7401 E. 1st Ave Denver, CO 80230 Map it! • Phone: 303.830.9214 • fax: 303.366.3001
Upcoming Shows
All shows at The Soiled Dove Underground are 21+ unless otherwise noted.Ticket sales are final, no refunds, returns or exchanges.
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Sat, May 12
Peter White and Euge Groove
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REMAINING TICKETS ARE FOR STANDING ROOM ONLY THERE ARE NO SEATS FOR STANDING ROOM ONLY YOU WILL BE STANDING AT THE BACK OF THE VENUE Peter White Website Peter White first gained fame with his distinctive guitar style accompanying Al Stewart. During a 20-year tenure with Stewart, he co-wrote many songs, including Stewart's 1978 top-ten hit "Time Passages". In the late 1980s, White accompanied Basia on a series of acclaimed albums. In 1996, Basia was featured on White's album Caravan of Dreams, with vocals on the single "Just Another Day". Peter White won the award for best Smooth Jazz Musician in the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. He was named the Best Guitarist at the National Smooth Jazz Awards for four consecutive years from 2000-2003. In 2000, White won three Oasis Smooth Jazz Awards. White's latest CD on Peak Records, Good Day, marks his eleventh solo release. Euge Groove Website Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, Euge Groove graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1984. A rather late-bloomer in the genre, Groove did not record his first solo album until 2000. Prior to that, he had replaced Richard Elliot in the Tower of Power when Elliot decided to pursue a solo career, and he also did session work with various pop acts, most noticeably the Miami girl group Expose. He has a sax solo on their #1 hit "Seasons Change," and another on their 1993 hit "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)." Grove adopted the name Euge Groove, which consists of a shortening of his middle name and a very frequent mispronunciation of his last. While initially it was presumed to be coined by fans who saw him perform in Europe, Grove later indicated in an interview on XM Radio during the summer of 2006 that his Mother-in-Law conceived the idea for his stage name. Euge Groove's best-known solo hits include "Sneak a Peek," "Slam Dunk," "Rewind," "Don't let me be lonely tonight," "Livin' Large" and "XXL." His most recent hits include "Get 'Em Going" and "Chillaxin'." Solid albums include; Born 2 Groove (2006), Livin' Large (2004) and Play Date (2002). He has recently released another album, titled "Sunday Morning." In 2008 he went on Tour with the legendary Tina Turner. *approximate running time for this show is 75-90 minutes. |
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Sat, May 12
Peter White and Euge Groove
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REMAINING TICKETS ARE FOR STANDING ROOM ONLY THERE ARE NO SEATS FOR STANDING ROOM YOU WILL BE STANDING AT THE BACK OF THE VENUE Peter White Website Peter White first gained fame with his distinctive guitar style accompanying Al Stewart. During a 20-year tenure with Stewart, he co-wrote many songs, including Stewart's 1978 top-ten hit "Time Passages". In the late 1980s, White accompanied Basia on a series of acclaimed albums. In 1996, Basia was featured on White's album Caravan of Dreams, with vocals on the single "Just Another Day". Peter White won the award for best Smooth Jazz Musician in the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. He was named the Best Guitarist at the National Smooth Jazz Awards for four consecutive years from 2000-2003. In 2000, White won three Oasis Smooth Jazz Awards. White's latest CD on Peak Records, Good Day, marks his eleventh solo release. Euge Groove Website Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, Euge Groove graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1984. A rather late-bloomer in the genre, Groove did not record his first solo album until 2000. Prior to that, he had replaced Richard Elliot in the Tower of Power when Elliot decided to pursue a solo career, and he also did session work with various pop acts, most noticeably the Miami girl group Expose. He has a sax solo on their #1 hit "Seasons Change," and another on their 1993 hit "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)." Grove adopted the name Euge Groove, which consists of a shortening of his middle name and a very frequent mispronunciation of his last. While initially it was presumed to be coined by fans who saw him perform in Europe, Grove later indicated in an interview on XM Radio during the summer of 2006 that his Mother-in-Law conceived the idea for his stage name. Euge Groove's best-known solo hits include "Sneak a Peek," "Slam Dunk," "Rewind," "Don't let me be lonely tonight," "Livin' Large" and "XXL." His most recent hits include "Get 'Em Going" and "Chillaxin'." Solid albums include; Born 2 Groove (2006), Livin' Large (2004) and Play Date (2002). He has recently released another album, titled "Sunday Morning." In 2008 he went on Tour with the legendary Tina Turner. *approximate running time for this show is 75-90 minutes. |
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Sun, May 13
Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun
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Grammy nominated guitarist, singer and songwriter Bill Kirchen is one of the fortunate few who can step onto any stage, play those trademark licks that drove his seminal Commander Cody classic Hot Rod Lincoln into the Top Ten, and elicit instant recognition for a career that has spanned over 40 years and includes guitar work with Nick Lowe, Emmylou Harris, Doug Sahm, Elvis Costello and many more. Named “A Titan of the Telecaster” by Guitar Player Magazine, he celebrates an American musical tradition where rock 'n' roll and country music draws upon its origins in blues and bluegrass, Western swing from Texas and California honky-tonk. His current CD Word To The Wise on Proper American features duets with many of these artists he's worked with, including Elvis, Nick, Maria Muldaur and Dan Hicks. |
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Fri, May 18
Tyrone Wells
