Wed 10/7 Woody Wood at The Blackbird Restaurant

Wed October 7

Woody Wood

at The Blackbird Restaurant

8pm

Aaron “Woody” Wood may be a legend.
The skinny white boy from the mountains of Western North Carolina carries around more soul in his restless bones and battered guitar than most of us ever dream of.

With a background as diverse as his music, Woody converges elements from all walks of life to present music that contains a sense of familiarity like no other.
His songs are stories that are delivered as if he was giving his first account and confession of the subject matter.

When he sings he SPEAKS to you,not at you.
“I think the most important thing is that you have to be completely honest in your music,” Wood says.And he bears it evidently and without shame.

One look at the long list of artists he has shared the stage with exemplifies his diversity, not to mention respect from his musical peers. From Jimmy Martin to Leon Russel, R.L. Burnside to Warren Haynes,country music superstar Sara Evans,or Carlos Santana,Woody has played and learned from some of those who have helped shape music into what it is today.


Growing up, Woody was steeped in the knowledge, legacy, and traditions of Bluegrass music. His father, A.L. Wood,and his band, The Smokey Ridge Boys, toured the traditional bluegrass circuit extensively alongside legends like Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers and The Seldom Scene. Tagging along with his father to various festivals, Woody experienced first hand the power of music and the etiquette that goes into it.

As he got older his appreciation of music grew to much wider horizons. Soul, R&B, blues, folk, rock, jazz and world music now started to blend with the sounds of his childhood.



As a professional musician, Woody was a pivotal member of the Blue Rags, with whom he had success with National media coverage (MTV) and international tours.



Woody was also recorded and performed with a slew of New Orleans and WNC’s finest musicians in what was a blending of musical styles, combining New Orleans Jazz and Bluegrass. The Blue Brass Sessions featured members of Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Larry Keel,Troy”Trombone Shorty” Andrews, and many others.


Woody delivers his music with all the soul, power, and energy that have made him renowned as a musician’s musician,
sets the stage and then proceeds to burn it down with original material that breathes a new fire of of passion and honesty."



www.theblackbirdrestaurant.com/
www.woodywoodmusic.com/

Wed 10/7 Electric Owls & Pavane and Galliard at Pisgah Brewing

Wednesday October 7
Electric Owls
Pavane and Galliard
Plus a screening of the movie:

Beer Y'all
at Pisgah Brewing
6pm

Last summer, seven friends from Asheville hit the road to tour 27 craft breweries in North Carolina. They kept cameras rolling for the nine-day road trip.
The result was Beer Y'all, a documentary that SamCalagione of Dogfish Head called "a mash-up of three of my favoritethings: craft beer, original music, and entrepreneurial righteousness."

This summer, Beer Y'all has screened for crowds in Asheville, Durham, Wilmington, Winston-Salem,and Chapel Hill. On Wednesday, October 7, Pisgah Brewing Company hosts the FINAL PUBLIC SCREENING at the brewery in Black Mountain.

The event will feature live music from two great bands featured in the movie soundtrack, food from the Lobster Trap, beer from Pisgah Brewing Co., and Beer Y'all DVDs on sale.

Take four classically trained musicians and let them loose on indie-pop original material, adding a hint of Latin influence and a sultry-voiced lead vocals, and that's the band Pavane and Galliard. The musicians are a powerhouse of knowledge, academic degrees and technical ability, set loose on writing, progressive sounds, singing and general fun.





