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| SLOFOLKS CONCERTS |
SLOfolks Concerts at Coalesce Bookstore 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
Doors open at 6:00pm for our SLOfolks Concerts.
A catered dinner is offered at Castoro Cellars at 6pm
No outside food or beverages are allowed at any of the catered concerts.
Photo on the right is of Diana Jones who is coming in November 2010 (N.Y.Times photo)
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
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| 2010 SUMMER CONCERTS AT CASTORO |
SLOFOLKS SUMMER CONCERTS START AT 7PM
Please remember to bring blankets or low back chairs if you want to sit in the front. We cannot save places until the doors open at 6PM. ~
Photo of Laurent Bernad (who does our SLOfolks flyers) with Los Pinguos at Castoro Cellars, 2007
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| ARROYO GRANDE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES |
For the Arroyo Grande Summer Concert Series ~
The VSCS shows start at 1:00pm and run until 3:00 or 3:30.
The Rotary Bandstand is in Heritage Square Park at the corner of Short St. and Nelson St. just south of the Arroyo Grande Village and the Arroyo Grande Creek. Three blocks east of Hwy 101 at the Grand Ave. exit in Arroyo Grande.
Sunday, August 1st - at 1PM
I am very happy to announce that SLIGO RAGS will be performing on the SLOfolks stage with LITTLE BLACK TRAIN ~ double bill
Little Black Train will start at 1:00PM.
There will be an intermission and SLIGO RAGS will perform around 2PM
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What do you get when you mash up a virtuosic bluegrass mandolinist, a traditional Irish fiddler, and an old-timey songster?
Kenny Blackwell (mandolin), John Weed (fiddle), and Stuart Mason (guitar and mandola) are the bluegrass-roots trio Little Black Train. From Depression-era gospel to Appalachian and Celtic dance tunes, they dig up the roots of bluegrass that traveled to America from Ireland and Scotland in the 19th century. Avid practitioners of the time-honored folk process, these boys combine new words and melodies with traditional songs from sources such as the Carter Family, Doc Boggs, and Charlie Poole. On the instrumental side, they mine fiddle tunes from archival sources in West Virginia, Ireland, and Scotland.
"Each of these three is amazingly accomplished, but something magical happens when they play together, their instruments swirling around one another like curls of smoke from a smoldering fire. This is old-time music at its most riveting!"
Glen Starkey, New Times SLO
Stuart Mason
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| SLIGO RAGS |
For the Arroyo Grande Summer Concert Series, I am very happy to announce
that SLIGO RAGS will be performing on the SLOfolks stage again on August 1st.
NOMINATED FOR BEST FOLK ACT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!!
From neighborhood pubs to outdoor festivals, house parties to concert halls, Michael Kelly, David Burns, Gordon Rustvold and Andy Reilly, aka the Sligo Rags, have been performing regularly throughout the Southland for the past two years. While the Rags stay true to the original intent of the traditional tunes they play, they are not afraid to be innovative. The addition of bluegrass-style flat-picking and world music rhythms to these time-honored songs creates a unique brand of Irish music that these bandmates are eager to share with . . . well, anyone who will listen.
Sligo Rags
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| PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO & SPECIAL GUEST CARLOS REYES |
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August 20, solo, Coalesce Bookstore, 7PM ~ $22
August 21, with special guests at Castoro Cellars, 7PM ~ $22
Bon Temps Creole Café will be catering our dinner ~ $12.00
Peppino D'Agostino has performed for SLOfolks for over 20 years, every August, surprising us each year with a special guest performer.
"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
"one of the most capable composers among fingerstyle guitarists"
Acoustic Guitar
"...D'Agostino plays steel-string guitar with virtuosity and complexity...Influences are as far-flung as the flamenco work of Paco de Lucia and the pop sensibility of the Beatles, evident in the songs he's written, which brim with memorable melodies."
Peppino D'Agostino
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Carlos Reyes recording artist, producer, engineer, harpist and violinist-has been breaking musical barriers since his first public performance at the age of five.
Born in Paraguay South America. He began his musical education at the age of three and a half on the violin. A few years later, his father, a musical and national hero in Paraguay, dared young Carlos to learn the complicated 36 string native Paraguayan harp. Being called a child prodigy at an early age he took his fathers challenge seriously, Carlos purchased his first harp for $50.00 when he was just ten years old. Two weeks later, he earned a double encore and $250.00 at his first professional harp concert. Since then he has taken the Harp and it’s music to new and ground breaking levels.
