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| SLOFOLKS CONCERTS |
SLOfolks Concerts at Coalesce Bookstore, Green Acres Lavender Farm and artMinds Gallery begin at 7:00pm
SLOfolks Concerts at Castoro Cellars Winery, from October to May begin at 7:30pm.
Castoro Summer concerts from June to September begin at 7:00pm
A catered dinner is offered at Castoro Cellars at 6pm
Mobile Solar Power is donating a solar wagon for all Castoro outdoor shows.
SLOfolks would like to thank Travis Semmes for giving us the opportunity to use solar energy at our outdoor concerts.
mobilesolarpower.net
Photo on the right by Paul McCloskey -
Chuck Brodsky in concert at Castoro Cellars, January 26, 2008
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| ERIC TAYLOR |
Eric Taylor
May 9 - Coalesce Bookstore, 7pm ~ $15
May 10 - SLO Art Center, 7pm ~ $15
Sonnie Brown will interview Eric Taylor on The Minstrel Song Show Saturday,
May 10, between 2 and 4pm.
on KCBX, 90.1FM
"Eric Taylor is both quietly and intensely one of our best singer-songwriter-performers, a cerebral poet with a clear creative course accompanied by solid, never-hurried acoustic guitar licks capable of drawing listeners into the quiet places between the notes. . . [Hollywood Pocketknife is] a consistently listenable CD, as fine as an evening reading a good book at a warm hearth while the wind howls outside."
Buddy magazine
Eric Taylor
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| PRINCE DIABATE |
Prince Diabate
May 23 - Coalesce Bookstore, 7pm - $20
May 24 - Castoro Cellars, 7:30pm - $20
"A rooted prong who plugs into any socket, not just the ancient griot traditions of his native Guinea, Prince Diabaté has universal electricty. He plays the kora, a 21-stringed version he built himself, and looking at this big, lacqured spacecraft with its gourd resonator is a show in itself, but the rapid runs and deep rhythms he plucks and slaps out of it will trip you out. He sings, too in a strong marketplace cry that cuts through anywhere. Improbable as it seems, his New Life demonstrates Diabaté's complete naturalness performing any style: Tunes range from reggae to flamenco to a waltz, even, and all have guts..."
Greg Burk - L.A. Weekly, Concert Picks
Prince Diabate
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| KATE POWER & STEVE EINHORN |
Kate Power & Steve Einhorn
June 6 - Coalesce Bookstore, 7PM - $15
Kate Power & Steve Einhorn double bill with Blind Willies
June 7 - Wilson Hall - 7PM $20
Tickets available at Boo Boo Records with $1.50 service charge
Wilson Hall, corner of Marsh and Morro, San Luis Obispo.
For information call 543-5451.
KATE POWER & STEVE EINHORN are two musicians who have defined folk music in Portland, Oregon over the past 30 years. A rare combination, their music promotes community and romance simultaneously.
"Between decades of serving up folk music at Artichoke Music, winning a Grand Prize at Kerrville for a song from a lost boy, community activism like setting the Guinness World Record with the world's largest guitar band singing "This Land is Your Land" to allay hunger in Portland, playing A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor when he came to Oregon with his road show, letters from Pete Seeger letting us know how much he loves our music and getting to share letters and friendship with the real hero of our lives or giving an unknown Zimbabwean boy a great guitar to play after he built his first one out of an oil can, raw wood and stripped bicycle brake cables; there have been a lot of stories to tell."
Kate Power & Steve Einhorn
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| BLIND WILLIES |
Blind Willies -
San Francisco duo Blind Willies is fiddler Annie Staninec and guitarist/singer/songwriter Alexei Wajchman. Bluegrass, old time, and gypsy jazz fiddler Annie has toured with David Grisman's Gypsy Caravan, and performed with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Crooked Still, and Stephane Wrembel. Alexei has been called "a remarkable songwriter" by Jennifer Patton, editor of the popular online zine Delusions of Adequacy, who wrote of the duo's 2007 debut CD, The Unkindness of Ravens, "Blind Willies play incredibly wonderful music. Annie's fiddle is the perfect accompaniment for Alexei. The great albums seem fewer and farther between each year. Blind Willies surprised me by bringing back that wide-eyed joyful feeling that I used to get from albums like this." The debut album is on Patton's 2007 Top 10 list.
Blind Willies' subjects range from urban street life to the vagaries of personal relationships. Annie is an inventive improvisational fiddler, and Alexei plays a passionate guitar that gives his lyrics a raw immediacy, providing the foundation for Annie's interpretive riffs.
Annie and Alexei will perform songs from their new CD release, Everybody's Looking for a Meal.
Blind Willies
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| LAURENCE JUBER |
Laurence Juber June 21 - Castoro Cellars,7:00pm - $22
Lead Guitarist for 'Wings'
Two-time GRAMMY® winner
Fingerstyle Guitarist Of The Year
Studio Guitarist on Oscar- and Emmy-winning movies and TV shows
Magazine Columnist
As a young working musician in London, England in the 1970s, Laurence Juber got an extraordinary, life-changing break when Paul McCartney picked him to become Wings’ lead guitarist. Juber spent three years recording and touring with the band. During that time he won a Best Rock Instrumental GRAMMY® for the track "Rockestra" from the Wings album Back To The Egg.
