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delmer holland & the blue creek ramblers • carol ponder

• anne feeney • carolyn hester • kathy larisch & carol

OFFICIAL PROGRAM mccomb • ross altman • tomcat courtney • los fabulocos • Adams Avenue robin henkel • hot club of san diego • gregory page • 7th day Roots & Folk Festival buskers • cindy lee berryhill• curt bouterse • wayne brandon & clark powell • los californios • jocelyn celaya • roy ruiz clayton • patty

hall • martin henry • lora lee • monroe avenue string band • neverly

brothers • new lost melody boys • angela patua • portuguese Welcome Mat ………3 mandolin duo • tanya rose & the buffalo chip kickers • san Contributors diego cajun playboys • san diego mandolin orchestra Welcome from AABA Executive Director ensemble • siamsa gael ceili • anna troy • mimi wright Full Circle.. …………4 Lalo Guerrero Recordially, Lou Curtiss Roots Festival... ……5 Performing Artists ………6 Schedules & Map ………8 Of Note. ……………11 Christopher Dean Allen Singer Ramblin’... …………12 Bluegrass Corner Zen of Recording Hosing Down Radio Daze Across the Internet & Around the World ‘Round About ...... …14 April Music Calendar The Local Seen ……15 Photo Page

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SAN DIEGO to the 33rd Annual Roots and Folk Festival! This is one of ROUBADOUR the Adams Avenue Business Association’s signature Alternative country, Americana, roots, folk, Tblues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass music news elcome events, which highlights the businesses on Adams Avenue and celebrates the diverse cultural roots of the rWesidents and merchants in the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego. MISSION CONTRIBUTORS To promote, encourage, and provide an Through hosting events such as this we can share our community with you. While you are here, FOUNDERS alternative voice for the great local please notice the quaint shops and historic beauty that we are so proud of. We hope that during your music that is generally overlooked by Ellen and Lyle Duplessie the mass media; namely the genres of Liz Abbott visit to the Roots Festival, you are enticed to return to sample our merchant offerings — from fine foods alternative country, Americana, roots, Kent Johnson to ethnic heritage crafts, our community of enterprises has everything to offer. We expect that you’ll folk, blues, gospel, jazz, and bluegrass. PUBLISHERS come back to our small historic business district to shop, dine, and enjoy a cup of coffee with a rare book To entertain, educate, and bring togeth - Liz Abbott while you’re getting your auto patched up and your hair coiffed! Yes, it all happens on Adams Avenue! er players, writers, and lovers of these Kent Johnson forms; to explore their foundations; and Special events, such as the Roots Festival, and all of AABA’s activities are carried out by the Board of to expand the audience for these types EDITORIAL/GRAPHICS Directors and staff with the support of various outside partners such as the Business Improvement District Liz Abbott of music. Council CEO, Scott Kessler, and Third District City Councilmember Toni Atkins. We also appreciate Fourth Simeon Flick SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR, the local Chuck Schiele Supervisory District County Supervisor Ron Roberts as a long time supporter of our festivals and the small source for alternative country, business community, particularly through his leadership in the City County Reinvestment Task Force. Americana, roots, folk, blues, gospel, ADVERTISING jazz, and bluegrass music news, is pub - Kent Johnson Without the support of the community this event would not be possible. It is with pride and honor lished monthly and is free of charge. Joanna Schiele that AABA recognizes all of those who have been an integral part of planning and organizing this year’s Letters to the editor must be signed and Roots Festival. We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors and all of the local, regional, and national artists may be edited for content. It is not, BUSINESS MANAGER however, guaranteed that they will Joanna Schiele who are participating; we thank our music curator and festival godfather Lou Curtiss (owner of Folk Arts appear. DISTRIBUTION Rare Records) and San Diego State University Professor Joel Henderson, who helped arrange the booking All opinions expressed in SAN DIEGO Kent Johnson of Anne Feeney among other performers. Peter Bolland TROUBADOUR, unless otherwise stat - We are very appreciative of Liz Abbott and Kent Johnson, publishers of the San Diego Troubadour, ed, are solely the opinion of the writer Mark Jackson and do not represent the opinions of the Dave Sawyer who have graciously offered a portion of this music publication to serve as the official Roots Festival pro - staff or management. All rights Indian Joe Stewart gram. reserved. PHOTOGRAPHY Special thanks goes to Lois Bach (AABA board member), Judy Moore (AABA staff); Chris Heany ADVERTISING INFORMATION Steve Covault (owner of Kadan, 4696 30th Street); Roots Festival stage managers Dana Shocaroff and Caesar For advertising rates, call 619/298-8488 WEB MASTER Churchwell; Annie Ross (volunteer extraordinaire); community volunteers Christina Kish, Charles Boling, or e-mail [email protected]. Will Edwards Linda Hanover, Mark and Marilyn Merrill, and Chris Burns. We are very grateful for all of the numerous SUBSCRIPTIONS are available for volunteers not mentioned above who assist in various organizing and execution capacities whose partici - $30/yr. Send check payable to San WRITERS Diego Troubadour to: Mike Alvarez pation makes the success of this event seem so effortless. Richard F. Burrell San Diego Troubadour On behalf of the Adams Avenue merchants, thank you for attending, and enjoy the music, food, and Lou Curtiss P.O. Box 164 activities throughout the Roots Festival weekend. Remember to visit us again for shopping and dining Kate Kowsh La Jolla, CA 92038 along Adams Avenue’s historic business district. E-mail: [email protected]. Jim McInnes Sven-Erik Seaholm WHERE TO FIND US Can’t find a copy José Sinatra of the San Diego Troubadour? Go to D. 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a Recordially, r d s o Lalo Guerrero: An n Lou Curtiss Icon of Chicano Music Wayne Brandon and Clark Powell, Siamsa Gael do except for the publicity it’s given my busi - by Mike Alvarez Ceili, Martin Henry, Los Alacranes, and the ness. What I have taken from this work is Monroe Avenue String Band. knowledge about the various kinds of roots This is a special anniversary for me. I started music, knowledge that I can give back in vari - his year’s Adams Avenue Roots and Lou Curtiss working on festivals in 1967 when we put on ous ways to help further support of the music. Folk Festival honors Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero, an alumnus of the 1997 33RD ANNUAL ADAMS AVENUE the first one, and this one makes number 33. Plus, it’s been a hell of a lot of fun, and I don’t festival, by portraying a youthful image of him ROOTS FESTIVAL I’ve also worked on 13 of the Adams Avenue regret any of that. on the Roots Festival poster. The late Latino Street Fairs and four blues festivals (1973, 1979, Another way you can get involved is to join composer and performer, acknowledged by want to apologize to a number of fine roots 1980, 1994). So, that makes this one number Wayne Brandon, Clark Powell, and myself in the Tmany as the Father of Chicano Music, enjoyed musicians, both local and from around the 50. In a way, I was hoping that as an anniver - work we are doing as part of the San Diego a long and colorful career that lasted more Icountry, who are not on the list of perform - sary for me, we could have booked musicians Folklife Project. Along with the goal of establish - than 60 years. ers this year. This is not because I didn’t want who I consider more authentic roots artists. ing a folklife museum in San Diego (perhaps in His first group, a quartet called Los them to be, but rather because the final decision Instead, I had to write letters and tell my good Balboa Park), it is an effort to raise money so Carlistas, was notable for representing Arizona about who got hired was taken out of my hands friends and fine musicians that we couldn’t that we can hire the roots musicians we’ve never at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Soon and, in my opinion, some of those who were afford to bring them down this year. I hope that been able to afford to play at the Adams Avenue thereafter, he moved to Southern California to asked to play are simply not roots musicians. So further his musical pursuits. During the 1940s next year I won’t have to do that again. Roots Festival. Drop by their booth at the Roots there will be no Hank Bradley, Frannie Leopold, he recorded and performed as a soloist as well Lalo Guerrero in 1948 I’d like to see more roots music-oriented Festival and talk to them about it. Or drop by and Cathie Whitesides (Balkan Cafe Orchestra); as with the Trio Imperial. He also made people who are willing to get involved in the Folk Arts Rare Records and talk to me. the CD The Funny Side of Lalo Guerrero . no Kenny Hall; no Mary McCaslin; no John uncredited appearances in a number of initial Roots Festival committee meetings, partic - Recordially, Throughout his career Guerrero enjoyed a Bosley, Walt Richards, and Paula Strong; no Joe movies, including Boots and Saddles with Gene respectable amount of recognition and acco - ularly those of you who live in the Adams Hickerson, Carol Elizabeth Jones, and Laurel Lou Curtiss Autry and His Kind of Woman , starring Robert lades. His earliest Pachuco compositions pro - Avenue neighborhood. I feel that I still have a Bliss; and no Golden Hill Ramblers. Now, part Mitchum and Jane Russell. In the decade that vided the soundtrack to Luis Valdez’ 1970s lot to contribute, though, and I still think that P.S. Dr. Charles Wolfe, a generous contributor followed, he formed an orchestra that toured stage musical turned film Zoot Suit . In 1980 of the reason for this is budgets. We don’t have this music is in need of support. I won’t let it and information resource for many of these fes - the Southwest. His audience at Hollywood’s La the Smithsonian Institution declared him to be the money that we had in the past, and efforts die because there’s no one giving people the tivals over the past 30 years or so, writer of vital Bamba club included some of the biggest a National Folk Treasure and in 1992, he to bring outside money in to support this festi - opportunity to hear it. I’ve lived close to the books and liner notes for CD reissues too stars of the day. His national hit, “Pancho received the National Heritage Award from the val have been less than successful to date. Lopez,” enabled him to buy his own club dur - poverty level for 40 years because of my numerous to count, passed away a few weeks NEA. In 1997 President Bill Clinton awarded The answer, however, isn’t to water down involvement with this music (I should say these ago. Even though he was seriously ill, he took ing the 1960s. Dubbed Lalo’s, it provided a him with the Presidential Medal of the Arts. the reputation of this festival by booking artists musics) and at least 90 percent of that music the time to make recommendations for this venue where his orchestra could perform on a His final CD in 1999, Vamos a Bailar Otra regular basis. The club was sold in 1972 when whose music falls outside the scope of what it is has been worth hearing and worth presenting. year’s festival. Thanks, Charlie. The old-time Vez, features a big band that includes mem - trying to be — or at least what I have tried to Guerrero moved to Palm Springs. bers of the Brian Setzer Orchestra. This release I’ve seldom taken any money for doing what I music community will miss you. make it these last 40 years. If you want to expe - Guerrero incorporated many musical contains new versions of his greatest songs, rience more authentic roots music at this festi - forms into his songs. Even the most cursory including “Vamos a Bailar,” “Marihuana perusal of his catalog reveals his mastery not Boogie,” “Nunca Jamas,” and “Barrio Viejo.” val, I encourage you to contact the Adams only of Latin styles but also of American music Guerrero continued to perform well into his Avenue Business Association and get involved such as jump, swing, boogie-woogie, and 80s. In November of 2004, he gave his final during the planning stages. blues. Some of his songs have a traditional performance in his hometown of Tucson with We did succeed in booking a few good roots mariachi sound while others were written and Mariachi Cobre a mere five months before artists this year, and I encourage you to attend arranged with the sound of a big band orches - passing away at the age of 88. and whoop up audiences for Delmer Holland tra firmly in mind. Often, the two worlds Lalo Guerrero’s legacy of music and would merge in a vibrant fusion of sounds. and the Blue Creek Ramblers, Kathy Larisch and accomplishments will influence generations to Carol McComb, Carol Ponder, Carolyn Hester, One Mexican musician quipped that Lalo was come and in order to ensure this, his sons and our local traditional and old timey groups “the first Chicano to cross back!” Mark and Dan have donated his archives to like Curt Bouterse, the New Lost Melody Boys, True to his dual heritage as an American of the California Ethnic Multicultural Archives Mexican descent, Guerrero wrote lyrics in (CEMA) at UC Santa Barbara. Robin Henkel, Tomcat Courtney, Tanya Rose both Spanish and English, sometimes switch - and the Buffalo Chip Kickers, Gregory Page, ing back and forth between the two within the same song. Many of his songs chronicled the Chicano experience, garnering praise from Cesar Chavez, with whom he worked for farm workers’ rights. He also displayed a sharp wit with such song parodies as “Pancho Lopez,” a Latin-themed re-working of “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” “Pancho Claus,” “Elvis Perez,” “Tacos for Two” (set to the tune of “Cocktails For Two”), and “There’s No Tortillas” (to the Guerrero, second from right, with Los tune of “O Sole Mio”). They can be found on Calistas in 1936.

