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July 19, 2008 - Time 5:00PM - 10:00PM
Suggested donation is $8.
Join some of the region's top performers in
this celebration of America's truest art form. Come hear the stories
and dance to the music of these acoustic wonders!
The ingredients behind northern New England’s Jason
Spooner Trio read like a bizarre musical science experiment. Start
with a prolific, singer/songwriter (Jason Spooner) with heavy roots,
folk & blues influences. Then mix in a classicly-trained bassist
(Adam Frederick) with foundations in jazz and a knack for serious
pocket grooves. Lastly, shake things up with a rock-solid drummer
(Reed Chambers) with deep-seeded roots in funk, soul & reggae
and you’ve begun to scratch the surface of this unique, energetic
band.
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Cheryl Wheeler has to be seen to be appreciated. Nothing
you read and nothing you hear from her album prepares you for how
good a performer she is. As described on her website "Cheryl's
concerts are more like what you would find at a comedy club than
expect to find at a folk music concert. She will tell a story that
has you rolling in the aisles, and then sing a song that leaves
you wiping tears from your eyes. She will talk about some serious
current event, and then sing a song that will have you howling with
laughter. Her entire concert is a emotional roller coaster."
Some artists continually reinvent themselves; others identify
their muse early on and spend their careers single-mindedly pursuing
it, remaining recognizably themselves through a career-long process
of refinement, growth and discovery. Chris Smither belongs to the
latter group. What is immediately recognizable to anyone who has
encountered Smither on record or in live performance during the
course of the last four decades are his been-there, done-that voice
and the crystalline, wordlessly eloquent sounds of his finger picked
acoustic guitar. NPR states "[Smither] taps his foot to keep
the rhythm, much like the late blues legend John Lee Hooker. His
finger-picked guitar lines are sleek, unhurried and insistent. And
then there's the voice -- equal parts gravel and molasses, Smither's
singing sounds like a distillation of the folk and blues heroes
he grew up listening to in New Orleans."
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For over ten years, Jerks of Grass has been performing throughout
New England. We would love to come and play for you! We play traditional
bluegrass and high energy new acoustic music.
Featuring Melissa Bragdon on the fiddle, Kris Day on upright bass,
Carter Logan on 5-string banjo & Dobro and Jason Phelps on guitar
and mandolin, Jerks of Grass have been voted Portland's Best Roots/Acoustic
act for seven years running.
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