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REMAINING GOLD LEVEL SEATS ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED VIEW AND SOLD AT A DISCOUNT CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE VIP TICKETS TO BOTH NIGHTS WHICH INCLUDES A PRE-SHOW MEET & GREET WITH TYRONE AND A SPECIAL 3 SONG ACOUSTIC SET TO INCLUDE SONGS YOU WON'T HEAR IN THE REGULAR SHOW! "Where We Meet" has captured both the charm of Tyrone Wells wistful serenades and the weight and yearning of an artist who continues to grow. Spending the greater part of 2011 bouncing between Los Angeles and Nashville, Tyrone Wells was able to take the time to write tirelessly until he knew that he finally had the album he wanted. From sweeping productions to paired down, sparse tunes, "Where We Meet" carefully navigates a sonic landscape that is powerfully rich yet intimate and honest. Joe Brooks - With 3 sold out UK tours and rapidly growing success in Asia, the online phenom turns his sights on the U.S. and proves he can deliver live. Called "The next John Mayer" by Seventeen/Cosmogirl, Joe Brooks is not to be missed. |
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Sat, May 19
Tyrone Wells
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REMAINING GOLD LEVEL SEATS ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED VIEW AND SOLD AT A DISCOUNT CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE VIP TICKETS TO BOTH NIGHTS WHICH INCLUDES A PRE-SHOW MEET & GREET WITH TYRONE AND A SPECIAL 3 SONG ACOUSTIC SET TO INCLUDE SONGS YOU WON'T HEAR IN THE REGULAR SHOW! "Where We Meet" has captured both the charm of Tyrone Wells wistful serenades and the weight and yearning of an artist who continues to grow. Spending the greater part of 2011 bouncing between Los Angeles and Nashville, Tyrone Wells was able to take the time to write tirelessly until he knew that he finally had the album he wanted. From sweeping productions to paired down, sparse tunes, "Where We Meet" carefully navigates a sonic landscape that is powerfully rich yet intimate and honest. Joe Brooks - With 3 sold out UK tours and rapidly growing success in Asia, the online phenom turns his sights on the U.S. and proves he can deliver live. Called "The next John Mayer" by Seventeen/Cosmogirl, Joe Brooks is not to be missed. |
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Tue, May 22
98.5 KYGO Storyteller Series Presents
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LISTEN TO KYGO DAILY FOR THE SOUND CUE, STARTING APRIL 30 In a career that’s already taken her to breathtaking heights (four CMA Female Vocalist of the Year trophies, three ACM Female Vocalist awards, a GRAMMY win, numerous national magazine covers and features, and appearances on such shows as VH1’s “Divas,” “TODAY Show,” “20/20,” “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars”), Martina is ready to take it up a notch with the help of her new label, Republic Nashville. |
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Fri, May 25
Rachel Platten
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ALL AGES SHOW! Beautiful, but not brazen. Passionate, but never preachy. Populist, but definitely not prosaic. New York City singer-songwriter, pianist and beatboxer Rachel Platten is by no means your average headliner-in-the-making. Her Rock Ridge Music debut, Be Here, is a bewitching collection of 10 wise-beyond-their-years piano-driven pop songs that echo elements of Alanis Morissette, Carole King, Tori Amos and Regina Spektor, while retaining a singular sense of self that is rarely found in such a young performer. Be Here was born over the course of an epic trans-Atlantic journey that took the singer-songwriter from London to Los Angeles, on to Stockholm and then back home to New York City. At each stop, she collaborated with top-tier production teams, including Fredrik Thomander (Nsync, Lady Gaga), Jerry Abbott and Grant Black (Robbie Williams, Craig David) and the Wizardz of Oz (Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne). The results are immediately appealing, spirit lifting, heartwarming and mind opening no matter where in the world you are. |
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Sat, May 26
Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks
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Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stands as one of contemporary music's true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knows few musical boundaries, drawing on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work which earned him a devoted cult following. |
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Tue, May 29
Chris Trapper of The Push Stars
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ALL AGES SHOW CHRIS TRAPPER began his career as the front man for late–90’s alternative rock band THE PUSH STARS (Capitol Records). With four CD releases and several high profile national tours – including a run with Matchbox Twenty – The Push Stars served to establish Chris as an authentic talent. The New York Times calls his work “classic pop perfection.” As a modern day singer–songwriter, Chris is most known for his song THIS TIME, the Number 1 selling song on the Grammy nominated soundtrack for AUGUST RUSH (Robin Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers – Warner Bros Pictures). A prolific songwriter, Chris can boast high profile film placements including There’s Something About Mary (Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz), The Devil Wears Prada (Meryl Streep), Say It Isn’t So (Heather Graham) and Gun Shy (Sandra Bullock, Liam Neeson) as well as significant television placements including All My Children, Women’s Murder Club, Malcolm In The Middle, a coveted placement in George Clooney’s final episode of ER, the theme song for WB Networks dramedy Pepper Dennis and a cameo on–screen appearance with the show’s star, Rebecca Romjin. Chris Trapper’s music can best be described as lyrically driven roots–pop with a knack for telling everyday stories filled with extra–ordinary characters. |
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Thu, May 31
Ryan Shupe and The Rubberband