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Traditional and Original Folk Music A Cappella Mountain Ballads Traditional Old Time String Band Kathy Larisch and Carol Ponder Southwestern-flavored Originals and Favorite Folk Songs Delmer Holland and Carol McComb Songs for Social Justice and Human Rights Appalachian born and bred, Carol Carolyn Hester the Blue Creek Kathy and Carol helped organize and Ponder is a talented musician, actress, Anne Feeney and educator who is known for singing in played at the first two Roots Festivals in Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Hester is an original —one of Ramblers the old unaccompanied mountain style. 1967-1968, then known as the San Diego Anne Feeney is the granddaughter of an the small but determined gang of ragtag, Although a cappella balladry is at the This group has an authentic sound Folk Festival. At that time they had a best- intrepid mine workers’ organizer, who early 1960s folk singers who cruised the heart of her music, she also accompanies that was born more than 50 years ago selling recording on the Elektra label and, also used music to carry the message of coffee shops and campuses from Harvard herself on guitar, autoharp, and spoons. when Delmer and Leland Holland grew up being from the San Diego area, they were solidarity to working people. After two Yard to Bleeker Street, convinced that Ponder is interested not only in preserv - playing music on neighboring farms bor - in constant demand throughout the state decades of community activism and their music could help change the world. ing traditions but also in keeping them dered by Blue Creek near Waverly, to open for such acts as the New Lost regional performances at rallies, Feeney The political and musical offspring of relevant in the 21st century, so when she Tennessee. As teens, the first cousins City Ramblers and Bill Monroe. They had took her message on the road. Since Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and the is performing or recording, she sings a often played with the great old time fid - played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1991 she has traveled to the frontlines in Weavers, performers such as Hester, Bob blend of old and new songs. Mostly dler and Grand Ole Opry entertainer 1965 and seemed to be on their way to a 40 states, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, and Dylan, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, and Ponder hopes to invite others to explore Arthur Smith. solid career together as a duo. However, Sweden. Richard Fariña (to name a few) were their own heritage and inspire them to Today string bassist William Moore, things got disarrayed and by the end of Her anthem “Have You Been to Jail among the vanguard of the new music of embrace music and singing as their and 2004 state of Tennessee old time the 1960s, Kathy decided to pursue a for Justice?” is being performed by Peter, the 1960s, the first surging energy of a human birthright. banjo champion 19-year-old Rebekah master of arts degree in the San Paul and Mary. Dubbed the “minister of wave that would eventually engulf a gen - During the 1980s, Ponder discovered Weiler complete the band. The Blue Creek Francisco area. Carol has continued to be culture” to the movements for economic eration of American youth. the profession of “teaching artist,” a pro - Ramblers have won old time string band an active performer and recording artist and social justice and human rights, To this day, Hester remains a dynamic fessional artist who also works in educa - championships in both Kentucky and to the present day. Feeney is “the best labor singer in North force with a repertoire of Southwestern- tion settings. Since then she has worked Tennessee. Noted authority Dr. Charles Although these two, who started America,” according to Utah Phillips. The flavored originals and long-standing with teachers in hundreds of classrooms Wolfe called them “one of the last surviv - singing together while they were high way she says it is this: “If you’re on favorites. In addition to her own record - to create rich, engaging, arts-integrated ing authentic Tennessee string bands that school students in Vista, continued to strike, or in an organizing drive, or doing ings, she has lent her vocals to Nancy study through music and theater. call up echoes of barn dances and sing together informally, it’s only recently community organizing for women’s Griffith’s award-winning CD Other Ponder has performed at the Berea, sorghum stir offs. They play with such a that they have begun to perform together rights, the environment, human rights, Voices/Other Rooms and has performed Kentucky Traditional Music Festival and in drive and spirit on tunes rarely heard again. Their unique blending of autoharp anti-poverty or anti-racist work, I want to at various folk festivals across the coun - Washington D.C. plus a variety of other today that if Uncle Dave Macon could and guitar on old ballads, Carter family be there.” try and overseas. have heard them, he would have shouted songs, and original tunes were unique in festivals throughout the South. This is Sunday: 1pm, Park Stage; 4pm, Song Saturday: 1pm, Park Stage/Sunday: ‘hot dog’ and grabbed his banjo to join the 1960s and they still are today. her first time performing at the Adams Swap, Church Social Hall 3pm, Park Stage; 4pm, Song Swap, in.” Their CD, Keeping the Tradition Alive , Saturday: 3pm, Church Sanctuary/ Avenue Roots and Folk Festival. Church Social Hall will be available at their Roots Festival Sunday: noon, Park Stage Saturday: 4 pm, Song Swap, Church performances. Social Hall; 6pm, Church Sanctuary/ Saturday: 2pm, Hawley Stage; 4pm, Sunday: 3pm, Church Sanctuary Park Stage; 6pm, Song Swap, Church Social Hall

