Live Music August 7-9, 2009
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| Saturday Performers |
Scott Goldman Scott Goldman has been playing guitar for over thirty years. He found his inspiration at Leo Kottke concert in the early 1970's and never looked back. As life takes its twists and turns Scott got a day job but continued to pursue guitar playing in his spare time.
The compositions on "Off Season" were written over the last three years. They range from moody and contemplative (A Sonar) to more aggressive pieces like "Traffic Stop." After sharing some of the tracks with friends, Scott was encouraged to put together this CD.profile.myspace.com |
Joe Robinson At just 17 years of age, Joe Robinson has secured a reputation as one of the world’s finest young guitarists.
His unique acoustic guitar style has caught the attention of Les Paul, Steve Vai, Brad Paisley, Tommy Emmanuel and many others. From winning the hit television series ‘Australia’s Got Talent’ to recording in Nashville with CMA ‘Producer of the year’, Frank Rogers - few doubt that this humble young man is destined for greatness. Joe’s last few years have seen his talent recognized globally, and has resulted in meetings with executives from Sony/BMG in both the US and Australia, and invitations to perform in Thailand, Finland, Germany, England, as well as throughout the US. |
Led Kaapana Led Kaapana's mastery of stringed instruments, particularly slack key guitar, and his extraordinary baritone and leo ki`eki`e (falsetto) voices, have made him a musical legend. He has been thrilling audiences for more than 40 years. With easy-going style and kolohe (rascal) charm, he has built a loyal corps of Led Heads from Brussels to his birthplace on the Big Island of Hawaii. Recognition by his peers earned Led Grammy nominations in 2006 and 2007.
Like so many Hawaiians, Led grew up in a musical family. In the tiny black sand bay village of Kalapana, there were few distractions. "We didn't have electricity, not television, not even much radio," says Led. "So we entertained ourselves. You could go to any house and everybody was playing music." |
 Preston ReedPreston Reed has virtually reinvented how the acoustic guitar is played. Reed practices a flamboyant self-invented style, characterized by percussive techniques and simultaneous rhythm and melody lines that dance and ricochet around each other, giving his music a level of excitement that is unparalleled among today's guitarists. Playing an array of guitars from acoustic to electric to classical Reeds vast range of explosively original music will forever change your expectation of a guitarist. |
Laurence Juber 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.
After Wings disbanded in 1981, Juber embarked on a career as a solo artist, composer and arranger, and soon developed a reputation as a world-class guitar virtuoso, being voted #1 by Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has released 13 critically acclaimed solo albums, including "LJ Plays the Beatles", "Guitarist" and "One Wing". |
Pete Huttlinger After a day of demanding music classes at Berklee College, Peter Huttlinger would grab a friend, rush to the Harvard Square subway station and spend the afternoon there playing music for tips. The two always came back with their pockets filled. For Huttlinger, this routine symbolized what has become his abiding outlook toward music: Perfect your art, but play to the crowd.
Abbey Road StudiosSince his days of subway busking, Huttlinger has developed into a world-renowned guitarist. Even as a must-have sideman, he occupied some pretty choice real estate, including the Hollywood Bowl and London’s Royal Albert Hall with John Denver, Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and stadiums around the world with numerous other pop and country superstars. |
John
Jorgenson The John Jorgenson
Quintet features guitarist John Jorgenson, a founding member
of the Desert Rose Band, the Hellecasters, and six-year member
of Elton John's band. Artists ranging from Barbra Streisand
to Bonnie Raitt to Earl Scruggs have sought out Jorgenson's
guitar work. Recently, John Jorgenson was chosen to portray Django
Reinhardt in the feature film Head in the Clouds.