Carlos Reyes plays Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Keyboards, as well as mastering the use of a variety of electronic devices and special effects.
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| LOS PINGUOS |
September 11, Castoro Cellars ~ 7PM ~ $22
Popolo Rotisserie Café will be catering dinner ~ $13.00 per person
Los Pinguos came to the US from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a mixture of Latin rhythms, performed with Spanish guitars, a Cuban Tres, Peruvian cajón (box-drum), bass and harmonizing vocals. Vivacious and infectious, the sound of Los Pinguos has claimed fans worldwide, from their hometown to the streets of Los Angeles.
The story began in 1999 when Adrián Buono, José Agote, Juan Manzur and Juan Manuel Leguizamón (later joined by bassist Santiago Lee) formed the band to play in clubs, bars, and private parties throughout Buenos Aires. Their exciting, passionate live shows garnered a devoted fan base, inspiring the talented ensemble to pursue global attention.
Los Pinguos
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| ANNE McCUE |
Anne McCue
October 8, Coalesce Bookstore
October 9, Castoro Cellars
As one of the foremost female guitarists of our time, Anne has been invited to play at the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Concert at the Adelaide Guitar Festival alongside world renowned guitarists such as Vernon Reid and John Hammond.
Anne has appeared as guest guitarist/vocalist on albums by Michelle Shocked, Gina Villalobos and Stephen Rowe and has been featured in Guitar Player Magazine, No Depression, Harp, Performing Songwriter, Billboard, Australian Musician etc...
Her song 'Stupid' is included on the Time Life release '4 Decades Of Folk Rock' which features such legendary artists as Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Suzanne Vega and Patty Griffin
Anne McCue has recently been included along with Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Patty Griffin and other great artists in the collection '4 Decades of Folk Rock' and was a special guest at the International Guitar Festival.
Anne McCue
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| BRIAN GORE & SCHEHERAZADE |
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Brian Gore & Scheherazade Stone
Coalesce Bookstore, October 23, 7PM
Scheherazade (pronounced Shuh-herr-uh-zahhd) Stone got her first name from her parents who raised her in a musical way. Her contributions to the music scene have been appropriately eclectic, reflecting the rich diversity of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was born and bred.
Scheherazade also received BAMMIE (Bay Area Music Award) nominations for her vocal talents as well as for her work with Hueman Flavor.
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BRIAN GORE
Known as a “poet of the guitar,” Brian Gore’s emotive, expressive style combines influences from folk, jazz and classical music.
“Gore’s finely crafted poetic ’songs without words’ take the listener on a spellbinding, emotional ride.He has great facility as a player, but it’s the depth and range of moods his pieces evoke that makes his music such a pleasure.”
Ron Forbes-Roberts of Acoustic Guitar Magazine
A musical romantic, who draws inspiration from literature and philosophy, he employs his virtuosity in the service of the heart.
The Sing Strings: Scheherazade Stone and Brian Gore view web version: http://www.reverbnation.com/thesingstrings
Scheherazade Stone and Brian Gore of "The Sing Strings" bring their insightful and imaginative original music to select California venues this summer and fall. Their music blends two unique styles for voice and guitar into one mesmerizing melange of soul, blues, folk, jazz, and fingerstyle guitar influences.
Absolutely beautiful. Great work..., It's so nice to see and hear this."
Steve Vai
"Scheherazade Stone is a superb musician and a stunning singer with a magnetic stage presence."
Robert Hurwitt, SF Examiner
"Gore's finely crafted poetic 'songs without words' take the listener on a spellbinding, emotional ride."
Ron Forbes-Roberts, Acoustic Guitar Magazine
http://www.guitarpoet.com/
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| DIANA JONES & JILL KNIGHT |
Diana Jones
Friday, November 19, Solo at Coalesce Bookstore, 7PM ~ $15
Saturday, November 20, double bill with Jill Knight at Castoro Cellars, 7:30PM ~ $20
Folk Songs, It Turns Out, Were in Diana Jones’s Blood
"Ms. Jones, 43, is still mostly unknown outside folk circles in the United States, although her 2006 record, “My Remembrance of You,” received glowing reviews in British magazines like Uncut and Q. Her new CD is the kind of record that might have signaled a popular breakthrough, the emergence of a Joan Baez or a Judy Collins, had it appeared at the height of the folk or singer-songwriter movements of the 1960s and ’70s.