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Protest Songs less banjo, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, Radical Guitarist and Vocalist are compelling. Original and Grassroots Folk Songs Ross Altman plucked dulcimer, and Vietnamese mouth Jocelyn Celaya Saturday: 11am, Hawley Stage; 7pm, Song Patty Hall harp (upon which he plays Southern Swap, Church Social Hall/Sunday: 1pm, A self-described Although she is Patty Hall began mountain dance tunes) are his specialties. Hawley Stage “singer-songfight - only 22 years old, her musical Saturday: noon, Park Stage; 4pm, Song Swap, er,” Ross Altman Jocelyn Celaya Texas Bluesman career as a Church Social Hall/Sunday: 11am, Park Stage keeps up with the has traveled the Tomcat Courtney teenager when times with topical Roy Acuff Songs world performing she won tickets songs that reflect music that Tomcat Courtney, to the 1963 Wayne Brandon and who hails from the great traditions Clark Powell encompasses Berkeley Folk of the genre popu - many styles. Waco, Texas, Festival from larized by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Wayne Brandon, the western world’s Originally from broke into blues radio station Phil Ochs, and Tom Paxton. Altman has biggest Roy Acuff fan, sings Acuff songs Piedmont, Oklahoma, and currently resid - music as a tap KPFA. That expe - been a regular at the Adams Avenue Roots about as well as anyone except for Acuff ing in San Diego, Celaya first picked up dancer in a T- rience changed Festival as well as other Southern himself. Clark Powell, who plays guitar and her father’s guitar at the age of 14 and Bone Walker show everything, prompting Hall to teach her - Californian folk venues for years. five-string banjo, also lends his Bashful began teaching herself to play. Her family back in the ’40s. self to play the banjo, guitar, and auto - Courtney has been Sunday: 2pm, Park Stage; 4pm, Song Swap, Brother Oswald-sounding dobro steel gui - was strapped financially so Celaya played harp. She soon began writing and per - responsible for Church Social Hall tar to give this duo its unique flavor. publicly to earn money to help out. Her forming her own songs and eventually giving many young San Diego musicians Saturday: 3pm, Song Swap, Church Social performing was so well received that she enrolled in the folklore graduate program Anti-Folk Music a chance to play in his bands. His style of Hall; 7pm, Park Stage/Sunday: 4pm, Church was soon able to afford lessons with at UCLA. After earning her degree, she Cindy Lee Berryhill Sanctuary acclaimed guitarist Edgar Cruz. She also Texas blues, with influences ranging from moved to Nashville to work at the Country studied flamenco, finger picking, and Lightnin’ Hopkins to Muddy Waters and Cindy Lee Berryhill Music Hall of Fame, where she taught Traditional Dance Music and Parlor Songs classical guitar, as well as authentic B.B. King to his original mentor T-Bone, banjo workshops, hosted women’s song - is an acoustic from the Early Days of California Gregorian chants. At 15 she was perform - continues to bring down the house. singer-songwriter, a writing seminars, produced historical Los Californios ing in Oklahoma coffee houses. Her first grassroots cult Sunday: 4pm & 5pm, Beer Garden country music recordings, and continued (Vykki Mende Gray, Janet Martini, solo album, Mosaic Jungle , was recorded heroine, and a wise - writing and performing. Peter Dubois, David Swarens) in 2001 and features classical composi - Mexican Roots Music cracking lyricist, all Merging her musical interests with her For more than a tions and flamenco as well as original Los Fabulocos rolled into one, said scholarly pursuits, Hall’s music blends it decade, San songs. Celaya’s audience has included the the Union-Tribune ’s all together in a fusion of old-timey tunes, Diego-based Los Queen of England’s royal entourage. This Chris Nixon. As funky girl blues, upbeat kids’ songs, and Californios have past January she was one of the youngest unconventional and topical ballads, spiked with a little com - been researching guitarists to be awarded and honored as a inspired as any performer in America, she mentary and lots of good humor. and interpreting Lifetime Honoree Member of the spearheaded the influential anti-folk Saturday: 11am, Beer Garden; 7pm, Song the music of Association of Finger Style Guitarists. movement in New York City in the late Swap, Church Social Hall/ Sunday: 4pm, Park Spanish and Mexican California, focusing 1980s and has released albums on labels Saturday: 3pm, Hawley Stage; 6pm, Park Stage on the nineteenth century and the days big (Rhino/Capitol) and small(Griffith Park Stage when California was part of Spain and Delta Blues Records). She will be joined by percus - then Mexico. This sweet, melodic music Singer-Songwriter with a Country Influence sionist extraordinaire Randy Hoffman and Robin Henkel was played for dancing and singing at bassist vocalist Marcia Claire. Roy Ruiz Clayton With 75 years of combined playing expe - Robin Henkel’s festive gatherings hosted by the Spanish Roy Ruiz rience, Los Fabulocos are able to play it music ranges Saturday: 3pm, Beer Garden; 7pm, Hawley and Mexican settlers or Californios , who Clayton is a all. Whether it’s Rancheras, Tex-Mex, from primitive, Stage/Sunday: 2pm, Song Swap, Church ran cattle on huge ranchos during their Social Hall multi-talent - Cumbias, Zydeco, or good old fashioned Mississippi Delta heyday in the 1830s and 1840s. Working ed potter, rock ‘n’ roll, Los Fabulocos can satisfy blues and the from primary sources, including Appalachian Folk Songs artist, musi - every musical craving. Former members urban Chicago Californio testimonials, travellers’ Curt Bouterse cian, and of the Blazers Manny Gonzalez on guitar sound to Texas- accounts, and the early sound recordings songwriter. and Bajo Sexto, Jesus Cuevas on accor - style western Curt Bouterse has of Spanish-speaking Californians made by As a per - dion, and Mike Molina on drum join swing and been a staple at Charles Fletcher Lummis almost a century former at James Barrios on bass to form a true beyond. An amazing blues slide guitarist, the Roots ago, the group endeavors to recreate the many of the roots experience. Robin has been playing music since the Festivals every sound of serenade and fandango from the Roots Festivals, he has also provided 1960s, both as a solo act and as a con - year since the first days before California became a state. Sunday: 2pm & 3pm, Beer Garden festival was held illustrations for the Roots Festival posters tributing band member. With the Robin in 1967. Old time Saturday: 6pm, Hawley Stage/Sunday: 3pm, over the years. Clayton is one of those Henkel Band, he uses a variety of back-up Hawley Stage Appalachian folk - guys who writes songs with lyrics that musicians whom he custom picks to fit songs with fret continued on page 10.

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TIMES CHURCH CHURCH HAWLEY PARK STAGE SANCTUARY SOCIAL HALL BEER GARDEN STAGE

11-11:45 am New Lost Patty Hall Roy Ruiz Clayton Melody Boys

noon-12:45 pm Curt Bouterse S.D. Mandolin Lora Lee Orchestra (Hardanger fiddle) Ensemble

1-1:45 pm Carolyn Hester Angela Patuá Portuguese Mandolin Duo

Tanya Rose & Delmer Holland 2-2:45 pm Siamsa Gael Ceili Mimi Wright Portuguese the Buffalo Chip & the Blue Creek Mandolin Duo Kickers Ramblers SONG S WAP 3-3:45 pm Monroe Avenue Kathy Larisch & 7th Day Buskers Cindy Lee Jocelyn Celaya String Band Carol McComb Wayne Brandon & Berryhill Clark Powell Delmer Holland SONG S WAP 4-4:45 pm Martin Henry 7th Day Buskers S.D. Mandolin & the Blue Creek Curt Bouterse Orchestra Mimi Wright Ensemble Ramblers Carol Ponder SONG S WAP 5-5:45 pm Robin Siamsa Gael Ceili Gregory Page Neverly Brothers Anna Troy Henkel Tanya Rose Martin Henry SONG S WAP 6-6:45 pm Jocelyn Celaya Carol Ponder Blue Creek Ramblers Hot Club of Los Californios New Lost Melody Boys San Diego Monroe Ave. String Band SONG S WAP Wayne Brandon Gregory Page Hot Club of Cindy Lee 7-7:45 pm Patty Hall & Clark Powell Robin Henkel San Diego Berryhill Roy Ruiz Clayton 8-8:45 pm Monroe Avenue String Band

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CHURCH CHURCH HAWLEY TIMES PARK STAGE BEER GARDEN SANCTUARY SOCIAL HALL STAGE

• Guitars 11-11:45 am Curt Bouterse Robin Henkel Lora Lee (Hardanger fiddle) • Parts • Pickups noon-12:45 pm Kathy Larisch & San Diego Cajun Anna Troy • Repair Playboys Carol McComb • Accessories

1-1:45 pm Anne Feeney San Diego Cajun Roy Ruiz Clayton ...it’s all in the details Playboys 3043 Adams Avenue San Diego, California SONG S WAP Tanya Rose & 2-2:45 pm Ross Altman Los Fabulocos 619-280-1937 Cindy Lee Berryhill the Buffalo Chip Anna Troy WWW.ELRAYOGUITARWORKS.COM Angela Patuá Kickers

