Week 5 Monday, 31st July Jennifer Peterson & Creekstone Jennifer Peterson & Creekstone is a vibrant trio from Taos, New Mexico whose music can best be described as Americana with influences of blues, bluegrass, pop and country. Bill Hearne’s Roundhouse Revue Legally blind since birth, Bill took up the guitar when he was seven. Largely musically self-taught, Bill developed a picking style he calls cross-picking. "Since I didn't have people to play with, I developed a style that incorporated a percussion rhythm while playing lead riffs. Basically, I tried to be a one man band," he says. Like fellow cross-pickers Tony Rice and Doc Watson, Bill is improvisational. "I hardly ever play the same thing twice." It's not something he thinks about, it simply happens, he adds. And what always happens when Bill lets it happen is just plain fun. Dallas born Hearne finds his way into a song's interior with a baritone as mellow as bourbon and smoky as a Texas pool hall and a picking style that satisfies both your feet and heart. At its best, country music is elegiac, a meat and potatoes campfire poem about heartbreak and redemption. It's about truth, the kind that hurts and the kind that heals Tuesday, 1st August Joe West and Friends Joe West has won the Santa Fe Reporter’s “Best Song Writer of 2008, 2009, and 2010". It seems that his strange folk/country tales of U.F.O.s, broken hearts and trailer park liberals enthrall audiences wherever he hangs his hat. Paula Nelson Band Paula Nelson was born on October 27th, 1969 in Houston TX. With her father being great musician Willie Nelson, she was born into a family of music and entertainment, she started playing piano and singing at the age of seven. She drew early influences from singers like Jesse Colter and Rita Coolidge, whose bluesy, supple vocal style provided one of Paula’s earliest templates as she found her own voice. Texas Monthly has called that voice “torchy,” and the Los Angeles Times praised, “There’s no missing the unforced power of Paula’s singing.” Wednesday, 2nd August Baile Espanol de Santa Fe Baile Espanol de Santa Fe brings boys and girls from around the community to perform traditional Mexican dance.  Los Pinguos They came to the US from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a mixture of Latin rhythms, performed with Spanish guitars, a Cuban Tres, Peruvian cajón (box-drum) and harmonizing vocals. Vivacious and infectious, the sound of Los Pinguos has claimed fans worldwide. Thursday, 3rd August The Jimmy Stadler Band The Jimmy Stadler Band’s music cannot be categorized into a single or even multiple genres. Their repertoire includes over 500 songs that cover most genres and several decades. They have been awarded "Best CD of The Year" by The New Mexico Music Awards and are truly talented musicians. Cracker Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Euro-Trash Girl", and "Get Off This". Founders Lowery and Hickman formed the band in 1991, soon releasing the album Cracker (featuring the hits "Happy Birthday to Me" and "Teen Angst") on Virgin Records. The band has been touring continually ever since, releasing 10 studio albums (plus several compilations, collaborations and live albums). Their most recent album is Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey, released May 5, 2009 on 429/Savoy Records. Cracker mixes influences and sounds ranging from rock, punk, alt-country, psychedelia, blues, and folk.
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Week 5posted Jul 31, 2011 9:14 AM by tobias lescht [ updated Jul 31, 2011 9:36 AM ] |