Ms. Baez, who inhabits Appalachian folk songs as well as anybody, said writers of Ms. Jones’s caliber come along only every so often. “There’s some kind of channeling from some other lifetime going on,” Ms. Baez said by phone from her home in Woodside, Calif. “I don’t know the answer to these things, but all I can think of is that it must come from some mysterious part of her soul.”
More on this link from the New York Times.
Copy & paste:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/music/31warr.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=%22diana%20jones&st=cse
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JILL KNIGHT with Diana Jones at Castoro Cellars, 7:30PM ~ $20
Saturday, November 20, 7:30PM
Jill Knight's soulful sound is unmistakable.
India Arie once quoted, "I love great voices and when I heard Jill sing it stopped me in my tracks." She later asked Knight to be her opening act. Just nominated for the LA music awards “best female vocalist”, A finalist at the Telluride Troubadour competition, a finalist at the National Academy of Songwriters "songwriter of the year" competition, a finalist in Billboard magazines, "best unsigned band" contest, a regional best seller in Album Netwo...
"Its hard to say which is better-the song or the way Jill Knight sings it."
Neil Fagan - Performing Songwriter Magazine.
"Few songwriters seem to have the self-assurance that this singer possesses...Knight approaches her music with an unadorned intensity, her songs pack an emotional punch rich in the details of everyday experiences... this is first rate, high quality music"
Jim Lee, Dirty Linen"
With a voice that crests and tumbles like a waterfall, Knight is as elemental as the wind."
Sacramento News and Reviews
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| GOLDEN BOUGH |
SLOFOLKS WILL CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH A CHRISTMAS CONCERT AT COALESCE BOOKSTORE.
Golden Bough , Coalesce Bookstore, Friday, December 3rd, 7PM $20
Rooted in the traditional Celtic music of Ireland and Scotland (as well as Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Man, French Brittany and Spanish Galicia), this trio of modern day minstrels has expanded upon these ethnic styles through the development of intriguing arrangements and original compositions. In this way, they have created a sound unique unto themselves. Since their formation
in 1980, Golden Bough has traveled great distances to numerous countries, to bring their music to enthusiastic folk fans the world over. Backing themselves on an array of acoustic instruments (Celtic harp, guitar, octave-mandolin, mandolin, accordion, violin, penny-whistle and bodhran) they blend their voices in pristine three-part harmony and feature haunting solo vocals. In the recording studio, as well as on stage, Golden Bough captures the essence and joy of traditional music.
Golden Bough
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| 2011 SLOFOLKS CONCERTS |
We are starting the year 2011 with ERIC HENDERSON and bringing back some of your favorite musicians as well as introducing new ones. Thank you for supporting LIVE MUSIC.
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| ERIC HENDERSON |
Eric Henderson
Friday January 14, Coalesce Bookstore, 7PM $20
Saturday January 15, Castoro Cellars, 7:30PM $20
There are only a handful of artists who possess an intangible quality that allows them to reach past the boundaries of the musical style to touch our inner soul.
Eric Henderson has been touching souls for many years with his unique ability to communicate with his guitar. It was clear that Eric had a calling when he first picked up the instrument at an early age.
Since his mother — a classically-trained pianist — first let Eric use her guitar when he was 6 years old, playing the guitar has been Henderson’s passion. He was soon ready for his own, which he mastered so well that at 13, Eric was invited to Spain to become one of only three people to study privately with the master guitarist Andres Segovia.
Eric Henderson
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| PIERRE BENSUSAN |
Pierre Bensusan
Best World Music Guitar Player!
(USA 2008 Guitar Player Magazine Readers Choice Award)
Friday, February 11 - Coalesce Bookstore - 7PM $20
Saturday, February 12 - Castoro Cellars - 7:30PM $20
Pierre Bensusan is recognized as one of the most eloquent diverse world musician of our time. What set Bensusan apart, is the passion, soul, intensity, and rhythmic complexity that mark even his quietest and most elegant pieces.