3-3:45 pm Carolyn Hester Carol Ponder Happy Herman Los Fabulocos Los Californios (Gregory Page) LEGEND SONG S WAP 4-4:45 pm Patty Hall Wayne Brandon & Tomcat Courtney New Lost Anne Feeney Melody Boys Clark Powell Carolyn Hester Port-a-Potties Ross Altman Disabled 5-5:45 pm Tomcat Courtney Restroom
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Robin Henkel, continued from page 7. aptly wrote, “It is the music I hear in my traditional fiddle tunes. Each member of Singer-Songwriter Traditional Portuguese Music each gig. He has opened for such top acts happiest dreams.” the trio brings a different background to Gregory Page Portuguese Mandolin Drawing from the spirited repertoire of the circle, which makes for creative as Dizzy Gillespie, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Musician/song - Duo Guthrie, and Dave Mason. Henkel has legendary Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django arrangements and a lot of fun. Chris writer and pro - The Portuguese Mandolin Duo’s reper - also performed with Buddy Miles, John Reinhardt, as well as timeless standards Clarke, originally from east Virginia and ducer Gregory toire consists of ballads, fados, and folk - Hammond, Sha Na Na, and Big Jay and original compositions, Hot Club of influenced by area musicians who played Page was born in lore of Portugal. Sal Freitas, who began McNeal. San Diego performs regularly in Southern traditional music and country blues, leads London, England playing mandolin as a child 67 years ago, A seasoned veteran and winner of Best California as a trio as well as a quartet the group on mandolin, guitar, and to a musical fam - has performed in Portugal, Mexico, and Blues Album at the 2000 San Diego using violin or accordion. assorted gizmos. Sarah on fiddle, feet, ily. As a teenager, Canada and is also a member of a jazz Music Awards, he has participated in In addition to club dates, concerts and and vino, and Darren on guitar, mandolin, he attended and folklore group that performs at an numerous blues festivals. He is also a private parties, they have appeared on tel - and spirits round out the group. Trinity College of annual festival in Massachusetts. Freitas guitar teacher at the legendary Blue evision, radio, and at festivals throughout Saturday: 3pm, Park Stage; 6pm, Song Swap, Music where he studied classical guitar is also a member of the San Diego Guitar, where he has been giving lessons Southern California. Church Social Hall: 8pm, Beer Garden and composition. At the age of 16, Page Orchestra Ensemble and a longtime mem - to students who are eager to learn from Saturday: 6pm & 7pm, Beer Garden Old Time Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Music moved to Southern California where he ber of the San Diego Mandolin Orchestra. the legend himself. Norwegian Folk Music The Neverly Brothers began tirelessly writing and recording his Paul DaRosa is a proficient player of Saturday: 5pm, Park Stage; 7pm, Song Swap, own brand of music. As the years passed, acoustic, lead, and bass guitar. His other Lora Lee Mark Merrell, a Church Social Hall/Sunday: 11am, Beer Page not only worked on his own projects gigs have included playing lead guitar for Garden Originally educated in transplant from but also began to work with an eclectic “Os Navigadores” and playing acoustic classical violin, Lora Lee the Midwest, and array of artists, including Jason Mraz, Folk Songs and Country Ballads guitar for “Ze Duarte” while touring has enjoyed playing the native Californian John Doe, Jewel, Tom Brosseau, Steve Europe when he was just a teenager. The Martin Henry traditional folk music of Steve Roche mix Poltz, and A.J. Croce. His collaboration Portuguese Mandolin Duo also performs Norway on the old-time country, Martin Henry is an excellent folk-country and friendship with Croce enticed him to for a variety of functions in the Hardanger fiddle for the bluegrass, singer-guitarist-fiddler who was a near join Croce’s label Seedling Records and to Portuguese community of Point Loma, past 25 years. An ornate Americana, and regular at these festivals back in the release his debut CD, Love Made Me including the week-long observance of instrument, the fiddle folk music to play 1970s. Having come to San Diego in the Drunk . It is a rare gift to be able to con - the Holy Ghost Feast. late 1960s with the Navy, he stayed has eight strings instead an eclectic mix of vey the emotional depth that Page has Saturday: 1pm, Hawley Stage; 2pm, Beer around to become a mainstay of the of the violin’s four. traditional tunes as well as to interpret delivered on his newest album and there Garden group of excellent musicians (that includ - Lora’s repertoire consists of folk music obscure covers from a wide range of is an indescribable sense when listening ed Tom Waits and Ray Bierl) who got from a variety of regions of Norway. She artists. to his music that you have uncovered a Old Time Hillbilly Music their start at the old Heritage coffeehouse performs both in concert and for dancers When the duo aren’t performing at secret. Tanya Rose and the at Balboa Park’s House of Norway events, either the Adams Avenue Roots Festival in Mission Beach. Henry played at the Saturday: 5pm, Song Swap, Church Social Buffalo Chip Kickers San Diego Folk Festivals from 1969 Sons of Norway lodges, and ethnic or the Adams Avenue Street Fair, they Hall; 7pm, Church Sanctuary/Sunday: 3pm, through 1987. He currently works at the Norwegian weddings. Lora plays with manage the Beer Garden and its stage, Church Social Hall Since being Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park and has Kriss Larson’s eight-piece Scandia enjoying the chance to meet a variety of dragged out of recently become active in music again. Gammaldans Band for Scandinavian musicians and folk heroes. Afro-Brazilian Folk Music retirement in the dance parties in Orange County. She is a Angela Patuá Saturday: 4pm, Church Sanctuary; 5pm, Song Saturday: 5pm, Beer Garden year 2000 by Lou charter member of the Hardanger Fiddle Swap, Church Social Hall Afro-Brazilian Curtiss, Tanya Old Timey String Band Association of America, and encourages folksinger, gui - Rose has done Gypsy Jazz interest in the Hardanger fiddle wherever New Lost Melody Boys tarist, and percus - many solo gigs at she goes. Hot Club of San Diego Banging and saw - sionist Angela the Roots Saturday: noon, Hawley Stage/Sunday: 11am, ing, from back - Patuá got involved Festivals, but Hawley Stage woods songs to in show business these days likes in the mid-’70s playing with the full sound of a band. A Old Time Music and Fiddle Tunes fiddle break - downs, this trio while working for veteran of the coffeehouse scene during Monroe Avenue String plays in the grand a circus company the “Great Folk Scare” of the 1960s, Rose Band tradition of such called Circo Real de Bengala. Moving to rounded up a few friends from those days legendary old Rio de Janeiro in 1986 to pursue an act - for the current version of the Chip time groups as ing career, Patuá also sang backup for Kickers. The group plays a diverse brand the Skillet Caruza and Flavio Venturine, among other of old time hillbilly music, including 1940s’ honky tonk and country music Formed in 1998 by French guitarists Lickers, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, and the local artists. In 1991, Angela Patuá before the invention of bluegrass. Patrick Berrogain and Alain Cola, Hot Club Delmore Brothers. As the New Lost moved to the U.S., touring New Orleans’ Clark Powell provides the instrumental of San Diego perpetuates the tradition of Melody Boys, they are perhaps San club scene, and moving to Miami in 1995. direction to this group with his soulful jazz manouche or Gypsy Jazz , and is the Diego’s premier vintage old timey string Singing in different Brazilian native Dobro style, fashioned after the late only band of its kind in San Diego. After band. dialects, Portuguese and English, Patuá’s Bashful Brother Oswald, the man who hearing this infectious music it is easy to Saturday: 11am, Park Stage; 6pm, Song debut recording, Brasil Bantu , was gave Roy Acuff’s band its unique sound in understand why this style is growing in The Monroe Avenue String Band is an Swap, Church Social Hall/Sunday, 4pm, released by independent label Out There. the 1930s and 1940s. Powell has been popularity here and abroad. As one writer old-time string band that plays mostly Hawley Stage In 1999, readers of Miami’s New Times voted her Best Latin Singer. In 2001, her playing in local country bands for 40 EP The Force of the Sun was released. years and backed up Rose at a live KSON radio broadcast of Wayne Rice’s Saturday: 1pm, Beer Garden/Sunday: 2pm, Bluegrass Anniversary Show in 2004. Song Swap, Church Social Hall Rose’s husband, Larry, played mandolin on that show and has played in all of his wife’s bands since they were married 38 years ago. Bob Pearson is a veteran of the New Smokies and has been playing with the Roses for several years on both guitar and bass in a local bluegrass band.

