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Pricing note: All prices listed below are prices at the door evening of
the show. Since many shows do sell-out
in advance, advance tickets are recommended. All tickets bought
in advance at outlets are subject to added box office
service charges.
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Saturday,
June 28
8:30pm |
$17 |
Janiva Magness
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Los Angeles based Janiva Magness is
one of today’s most talented and recognized blues and roots
vocalists. A three-decade darling of the blues genre, Janiva’s
vocal prowess and performance is the best of the genre. In May
2006 she beat out contemporaries Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia
Copeland and Marcia Ball to win the 2006 Blues Music Award for
‘Contemporary Female Artist of the Year.’
Billboard writes “Magness carves
out a niche by singing the blues with maturity and
sophistication." Singer Magazine writes “Her voice is sultry,
smoky and strong with jazz, blues, and soul textures enveloping
it.”
Although her vocals are at times
beautiful, this 49 year-old grandmother is best known for her
sauciness and the bold, brazen beauty of her recordings and
performances. In the liner notes of the new record Janiva pays
homage to controversial and rule breaking women before her like
Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith for fearlessly embracing their age,
their sexuality, and truth.
"Janiva Magness always knocks
me out because she has such style and poise on stage and she
hits every note she sings just right, perfect every time."-
Charlie Musselwhite
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Saturday,
July 12
8pm |
$25 |
Michael Martin
Murphy
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Michael Martin Murphey, "singing
cowboy poet", is not only the number one, best-selling singer/
songwriter of American Cowboy Music, he's one of the world's
most respected singer/ songwriters in the Pop and
Country-Western field. Though he's remained a lifetime resident
and loyal son of Texas, he's a man on mystical, spiritual quest
to try capture the soul of the deserts, plains and mountains in
the soul of America- from the Carolinas to California, from the
Great Plains to the Deep South to the Wild North Country.
Murphey is the world's most
prominent musical representative of the Western horseman
(Richard Farnsworth, legendary Hollywood stunt man and Western
actor once called him a "master horseman"), the horse rancher,
cattle rancher, and cowboy. He's also a lover of the outdoors,
with a strong commitment to issues regarding farmers and
ranchers, open space, and management of natural resources.
Although Murphey did have some love song-related hits, most of
them were penned by other writers such as Rafe VanHoy's "What's
Forever For?", Jesse Winchester's "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" and
the Overstreet/Schuyler composition "A Long Line Of Love", most
of his own work involves nature and his respect for all things
living and the universe at large. And let's not forget that his
biggest hit, "Wildfire", was about a mysterious dream horse on
the vast American heartland prairie.
"Michael Martin Murphey is one
the main influences on my career. He
is among America's best songwriters"----- Lyle Lovett"
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Thursday,
July 17
8pm |
$17 |
Rory Block
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With stunning versatility, Rory Block performs
intense Delta blues, passionate folk and gripping originals. Her triple
combination of flawless, aggressive finger-picking, powerful enthralling vocals,
and insightful and poignant songwriting has made her one of the most important
performers in America today. When she digs into the old blues of Robert Johnson,
Tommy Johnson, or Bessie Smith Block ranks as one of the most impressive and
powerful to play that style. Her blues based originals show Block to be a
contemporary blues songwriter with few peers to match her sensitivity as well as
grittiness.
"Rory Block has been an inspiration to me
since we started out years ago. Her guitar playing, singing and songwriting are
some of the most soulful in traditional and modern blues."- Bonnie Raitt
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Friday,
July 18
8:30pm |
$15 |
Rick Estrin & the
Nightcats
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Today, singer/harmonica player/songwriter Rick
Estrin ranks among the very best harp players in the blues world. His work on
the reeds is at once deep in the tradition of harmonica masters Sonny Boy
Williamson II and Little Walter Jacobs while at the same time pushing that
tradition forward. The Associated Press called his harp playing, "endlessly
impressive." The great guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr. (who was schooled by
Robert Johnson and who played on most of Little Walter's Chess recordings) told
Estrin, "Little Walter would be very proud of you."