The schedule for the evening:


6 PM - Music from


Electric Owls - www.myspace.com/electricowls
Pavane and Galliard - www.myspace.com/pavaneandgalliard


8 PM - Movie screening (runtime 1 hr.15 min.)

Admission $5
Beer Y'all DVDs on sale for $10


http://www.beeryall.com/



http://www.pisgahbrewing.com/

Sun Oct 4th Appalachian Fiddle and Banjo Concert at White Horse Black Mountain

Sunday October 4th

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SPECIAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT

Fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjoist Ken Perlman

present a program of Appalachian tunes

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at

White Horse Black Mountain

Downtown Black Mountain North Carolina

Concert Begins at 2pm

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http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/

Fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjoist Ken Perlman present a program of Appalachian tunes, the music Alan learned in the 1960s from his mentor, West Virginia fiddler Henry Reed. Stories that evoke the lives and cultural milieu of Reed and his contemporaries add an extra dimension to the presentation.Alan and Ken have redefined that great American invention, the fiddle-banjo duet, and brought it to new heights of complexity. Alan’s powerful fiddling style, with its syncopated bowing patterns and lyrical texture, is offset perfectly by Ken’s inspired approach to clawhammer banjo, which explores chord inversions, harmony lines, voice leading, note-for-note playing, and counter-melody. Their performances testify to the grace, beauty, and power of Appalachian music.

While a graduate student at Duke,Alan Jabbour became interested in folk music and folklore, and in 1965-68 he made extensive trips in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, to record instrumental folk music, folksong, and folklore on tape. This collection, particularly rich in traditional fiddle tunes from the Upper South, is now in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress. The documentation trips verged into a process of apprenticeship, and he began playing the fiddle under the influence of new masters. In particular, he learned the style and repertory of Henry Reed, a master fiddler who lived along the New River in Glen Lyn, Virginia, and was then in his eighties.

As Alan Jabbour began to learn the regional fiddling style and repertory of the Upper South, he joined together with three other young musicians to form a band devoted to playing these oldtime tunes, including Tommy Thompson on the five-string banjo, Bertram Levy on the mandolin, and Bobbie Thompson on the guitar. They called themselves the Hollow Rock String Band, after a rural community outside of Durham where the Thompsons lived and where the band gathered for regular jam sessions and music parties. The band was at the core of an oldtime music scene that blossomed in Durham and Chapel Hill in the later 1960s. In 1968, the year that Henry Reed passed away, the band released a long-playing record called The Hollow Rock String Band: Traditional Dance Tunes (Kanawha 311).

In April 1974, Alan Jabbour moved to the National Endowment for the Arts to become founding director of that agency's grant-giving program in folk arts. Under his direction the Folk Arts Program grew rapidly as a source of funding for the varieties of folk cultural expression in the United States, and it continued to grow after his departure in 1976. In August 1976, he became the founding director of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, continuing in that position for 23 years until he stepped down as director in mid-1999.

He has several new releases since his retirement – his latest CD is a fiddle-banjo collaboration with Ken Perlman, Southern Summits – and he appears regularly in concerts, festivals, camps, and workshops. His most recent product is a book transcribing his own fiddle performances, Fiddle Tunes Illuminated.
http://www.alanjabbour.com/



Ken Perlman is a pioneer of the 5-string banjo style known as "melodic clawhammer." He draws his material from traditional sources – the music of Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and the American South – but his approach to the music is highly innovative. He has developed many new instrumental techniques, and much of his repertoire has never before been played on 5-string banjo. Ken is an acclaimed teacher and has written some widely respected banjo and guitar instruction books, and he has been on staff at teaching festivals around the world. He has also served as director or co-director for several banjo and music-instructional camps.

As an active folklorist, Ken has spent over a decade collecting tunes and oral histories from traditional fiddle players on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. Two outgrowths of his research are a tune book, The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island, and a two-CD anthology of field recordings, The Prince Edward Island Style of Fiddling. In 1997-98, each of these works received an award from the Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation for helping to "preserve, interpret, and disseminate our province's fiddling heritage."

www.kenperlman.com/

Sat 10/3 The Good Old Boyz at The Town Pump

Sat October 3rd

The Good Old Boyz

at The Town Pump

9pm

Outlaw country done right ... right here in the land of the sky ...

The Good Old Boyz are in da hood at the Town Pump on Sat Oct 3rd brining old school outlaw country and honky-tonk favorites. Fans of Waylon, Willie, Hank, Merle, Lefty, Cash, Gram, Townes, George Jones, and the like will be pleased to know that the music lives on in Asheville in the form of The Goold Old Boyz.