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Fiddle playing for the troupe is handled include Sal Freitas on second mandolin, pipes), Ian Law (flute), and Judy Lipnick by Don Hickox, a veteran of many local Bill Goldschneider on octave mandolin, (fiddle), teaching them his music and bands all the way back to Mother Karen Dempsey on guitar, and Burch Erle eventually passing his pipes on to John. Grundy’s Possum Hunters in the 1970s. on bass. Dave Page’s influence can be clearly The newest member of this group, but Saturday: noon, Beer Garden; 4pm, Hawley heard in the band’s repertoire and style. hardly new to traditional hillbilly music, is Stage Saturday: 2pm & 5pm, Church Sanctuary bass player Dave Avery, a retired police detective from Ohio who moved to San Americana/Acoustic Roots Music Folk and Blues Diego five years ago and was quickly 7th Day Buskers Anna Troy assimilated into the local acoustic music Although only 22 scene. He is also the perfect anchor for years old, Anna Tanya Rose and the Buffalo Chip Kickers, Troy has already whose passion is to play hillbilly music experienced the both old and new. tantalizing intensity Saturday: 2pm, Park Stage; 5pm, Song Swap, of life as a major Church Social Hall/Sunday: 2pm, Hawley label artist yet still Stage enjoys the simplic - Christopher Allen Singer Traditional French Cajun Music ity of being an San Diego Cajun The 7th Day Buskers is an acoustic roots artist on a local Down the Road band who are a Sunday morning staple at level. With just her Dean Playboys the Hillcrest Farmers Market. It was here voice and guitar, she inspires audiences by Kate Kowsh that the band formed one by one after with the purity of her songs and the com - Celtic Journey Shawn P. Rohlf opened up his banjo case plexity of her guitar playing. With his latest album, Down the and started busking (an old European Encompassing aspects of folk, blues, and by Kate Kowsh Road , Allen Singer finally, and single- word for performing on the street) sever - pop, her music is deep and affecting. al years ago. Their huge repertoire of handedly, disproves the old belief that Saturday: 5pm, Hawley Stage/Sunday: noon, If there’s any truth to the old say - original and traditional material covers a those who can’t do teach. As a skilled Hawley Stage; 2pm, Song Swap, Church ing, “You can tell a lot about a man wide range of styles, including bluegrass, Social Hall musician and torch carrier of folk her - folk, country, Irish, and blues. The by the work he does,” then itage Singer masters both. Buskers are Robin Henkel on dobro; Appalachian Songs and Ballads Christopher Dean is a well-rounded, A San Diego local, Singer, in addi - The San Diego Cajun Playboys have been Melissa Harley on fiddle; Ken Dow on Mimi Wright confident-but-not-flashy man of sub - tion to keeping the spirit of music bass; and Rohlf on banjo, guitar, harmon - stance. keeping Cajun French music going Mimi Wright, San alive through his recordings, also ica, and vocals. strong in Southern California with a full Diego’s own Listening to his third solo album, serves on the board of the San Diego repertoire of traditional Cajun language Saturday: 3pm, Song Swap, Church Social songcatcher, Celtic Journey is the equivalent of Folk Heritage, a concert-producing music. Hall; 4pm, Beer Garden sings old moun - lying in the soft green grass on one organization. If that weren’t enough, Along with original members Jon tain songs, mostly of Scotland’s rolling hills. The music he also leads the San Diego Folk Song Grant (accordion, fiddle) and Bill Riddell Traditional Music from Ireland Siamsa Gael Ceili unaccompanied, commands control of all your sens - Society, created in 1957 by local (guitar), the group features South sometimes with es, easing your mind back into a Louisiana-born Joel Breaux (accordion, treasure Sam Hinton, a great autoharp, and calmer place. fiddle) from Loreauville (pop. 860), and American folksinger, folklorist, and always with spirit Complicated, intricate chord Greg Rasberry (triangle) from Iota and and a touch of wonder. If there’s an diatonic harmonica player. patterns push along every track, and Crowley, Louisiana. unusual variant of an old time song to be A collection of cover songs and there’s not a minute left unmas - Sunday: noon & 1pm, Beer Garden found, Mimi will find it. Her Rocking original material, Down the Road Chair Concerts are always bright tered. Dean takes the time to let his includes classics by legends Woody Traditional Italian Music moments. nimble fingers execute each meas - Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan. ure delicately. No rush. It’s evident San Diego Mandolin The Siamsa Gael Ceili band (pronounced Saturday: 2pm, Church Social Hall; 4pm Song Tucked in between are three of Orchestra Ensemble Sheem-sha Gale Kay-lee) presents the Swap, Church Social Hall he’s not afraid to take all the time he Singer’s original songs. Perhaps one traditional melodies of Ireland played in needs to get it right. As a result, he of the best ways to describe the valid - All of the members of the San Diego the old style. instills meaning, clout, and pride ity of this body of work is to say that Orchestra Ensemble are also members of The band’s existence and main source the San Diego Mandolin Orchestra, sever - into each song. it’d be difficult for the untrained ear of inspiration can be attributed to a A professional musician for over al of them for decades. Specializing in Dublin man named Dave Page. An to differentiate which tracks are 40 years, Dean spent ten years traditional Italian tunes, the quintet is led accomplished Irish piper, he played in the Singer’s originals and which are cov - studying Scottish and Irish musicolo - by Ted Scafidi on first mandolin, who is original Siamsa Gael Ceili Band during the ers of world renowned classics. concert master of the San Diego early 1930s. He moved to San Diego in gy. According to the bio on his According to his bio, Singer plays Mandolin Orchestra and whose individual the mid-1970s where he met current Website, it was at the urging and guitar and sings folk, blues, country, accomplishments include performing with band members John Tuohy (uilleann encouragement of friends Jimmy traditional music, old time tunes, top - the San Diego Symphony. Other members Keigher, Donnie MacDonnald, ical, and bluegrass music, and has a Dougie MacLean, and Edgar Cruz knack for picking the best songs to that he decided to start releasing accentuate his strong, dusty voice. In solo albums. the same way Tom Waits spits out his The CD’s opening track is a vocals and lobs them at you like emo - cover of Scottish music legend tion-filled bombs, Singer, too, has Dougie MacLean’s “Ready for the harnessed the ability to let his deep, Storm,” a favorite of Dean’s, which at times raspy, weathered voice land MacLean wrote in memory of his firmly in the hearts of his listeners great, great uncle Fergus, a crofter through their ears. and fisherman from the Isle of Lewis. Devoid of self-conscious hesitation Track four, “Greensleeves,” is a on Singer’s cover of Alton and Rabon tune that Americans traditionally Delmore’s “Deep River Blues,” he lets associate with Christmas. Dean takes all his vocal imperfections hang out. on this classic and reclaims it as the Like a good faux finish, it adds traditional English ditty it is. authenticity and impressive detail to Such is also the case with the composition. A cover of Harlan “Scarborough Fair,” a popular clas - Howard’s “Busted” incorporates a lit - sic, made popular by Simon and tle twang with the songs’ old time, Garfunkel. In the liner notes Dean grassroots foundation. “Stealing,” a writes that this English folk song has Singer original, is one of those roots that go as far back as the late authentic, “o’, my darlin’’’ kind of medieval times. Putting his own tunes that you’d swear you’ve heard stamp on it, Dean accentuates the somewhere before. Its tempo reminds song’s more Celtic elements by me of a galloping horse, setting a real slowing it down just a touch to give western, chewin’ tobaccy mood for listeners a chance to soak in the its listeners. light finger picking. Even still, he A description of the album on makes sure to preserve the distinct Singer’s website says “[it] takes you chord selections that made it such on a journey through American 20th an exotic classic in the 1960s. century folk music, country blues, tra - Even though this is an album ditional, and early country music… backed by impressive credentials, Listen to the songs and the music with expert production from an that set off the 1960s’ folk revival.” artist who obviously did his home - With Down the Road , Singer lights work, what makes it enjoyable to lis - the spark for the modern revival. ten to is the beauty of music. None of the qualifications matter, just the work. Celtic Journey is all substance. For more information, go to: www.cairneyhill.com www.sandiegotroubadour.com 11 APRIL 2006 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ramblin’