"Pierre’s music gives me the shakes. No other guitarist shares his strange gifts of sophistication, accessibility and downright joy. Even at its most complex, Pierre’s music only needs ears to be enjoyed."
Leo Kottke
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"Listening to Pierre Bensusan is rejuvenating. Beside his extraordinary touch and tone, the notes and melody appeal directly to the tender side of our human nature."
Steve Vai
"One of the truly gifted musicians of our time - he plays the guitar as if it were the very soul of himself."
George Winston
* A DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF PIERRE BENSUSAN: *
"STRINGS WITHOUT BORDERS"
We are pleased to inform you that a documentary film on the life and music of Pierre is currently being produced by award-winning filmmaker Roger Sherman of Florentine Films, New York. We are currently in the fundraising portion of the feature-length movie that will eventually be shown on PBS.
Here is a teaser about his new CD. Copy and paste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMfYWGlwM4
Pierre Bensusan
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| CITY FOLK WITH ALISA FINEMAN |
Coalesce Bookstore, March 25, 7PM
Castoro Cellars, March 26,7:30PM
City Folk is comprised of Keith Greeninger, Kimball Hurd and Roger Feuer. As the name implies, it is "folk" in the traditional sense that it is music of and for people with substantive and topical lyrics, yet with a contemporary urban edge.
Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd also perform as a duo but for this performance, Alisa will be joining City Folk.
Shimmering, awe-inspiring music that has captivated audiences with engaging rhythms and enchanting three-part harmonies….most comparable to the 'super group' Crosby, Stills and Nash .
City folk is a gem of a band ….NOT TO BE MISSED!"
City Folk
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Long-time favorites in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas, Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd have also earned national acclaim, touring all over the country, appearing at festivals such as California's Strawberry and Kate Wolf Memorial Festival, Austin's South-By-Southwest, the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Connecticut Family Folk Festival and the Wizards of Wooden Music.
Monterey County's Coast Weekly voted Fineman "Best Folk Musician" four years in a row and in 1991 she won top honors at the Kerrville Folk Festival for her songs, One Lone Bird and I Could Not Ask For More" - both of which were included on her 1995 release Better With Time.
Alisa Fineman
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| MISTY RIVER |
We are so happy to announce that Misy River will be coming back to perform for SLOfolks!
Coalesce Bookstore, April 15, 7PM
Castoro Cellars, April 16, 7:30PM
With their beautiful blend of voices, this all-female quartet from Portland has already captivated audiences throughout the North West and beyond. The combination of their incredible harmonies while playing guitar, fiddle, accordion, banjo and bass has made them a
"must see band." Their repertoire includes a wide variety of familiar folk, country, bluegrass favorites as well as Celtic tunes, mysterious haunting ballads and award winning original songs.
Misty River plays at venues that include numerous theater and coffee house concerts, State and County Fairs, Colleges, Folk, Bluegreass and Music Festivals, including Wintergrass, Telluride Bluegrass Festivals as well as The Strawberry Festival in Yosemite, Ca.
The artists are: Dana Abel (accordion), Carol Harley
(guitar, banjo), Chris Kokesh (fiddle), and Laura Quigley (bass).
Misty River
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| RICHARD SMITH & JULIE ADAMS |
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Richard Smith & Julie Adams
October 14, Coalesce Bookstore, 7PM
October 15, Castoro Cellars, 7:30PM
Richard is the national
“The most amazing guy I know on the guitar.”
“He can play anything I know, only better.”
Chet Atkins, CGP
Richard Smith owns many instruments, but his most prized is a guitar, which has written on it:
“To my hero, Richard” -- signed, Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins
Richard has toured around the world, surprising audiences everywhere with his genius, showcasing a repertoire spanning an incredible range of musical styles from country, bluegrass, mainstream jazz, modern pop and rock, to classical guitar. Richard also plays several of John Phillip Souza’s marches and, incredibly, comes close to sounding like an entire marching band – drums and all.
Julie Adams is one of the most diverse cellists on the music scene today.Raised in Dayton, Ohio, and classically trained at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Cincinnati Conservatory, Julie has won many competitions and played in a wide variety of musical settings. In 1996, she was selected to perform the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Cincinnati Conservatory Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with orchestras in Chicago, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio and Vero Beach, Florida.
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