The band features

Woody Wood, guitar
Scott Sharpe, pedal steel
David Connor Jones, bass
and
Richard Foulk, drums


http://www.myspace.com/goodoldboyz

Sat 10/3 Mill Around The Village in Swannanoa

Saturday Oct. 3, 2009

Mill Around The Village Festival

Downtown Swannanoa’s

Historic Beacon Mill square

11 am – 7 pm

Featuring Musical Performances By:

Kat Williams

The Swayback Sisters

(Laura Blackley, Nikki Talley and Lyndsay Wojcik)Bert Brown
Buncombe Turnpike
Julia Ann & the Laurel Ridge Band,
The Owen Middle School Jazz Band,

& the Asheville Allemanders

From Blues to Bluegrass,
the festival lineup of musicians includes
many of the regions favorite musicians.

Click for Complete Festival Info

FEATURED MUSICAL PERFORMERS
Kat Williams,
nationally known singer, song writer and actress, is Asheville's jazz and blues diva. "Filled with a passion for song, an astonishing animated style, a spirited sense of humor, and that remarkable laugh, Kat takes the stage and makes magic happen." Born in New York, Kat has a biography that is unbelievable. You can find more information on her website by clicking on her photo above. She is simply a great entertainer, a generous woman and we are fortunate to have here with us in Swannanoa for this festival. She will be the MC for the Music Stage during the entire festival, as well as performing with her fantastic band. In trying to describe her music, it's been said that Kat could hum off her grocery list and make it sound good. She is truly a remarkable woman and an electrifying and unforgettable performer.

The Swayback Sisters
are Laura Blackley, Nikki Talley & Lyndsay Wojcik. Hailing individually from Asheville, North Carolina, these "sisters" decided to join forces & create a diverse musical experience for themselves as well as their audiences. While each Sister is proficient in her songwriting & crafty guitar work, the real treat is the blending of their voices in three-part harmony. Performing mostly their own originals, this trio also has select older standards and re-vamped covers in their repertoire. (Accapella versions of old Appalachian folks songs side by side with popular hits done the Swayback way!) As well as guitar, they accompany their beautiful voices with other instruments including banjo and fiddle. The Swayback Sisters have brought a truly unique, diverse, entertaining show to each venue played & continually are asked “When is the NEXT Swayback Sister Show?”
Bert Brown
the grandson of legendary Buncombe County Sheriff Lawrence Brown, is perhaps best known for his original songs and musical direction of Way Back When, a stage production of the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. Brown’s knowledge of local lore and history, combined with his musical talent, enabled him to tell the story of the Swannanoa Valley by balancing spurious facts with verified legend, tempered with a healthy dose of humor, set to singable tunes and lyrics. Brown's music reflects his deep ties to the valley. His great-grandfather was the first mayor of Black Mountain. A professional musician, Bert Brown left Swannanoa to work in Nashville and Dallas, touring with the likes of Warren Haynes and the Kendalls before returning to the mountains he loves.
Julia Ann and the Laurel Ridge Bluegrass
The name "Laurel Ridge" is no stranger in the world of bluegrass, however some of the members have changed. Several talented musicians have picked along side of "Julia Ann" but this time she says she has got it right! The newly formed band features some of wnc's best pickers. They have been together almost 2 years now but each member has already made their mark with other bands through out the mountains of North Carolina. Now that these talents have combined they are a driving force to be reckoned with. There is no limit to what they can accomplish. They feel that God has carefully placed them together and with His help they can achieve greatness! "Julia Ann" formed this group a few years ago and has worked very hard to make them a house-hold name. Julia has battled cancer over the past 9 years but says she now feels the best she has and is ready to go full-time with this talented group. She knows their resume is not one that will go unnoticed!
Buncombe Turnpike
Lead singer and bass player Tom Godleski began what would become the band Buncombe Turnpike in the fall of 1997. With three acclaimed albums under their belt, the band has grown from their original four piece line-up into an energetic bluegrass quintet featuring the 2004 national champion Tony Reece, on resonator guitar. Darrell Earwood on Banjo, Micah Hanks on guitar, Caleb Hanks on mandolin. All five players are North Carolina natives. Buncombe Turnpike plays a variety of heartfelt tunes ranging from traditional and contemporary bluegrass to gospel and hand crafted Buncombe Turnpike originals. With their crowd pleasing demeanor, seasoned musicianship, and powerful vocals, the band has made a name for themselves among traditional and contemporary listeners alike.
In addition to music and dance stage performances you'll find a wealth of great things to see and do and something for all ages. Craft demonstrations, vendor booths, local food, history tours, street performers, balloon artists, jump rope and hoola hoop contests, raffles, chocolate factory tours, and lots of old-fashioned fun!
In conjunction with the Swannanoa Fire Department’s 50th Anniversary, fire fighter recognitions, displays, and many extra children’s events are planned.