Bluegrass CORNER ed to the concept of great guitar tone, which was easily demonstrated on a recent visit to his workshop. During this field trip by Sven-Erik Seaholm of overdriven discovery, my good friend by Dwight Worden Wayne Preis (owner of Webstrings.com and BIG THINGS COME IN a damn fine guitarist himself) played his custom-built Stratocaster through a variety CLAIRE LYNCH COMES TO SAN DIEGO player extraordinaire Jim Hurst from 10:30 MALL ACKAGES Sven-Erik Seaholm S P of Bemis’ amps. There were a wide assort - This year looks to be a great one for hear - am to noon, and David Harvey, fiddle and s a writer of a column on audio tech - ment of wattages, tube configurations, ing outstanding female bluegrass artists in provide some Telecaster guitar lines with niques and equipment, there are speaker cabinets, etc. on hand, and we must San Diego. March brought Allison Krauss such a brilliantly tailored EQ that they were plenty of opportunities for debate have gone through literally dozens of differ - and Union Station to San Diego’s Copley A laid into a dense mix with no additional with regard to the topic of one’s “sonic pri - ent combinations. As Wayne and I left our tweaking required. A recent project featur - Symphony Hall orities”: What’s the best mic to utilize in a meeting with this talented and amiable arti - ing Christopher Dale and Momma provided downtown, and given circumstance? Which preamp should san, one thing was abundantly clear: Every the perfect opportunity to allow this amp’s April 23rd you use (or lust over) and why? Which single one of the amps played through was muscular alter ego to rear its beautifully brings Claire monitors give you the truest picture of stellar; its attention to sonic detail was ugly head. Guitarist Charlie McCree had Lynch and the what’s actually going on in your recordings? matched only by its solid construction. already laid down his basic rhythm tracks Claire Lynch Del Mar Powerhouse When should we EQ? Compress? Discuss… Later, Randy was kind enough to allow using his trusty 1969 Ampeg Gemini ampli - Band to the Del The one thing we can be certain of is me to keep one of his amps on hand in the fier. In an effort to broaden the tonal pallet Mar mandolin player for the Claire Lynch Band as that there are nearly as many “right” studio, The Bemis Old School Tweed Deluxe of our mixes, I suggested that we might try Powerhouse on well as master luthier, will present a man - answers as there are questions, which is to ($1,295). The amp is relatively small, meas - using the Bemis amp for many of the solos the beach for dolin workshop from 12:30 to 2 pm. Claire say that the recording process is nothing if uring 16 inches high x 20 inches wide x 8 and overdubs. Charlie was, as usual, “down two special con - herself will present a songwriting workshop not situational. One can also rest assured inches deep. There are four inputs marked for whatever” and we ended up tracking a Claire Lynch that whatever equipment we have, it’s going Normal 1 and 2 and Bright 1 and 2. The “1” certs, one at 3 from 12:30 to 2 pm. To top it all off, from bunch of great riffs and blistering solos over to have to make do (insert sophomoric inputs are higher gain for single coil pick - pm and the second at 5:30 pm, with a wine noon to 12:30 pm Claire and her entire band an afternoon. Upon listening to the play - humor here). The varied results of this semi- ups, and the “2”s are lower gain to accom - and cheese reception for attendees of both will conduct a band workshop and demon - back, Charlie’s response was, “Man, arbitrary mixing and matching is part of the modate higher output humbuckers. There concerts held in between. I highly recom - stration for all workshop attendees. This is a Swenson. That amp kicks ass.” An observa - beauty of the craft. No two recordists (a are three “chicken beak” styled knobs mend that you don’t miss this rare appear - great opportunity to learn from some of the tion that was subsequently repeated more term I much prefer over engineers) will cap - marked Volume, Volume, and Tone. While I ance by such a great singer and songwriter greatest bluegrass musicians in the business, than a few times during the sessions, as was ture things exactly the same way, just as no was initially confused by the identically and her outstanding band. to hear them play up close, and to be able to the term “Sparkle.” two producers will contextualize the result - labeled ones, it was soon obvious that one By any measure, the Claire Lynch Band is ask questions. The cost is $45; advance reg - In all instances where the Bemis Old ing tracks in their recordings in quite the volume controlled the Normal channel and high on the bluegrass world’s A List, with istration is required. To reserve a spot, call School Tweed Deluxe was employed, I was same fashion. This, of course, doesn’t stop the other the Bright. Additionally, there is a astounded at how much this amp’s sweet, musicians whose accolades include IBMA Betty at (858) 205-3834. many of us from employing the most popu - Bass Contour switch tastefully tucked in the three-dimensional tone “classed-up” my Female Vocalist of the Year and two Grammy SUMMERGRASS RUMMAGE SALE lar tools and sounds of the moment in an back of the amp between two tubes that, recordings. As a longtime home studio dude, nominations (Claire); five-time IBMA Bass Would you like to score some great bar - effort to make the “freshest” sounding when engaged, tightens up the bottom fre - I was also very appreciative of the later Player of the Year awards (Missy Raines); gains and help a good bluegrass cause? records. Anyone doubting this need merely quencies, yielding some very satisfying working hours afforded by this little won - and two-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year listen to any recording from the eighties. punch. This switch operates on the bright Come on by the Summergrass rummage sale der’s lower volume. This is easily the nicest, awards (Jim Hurst). The gated snare once ruled this great land channel only. The top panel also includes on Saturday and Sunday April 1-2 at the most versatile amp I’ve ever recorded. Claire’s collaboration with Missy Raines Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum, of ours with Phil Collins’ pudgy fist and Standby and On/Off switches, as well as a and Jim Hurst dates back to the days of the 2040 North Santa Fe Avenue, in Vista (the soon became an essential preset in nearly red indicator lamp. The speaker was a 12 Sven-Erik Seaholm is an award-winning record - every product that has included drum inch Weber Blue Dog. Front Porch String Band , resulting in a site of this year’s Summergrass on August ing artist and producer who writes and performs sounds ever since. Nowadays, that explosive There is no preamp Drive knob, rather both solo and with The Wild Truth when he seasoned sound that is simultaneously unpre - 25-27). The San Diego bluegrass community sound can still be heard occasionally, but its the amp is merely turned up to achieve its isn’t working with other artists through his tentious and richly textured. It’s a down- has collected everything from the bizarre to use has more to do with personal taste than grittier tonal shades. This may seem prob - company, Kitsch & Sync Production home, front porch sensibility – until you real - the sublime and it will all be for sale; all pro - overall fashion. lematic to some of us who like where we (www.kaspro.com). ize that it’s a rare front porch, indeed, that ceeds support the nonprofit Kids Music Camp has ever hosted musicians of this caliber. Add The answers to the opening questions live and don’t wish to move, but the Old at Summergrass 2006, so come on by, often begin at the source. A great recording School Tweed Deluxe’s power rating is an to the mix mandolin player David Harvey who peruse, and buy that special something to began touring at age 14 as a member of the of a crappy instrument can sometimes be incredible 15 watts (!). This means that you help a kid attend music camp at perceived as a work of genius (as in the case can get all that rich, luscious power tube Red Allen Band, is a veteran of Larry Sparks’ Summergrass. For information, contact of Tom Waits’ work over the last 20 years) crunch without shaking the neighborhood band, and is featured on Larry Cordle’s Richard Beesley at: (760) 726-8380 or email but more often is simply heard as a crappy and without resorting to the “simulated” award-winning Murder on Music Row record - him at [email protected]. recording, no matter how much magic distortion from foot pedals. Another cool ing, and it’s clear we’re talking about one of In the meantime keep picking and I’ll look you’ve been able to work in the effort. trick this amp does is bridge the Normal the greatest bands currently on the scene. for you at these great San Diego events. Obviously, the musician’s skill and artistry and Bright channels together for even more A Sparkling Fusion of Tenderness and are always the primary focus, and starting overdriven fun. Simply insert a quarter-inch Power with as strong a song as possible is para - plug into the unused input of the channel Claire is justly recognized as “an astonish - mount in the equation. But if you are you’re in and connect it to the correspon - ing vocalist who can convey tenderness and recording a great voice, instrument, or ding input on the other channel and voila! power in the same phrase” (John Hartley Fox) amplifier, the game is yours to win or lose. Double your pleasure. and “one of the most important female Local guitar amplifier designer Randy On an Americana-tinged album project, artists in American music” (Neil Haislop). Bemis (bemisamps.com) is someone dedicat - the amp’s clear, bell-like clean tones helped Dolly Parton credits her with “one of the sweetest, purest, and best lead voices in the music business today.” Claire’s harmonies have graced the record - ings of many stellar contemporaries, from Ralph Stanley to Emmylou Harris. Linda Ronstadt cites her “beautiful effervescent voice,” adding, “I love to listen to her and to sing with her.” And, by the way, if you’ve never been to a concert at the Del Mar Powerhouse, it is a treat in and of itself, as this intimate indoor venue sits right on Powerhouse Park on the Del Mar Beach. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door if available, but word has it that the concerts are likely to sell out. Tickets are available at all SDBS events or you can call Betty at (858) 205-3834. WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITY FOR MUSICIANS In addition to the two concerts in Del Mar, Missy Raines will offer a master bass work - shop from 10:30 am to noon on Saturday, April 22, at the lovely new Hammond Ashley store located at 5889 Oberlin Avenue, Suite 106, in the Sorrento Valley area. Based in Seattle, Hammond Ashley has opened an impressive new San Diego store specializing in violins, violas, cellos, and basses, and has graciously offered to host the Claire Lynch Band workshops. Visit www.hammondash - ley.com for more information about the store. Also presenting workshops will be guitar 12 www.myspace.com/sandiegotroubadour APRIL 2006 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ramblin’ P h o t o :