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ALL AGES SHOW! RubberBand is a perfect name for Ryan Shupe and his band of amazing musicians. The group is known for its ability to stretch out musically in all directions, pinging back and forth with a joyful spontaneity most bands could barely imagine, let alone achieve. Each member possesses years of experience on his respective instrument and when the band comes together on tunes like the bouncy "Don't Leave Me Lonely," or the frenetically fun title track, "Last Man Standing," their collective talent is explosive and undeniable. The five man band, hailing from the Salt Lake City, Utah, is a breath of fresh air in an age where much of the music is over-produced, "practically to death," and their organic approach to performing has built them quite a following, not only through the West but around the rest of the country as well. Lead singer Ryan Shupe originally formed the band as an outlet for his songwriting but it soon took on a life all its own, becoming bigger than anything he could have originally imagined. |
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Fri, June 1
Four 80 East - Shilts - Matt Marshak
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Four80East is the brainchild of producers Rob DeBoer and Tony Grace, also known internationally for their indie label/production house, Boomtang. Born in 1997 as a small indie UK release, “The Album” went on to revitalize the Smooth Jazz world the following summer when the first single, “Eastside”, broke through in the US to became the seventh most-played track on Contemporary Jazz radio that year. Their sound lies at the forefront of what has been called the nu jazz movement – taking the best of contemporary jazz and pop styles and aligning them to produce a improvisational dance-infused sound. This Toronto-based group draws from a variety of sources to make their music happen, including found sounds, field recordings and sound effects alongside their finely crafted studio recordings. As with many so-called “acid jazz” groups, their music is not clearly defined as smooth jazz or any other type of jazz for that matter. Four80East operates on a plane that expresses their own stylized ability under an umbrella of electrified and funky vibes. They have a pronounced R&B influence that fills in the layers between jazz and soul. Improvisational by nature, their recordings are filled with club-inspired beats, exotic rhythms and soulful melodies, some of which are tied to interwoven vocals. A unique sound that can only be described as “Four80East”. |
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Sat, June 2
Dotsero
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RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 17 Tickets purchased for the March 17 date will be honored at the door. Taking their name from a small mountain town in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, DOTSERO means "Something Unique" according to Ute Native American legend to some. It means DOT-ZERO on the earliest geographical railroad maps to others, but to jazz fans worldwide DOTSERO means Smooth Jazz at its best, full of life energy and spontaneity that few artists in the genre have been able to match. A no nonsense sax and guitar driven thrill ride of energy and excitement. As much fun to watch as they are to listen to. The band has performed at major jazz festivals; Red Rocks Amphitheatre, JVC Winter Park Jazz Fest, Jazz Trax Catalina Island Jazz Fest and The Cancun Jazz Festival, among others. From Ala Carte Ala Park in San Francisco to West Palm Beach's Sunfest, DOTSERO has crisscrossed the nation performing their exciting brand of jazz. |
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Wed, June 6
Stripped Down and Fully Clothed Tour
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ALL AGES SHOW REMAINING GOLD LEVEL SEATS ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED VIEW AND SOLD A DISCOUNT On Gift Horse, their second album for Vanguard and fifth studio effort overall, Stephen Kellogg and his bandmates— Kit “Goose” Karlson (keys, bass, vocals), Brian “Boots” Factor (drums, vocals) and Sam “Steamer” Getz (guitars, vocals)—bring the rich legacy of American rock & roll into the present tense. This is thrilling music, muscular, immediate and life-embracing, steeped in tradition but addressing the present moment boldly and eloquently.Gift Horse stands as an unambiguous statement of belonging and persevering during these times—the record is as straightforward, and as resonant, as that. “I’ve been putting out records for 10 years now and I’ve made plenty of mistakes, Kellogg says. “They say you get one shot, but I don’t believe that for a second. You get as many shots as you’re willing to hang in there and go for. We’ve learned a lot, and that’s worth something to me. I’m trying to focus on the things that are real and within my grasp: the people who come to our shows and listen to the music, my kids and my wife and my friends.” There’s nothing hidden or tentative about Kellogg’s music or the values he stands for. If you’ve been itching to crank up some bracing, timeless rock & roll that speaks to these values loudly and proudly, then Gift Horse is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. |
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Thu, June 7
Jimmy Lafave
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Austin-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Jimmy LaFave brings a passionate rock & roll energy to his original folk songs, whether he's playing solo or with a band. Quite a fixture on the Austin music scene, upon his return to Texas in 1986, LaFave racked up critical accolades among not only Austin based publications, but periodicals across the country and two Austin Music Awards, in addition to other laurels. LaFave's visibility on the musical radar increased with an appearance on Austin City Limits and at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to Woody Guthrie, where he was hand-picked by Guthrie's daughter to appear. |
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Fri, June 8
Tour Farewell Party!
