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Monday, January 23, 2006
Dieselbilly?
This saturday I turn the big 42. Friday and Saturday I will be attending the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. I can't wait to hear some Dieselbilly! I'm stoked. Plus, the "Wayne Gretsky of the ukelele" is playing.
Check out this incredible 2 night line-up!
Jan 27th, 7 p.m. Tonight's headliner is the Robert Cray Band. Cray is a popular, multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist whose soulful mix of R&B, blues, and rock played a major role in the 90s resurgence of roots music, especially blues.
Also appearing: Iris DeMent, a huge local favorite making her first Ann Arbor appearance in more than 3 years, is a country-folk singer-songwriter who writes simple, affectingly homespun lyrics about lust, forgiveness, heaven, home, and other fundamentals, and she sings in a warbling, pure soprano that soars and dives with a captivatingly unforced emotional authority.
The Greencards is an acclaimed Austin-based Australian acoustic bluegrass trio.
Catie Curtis is a singer-songwriter from Maine, known for her expansive, soaring vocals and percussive guitar style, who writes engaging, down-to-earth songs about the pleasures and tragedies of ordinary life.
Blanche is a Detroit country-punk band led by the husband-and-wife duo of Dan and Tracee Miller.
Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun is a band from Washington, D.C., led by Ann Arbor native and former Commander Cody guitarist Kirchen, that plays a rowdy mix of rockabilly, honky-tonk, blues, swing, and truck-driving songs that critics have dubbed "dieselbilly."
Ray Bonneville is a blues and country-rock guitarist and harmonica player from Montreal known for his raspy, laid-back vocals.
James Hill is a young Canadian ukulele virtuoso - "the Wayne Gretsky of ukulele" - whose repertoire ranges from traditional Hawaiian music to bluegrass, jazz, and classical music.
Emcee is Cheryl Wheeler, a versatile veteran singer--songwriter known for her hauntingly pure voice, biting sense of humor, and alternately poignant and whimsical songs about human relationships and everyday life. Hill Auditorium.
Jan 28th 6 p.m. Tonight's headliner is Lyle Lovett (see review), a Texas singer-songwriter who has established himself as one of the most inventive and original voices in country music since Willie Nelson. His lyrics are distinguished by their emotionally powerful down-home imagery, acidic epigrammatic wit, and subversively ironic playfulness, and his music and song forms draw imaginatively on several traditions, from jump blues, western swing, honky-tonk, and country waltzes to folk balladry and hipster jazz. He performs tonight with a trio.
Also appearing: Jonatha Brooke is a Boston-based singer-songwriter known for her quirkily sophisticated, fiercely unconventional pop-folk and her compellingly eccentric guitar playing.
The Holmes Brothers is an acclaimed Long Island band that plays churchy, emotionally charged gospel-oriented blues, at once down-home gritty and uptown silky, and often sung in close, tense 3-part harmonies.
Don White is a veteran singer-songwriter from Lynn, Massachusetts, who writes sharp-witted songs about everyday life that blend pathos, humor, and biting satire.
Wade & Julia Mainer are a legendary old-time mountain gospel husband-and-wife duo from the Blue Ridge Mountains who have lived in Michigan since 1953.
Adrienne Young & Little Sadie is a band led by Young, an up-and-coming young roots music singer--songwriter whose knack for writing songs that seem at once newly minted and weathered has provoked comparisons to Gillian Welch.
Caroline Herring is a highly regarded Mississippi-bred, Austin-based country-folk singer-songwriter known for her luminous, strikingly expressive vocals and her vividly etched songs about the everyday lives of people in the contemporary South.
James Hill is a young Canadian ukulele virtuoso - "the Wayne Gretsky of ukulele" - whose repertoire ranges from traditional Hawaiian music to bluegrass, jazz, and classical music.
Annie Capps is a local singer-songwriter and electric guitarist who writes jazz-tinged folk-rock songs with a strong personal flavor. She is accompanied by her husband, guitarist Rod Capps.
Holy crap that's a lotta good live music! Have a great time. I'll probably be playing one or two of those artists on Saturday at WYCE. It's gonna be my last Saturday show (*sniff*) and unless I can locate a more amenable timeslot, perhaps my last show, period...
Oh, and let me add Happy 42 as well. I'll be hitting that landmark in a couple of months myself.
Name: Jonathan Home: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States About Me: Just a guy who trying to eek out a living as a graphic designer in SW Michigan. See my complete profile
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Happy 42!!! And many happy returns of the day!!!
Off to figure this meme out...