At a John Jorgenson Quintet performance, audiences are amazed
by John's dazzling guitar work as well as his mastery as a clarinet
player and vocalist. Whether playing his own accessible compositions
or classic standards, John and his band make music that is equally
romantic and ecstatic, played with virtuosity and soul.www.johnjorgenson.com |
Tommy Emmanuel Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel has a professional career that spans over four decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. A household name in his native Australia, Tommy has garnered hundreds of thousands of loyal fans worldwide. Tommy's unique style - he calls it simply "finger style" - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers. As a solo performer, Tommy’s dazzling performance, flawless guitar skills and voluminous repertoire never fail to amaze and engage his legions. From the wilds of Australia's outback to bustling major cities throughout the world, Emmanuel's flair and unforgettable showmanship have created an enviable fan base that continues to grow even larger every year. www.tommyemmanuel.com |
Sunday Performers |
Mark
Selby 
Mark Selby is a native of Oklahoma and Kansas now based in Nashville. He has established himself as a rare triple-threat talent: a gifted songwriter with serious guitar chops and a voice to match. Songwriter: Selby has written more than 10 top-40 singles and 4 #1 hits, including the Dixie Chicks' Grammy-winning There's Your Trouble and Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Blue On Black -- Billboard magazine's1998 Rock Track of the Year. Wynona, Trisha Yearwood, Lee Roy Parnell & Keb Mo, JoDee Messina and many others have recorded Selby's songs. Recording Artist: Selby's new Nine Pound Hammer CD on the ZYX label is garnering critical raves in Europe and will be released in the U.S. in late 2008. He has released two internationally acclaimed blues/rock albums for Vanguard Records -- More Storms Comin' (2000) and Dirt (2003) and contributed to the Grammy-nominated Avalon Blues: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt (2001). His single She's Like Mercury was the first charting rock single for the Vanguard label. A solo acoustic CD, Mark Otis Selby...And The Horse He Rode In On was released in 2006. His discography as a session musician includes recent releases by Wynona, Kenny Rogers, Jamie O'Hara, Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Reid, and the Keni Thomas album Flags of our Fathers, which Selby co-produced with Brent Maher. Live Performer: A virtuoso guitarist and dynamic live artist, Mark Selby has shared the stage with B.B. King, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Robert Cray, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Delbert McLinton, John Hiatt, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Collective Soul, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Levon Helm, Junior Brown, and many more. Selby has appeared on notable radio and television music programming including World Cafe, Mountain Stage, and Woodsongs, and continues to perform with his stellar backup band, as an acoustic solo artist, and in a duo with his wife and frequent collaborator, Tia Sillers. www.markselby.com |
Marty Stuart Marty Stuart is country music’s renaissance man. He has scored six top-ten hits, one platinum and five gold albums, and four Grammy Awards. But his success proves the difficulty of gauging a career in charts alone. He has made lasting music as a front man and in collaboration with virtually every major roots music figure of his era, from Lester Flatt to Bob Dylan. He has evangelized for country music around the world, eulogized the departed legends of the field, and identified and encouraged talents of the future. Stuart has produced records for some of the most distinguished artists working today, and many famous names have chosen to record his songs. Stuart's energetic enthusiasm has gone outside music, yielding impressive work as a photographer, writer, collector and arts executive.
With the launch of his Superlatone Records imprint backed by Universal South Entertainment, Marty Stuart opened the most ambitious chapter yet. Keen to broaden the scope of his life-long passion to uncover the depths and eccentricities of Southern culture, Stuart now finds himself in the opening stages of combining music and the arts to continue his ambitious story. www.martystuart.net |
Mick Taylor Guitarist Mick Taylor was neither an original member of the Rolling Stones nor still in the band when it began selling out sports stadiums in the late-'80s and '90s. But the sophisticated jazz- and blues-influenced guitar licks Taylor added to such classic albums as Sticky Fingers gave the Stones an added dimension they lacked before and after him.
Michael Kevin Taylor was born Jan. 17, 1949, in Welwyn Garden City, England. He grew up in Hatfield, a London suburb, and began playing guitar at age 9. Taylor became interested in joining a rock band after his parents took him to see Bill Haley & the Comets. |
Brent Mason Do you read the musician credits on CD's? If you do you will see one name which appears again and again - Brent Mason. Brent is one of the most recorded guitarists in history - he is a Grammy Award winning artist who is also a multiple winner of the Academy of Country Music and the CMA (sixteen awards), being nominated every year since 1991. He has also won other awards from Billboard, Music City All Stars, various songwriting honors,a special display in the Musician's Hall of Fame and in 2003 Gibson USA/Valley Arts Guitars developed the Brent Mason Signature Model Guitar copied after his infamous 68 Telecaster. In addition to playing on the majority of hit country music for over two decades, his diverse work ranging from jazz, rock and blues to R&B, classical and funk can be heard almost daily on movie soundtracks, television scores, and commercials. Brent is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished session musicians in the industry today. Articles about