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ALL AGES SHOW Saints are a melodic, guitar driven brit rock band consisting of Brothers Rob and Lewi Gault from Glasgow, Scotland and American rockers Blaine Schult and Zack Martinson. Saints chose to base themselves in Denver, CO after Rob moved there in 2004. 4 years in, frustration at the missed opportunities of not having a full time musical outlet caused Rob to pick up the phone to Scotland and ask Lewi to come out and start a new band. Lewi, similarly frustrated and itching for a change of scenery from greater Glasgow’s grey skies and endless drizzle, didn’t waste any time in selling several possessions to fund the trip out. Not long after, Rob played some demo songs to Blaine, a friend of one year who was immediately keen to ditch his sales gig and pick his guitar back up. Next up was Bass player Zack, a Denverite born and raised who, as soon as he played the 1st note in his audition, was immediately voted to be in the band. |
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Sat, June 9
Everything Changes Charity Concert Benefiting
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Join us for an evening of live music and entertainment at the Everything Changes charity concert to benefit Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance. The mission of Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance is to provide temporary financial support to cancer patients undergoing treatment. For more information visit www.rockymountaincancerassistance.org The FTP Band with Sonic Junkies and Marty Jones and the Great Unknowns will perform and the Naughty Pierre will be our emcee. Be ready to bid on many exciting auction items including trips to Napa Valley or South Africa or a signed Peyton Manning Bronco helmet. We appreciate your support. Fight Cancer, Have Fun! |
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Fri, June 15
Tickets on Sale April 20th 10AM
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Nashville, Tennessee is a nexus – a point where tradition and innovation intersect, where commerce collides with art. It may be the only town around where salaried songwriters and full-time session musicians are as common as accountants and schoolteachers. Music is the product, and the factories line the street, from the swank Music Row mini-high-rises to the low-slung Sylvan Park bungalows. And only Nashville could give birth to a band like the SteelDrivers: a group of seasoned veterans – each distinguished in his or her own right, each valued in the town’s commercial community – who are seizing an opportunity to follow their hearts to their souls’ reward. In doing so, they are braiding their bluegrass roots with new threads of their own design, bringing together country, soul, and other contemporary influences to create an unapologetic hybrid that is old as the hills but fresh as the morning dew. This is new music with the old feeling. SteelDrivers fan Vince Gill describes the band’s fusion as simply “an incredible combination.” |
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Sat, June 16
Tickets on Sale Wednesday 5/9 at 10AM!
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ALL AGES SHOW! Over the decade long journey from their first incarnation as kids in Fort Worth, Texas to the upcoming release of their latest album, Under Fire, Green River Ordinance has evolved steadily. The powerful five piece’s message on their upcoming release evokes the challenges and triumphs of its members as they continue to grow personally and artistically. In 2007, GRO’s intensity and strong fan connection prompted EMI to sign them to Capitol Records. In 2009, Out Of Our Hands, the band’s debut album shot to no. 10 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and catapulted two singles, “Come On” and “On Your Own”, into the Top 40. GRO shared stages with Bon Jovi, Train, Counting Crows, Gavin DeGraw and many more. |
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Fri, June 22
Tickets on Sale Friday 4/6 at 10AM!