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by José Sinatra by Jim McInnes RITES OF SPRING Across the Internet The allegedly stable Mr. Sinatra (left) The spurious debate over nudity in pop - Roots Festival and Around the else...if we don’t wake up soon, ular contemporary songs — long simmer - we’ll pay a terrible price. Lineup 2006 ing in the cultural kitchen — has recently Jim McInnes World begun to boil. The angry, bubbly spatters Hose: Like the price we pay for freedom? are starting to scald the skin of the fruit of Tell me, have you ever done any t's April. My editor has asked that I write a piece even shorter than usual. This is modeling? by Richard F. Burrell American freedom and infect its refreshing because most of this issue is devoted to the 33rd Annual Adams Avenue Roots core. For a good time, call 853-1212. Revere: I suppose just as a role model for iFestival. The advent of the 33rd Annual If in possession of only a speck of logic upholding the values our country Below are three columns containing 45 different names. Mix and match them to Adams Avenue Roots and Folk Festival is or objectivity or honesty, any miscreant was founded on. create the name of your favorite “roots” act. now upon us, and San Diego will once would easily, correctly lay the blame for Hose: Is that Chanel I smell? Pristeen, This is really STUPID, but it might be fun! again be privileged to host this extraor - the coming catastrophe precisely where it maybe? dinary musical event as the result of the belongs: among the twisted hypocrisy of Revere: Perhaps it is the smell of the Happy Delbert Trio Twisted Wayne Edwards incredibly dedicated efforts of myriad the holier-than-thous among us, the prissy defeat of decency, and, yes, it’s all Big Cowboy Guthrie remarkable individuals, such as Mr. Lou idiots who invent and proclaim their own around us those days. And it’s Slappy Lonnie Kornfield Curtiss, who down through the years goodness while delighting in their mission choking us like Hell. Forgive my Howlin’ Corky Ford have put their hearts, passions, and to control what others see and hear. The frankness. Gigantic Log Aces herculean efforts into ensuring that the same self-righteous humanoids who are Hose: Not at all. You’re making me nos - Bashful Sonny Hooker creative spirit of this roots music will still demanding front and back covers (dur - talgic. Asthmatic Roy Brothers continue to flourish and be enjoyed by ing all times of non-use) for every naked Revere: As we all should be, for the glori - Incredible Doctor Merman generations to come. compact disc, thus hiding from sight the ous times before this plague of Smooth Weasel Rollers It would seem to me that one of shiny, sleek sensuousness of the surface, indecency first reached our shores Sweet Rockin’ Wheels the true benefits of this festival, apart not to mention that shameless, gaping [she shudders]. Oh, its seed was so Colossal Bayou Boppers Amazing Skillet Singers from the obvious enjoyment of two hole in the middle. potent, so overpowering. Barking Fairport Johnson days of uniquely distinctive music, is To this day they deny that compact Hose: Been there. Still am. Mississippi Wynona Pounders the realization that we are the benefici - discs evolved from long-playing records Revere: So much to blame! The beat of aries of a priceless legacy bequeathed and 45s (or the “dinosaurs” as they call blues, then rock ‘n’ roll. Imitating My favorite is Mississippi Wayne Kornfeld’s Asthmatic Skillet Pounders . It’s got that ring to us by the artists and songwriters them) while ceaselessly warning that they the most intimate of personal of authenticity, no? who comprise that rather extensive, but are veritable magnets for the evils of the activity...suddenly no longer inti - Thanks for reading the San Diego Troubadour and enjoy the Roots Festival! loosely defined, genre known as “roots world, eager to distribute their gleanings mate, but a big, sordid display. music.” through headphone and speaker through - Then, sure enough, songs The vast spectrum of this unbeliev - out every village, farm, and freeway in this about... animals ! Then songs about ably varied musical catalog of once-wholesome land. children ! And then, perversely Americana, which encompasses the How do you fight against these loonies combined: “How much is that blues, country, gospel, cajun, bluegrass, who insist that every naked CD infects its doggy in the window?” Disgusting, tejano, zydeco, ragtime, and jazz, to very songs, rendering them naked as well? and a thinly veiled allegory for child prostitution. mention just a few, has been immeasur - How do you respond to their own tired ably enriched through exposure to gen - cliché, “If God had wanted CDs to be Hose: That one’s still around. Someone I erations of ethnic musical influence naked, he wouldn’t have invented jewel know says little girls are still from innumerable waves of immigrants cases and inserts!”? singing it when he hangs around playgrounds. from foreign shores, all contributing to Who better than the Beatles to give it the evolution of this wonderful cultural to ‘em good a while back? Bless ‘em, they Revere: And then Donny and Marie with heritage. defiantly released their latest work under those vaguely incestuous innuen - This music is, in essence, an inte - the brilliantly taunting title Let It Be — dos. The longhairs with the drugs gral component of the roots that we all Naked . Gotta love the lads from Liddypool: agenda. The ganstas and their crime agenda. And Michael share in common as Americans and, as still at the front lines of the Resistance, Jackson, who ran away with those such, is one of the major contributing even with half their number fallen. little blond boys he claims are his factors that has made us the nation So, inspired by the Fab Four, I girded biological children! Incredible! that we are today. This treasure trove my thrilling loins specially, deciding to Went to Bahrain, probably to get of musical heritage leaves one breath - track down and expose the elusive presi - married to them. These must be less with awe and is literally there for dent of the National Organization for the end times. the asking, awaiting all those with Cleanliness, Unity, and Morality, Margaret Hose: You mean time for the fat lady to naught but the desire to seek it. Revere. I became determined to offer our sing? It is with heartfelt gratitude and readers a clear view of the organization, Revere: Yes. And in her agony, the song like-minded commitment that my col - this overactive womb that seems to be won’t be pretty. leagues and I at RadioASB applaud and constantly delivering litters of squealing support the tireless efforts of Mr. Curtiss constraints to our society, plopping them Hose: Are other arts affected? Like and others who, through their belief in down randomly onto the soft hay in our dance? the significance and continuance of mangers of liberty. Revere: Some kinds. No, a lot. Square music as a cultural art form, are respon - I also wanted to determine for myself if dancing is fine, and we always sible for preserving the creative bril - Ms. Revere is as much of a babe as I’d approve classical ballet. And line liance and musical genius of the roots been told. And, tragically, she was indeed dancing is acceptable for those without any real talent, as always. music genre, which instills a deep sense exquisitely beautiful: well short of 30 of pride in our culture and our heritage. years of age, with a face a figure to fry Hose: Lap dancing? eggs on. Revere: Tap? Hose: First off, thank you so much for Hose: No, lap. Lap dancing. granting us your time. Revere: I don’t know what that is. Revere: Not at all. I enjoy your publication Hose: May I demonstrate for you? thoroughly, Well, except for one of Revere: Oh, please do. Does it come from your columnists who seems quite... Lapland? confused...or afflicted. And your Hose: One moment. name again is...? Hose: The Hose. Call me Hose. I turn on my ghettoblaster and the CD of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring . Margaret is Revere: Yes. Well, Mr. Rose, you want - ed...well, our position on the smiling, in a glow of what must be divine appalling state of the arts, music anticipation. I request and am eagerly particularly. It’s fairly concise: we granted a brief moment to prepare for my abhor the degeneration of what demonstration, so I hasten to an adjoining p h i l h a r m o n i c s e z music once embodied...its univer - room and quickly strip down to my speedo. : sal, inspiring qualities are becom - I hear her humming sweetly along to the “And the night shall be filled with music, ing or have become soul-numbing, melody, then calling, “Oh, please hurry, family-destroying poisons. Mr. Rose, won’t you? I can hardly wait” And the cares that infest the day, Hose: Hot damn, you’re beautiful. To be continued. Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, Revere: Yes, there’s still some beauty, I suppose, in gospel and polka And as silently steal away.” music, but just about everything — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow www.sandiegotroubadour.com 13 APRIL 2006 SAN DIEGO TROUBADOUR ’round about