For more than 30 years and nine albums, Rick
fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, featuring
guitarist Little Charlie Baty. But now, with Baty's recent retirement from
touring, Estrin -- along with the Nightcats longtime rhythm section of J. Hansen
and Lorenzo Farrell and fiery guitarist Kid Andersen -- is ready to take the
lead on his own. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats' sound, while still swinging the
blues, is a harmonica-driven, rocking, guitar-fueled rave-up. The band performs
the well-known, well-loved songs from Estrin's massive catalog, and will
introduce plenty of new material along the way.
Rick's seemingly effortless command of the
harmonica is matched only by his soulful vocals and remarkable original songs.
Ever since he started performing his own material, it has become increasingly
clear that Rick Estrin is a songwriter of unparalleled skill. His quick wit,
coifed hair, pencil-thin mustache and sharp attire inform his songs in a way Cab
Calloway, Louis Jordan, Willie Dixon and Elvis Presley would all be proud of.
Blues Revue declared, "Estrin sits on one of the finest blues catalogs of any
band on the planet. His carefully wrought lyrics penetrate human weakness with
the precision of a boxer, though more often than not, he chooses to leave you
laughing after the blow's been struck."
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Sunday,
July 20
7:30pm |
$25 |
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Raul Malo
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Singer Raul Malo has one of the
most exceptional singing voices in all of contemporary music.
As lead singer of one of the great Country music bands of the
late 80’s and 90’s The Mavericks, Malo became recognized for
the amazing voice that people have often compared to some of
music’s greats, Orbison, George Jones, Sinatra. By the 2000’s
Malo was concentrating more on his solo work, incorporating the
60’s pop and latin sounds of his Cuban upbringing with the
Country twang of The Mavericks. Now, Malo has become one of the
great singers of nearly any style, slipping in and out of
various rhythms, crossing cultures and blurring musical
boundaries.
“Most impressive….A voice
that seems to have no limits of range or versatility.”
– USA Today
“Gripping, wide-screen
vocals.…talent too expansive to be fenced in by Top 40
conservatism.” – Los
Angeles Times
“A terrific swoon-and-soar
voice.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Raul Malo has a voice on par
with the best of ‘em: Sinatra, George Jones and Orbison.”
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Friday,
July 25
8:30pm |
$20 |
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The House Jacks
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A Cappella super group The House
Jacks of San Francisco are the original rock band without
instruments. Using nothing more than their five voices (and
mouths), they deliver everything from blistering funk to
screaming rock to heart-melting ballads for their ever-growing
legions of fans.
The House Jacks frequently tour
worldwide, with the most frequent stops being in California,
East Coast, Japan, and Germany. Their fourth album "Unbroken"
has won numerous awards, including "Pop/Rock Album of the Year"
and "Pop/Rock Song of the Year" from the Contemporary A Cappella
Society. The House Jacks have appeared with James Brown, Ray
Charles, Jon Secada, LL Cool J, the Neville Brothers, President
Bill Clinton, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Pointer Sisters, the
Temptations, The Gap Band, Tower of Power, Starship, Run-DMC,
and many others. Some of the few reasons to see The House Jacks
LIVE is the band’s original “Gone”, their cover of Led
Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”, and more than 20 new original and cover
songs now in the regular concert repertoire. Or just to see it
all done with nothing but five voices.
"The soulful element is
underscored by remarkable, virtuosic vocal percussion... From
aching love ballads to dazzling mile a minute funk, The House
Jacks can do it all." --
Goldmine magazine
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Saturday,
July 26
8:30pm |
$20 |
James McMurtry &
the Heartless Bastards
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Over the past decade and a half Austin, Texas’ James
McMurtry has put out the best roots rockin’ serious songwriting recordings you
can find. His character studies and astute observations of the American social
landscape are as good as you’ll find anywhere in music .The Texas native long
has been known as an astute, clear-eyed observer and concise, no-holds-barred
chronicler of the human condition, but a growing socio-political edge fairly
exploded just prior to the 2004 elections when his scathing, palace-rattling “We
Can’t Make It Here”, a seven-plus-minute diatribe against social injustice and
the Administration’s hypocrisy and deceptions was made available online as a
free download. He’s also one of the great roots-rock tunesmiths today, writing
wholly listenable songs that only get better with repeated listening. Oh did we
mention his stunning electric guitar playing too? He does that great too…. Check
him out.
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