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Yesterday-A Tribute to The Beatles, founded by John Lennon performer Don Bellezzo tours not only in the U.S. but Internationally. With seven tours of Japan, dozens more to Canada, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Bahamas, and United States military bases throughout the World, these entertainers have performed on five continents. Completing a five month run in 2011 at the TropicanaLV Resort Casino in "Yesterday - The Beatles Tribute" on the Las Vegas strip, Yesterday is featured on video at McCarran International Airport with other celebrities welcoming all to the Entertainment Capital of the world...Las Vegas! Performing their critically acclaimed production, "The British Are Coming!" nightly for three years, to standing room only audiences, at The Tropicana Hotel and Casino's "Liverpool Club" in Atlantic City, "The British Are Coming!" became the longest running show in Atlantic City history. Over the last four years Yesterday Show Bands have had long term productions in Lake Tahoe, Reno and numerous venues nationwide. The resident Beatles Show Band for "Legends in Concert," the world's premier and longest running tribute show, Yesterday performs in Las Vegas, Branson, Missouri and Legends venues worldwide. Yesterday has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, Showbiz Magazine, on NBC, CBS, and ABC, Dick Clark's "Your Big Break" Ed McMahon's "Star Search" and recently returned as highlight of the annual Joe Johnson's Beatles Cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise lines. Sailing with Yesterday was Laurence Juber, formerly of "Wings" , Tony Bramwell, Author and longtime Beatles childhood friend and Tony Perkins from ABC's Good Morning America, a well known Beatles enthusiast. Invited by the U.S. Postal Service to entertain at the unveiling of the "Yellow Submarine" Postage Stamp, Yesterday performed at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. |
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Sat, June 23
All Ages Show!
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Foxfield Four, formerly The David James Band, is a piano-driven four piece in the tradition of Ben Folds and Jerry Lee Lewis. After earning a degree in classical piano, David James and his brother Preston teamed up with two like-minded Denverites--Wes Barton and Justin Francoeur--to create 2010's 'Street Performer', an album that has garnered local praise for it's catchy melodies and jazz-inspired style. The final track, 'Alcohol.edu', earned James the BMI John Lennon Scholarship. Musicians and non-musicians alike can appreciate the band's ardent approach to writing and inspired live performances. The group is constantly writing and recording new material as part of their quest for 'Pop Music Rehabilitation'. Description "Ultimately, James...has a knack for crafting bubbly pop-rock tunes that are catchy as hell." ~WESTWORD "Fresh piano-based pop with lush melodies." ~Pop Geek Heaven |
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Wed, June 27
An Evening With
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Acoustic Alchemy is the guitar-based duo that personifies what has come to be known as New Adult Contemporary music. With the release of This Way, Acoustic Alchemy's first album under Higher Octave/Narada Jazz's association with Blue Note Records, guitarists Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale celebrate a remarkable two decades since 1987's Red Dust and Spanish Lace established the British ensemble as an ever evolving, powerhouse force in contemporary jazz. Their thousands of fans around the world may be feeling nostalgic, but the duo - while keeping their trademark acoustic guitar synergy front and center - Is clearly committed to forging ahead, following the laid back pop-soul vibe of American/English (2005) with their most aggressive and swinging, hard rocking and artfully jazzy disc to date. Join us for a night of enriching music with a group that is now twenty years in the making, yet still forging new sounds, styles and song-scapes. |
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Fri, June 29
Sonny Landreth
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"From the Reach," Sonny Landreth's ninth album, is the first to be released on his own Landfall label. On it, the Louisiana-based slide guitar wizard does something unprecedented in his body of work, as he collaborates with five of the greatest guitar players on the planet - Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill - for some jaw-dropping performances. Also making a house call on the album is legendary New Orleans pianist and singer Dr. John and iconic Gulf Coast troubadour Jimmy Buffett. |
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Sat, June 30
Jeff Lorber
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By the late 1970s, trailblazing keyboardist/composer/producer Jeff Lorber had become a prominent figure in the new movement known as jazz fusion – a marriage of traditional jazz with elements of rock, R&B, funk and other electrified sounds. Lorber and his band, the Jeff Lorber Fusion, first honed their craft in the Portland, Oregon, club scene and rapidly expanded their reach to a national and international audience via a combination of complex harmonies, unconventional time signatures and compelling rhythms. In subsequent years, Lorber dropped the term “fusion” from his billing as the movement evolved into what is currently known as contemporary jazz. Still, he continued to explore the innovative, improvisational potential of grafting other musical forms to the jazz idiom. More than three decades after his earliest recordings, Lorber has come full circle. His new recording, Galaxy, set for release January 31, 2012, on Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group, revisits a sound he helped pioneer. The album takes the experiment that he started with his last GRAMMY®-nominated CD, Now is the Time, up a notch with 11 exciting and energetic new compositions performed by some of the biggest names in jazz today. Core members Lorber, bassist Jimmy Haslip and saxophonist Eric Marienthal are in rare form, aided by the explosive playing of drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and guest appearances by trumpeter Randy Brecker, percussionist Lenny Castro, guitarists Paul Jackson Jr. and Larry Koonse, and drummer Dave Weckl. |
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Sun, July 15
Tickets on Sale Friday 4/20 at 10AM!