You'll also enjoy our farmer’s market with local fresh garden products and displays.

Sat 10/3 Soulgrass Rebellion at Pisgah Brewing

Saturday October 3

Special Benefit Concert for Concerts4Charity

Featuring

Soulgrass Rebellion

and The E-Normous Trio

at Pisgah Brewing

8pm

Soulgrass Rebellion is creating a huge buzz with their high-energy shows coming out of Asheville, NC. "It's all about the live show," says front man Oso Rey. "We want to bring that get-down energy to each performance so that every person in the room will have no choice but to dance, smile, and feel good." The four-piece band blends roots reggae, bluegrass, and soul music and delivers it with a vengeance.Soulgrass Rebellion is about a family of friends making music, making people dance, feeling good. The band is fronted by soulful singer/songwriter/guitarist Oso Rey, who moved to Asheville in 2006 from southern California where he shared the stage with giants like Sublime, Leftover Salmon, and No Doubt.



The all-star group includes heavy-hitters who have played with several of the Southeast's top bands—Silas Durocher (Laura Reed and Deep Pocket, David Earl and the Plowshares, Silas Durocher and Everybody Knows) on electric guitar, Brian Jones (the Afromotive, Supple, Hilton Valentine, Ian Thomas) on drum set, and Justin Powell (the Indigo Girls, the Donna Hopkins Band, and Geoff Achison) on upright bass.



After playing as a duo for about a year, Rey and Durocher teamed up with local heroes David Earl Tomlinson and Pierce Edens to start the Lexington Ave. Living Room series, a singer/songwriter showcase at Bobo Gallery. The songwriters all began sitting in on each other's tunes, and soon guest musicians became a regular event—enter Jones and Powell. The four musicians who would become Soulgrass Rebellion hit it off instantly at these jams and quickly realized there was something serious happening.



http://www.myspace.com/soulgrassrebellion

Tickets are $7





All proceeds go to Concerts4Charity and their new film project that they're doing about the people and musicians of Western NC. They will be filming that night.



Utilizing the power of the live music and art community, Concerts4Charity produces and attends national, regional and local concerts to help raise funds and awareness for community nonprofits, programs and initiatives. C4C also provides event planning services to nonprofits to help promote their mission.



Our vision for Concerts4Charity is that our programs, projects and events will raise awareness, address important community issues, and inspire youth to make a difference within their community. Concepts4Charity, Inc would like to develop opportunities across the United States and the World.

Sat 10/3 Landry/Watson/Blew/Bush at White Horse Black Mountain

Saturday Oct 3
Jimmy Landry
Mary Ellen Bush
Zach Blew
Kellin Watson
at White Horse Black Mountain
8pm

Four of Black Mountain's finest take to the stage tonight for an evening of great songs shared among friends.

Jimmy Landry.

