyond.
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Events appear chronologically, by day and start time.

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Wednesday...
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Wed, Oct 24:

7 pm - "BLUES OPEN MIC" is free every Wed at Starboard Attitude, 202 The Pier, Redondo Beach, CA  90277; 310-379-5144; www.starboardattitude.com

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Wed, Oct 24:

7 pm - Grant Langston, plus Los Tres, play the Americana "Wine & Song" concert series hosted by Brad Colerick at the Blue Guitar room at Arroyo Seco Golf Course, 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena, CA.

*  Adjacent to the Blue Guitar is the Arroyo Seco Grill which has food, wine, and full bar.

*  Tix, www.deepmix.com

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Wed, Oct 24:

7:30 pm - Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps play their  every-Wed blues residency at The Write-Off Room, 21791 Ventura Bl, Woodland Hills, CA  91364; 818-610-8308

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Wed, Oct 24:

8:30 pm - Barry "Big B" Brenner plays his FREE every-Wed blues residency at the Tuning Fork, 12051 Ventura Pl, Studio City, CA 91604; 818-623-0734; www.tuningforkgastropub.com

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Wed, Oct 24:

9 pm - "Just Dave Bernal's Last Chance Country Jam" happens every Wed at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon, 18389 Ventura Bl, Tarzana, CA  91356; 818-344-0034; www.myspace.com/sugarmillsaloon

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Wed, Oct 24:

9 pm -  The House of Vibe All-Stars play their every-Wed blues residency at Harvelle's Santa Monica, 1432 Fourth St, Santa Monica, CA 90401; 310-395-1676; www.harvelles.com

*  Tix, $5.

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Wed, Oct 24:

9 pm - The Wayfarers, plus The Exploding Flowers, plus The Wyldewood Green, play The Redwood Bar & Grill, 316 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA  90012; 213-680-2600; www.theredwoodbar.com

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Thursday...
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Thu, Oct 25:

7 pm - CARSON McHONE, with Izaak Opatz, Ben Reddell, and other surprise guests, does a FREE "Pop-Up" Concert at McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA.

*  Voted among the "10 New Country Artists You Need to Know" by Rolling Stone in 2017.

*  McHone's new album, "Carousel," was recently included on Rolling Stone's "10 Best Country Songs of the Week."

*  Hailing from Austin, Texas and playing weeknights in local bars as a teenager, McHone pays homage to her honky-tonk roots, but blends in diverse influences like Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, and American novelist Thomas Wolfe.

*  Unconcerned with flying the flag of old-school country, McHone wears her eclecticism proudly, singing each song in a voice that is worldly-wise and woozily gorgeous.

*  Ray Wylie Hubbard described McHone's music, saying that she "writes songs like her life depends on it."

*  FREE concert, so get there early enough to get in.

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Thu, Oct 25:

7:30 pm - KID RAMOS & THE MEMPHIS KINGS play the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W Malvern Av, Fullerton, CA 92833.

*  It's a buffet of roots music, blending rhythm and blues, country, and early jazz. Kid Ramos has worked with James Harman, Roomful of Blues, the Big Rhythm Combo, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Mannish Boys, Bobby Jones and Los Fabulocos.

*  Tix,  714-738-6595 or www.TheMuck.org

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Thu, Oct 25:

8 pm - Les Poules à Colin play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm

*  Bob Stane says, "Tinges of European culture and foot stomping barn dance party enthusiasm. They have travelled the world with their appealing music. Don’t let me down on this one. They won’t come back if you don’t come. Read the description below. Good Stuff."

*  Fiddle, guitar, lapsteel, banjo, mandolin, piano, bass and foot percussion form a rich and varied backdrop for their inventive arrangements, while their repertoire is a mix of original and traditional Quebecois pieces that reveal gorgeous vocal, instrumental, and rhythmic prowess.

*  Their repertoire is a mix of original and traditional pieces, primarily in French but with some English compositions, and reveals gorgeous vocal, instrumental and rhythmic prowess.

*  Their adaptations of traditional songs from Quebec, Brittany or Louisiana speak eloquently to their generation while retaining the beauty of timeless music.

*  Despite their young age (22-28), Les Poules à Colin have been playing together for over nine years and it shows in their sparkling complicity.

* Tix, $20.

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Thu, Oct 25:

8 pm - Barry "Big B" Brenner plays his FREE every-Thu blues residency at Griffins of Kinsale, 1007 Mission St, South Pasadena, CA ; 626-799-0926; http://griffinsofkinsale.com

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Thu, Oct 25, CLASSICAL:

8 pm - MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA plays The Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA  91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org

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Thu, Oct 25:

8:30 pm - THE WATKINS FAMILY HOUR plays the Largo at the Coronet, 366 N La Cienega Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90048; 310-855-0350; www.largo-la.com

*  We've written plenty about them over the years, so here's what Falling James writes currently in the "LA Weekly": "Singer-fiddler Sara Watkins and her guitarist-brother Sean Watkins have managed to make Largo feel like an intimate living-room jam in the middle of frenetic and flashy West Hollywood. Both former members of bluegrass upstarts Nickel Creek are engaging singers and instrumentalists with deep catalogs of their own, but at their monthly gathering they also surprise fans with unexpected cover songs and even more unexpected guest visitations from such heavy friends as Fiona Apple and Jackson Browne, along with intuitive backing from Greg Leisz, Soul Coughing’s Sebastian Steinberg and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench. You never know who might show up, and you never know what will be on the setlist, but expect some achingly beautiful, heartfelt harmonies and lilting, lovely balladry amid all the easygoing joking and song-swapping."

*  Tix, $30. (We routinely told you, "Back when," to see them while it was still cheap. Welllll...)

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Thu, Oct 25:

9 pm - DEAD ROCK WEST plays The Redwood Bar & Grill, 316 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA  90012; 213-680-2600; www.theredwoodbar.com

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That's all for this edition. Stay tuneful!





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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS – and views of interest to artists everywhere – more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.



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