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You could call it an attraction...a curiosity...an anticipation of surprise and delight. But there's a better word to describe what the music of The Greencards inspires. Fascination. If you've followed this multinational threesome over these past five years, you know the feeling. From their personal histories through the content of their work, grounded in deep musical tradition but elevated by breathtaking technique and conceptual adventurousness, there is ample reason for interest ... for excitement ... For Fascination. Now, with their Sugar Hill Records debut, it's official. Fascination describes the essence of this band. It was, first of all, their fascination with American roots music - bluegrass especially - that drew singer/bassist Carol Young and multiple string-instrument master Kym Warner from Australia to Austin, Texas, where they began performing together, and later to their current home base in Nashville. That urge to challenge themselves, to test the limits of any established genre, guided them on their first three albums. It kept them focused as they accumulated awards and acclamations, from the Americana Music Award in 2006 for "Emerging Artist of the Year" through tours with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to last year's "Best Country Instrumental Performance" Grammy nomination for "Mucky The Duck," a track from Viridian in 2008, and another in 2010 for "The Crystal Merchant" from Fascination. |
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Wed, July 18
Marcia Ball
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Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano playing and passionate, playful vocals fuse New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B with Austin's deep songwriting tradition into a sound No Depression described as "a little rock, a lot of roll, a pinch of rhythm and a handful of blues." |
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Fri, July 27
The Carl Verheyen Band
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In his 40-plus years of playing the instrument, Carl has created a wildly successful, multi-faceted career. He is a critically-acclaimed musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and educator with 11 CDs and two live DVDs released worldwide. Carl is commonly regarded as a guitar virtuoso capable of playing any style of music with remarkable mastery and conviction. He has been one of LA’s elite “first call” session players for the past 25 years, playing on hundreds of records, movie soundtracks and television shows. Carl has graced the pages of countless industry publications and been the subject of numerous articles chronicling his rise to the forefront of the modern day guitar scene. Carl has won numerous polls and musical honors in the US, Germany, France, Italy and the UK. A member of the smash hit British rock group Supertramp since 1985, Carl has played to millions of enthusiastic fans in sold out arenas worldwide. As the creative force behind The Carl Verheyen Band, he has released an impressive and eclectic discography that showcases his endless talents across a wide array of musical genres. A much sought after studio musician, Carl plays on other artists’ CDs whenever his busy schedule permits. He has recorded and played with a virtual who’s who of the music industry. His vast collection of movie soundtrack and television credits are enviable. Carl was heard by 67, 000,000 people as a featured soloist at the 2009 Academy Awards. He will also be heavily featured in the forthcoming film documentary about the electric guitar, Turn It Up! |
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Sat, July 28
Tickets on Sale Friday 5/4 at 10AM!
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Over the past 21 years, Ken Navarro has performed in every major US city and had numerous Top 5 hits at national radio. His music is distributed throughout the world from Japan to Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Britain, Australia, Chile, Brazil, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and even in China. Navarro's 2010 release "Dreaming of Trains" was pre-nominated for the 2011 Grammy awards in 2 categories and his 2008 album The Grace of Summer Light was named the #1 contemporary jazz album of the year at Jazz Times. His impressive discography of 20 top charting albums showcase his appeal to a wide range of listeners with inspiring compositions and superb guitar performances. Navarro's latest CD The Test Of Time is his 20th release and marks a landmark in Ken's musical direction. It is Solo Guitar like you never imagined it. In each of the 12 songs that make up The Test of Time, Navarro delivers a genuine, flawless performance, where all of the melodies, bass lines, harmonies and even percussion are masterfully played simultaneously on just one guitar without any overdubbing. Some of the contemporary classics included are The Police's Message In A Bottle, John Lennon's Imagine, Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman, Pat Metheny's Letter From Home and Santana's Europa. This new release is a huge milestone and leap forward in Navarro's career. The performances are magical in many ways and will be appreciated by a wide audience. Navarro's mastery of the many different styles is breathtaking. He has infused himself in each style of solo guitar playing so that it transcends the song and style and becomes an original Ken Navarro masterpiece. |
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Thu, August 9
Griffin House
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A Nashville-based musician with a Midwestern upbringing, Griffin House spikes his pop/rock songwriting with a dose of rootsy, atmospheric Americana. House was born and raised in Ohio, where he eventually discovered his musical gifts while attending Miami University in Oxford. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, and the Mermaid Avenue albums by Wilco and Billy Bragg, House embraced the craft of songwriting and issued several albums as an independent artist. His mix of sentimental melodies, ambient guitars, and sparse arrangements attracted attention from Nettwerk, a Vancouver-based record label, and House soon partnered with the label's American branch to issue Lost & Found in 2004. Several self-released albums followed, and House signed with RCA before issuing Flying Upside Down, a folk-rock album recorded with members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. Although originally available via iTunes in 2007, the record was released in stores early the following year, followed in 2010 by his second album for the Nettwerk label, The Learner. |
