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FolkWorks Benefit Concert
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Sunday, April 29, 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Santa Monica YWCA
2019 14th St., Santa Monica, CA 90405
FolkWorks is presenting a Benefit concert
with a representation of the "folk" community that FolkWorks promotes/supports.
Show your support for FolkWorks and have fun doing it!
Here are a few who will be joining us for the party!
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LISA HALEY and THE ZYDEKATS TRIO
GRAMMY Nominee "Americana/ Cajun/ Zydeco category" With her blue violin and soaring, compelling “cornbread” voice, Lisa’s original tunes and Louisiana Bayou, French Celtic, R&B and Jazz rhythms endear this fourth-generation fiddler, dancer, vocalist, and songwriter to all ages. Among her fans are Keb’Mo’ and Little Richard.
Fiddler, dancer, vocalist, and songwriter, Lisa Haley serves up heart-moving Louisiana Bayou rhythms, traditional stylings and original songs speaking to all ages.
"Joyful, exotic... a la the bluesy moans of Janis Joplin..." - Los Angeles Times
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KEN O'MALLEY and THE NE’ER DUWELS
The Irish News has called him "the single most enduring, influential and proficient of all Irish musicians in Southern California". Well known throughout the western United States and Ireland, he's been a member and leader of many musical groups in Los Angeles including Blended Spirits, The Mulligans and The Twilight Lords. He also enjoys a successful career as a solo artist in the bardic tradition of Irish storyteller and musician.
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NEVENKA
The premier Los Angeles based women's folk chorus performing songs form Eastern Europe with spellbinding harmonies. Nevenka's repertoire includes songs from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Russia, Greece, and Georgia, as well as Ladino Sephardic and Rom (Gypsy) songs. Nevenka was formed in 1976 by women who shared a common interest in the complex harmonies and compelling rhythms typical in Balkan music. Very much in the Eastern European tradition, Nevenka includes women of all ages making music together.
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KB SOLOMON
Imagine the warm, treacle sounds of Lou Rawls or Barry White stirred into a dark, mouthwatering gateau. Mix in an authentic helping of blues and soul, spiced with a zest of operatic pedigree - and the recipe comes alive.
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UPCOMING EVENT PICKS
Friday, March 30, 2012
TOM PAXTON
Saturday, March 31, 2012
TOM PAXTON
YALE STROM & ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ (HOT PSTROMI)
SUSIE GLAZE AND THE HILONESOME BAND
THE MULCAHY FAMILY TRIO
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Sunday, April 1, 2012
TOM PAXTON
Friday, April 6, 2012
THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
Monday, April 9, 2012
PATRICK BALL
Friday, April 13, 2012
SUSIE GLAZE AND THE HILONESOME BAND
WOODY GUTHRIE CENTENNIAL
Saturday, April 14, 2012
LES CHARBONNIERS DE L'ENFER
TAJ MAHAL TRIO
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More PICKS...
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
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March-April 2012 T. Pax
Ice Age Survivor Coming to McCabe’s?
By Ross Altman, Ph.D.
Tyrannosaurus Pax, better known as T. Pax, may soon be sighted along the Pico corridor in Santa Monica lumbering towards McCabe’s Guitar Shop, where he is rumored to star in a Cretaceous Age Exhibition at the end of March. Emanating from a distant Eastern village known as Greenwich, where in the early 1960s it reigned supreme with its close cousins B. Dylan, P. Ochs and D. Van Ronk, T. Pax somehow managed to evade the encroaching ice formations of Disco, Heavy Metal and Glam Rock that cut down the peaceful easy singer-songwriters of the 70s.
Half a century later, almost alone amongst its mostly extinct brethren, the cumbersome T. Pax continues to amaze audiences with its ancient birdlike brilliance that towers over more modern creatures only able to reach above its bony webbed claws and spindly legs.
With just another throwback to an earlier age, the nearly extinct all-wooden instrument known as Acousticus Guitarus for accompaniment, T. Pax stands like the sentinel meerkat before a single microphone and gurgles its tuneful news reports to the local citizenry, sounding for all the world like the Town Crier of the Middle Ages.
Sometimes referred to as a wandering minstrel, stone-age troubadour, folk singer or worse, the bald-headed (disguised for many years by a tell-tale Greek fisherman’s cap) T. Pax has a hatful of songs and social commentary to rile the somnambulant, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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CD REVIEWS
TITLE: ROOM OF WONDERS
ARTIST: JAYME STONE
LABEL: SELF PRODUCED
RELEASE DATE: 2010
By Nick Smith
This CD is made up of what can truly be considered “world music,” ranging from Irish reels to Norwegian polkas, with many detours along the way. The music is all dance music, or inspired by dance music, or inspired by the kind of music that a band would play at the end of a dance to let everyone know it was time to go home. One of the tunes is based on J. S. Bach’s arrangement of an old set of folk tunes. Other pieces are from Brazilian or Italian influences, and even a very strange Tunisian-based waltz. Each piece is worth listening to on its own, but the recording as a whole takes the listener on a quick tour to lands which might or might not exist outside the boundaries of this recording.
In addition to the relatively common banjo, fiddle, guitar, the recording includes trumpet, trombone, drums and even a nyckelharpa.
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TITLE: COWBOYS ON THE SKYLINE
ARTIST: J. W. McCLURE with THADDEUS SPAE
LABEL: THREE DAMP DUCK MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: 2011
By Jackie Morris
I recently “discovered” the already long discovered, multi-award-winning songwriter and humorist, J.W. McClure, when I was hosting a showcase at the 2011 FAR-West Folk Alliance Conference in Eugene, Oregon. From the minute I heard the first few measures of his popular new cat song, Blue, I knew I was hooked. And my McClure “addiction” has only gotten worse since then.
McClure plays an irresistibly smooth and engaging blues guitar, seasoned with an old-time jazzy sound. Better still, in his third album, Cowboys on the Skyline, this rhythmic, acoustic styling is accentuated by the brilliant multi-instrumentalist, Thaddeus Spae. Spae brings a big 6-string guitarron – played as an upright jazz bass – to 12 of the 14 tracks. In addition, he adds a variety of lead guitar, harmonica, back-up vocals, trombone, banjo and tuba to the album. That’s right, tuba. As I am about to tell you, this album is big fun.
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VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK
Honey Dewdrops sing Miner's Lullaby
(www.youtube.com/v/IA5Bwusr7BY)
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