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Friday, January 22 at 8:00pm
Petaluma Church Concerts Great show with The Stairwell Sisters last night! Wonderful music and dance, and nice folks to work with. Thanks everybody for coming out. Enjoy the holidays and mark your calendar for January 22 with The Bee Eaters.
Petaluma Church Concerts Looking forward to a great concert with The Stairwell Sisters next Saturday, Nov. 21. Hope to see you there!
Petaluma Church Concerts Just posted a few photos from last night's concert with the fantastic Matt Flinner Trio. Great interplay between a trio of top notch musicians, and exciting compositions including three composed for this show as part of their "Music du Jour" tour. If you missed these guys here, see them somewhere!
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Looking forward to a great show with the Matt Flinner Trio this Friday! He and the band continue their "music du jour" tour, composing a new piece at each stop along the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QuOddgIc
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The Matt Flinner Trio performs "Half Moondog" from their new CD Release "music du jour" at Highlands House Concerts on March 22nd, 2009. The Matt Flinner Trio is Matt Flinner on Mandolin, Eric Thorin on Bass and Ross Martin on Guitar.
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The Bee Eaters boasts four of the most accomplished, creative young talents of the new generation, tracing roots back to the musical traditions of bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, jazz and pop.
The quartet combines the strong, striking music of hammered dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman and banjo phenomenon Wes Corbett with... the inimitable sound of brother-sister fiddle duo Tristan and Tashina Clarridge.
Tristan, an inventive cellist and 5-time Grand National Fiddle Champion, tours with Crooked Still and Darol Anger's Republic of Strings and has performed with Mike Marshall, Bruce Molsky, and Cape Breton fiddle phenomenon Natalie MacMaster.
His sister Tashina, the 2005 Grand National Fiddle Champion, has toured with Mark O'Connor and Tony Trischka and has performed at Carnegie Hall as part of MacArthur Fellow/Grammy-winning bassist Edgar Meyer's Young Artists program.
Since starting banjo at age 16, 22-year-old Wesley Corbett has toured internationally with North Carolina's bluegrass sensation The Biscuit Burners and appeared with the David Grisman Quintet, Matt Glaser, and numerous other groups; he also currently tours with Joy Kills Sorrow.
Wesley's longtime musical collaborator, hammered dulcimer wizard Simon Chrisman, has performed with Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, opened for Bill Frisell, and at 16 was a scholarship guest artist at the Augusta Heritage Festival in West Virginia. His sophisticated rhythmic sense and ingenious tonal flexibility, on an instrument usually considered limited, has created a buzz among musicians all over the world.
The result of the foursome's collaboration is an elegant fusion of tradition and innovation. The Bee Eaters are a powerful creative force at the forefront of the emerging New Acoustic music scene. Their brand new self-titled release, produced by Darol Anger, is now available. Visit cdBaby.com to purchase.
"The Bee Eaters are the instrumental cream of the brand new string nation. Harking back to the 'grand old days' when new virtuosos seemed to spring onto the scene fully formed with a whole repertoire of brilliant music nobody had ever heard before, somehow these kids have absorbed everything we had to offer and alchemized it into a new musical world." - Darol Anger
"It is a joy to hear both the exploration of this music and the grounding of it simultaneously. Also, I love the emphasis on the simple beauty of the acoustic instruments." - Edgar Meyer
The instrumental cream of the brand new string nation...
Time:8:00PM Friday, January 22nd
Location:First Church of Christ Scientist, Petaluma
Concerts are presented during the fall, winter and spring. The venue is a historic church in Downtown Petaluma. Seating is on wooden pews (some cushions available or bring your own) and is general admission. Angled floor gives great sight lines...
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Lauded for infectious shows that combine buckdancing with balladry and sass, these women unfailingly play their instruments hell-bent to drive the music. The Stairwell Sisters crank out acoustic, old-time music with a punk-rock intensity. Somehow, between raising children, working and releasing records, they've taken t...heir band to some rather well-regarded places - appearing on A Prairie Home Companion, festival stages from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Lincoln Center (NYC), Celtic Connections (UK), and many points in between. Their third release Get Off Your Money, produced by Lloyd Maines, covers substantial ground as well.
There are fiddle tunes crafted decades ago from Alabama to Scotland, and from points unknown. There are old songs of trains, boats and possums. One song is translated from Swahili, an all-too familiar story learned from a street musician in Tanzania. There are new songs too - original songs of trial and work, loss and love, and all-night parties. The women run all of it through the "Sister Mill." Regardless from which era or continent the songs have traveled, The Stairwell Sisters make such heartfelt and skillfully played music that boundaries dissolve beneath the chugging force of old-time fiddle and banjo, the whomp of bass and guitar, the grit of the slide guitar, and the tight, closely interwoven harmonies.
Old-time music with punk rock intensity
Time:8:00PM Saturday, November 21st
Location:First Church of Christ Scientist, Petaluma
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Matt Flinner is considered one of the hottest mandolin players on the acoustic scene and draws inspiration from such diverse inspirations as Miles Davis, David Grisman and the Bothy Band. Flinner's music evokes the sonic textures of the best acoustic jazz while paying homage to his many influences in bluegrass, folk an...d Celtic music. Bluegrass Now says, "Flinner provides the next logical evolutionary step to David Grisman's unique dawg style, and does it with a nod to the past and a vision of the future."
Flinner also performs as a member of the new acoustic trio Phillips, Grier & Flinner, as a member of Darrell Scott's band, and with guitarist Frank Vignola (David Grisman Quintet). Flinner also special guests on banjo with Leftover Salmon and, in the fall of 2008, was a featured soloist with Trey Anastasio and Carlo Aonzo during Orchestra Nashville's performance of "Concertino" (Don Hart). He most recently appeared on comedian Steve Martin's new recording The Crow and the Vignola Collectives' March 09 release, Gypsy Grass.
On this tour Flinner is accompanied by Eric Thorin on bass and Ross Martin on guitar. The trio continues their "music du jour" tour featuring a newly written song each night inspired by their location that day.
Award-winning mandolin jazz/newgrass
Time:8:00PM Friday, October 9th
Location:First Church of Christ Scientist, Petaluma
Petaluma Church Concerts A series of posters designed by Lance Walker for this concert series.
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