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Sat, August 18
Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra
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Ottmar Liebert's incredible global success on a musical level often seems like a simple outgrowth of his cultural background and powerful wanderlust in his formative years. Born in Cologne, Germany to Chinese-German father and Hungarian mother, he began playing guitar at 11, and traveled extensively through Europe and Asia intent on fully absorbing each musical tradition he encountered. After pursuing his Rock and Roll dreams first in his native Germany and then in Boston, he abandoned the frustrations of the East coast and settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1989, he founded the first incarnation of his new band Luna Negra. Nouveau Flamenco began life as a self-produced local release called Marita: Shadows and Storms, copies of which local Indian artist Frank Howell distributed in his art galleries. When the record found its way to radio stations and began generating a buzz among programmers and an unprecedented response among listeners, Higher Octave Music picked it up and released a fully remastered version. Liebert has since become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past decade, thrilling audiences throughout the world and releasing a catalog of classic recordings, including the remix collection Euphoria (1995), the live album Viva! (1995), the double CD Opium (1996) and the classical-oriented orchestral album Leaning into the Night (1997). He wrapped up his decade with Epic with 2001's Little Wing and went back to Higher Octave Music, releasing a lush album of lullabies called In the Arms of Love in 2002 and an album with Luna Negra XL called The Santa Fe Sessions (2003). La Semana (2004) was the first all-new band album in five years, followed by Winter Rose (2005), which featured original pieces, classical music and christmas songs. In 2006 Liebert's record label SSRI released One Guitar, his first solo guitar recording, which received Liebert's fourth nomination for a Grammy. His newest releases are Up Close (2008), which is a binaural dummy head surround sound recording, and The Scent of Light (2008) a labor of five years. *approximate running time for this show is 75-90 minutes |
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Sat, August 18
Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra
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Ottmar Liebert's incredible global success on a musical level often seems like a simple outgrowth of his cultural background and powerful wanderlust in his formative years. Born in Cologne, Germany to Chinese-German father and Hungarian mother, he began playing guitar at 11, and traveled extensively through Europe and Asia intent on fully absorbing each musical tradition he encountered. After pursuing his Rock and Roll dreams first in his native Germany and then in Boston, he abandoned the frustrations of the East coast and settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1989, he founded the first incarnation of his new band Luna Negra. Nouveau Flamenco began life as a self-produced local release called Marita: Shadows and Storms, copies of which local Indian artist Frank Howell distributed in his art galleries. When the record found its way to radio stations and began generating a buzz among programmers and an unprecedented response among listeners, Higher Octave Music picked it up and released a fully remastered version. Liebert has since become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past decade, thrilling audiences throughout the world and releasing a catalog of classic recordings, including the remix collection Euphoria (1995), the live album Viva! (1995), the double CD Opium (1996) and the classical-oriented orchestral album Leaning into the Night (1997). He wrapped up his decade with Epic with 2001's Little Wing and went back to Higher Octave Music, releasing a lush album of lullabies called In the Arms of Love in 2002 and an album with Luna Negra XL called The Santa Fe Sessions (2003). La Semana (2004) was the first all-new band album in five years, followed by Winter Rose (2005), which featured original pieces, classical music and christmas songs. In 2006 Liebert's record label SSRI released One Guitar, his first solo guitar recording, which received Liebert's fourth nomination for a Grammy. His newest releases are Up Close (2008), which is a binaural dummy head surround sound recording, and The Scent of Light (2008) a labor of five years. *approximate running time for this show is 75-90 minutes |
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Thu, August 23
An Evening with Rebecca Rosen
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REMAINING GOLD LEVEL SEATS ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED VIEW AND SOLD AT A DISCOUNT Audience readings entail groups of people who gather to hear messages from the spirit world. Rebecca fully surrenders all control to spirit, acting as the voice for our departed loved ones, and the most dominant energy comes through with messages for their living loved ones. The energy of most groups is like an emotional rollercoaster, composed of laughs and tears, liberating truths, moments of awe and often times a bittersweet knowing of our loved one's eternal presence. It has been and continues to be Rebecca's experience that those souls with the greatest emotional need for a connection, both physical and non-physical, generally get read. She will attempt to read as many members of the audience as possible in the two-hour session. Though attending a group does not guarantee a personal reading, it does allow for a unique opportunity to witness profound validations of spirit communication, along with universal messages of truth and love. |
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Thu, August 30
An Evening with Rebecca Rosen