and interviews with Brent have appeared with regularity in every major guitar magazine in the US and internationally for more than two decades, and he was named in Guitar Player Magazine as one of the world's top ten "Masters of the Telecaster/Titans of the Tele."http:///www.brentmason.com Sol Philcox  Sol Philcox is a 17 year old Blues singer/guitarist from Norfolk, England. He has been playing guitar since the age of 13, and has been singing and playing drums to large audiences since the age of 5. Sol was hailed as a drumming prodigy at an early age, but had to stop due to living/noise situations. It was at the age of 14 when he picked up the guitar. At the age of 15, he officially put his drumming on a hiatus and continued to learn to play guitar, only returning to the drum stool to enter the National UK under 18 drummer of the year competition, in which he achieved a place in the final 40. However, by the age of 16 he was playing guitar and fronting bands of various styles. Sol has started or been involved in many different projects, many of which have been far from it, but blues has always been his passion. taking his cue from Stevie Ray Vaughan after he first heard the famous 'live at Montreaux 1982' CD aged 15. www.myspace.com/solphilcox  The PlayersA virtuoso band made up of some of the most accomplished, sought-after and award-winning studio musicians in the industry, it would be much easier to list the artists they haven't played with than the artist's they have! This group of studio heavy-hitters is made up of Eddie Bayers on drums, Paul Franklin on pedal steel, John Hobbs on keyboards, Michael Rhodes on bass, and Brent Mason, one of the most recorded guitarists in history, on guitar. |
Duane Eddy One of the earliest guitar heroes, Duane Eddy put the twang in rock and roll. “Twang” is a reverberating, bass-heavy guitar sound boasted by primitive studio wizardry. Concocted by Eddy and producer Lee Hazlewood in 1957, twang came to represent the sound of revved-up hot rods and an echo of the Wild West on the frontier of rock and roll. Eddy obtained his trademark sound by picking on the low strings of a Chet Atkins-model Gretsch 6120 hollowbody guitar, turning up the tremolo and running the signal through an echo chamber. Behind the mighty sound of twang, Eddy became the most successful instrumentalist in rock history, charting fifteen Top Forty singles in the late Fifties and early Sixties. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. No less an authority than John Fogerty has declared, “Duane Eddy was the front guy, the first rock and roll guitar god.” Eddy’s influence is widespread in rock and roll. A twangy guitar drove Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” and twang echoes in the work of the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dave Edmunds, Chris Isaak and many more. members.tripod.com |
Frank James When somebody’s doing it just right, a 12 string sounds like two guitars, a bass, three mandolins, a hammered dulcimer and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir," says Frank James, ragtime and blues guitarist. "Considering I’ve been working on it for over 40 years, I feel like I’m starting to get close.” Frank plays Leadbelly and Blind Willie McTell masterpieces, exciting instrumentals, and a load of old and new blues, rags, and ballads. “Basically I’ll do anything I think is great. I don’t care if it’s a cowboy song from the 1890’s or a Tom Waits song from the 1980’s. As long as it speaks to me, I assume other people will hear it too.web.me.com/messenger1/Frank_James |
Tyler Bryant
Tyler Bryant was born to play music. At age 7, he picked up the guitar and never put it down. Under the guidance of local Texas blues legend Roosevelt Twitty, Tyler quickly commanded the instrument and began playing with a natural ability and depth of feeling that many guitarists fail to attain over a lifetime. Now, at the age of 18, Tyler is a phenomenon - an extraordinary virtuoso electric guitarist, a singer, songwriter, a compelling stage presence, a burgeoning musical alchemist freely intermingling rock, blues, soul/funk and pop. Tyler Bryant’s destiny is unfolding fast and in ways most people only dream about. Tyler won the Robert Johnson Foundation's New Generation Award, which recognizes him as one of the most promising new artists on the music scene. He has performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, recently recorded a new song, "Bittersweet," with legendary Led Zeppelin producer, Kevin Shirley, and was signed by Creative Artists Agency on the spot after one performance. "It's hard to believe what is going on," Tyler says. "But then again, music has been the one thing I have always cared about." Now living in Nashville, Tyler Bryant is immersed in the very music that he is so passionate about, and is actively songwriting, playing shows, and working on his first record. |
Michael Reese
Based in Colorado Springs, CO, Michael Reese is currently engaged in several projects, including the Acid Jazz Jam, with bass player Kim Stone, the bands Tobacco Road and Tommy Gallagher's Incredible Friends, along with his Spirit Machine and Guitarscapes instrumental guitar CD series. Michael's accomplishments include "Best Guitarist of the Year" nomination at the Los Angeles Music Awards for his "Dragonflyer" CD, guitarist for the 1995/1996 Tommy Bolin Tribute Concerts, and he is a Fender Musical Instruments Endorsee. In 1996 Michael formed the band F-5 with former Joe Walsh keyboardist Tommy Stephenson and Peter Frampton's former bass player, Stan Sheldon. Their "Dodging the Dream Killers" CD, produced by Santana drummer, Michael Shrieve, was nominated in the top ten best jazz CDs by Jazz Central Station. Michael has opened for Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, John Mellencamp, Huey Lewis, Robben Ford, John Mayall, Alice Cooper and Steve Morse. He's also performed with Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), and Mitch Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience). |