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St., 7:30pm. 5083 Santa Monica, 2pm. [email protected] Twigg St. & San Diego Ave., 12:30- 4:30pm. No Foolin’ Jazz Revue , Dizzy’s, 7:30pm. San Diego Folk Song Society Meeting , Dawn Mitshcle/Mitch Issues , Twiggs, every thursday Acoustic Expressions, 2852 University 8:30pm. Celtic Ensemble , Twiggs, 4pm. Marley’s Ghost , Acoustic Music S.D., Ave., 2pm. Traditional Irish Music & Dance , The Silverado Bluegrass Band & Friends , 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Duke of Hazzard/66 Ohm , Lestat’s, 9pm. Viejas Casino, 6pm. Band in Black , Hennessey’s, 2777 Field, 544 5th Ave., 5:30pm. Alfonso/Christopher Dallman/J.D. Roosevelt, Carlsbad, 2pm. Open Mic Night , Hot Java Cafe, 7:30pm. Open Blues Jam , Downtown Cafe, 182 Boucharde/Michele Ship/New Dadists , friday • 21 E. Main, El Cajon, 6pm. Jazz Roots w/ Lou Curtiss , 8-10pm, Twiggs, 8:30pm. Sara Petite CD Release , The Ould Sod, Joe Rathburn , Folkey Monkey 3373 Adams Ave., 6pm. Slo Jam w/ Walt Richards , Del Cerro KSDS (88.3 FM). Los Fabulocos , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., Recreation Center, 6445 Lake Badin Ave., Thursdays, Hot Monkey Love Cafe, 5960 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Gospel Hot Fudge Sunday Open Mic , El Cajon Blvd., 7pm. 9pm. La Mesa, 6:30pm. O’Connell’s, 1310 Morena Blvd., 9pm. Choir of San Diego , Dizzy’s, 7pm. Sue Palmer , Martini’s, 3940 Fourth Ave., Saba/Terra Naomi/Adrianne , Lestat’s, Fred Benedetti , Bookworks, Flower Hill The Limeliters , Acoustic Music S.D., 4650 José Sinatra’s OB-oke , Winston’s, 1921 7pm. (except April 13) 9pm. Mall, Del Mar, 8pm. Bacon St., 9:30pm. Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Moonlight Serenade Orchestra , Lucky English Beat , Belly Up Tavern, 9pm. Chad Farran , Lestat’s, 9pm. The Bass Clef Experiment , The Coffee The Bluegrass Special w/ Wayne Rice , Star Restaurant, 3893 54th St., 7pm. House, 2991 Broadway, 8pm. 10-midnight, KSON (97.3 FM). Chet & the Committee , Patrick’s II, 428 F Wood ‘n’ Lips Open Mic , Borders sunday • 2 St., 9pm. Amy Ayres/Brian Benham/Tommy Books & Music, 159 Fletcher Pkwy, El Edwards , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Cajon, 7pm. NOISE Ensemble , Athenaeum, 1008 Wall every monday St., La Jolla, 3pm. Jane/Kate Earl , Lestat’s, 9pm. Jack Tempchin & Special Guests , A St. Irish Seisiun , Acoustic Expressions, monday • 10 Stage, Artists Colony, 90 A St. 7pm. 2852 University Ave., 7-8:15pm. Jim Earp/Fred Benedetti/Paul Sprawl, San Diego Guitar Society (inaugural Blues Jam w/ Chet & the Committee , saturday • 22 Blue Monday Pro Jam , Humphrey’s Open Mic Night , Hot Java Cafe, 7:30pm. meeting), Acoustic Expressions, 2852 Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 7pm. Backstage Lounge, Shelter Island, 7pm. Listen Local Acoustic Showcase , Tiki University Ave., 3:30pm. ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS & FOLK FESTI - Open Mic Night , Lestat’s, 7:30pm. Bar, 1152 Garnet Ave., 8pm. VAL , Adams Ave. between 34th & 35th Tango Dancing , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa Amelia Browning & David Owen ( Jazz), Acoustic Alliance XII w/ Gregory wednesday • 12 St., 10am-9pm. Page/Berkley Hart/Phil Harmonic/Bill St., 8pm. Turquoise Cafe-Bar Europa, 873 Coomes/Barbara Nesbitt/Mark Goffeney/ Lou’s Birthday Bash w/ Gregory The Browne Sisters & George Jazz 88 presents the Rebirth of Cool , Air Turquoise St., 8:30pm. Joanie Mendenhall/Saba/Steph Page/Greg Laswell/Anya Marina/Kim Cavanaugh , San Dieguito United Conditioned Lounge, 4673 30th St., 9pm. Swing Thursdays , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa Johnson/Pete Thurston/Chad Farran/ Divincenzo/Emersen/Pete Thurston , Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdalena, St., 9pm. Matt Molarius , Brick by Brick, Buenos Lestat’s, 9pm. Encinitas, 7:30pm. 858/566-4040. every tuesday Ave., 5pm. Dan Tedesco/Josh Hall/Paisley every friday Jimmy Woodard Band w/ Sue Palmer , thursday • 13 Yankolovich/TraceytJane Comer/Victoria Blues Jam , Blind Melons, 710 Garnet, h o 7pm. California Rangers , McCabe’s, s Encinitas Community Center, 1140 Vox , Twiggs, 8:30pm. a n Oceanside, 4:30-9pm. Joe Rathburn & Larry Robinson , Hot Zydeco Tuesdays , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa, c Oakcrest Park Dr., Encintas, 7pm. l Berkley Hart , Acoustic Expressions, 2852 7pm. Open Mic Night , Milano Coffee y Paul Sprawl & Jim Earp , Lestat’s, Monkey Love Cafe, 5960 El Cajon Blvd., University Ave., 8pm. 7pm. Open Mic Night , Cosmos Cafe, 8278 La Company, 8685 Rio San Diego Dr., Ste. 7:30pm. Allison Scull & Victor Martin , B, 7pm. The World Music Concert Series pres - Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, 7pm. Robin & Linda Williams , San Dieguito Beaumont’s, 5662 La Jolla Blvd., 8:30pm. Basin Street Band , Lucky Star United Methodist Church, 170 Calle ents K. Sridhar on sarod , Neurosciences Irish Music Jam , The Ould Sod, 7pm. Institute, 10640 Hopkins Dr., 8pm. Isaac Birthday Bash , Lestat’s, 9pm. Restaurant, 3893 54th St., 7pm. Magdalena, Encinitas, 7:30pm. 858/566- Jack Tempchin , Calypso Cafe, 576 N. 4040. Abbey/Dawn Mitschele/Laura Kuebel , Sligo Rags , Killarney’s, 32475 Hwy 79 S., Hwy 101, Encinitas, 8pm. Open Mic Night , Egyptian Tea Room & Twiggs, 8:30pm. Ste. G101, 9pm. Smoking Parlour, 4644 College Ave., ESP Quintet , Dizzy’s,8pm. Listen Local Acoustic Showcase , 9pm. Acoustic Underground , Lestat’s, 9pm. Sue Palmer/Candye Cane , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Jumping Turtle,1660 Capalina Rd., San Napa St., 9pm. sunday • 23 Marcos, 8pm. every saturday Chet & the Committee , Patrick’s II, 428 F Hot Club of San Diego , Prado St., 9pm. John Hull/Chris Carpenter/ Stasia/ ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS & FOLK FESTI - Matthew Jordan , Lestat’s, 9pm. Restaurant, Balboa Park, 8pm. Tom Smerk , Barrett Junction Cafe, 1020 VAL , Adams Ave. between 34th & 35th Barrett Lake Rd., Dulzura, noon-4pm. St., 10am-7pm. Comedy Night w/ Mark Serritella , monday • 3 Lestat’s, 9pm. Connie Allen , Old Town Trolley Stage, friday • 14 Multicultural Earth Day , World Beat Twigg St. & San Diego Ave., 12:30- Eve Selis , Calypso Cafe, 576 N. Hwy 101, Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd., 11am. 4:30pm. Encinitas, 8pm. Pete Huttlinger/A.J. Croce/Gregory Page , every wednesday Bonita Golf Club,5540 Sweetwater Rd., Chet & the Committee , Coo Coo Club, Christian/Gospel Open Mic , El Cajon. Pat Martino Quartet , Neurosciences Bonita, 7pm. 8203 Winter Gardens, Lakeside, 4pm. Music at Ocean Beach Farmer’s Info: J.D., 619/246-7060. Institute, 10640 Hopkins Dr., 8pm. Market , Newport Ave., 4-7pm. Sue Palmer , L’Auberge, 1540 Camino Del Claire Lynch Band , Powerhouse Tijuana Latin Jazz Project , Ave. TOKU Quartet , Dizzy’s, 8:30pm. Mar, 7pm. Community Center, 1658 Coast Hwy, Del Marcia Forman Band , Twiggs at the El Gustavo Diaz Ordaz #14109 Col. Mar, 3 & 5pm. Cortez, 6pm. Guadalupe Victoria, Tijuana, 9pm. Int’l Silver Strings Band w/ Billy Watson , Quartet Expression , Dizzy’s, 6pm. Old Timey Night , Folk Arts Rare wednesday • 5 Bookworks, Flower Hill Mall, Del Mar, Records, 2881 Adams Ave., 7pm. 8pm. Yonder Mountain String Band , House of Jesse Colin Young , Humphrey’s Ten Song Jam w/ Drew Decker , Cafe Backstage Lounge, Shelter Island, 9pm. Binational Mambo Orchestra , Dizzy’s, Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., 8pm. 8:30pm. Irwins Conspiracy , Lestat’s, 9pm. Gilly Leads/The Shambles , Lestat’s, 9pm. Aaron Bowen/Alicia Champion/Chris Valenti/Elena/Lauren DeRose/Pete monday • 24 saturday • 29 Etta’s Place, 6179 University Ave., 5pm. thursday • 6 Goslow , Twiggs, 8:30pm. David Wilcox , Acoustic Music S.D., 4650 Sligo Rags , R. O’Sullivan’s, 118 E. Grand Blues Jam w/ Chet & the Committee , Spring Harp Fest , Harry Griffen Park, La Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Joe Rathburn & Alan James , Hot Monkey Mesa, 11:30am-6:30pm. Love Cafe, 5960 El Cajon Blvd., 7pm. Ave., Escondido, 9pm. Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge, 7pm. Robyn Harris/Ardwin Kaywin/Marlowe , Robin Henkel , Lestat’s, 9pm. See Spot Run , Metaphor Cafe, 258 E. 2nd Lestat’s, 9pm. Tiamo CD Release , Wine Steals, 1243 Ave., Escondido, 8pm. University Ave., 8pm. Pine Mountain Logs , Belly Up, 9pm. tuesday • 25 Peggy Watson/David Beldock , Acoustic KSDS Jazz Allstars , Dizzy’s, 8pm. The Joey Show , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa St., Sue Palmer w/ Blue Largo , Patrick’s, 4th Expressions, 2852 University Ave., 8pm. 9pm. & F Sts., 9pm. Dawn Mitschele/Paula Kelley/Shana , American Pharoah/Kethro , Twiggs, Twiggs, 8:30pm. 8:30pm. Pete Thurston , Lestat’s, 9pm. saturday • 15 wednesday • 26 Jose Sinatra & the Troy Dante Inferno/ Big Toe , Lestat’s, 9pm. The Wigbillies , Artists Colony A St. Natalie MacMaster , Price Center friday • 7 Stage, 90 A St., 7pm. Ballroom, UCSD, 8pm. Calima , Bookworks, Flower Hill Mall, Del Ronny Cox , Acoustic Music S.D., 4650 Cheeky/Terrence/Alyssa Jacey/Sara sunday • 30 Khula , Lestat’s, 9pm. Mar, 8pm. Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Cathryn Beeks Ordeal & Guests , Tower Cowboy Jack , Del Dios Country Store, Birthday Tribute to Daniel Jackson w/ Two, 5083 Santa Monica, 2pm. 20154 Lake Dr., Escondido, 8pm. Charles McPherson & Marshall thursday • 27 Joshua White Sextet , Dizzy’s, 6pm. Hawkins , Dizzy’s, 8pm. Alicia Champion/Derren Raser/Jon & Joe Rathburn & Calman Hart , Hot Blues Jam w/ Chet & the Committee , Noah/Tim Mudd , Twiggs, 8:30pm. Afterglow/Bass/Blue-eyed Son/Jen Monkey Love Cafe, 5960 El Cajon Blvd., Gregory Page , Lestat’s, 9pm. Knight/Kevin Klein/Renata , Twiggs, 7pm. 8:30pm. Working Cowboy Band , Tio Leo’s, 5302 R.W. Hampton , Acoustic Music S.D., 4650 While at the Roots Festival, be sure to stop Napa St., 9pm. Sligo Rags , R. O’Sullivan’s, 118 E. Grand Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Ave., Escondido, 9pm. Sara Petite CD Release , The Ould Sod, Chris Carpenter , Twiggs, 8:30pm. by and say hello. We will be sharing a booth 3373 Adams Ave., 9pm. Allison Lonsdale/Greg Laswell/Molly Jenson , Lestat’s, 9pm. Exfriends/Bushwalla , Lestat’s, 9pm. with Radio ASB right next to the Park Stage. The Frankie Show , Tio Leo’s, 5302 Napa saturday • 8 St., 9pm. friday • 28 Trails & Rails/Monroe Ave. String Band , Sue Palmer , L’Auberge, 1540 Camino Del Acoustic Expressions, 2852 University sunday • 16 Mar, 7pm. Ave., 4pm. Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra , Elks Ed Kornhauser , Bookworks, Flower Hill Suzanne Shea , Cosmos Coffee Cafe, 8278 Mall, Del Mar, 8pm. La Mesa Blvd., 7pm. Lodge, 1400 E. Washington Ave., El Cajon, 1pm. Peter Case , Acoustic Music S.D., 4650 Dexter Ardoin & Creole Ramblers , Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Bontemps Social Club, Recital Hall, Balboa Park, 7pm. monday • 17 Ernie Halter/John Hull/Kyle Phelan/ Lenny Avenue/Stasia Conger , Twiggs, Tracy Grammer , Acoustic Music S.D., John Scofield Quartet , Neurosciences 8:30pm. 4650 Mansfield St., 7:30pm. 619/303-8176. Institute, 10640 Hopkins Dr., 8pm. 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