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REMAINING GOLD LEVEL SEATS ARE PARTIALLY BLOCKED VIEW AND SOLD AT A DISCOUNT Audience readings entail groups of people who gather to hear messages from the spirit world. Rebecca fully surrenders all control to spirit, acting as the voice for our departed loved ones, and the most dominant energy comes through with messages for their living loved ones. The energy of most groups is like an emotional rollercoaster, composed of laughs and tears, liberating truths, moments of awe and often times a bittersweet knowing of our loved one's eternal presence. It has been and continues to be Rebecca's experience that those souls with the greatest emotional need for a connection, both physical and non-physical, generally get read. She will attempt to read as many members of the audience as possible in the two-hour session. Though attending a group does not guarantee a personal reading, it does allow for a unique opportunity to witness profound validations of spirit communication, along with universal messages of truth and love. |
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Sat, September 8
RnR Tour Featuring Rick Braun and Richard Elliot
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The exciting collaboration between trumpeter Rick Braun and saxophonist Richard Elliot has been in the making for over a decade. They've toured together for years and have made guest appearances on each other's records. Between them, they have 24 solo albums and a massive catalogue of chart-topping radio hits. Rick Braun Website Richard Elliot Website |
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Sat, September 8
RnR Tour Featuring Rick Braun and Richard Elliot
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The exciting collaboration between trumpeter Rick Braun and saxophonist Richard Elliot has been in the making for over a decade. They've toured together for years and have made guest appearances on each other's records. Between them, they have 24 solo albums and a massive catalogue of chart-topping radio hits. Rick Braun Website Richard Elliot Website |
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Tue, October 2
Ian Tyson
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Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and multi award winner, Ian Tyson, is celebrating 5 decades of performance in 2011 with a full schedule of concerts planned from coast to coast in both Canada and the United States. Throughout 2008, Tyson shot a TV Music/Documentary Special for Canada's Bravo Chanel which aired in January 2010 and, along with additional live footage, a second TV special was also produced for the CBC Network. These shows are now available in a double DVD package titled "Ian Tyson, This Is My Sky". In December 2010, Ian's memoir for Random House of Canada - "The Long Trail" - became an instant Best Seller. From the superstar status of Ian & Sylvia in the 1960's to the legendary Tyson of today, Ian continues to keep his loyal fans in awe with songs that range from his classics - Four Strong Winds (named Canada's top song of the 20th century), Someday Soon, and Navajo Rug, to his newest works which he continues to write with inspired vigor. Now in his mid 70's, Tyson combines a busy touring performance schedule with the work on his Alberta ranch, nestled in the foothills of the Rockies south of Calgary. It's a workload that would exceed that of most people generations his junior. |
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Fri, October 5
Tickets on Sale Friday 4/27 at 10AM!
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Dave and Tommy Malone, two of Louisiana's greatest guitarist singer-songwriters, have joined forces to form one of the most exciting new lineups in American music. Both men have spent most of their adult lives in legendary bands, but when Dave's band "The Radiators" called it quits in June of 2011 and Tommy's band "the subdudes" decided to go on hiatus, the stage was set for the long awaited Malone Brothers band. The two had grown up in Edgard, Louisiana, and after high school they moved to their birthplace...New Orleans... and formed Dustwoofie, a popular band among Tulane University students. The brothers later worked together in groups such as the Malone Rangers and Monkey Ranch but their current collaboration is their most fully realized musical entity yet. The brothers are both superb accompanists as well as leaders, making their trade-off even more exciting. Separately and together they have written numerous great songs recorded by their own bands and other world famous musicians and are revered for their guitaristic excellence. The combination is a musical experience that fans of both men have wanted to hear for years. - John Swenson |
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Sat, October 6
Kelly Joe Phelps
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A writer for the San Diego Troubadour described guitarist and songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps as, “The Phantom Monk Of Folk- Blues,” and rightly so. Throughout his 18 years on the road and 8 solo CD releases, Phelps has been talked about as much for his passionate, spirit-driven, solitary musical ways as for the inventiveness of his playing and singing. A New York Times concert reviewer wrote: “...his airy playing conjuring a pocket of supernatural space. He manipulated his fretboard to create eerie harmonics as he slipped from a mumble to a falsetto, as if to follow the soul beyond the physical realm.” Uncut Magazine, reviewing a London show, wrote: “...to ripple and snake into unknown territory for the country blues he allegedly played, to squeeze out sounds touching the searching jazz that had once been his trade, to mutate through more layers than twelve strings should hold. And the songs; their pleas for mercy beyond the grave healed the spirit in ways disbelievers, in Bibles or Blues, could feel.” |
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Sat, October 20
Tickets on Sale Monday 5/7 at 10AM!
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Join us for a very special evening with Paul Taylor, Jessy J, and Marion Meadows. Three Smooth Jazz Greats in one night! |
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Sat, October 20
Tickets on Sale Monday 5/7 at 10AM!
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Join us for a very special evening with Paul Taylor, Jessy J, and Marion Meadows. Three Smooth Jazz Greats in one night! |