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July Sunday, July 13, 2008 Beginning to Intermediate Banjo with Master Musician Pat Cloud  Have fun with the five-string banjo and learn some of the secrets that are right in front of you.
Pat Cloud was playing banjo professionally by age 16; soon afterwards he was touring with Bob Hope's USO Oriental Command tours of 1967 and 1970. He has been a Los Angeles studio musician for 35 years. In 1972, he began jazz studies with former Nat King Cole guitarist, Horace Hatchett and then with William Thrasher, and started to adapt a fluid jazz vocabulary to five-string banjo utilizing melodic technique pioneered by such banjoists as Carrol Best, Bobby Thompson and Bill Keith; he later continued jazz study with vibraphone player Dave Pike. In the 70s, he toured throughout the southeast with the New Tradition Bluegrass Band; in 1983, he recorded the LP, "Higher Power" (Flying Fish) with Barry Solomon and Bob Applebaum. As Tony Trishka describes his playing, "He is the first five-string player to achieve a wide-reaching command of the jazz vocabulary, and as such inhabit a rarefied world which he now shares with a select few. To hear him play is amazing, but to watch him elicit those streams of "boppish" notes from a predominantly bluegrass instrument is other-wordly." Pat Cloud's Website $20.00 Saturday, July 26, 2008 Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan  Born in Los Angeles on Sonny Terry's birthday (October 24, 1950) Tom began playing guitar at the age of eleven and took up harmonica two years later. A teenage member of the Yerba Buena Blues Band in the mid-1960's, he played Love-Ins and Sunset Strip nightclubs before leaving the country for most of the '70s. In 1978 he came back to the U.S. and teamed up with guitarist Kenny Sultan - a partnership that still flourishes today and has resulted in eight duo CDs and literally thousands of concerts and festivals all over the world. August Saturday, August 23, 2008 Marley's Ghost  Marley's Ghost has built a singular reputation among discerning roots-music lovers for its instrumental virtuosity, ultra-tight four-part harmonies and animated live performances. This group is part English folk and part Jamaican reggae with a dash of Gospel, Country, R&B, Cajun and even a pinch of Scottish bagpipe tunes thrown in. The group features former John Denver band member and Tony nominated Broadway star Danny Wheetman on guitar, fiddle, bass, banjo, and blues harp; Folk Legacy, Sierra/Briar and Sage Arts recording artist Jon Wilcox on mandolin, guitar and bouzouki; Ed Littlefield, Jr., formerly of the legendary Northwest swing band Lance Romance, on guitars, dobro, pedal steel guitar and Highland bagpipes; and honey voiced Michael Phelan on guitars, dobro and fiddle. Saturday, August 30, 2008 Marc Ford  Guitarist Marc Ford, who is best known for performing and recording with The Black Crowes and Ben Harper, began his career with the blues-rock outfit Burning Tree in the late 1980's. A power trio featuring Ford on guitars and vocals, Mark Dutton on bass and Doni Gray on drums, Burning Tree released their self-titled debut album on Epic Records in 1990. In late 1991, Marc Ford sat in several times with The Black Crowes in-concert, performing The Allman Brothers Band's classic hit, "Dreams." Ford toured with Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals for the majority of 2003, from which their live double disc, Live at the Hollywood Bowl was drawn from. Ford continued his association with Ben Harper and his band through the close of 2004, when he was called to rejoin The Black Crowes for their "All Join Hands" reunion run. This reunion would serve as the platform for one of the greatest rock and roll comebacks in recent years. It would be the first time Ford would take the stage again with the band and Black Crowes fans were beyond ecstatic when the news broke in March 2005. Ford never severed his ties with Harper, however, appearing on his 2006 album Both Sides of the Gun and performing a handful of shows in support. September Saturday, September 13, 2008 Klezmer Juice  Klezmer Juice is vibrant Yiddish soul imbued with musical influences both old and new from around the world. Representing a new generation of Jewish soul musicians, the youthful group members see themselves as torchbearers of an ancient traditional craft that unites generations in spirit, offering fresh interpretations of traditional tunes. Sunday, September 21, 2008 VOCO  Moira Smiley & VOCO is a fiery roots vocal band making new songs as it pulls on roots of Eastern European and Appalachian harmony and rhythm. The five members of VOCO have played with artists like Rufus Wainwright, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Peter, Paul & Mary and Pauline Oliveros. They bring their joyous, improvisational energy to the stage with original song, body percussion, a cappella shape-note sets and even Bartok. Pauline Oliveros. They bring their joyous, improvisational energy to the stage with original song, body percussion, a cappella shape-note sets and even Bartok. October Saturday, October 4, 2008 Gutpuppet  Bill Barret's "Chromatic Harmonica and Acoustic Slide Guitar Duo!" Saturday, October 18, 2008 Susie Glaze  Susie & The Hilonesome Band come to the venerable Claremont Folk Music Center for a show featuring the best Appalachia to Bluegrass - Americana fusion with songs from the new album "Green Kentucky Blues" and award-winning "Blue Eyed Darlin'" along with mountain standards from the Jean Ritchie collection, old favorites from Iris Dement and our new version of the Dylan classic "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (featured on Sirius Radio June 29th!). |
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