Laurence Juber
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| BAKA BEYOND |
Baka Beyond (England & Africa)
July 19 - Castoro Cellars. 7:00pm - $22
Unique is a good word to describe Baka Beyond. This blend of Celtic and African music performed by some of the best musicians from both worlds as been described as "a complete sensory experience". The band members from Brittany, Cameroon, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Ghana as well as Britain meld the rhythms and melodies of Africa with Celtic traditions old and new. Martin Cradick, guitarist is the founder member of Baka Beyond.
Baka Beyond
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| ARROYO GRANDE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES |
August 10th - SLOfolks welcomesSligo Rags,a Celtic-oriented ensemble comprise of accomplished and versatile musicians.Their repertoire is original, traditional with cover tunes.
Steve Key will open.
Steve Key is an award-winning songwriter, performer and recording artist. He produces concerts, hosts songwriters showcases, manages the West Coast Songwriters Competition in San Luis Obispo CA, and teaches songwriting.
Steve Key
Sligo Rags have mastered the ability to take songs from a time gone by and make them fresh and relevant for a modern audience. Their passion for the music and their willingness to take risks combine for an outstanding live show."
Music Connection
Sligo Rags
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| PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO |
Peppino D'Agostino with guest Terry Miller, bassist & Karl Perazzo, percussionist (at Castoro Cellars only) -
August 22 - Coalesce Bookstore - Solo - 7:00pm - $22
August 23 - Castoro Cellars, 7:00pm - $22
Peppino D'Agostino was voted "BEST ACOUSTIC GUITARIST" by the readers of Guitar Player Magazine in THE 2007 GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE READER'S CHOICE AWARDS!
Peppino writes wonderful guitar pieces. He's one of my favorite composers for this cranky instrument. Plus, he's a tone player. I love his sound... gets the resin and the wood."
Leo Kottke
"a poet...among the best talents around"
San Francisco Chronicle
"Peppino's music is deep and beautiful."
Tommy Emmanuel
"Peppino brings warm humanity to the acoustic."
Adrian Legg
Do we need to say more?
Peppino has come to play for our SLOfolks concerts for over twenty one years.
Peppino D'Agostino.com
Terry Miller,
Bassist / Composer/Arranger/Musical Director/ Clinician/Instructor
Instruments: 4, 5, 6 string upright basses, 4, 5, 6 string electric basses
Currently performing with The Miller Brothers Trio, Guitarist Mike Miller, Drummers Tom Breckline or Ralph Humphrey, The Shelly Berg Trio with Tom Scott & or Dave Coz., Greg Field "Concord Records", The Steve Miller Band recording project. The Harry James Orchestra, Anne Kosich, Les Miserables, Marcus Luvett "the phantom of the opera" Broadway production. Musical Director for Mary MacGregor, touring with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Jim Salestrom and Session Bassist for various local and national projects.
Karl Perazzo, percussionist, is currently playing with the New Carlos Santana Band. He has recorded 5 albums the last one shaman being a 1xGrammy winner and the previous one Supernatural being 11xGrammy award winner.
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| PINT & DALE |
William Pint & Felicia Dale
Coalesce Bookstore - Friday, September 12, 7pm ~ $15
"William Pint and Felicia Dale rank among North America's most exciting interpreters of music based in the traditions of the British Isles and France... unconventional but spine-tingling... unique and mesmerizing "
Dirty Linen
Felicia Dale plays the Hurdy-Gurdy and William Pint a strange looking guitar wih some of the braces on the outside and the mandola. These two instruments together with their voices and occasional Tin Whistle from Felicia keeps everybody in the room enraptured.
William Pint & Felicia Dale
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| MIKE MARSHALL & CHORO FAMOSO |
Mike Marshall with Choro Famoso
September 27 - Castoro Cellars, 7pm, $22
Mike Marshall is one of the most innovative players of new instrumental music. Initially rooted in bluegrass, Marshall has consistently explored all the possibilities of his stringed instruments. During the five years (1985-1990) that he was a member of David Grisman's influential Quintet, Marshall toured with Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas and fellow Grisman band member Darol Anger.
Mike Marshall
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| SMALL POTATOES |
Small Potatoes
October 10 - Coalesce, 7:00pm - $15
October 11 - Castoro Cellars, 7:30pm - $15
The Chicago based folk duo of Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso say it has taken them years of careful indecision to develop a repertoire they describe as "celtic to cowboy" Superb musicianship and showmanship, award-winning songwriting, and a strong sense of tradition has made them, as Dirty Linen Magazine said,"one of the most polished, inventive, and entertaining shows on the circuit."
Small Potatoes
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| JAMES TALLEY |
James Talley
November 7 - Coalesce
November 8, Castoro Cellars
James Talley - November 7 - Coalesce Bookstore-$15 - November 8 - Castoro Cellars-$15
“One singer-composer of singular talent and integrity, whose work will last beyond all fads and fashion””one of the most gifted
songwriters of this or any other country…” Nat Hentoff
James Talley
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| COSY SHERIDAN & T.R.RICHIE |
Cosy Sheridan & T.R. Richie
November 21 - Coalesce Bookstore, 7:00pm - $15
Sheridan has a unique talent for combining fascinating stories with a beautiful voice. Ritchie writes songs that are both familiar and fresh, a classic quality rich in roots influences.
-General Information: www.SLOfolks.org (805)528-8963
Cosy Sheridan
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| SLOFOLKS 2009 CONCERTS |
Alex de Grassi
January 17, Castoro Cellars
Hanneke Cassel Trio
March 13, Coalesce Bookstore
March 14, Castoro Cellars
John Jorgenson Quintet
June 13, Castoro Cellars
Wake The Dead
September 26, Castoro Cellars
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