Born in Washington DC, and raised in the nearby northern Virginia suburbs, Jimmy Landry has a long and illustrious history, playing with many musical icons, from Stevie Ray Vaughn to David Crosby to Richie Havens to David Wilcox, John Gorka, Patty Larkin... it's a long list.

Jimmy has performed at many of the most renowned listening rooms in the USA: The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, The Bottom Line, the Bitter End, Folk City, and the Speakeasy in New York City, Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY, Washington DC's Birchmere, Atlanta's Eddie's Attic, Poor David's Pub in Dallas... again, it's a long list.

Jimmy has been featured on the stages of some of the country's finest music festivals: The Kerrville Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Telluride Bluegrass Festival are but three.
www.myspace.com/jimmylandry

Mary Ellen Bush
Mary Ellen’s journey began in Macon, Ga. with a side trip to the University of Alabama where she honed her guitar and sultry vocal chops packing the house in a raucous campus bar on Tuesday nights. Post co-ed Mary Ellen veered to the Blue Ridge Mountains and the artist-friendly embrace of Asheville. While performing open mics at the Westside Pub, Mary Ellen bonded with two other singers and a musical trio was born under the name Menage. Menage quickly become a regional favorite and a year later they releaesd two critically acclaimed albums. Thickened harmonies, expanded instrumentation, instinctual Southern sensibility were now enveloped by a knowing urbanity. The sound crystallized: lyrics of easy grace, compelling vocals and a spontaneous, contagious onstage energy. The band morphed from a trio to a quartet and toured heavily for a number of years.
Mary Ellen performs on bass and harmonica and now and then she steps out for solo gigs where her fine songwriting is showcased.
http://www.themenage.com/

Zach Blew

His German grandmother, who's career as an unschooled opera singer astonished her colleagues, and father, a Blues singer, guitarist, and blues harpist with no training, clearly represent the term 'self-taught musician.' Zach Blew is no exception to the tradition.

"I was never trained, and I never learned to breathe correctly, but somehow I'm cranking out noises that people seem to like."

“Zach Blew plays guitar with a nimble, jazzy fluidity; he sings with the sultry ease of John Mayer (back when Mayer was earnestly “Waiting for the World to Change”). Online retailer CD Baby describes Blew as: ‘Patty Griffin and Amos Lee’s love child sprayed with Windex, for a streak-free clean.’ It’s an odd and yet apt tag-line.
http://www.zachblew.com/

Kellin Watson

A native of Black Mountain, daughter of musicians, kin to western NC music legends with the same last name, Kellin Watson grew up with roots in jazz, Celtic and old-time Appalachian music.

Kellin has been playing music and writing songs for the past 12 years. Releasing her first demo album, Little things in 1998, Kellin got her first taste of recording in a studio. Since then, she released her debut solo inde album, Paper Bird, in December 2003, at 22.

After touring the east coast, Kellin recorded her second album with her band in 2005, Kellin Watson Band LIVE, Red Flag. Proving to be a fan favorite, Kellin decided to head back into the studio in 2007. Her latest album, No Static was recorded at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville NC this past year.

More recently, Kellin has been lucky enough to appear on a couple different television shows. Studio South (www.studiosouth.tv) shot for HDTV. As well as a show for CMT called Big Break, in which Kellin Watson made her first nationwide television debut on August 4th 2007.

Kellin was chosen as one of the top 2 finalists out of the top 40 contestants from western NC to compete to open for Sara Evans at The Thomas Wolfe Aud. Kellin's latest album, No Static includes an array of talented musicians. The album inclues a song written by Grammy Award winning Gordie Sampson called Your Place In this World as well as a few guest appearences from members of Afromotive, Sugarhill recording artists The Duhks, local singersongwriter Tyler Ramsey, and many others. .

http://www.kellinwatson.com/

Sat 10/3 Dave Foraker at The Straightaway Cafe

Saturday October 3rd

Dave Foraker

at The Straightaway Cafe

6pm

Local favorite, Dave Foraker, will perform a variety of blues, pop, and soul on keyboards. Foraker describes himself as a "piano pounder, storyteller and blues singer." He has enjoyed a career that has spanned parts of five decades, so far — working as a sideman to many well-known blues and R&B artists, performing with rock, country, blues and R&B bands, and for the last 12 years, entertaining crowds of tourists at The Biltmore Estate.

"His voice has a definite blues edge to it, reminding the listener of Ray Charles, Randy Newman, Gregg Allman & Michael McDonald, at times. For an artist who was "too country for Blues & too bluesy for Country...", he sings songs from each genre extremely well. The most amazing aspect of Dave's music, to me, is it's timelessness & it's appeal to audiences of all ages." - Alan Beaty, Americana Promotions

"My music is a blend of blues, standards, gospel. R&B... with a few stories thrown in. I'm blessed with a reperetoire large enough to allow variety from show to show... & I can tailor my sets to the specific needs or desires of each audience. The one thing that remains constant, from venue to venue & from performance to performance... we'll have fun... I'll guarantee it! ." - Dave Foraker

www.myspace.com/davidalanforaker
www.daveforaker.com/
http://www.straightawaycafe.com/

Fri 10/2 Velvet Truckstop at Pisgah Brewing

Friday October 2nd

VELVET TRUCKSTOP

CD RELEASE PARTY

at

Pisgah Brewing

8pm

The Black Mountain CD Release Party for Velvet Truckstops new CD, Sweet Release, promises to be a hometown blowout with the friends and fans who've been with them from the start.

Velvet Truckstop sits at the nexus of blues, country, and southern-fried rock and roll. What you get are tight vocal harmonies, searing guitars, heavy keyboard driven groove and a tight rhythm section that holds it all together. Velvet Truckstop relentlessly rocks the house to loyal audiences who feel the blues, dance the funk, and sing the truth: for people who strive to love life.

These boys are quickly winning hearts, minds, and ears with their no-nonsense approach to down home rock and roll. Not content with staring in the rear view mirror, Velvet Truckstop is creating fresh and authentic music with appeals to a new generation of fans! Check 'em out and see what all the fuss is about.

Velvet Truckstop’s new album, “Sweet Release” is of timeless caliber; filled with songs that illuminate the phenomenon of great music and illustrates the emotional tapestry of human experience in the new tradition of soul-infused Carolina Rock & Roll. “Sweet Release” is brand new compilation of original songs by Velvet Truckstop that focuses on the growth of this young group.

The energy surrounding the project attracted guest contributions from locals and legends. “Sweet Release” boasts intricate harmonies from the amazing voice of Mary Ellen Bush from Ménage, keyboard solos from Tom Constanten from the Grateful Dead on many of the tracks. Percussion parts by Chris Pyle of Royal Trux and The Fenwicks and his father, Artimus Pyle from Lynyrd Skynyrd on “Condey Heights Millionaire”. Buddy Cage from New Riders of the Purple Sage adds colorful tracks on pedal steel to “Carolina Way”, “Box” and “Resting Place”.

Jamie Dose - guitar / vocals
Dorsey Parker - guitar
Brad Curtioff - piano / organ
Jerry McNeely - bass / vocals
Chris "Fuzzy" Coomes - drums

Separately, The Truckstop have been members of: Dub Faction, Triple Dose, James King Band, Rufus Grove, and Deep South (with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker Band, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Wet Willie). The band's collective touring experience encompasses 48 United States and 17 foreign countries on 3 continents.


www.velvettruckstop.com/

www.myspace.com/velvettruckstop

www.pisgahbrewing.com/

Fri 10/2 Jamie Laval and Robin Bullock at White Horse Black Mountain

Friday October 2

Jamie Laval

and

Robin Bullock

at White Horse Black Mountain

8pm

This acclaimed duo will present a concert of traditional and progressive music sure to please. World-class celtic music in one of Western North Carolina's finest listenting rooms.

Jamie's unique approach to Celtic fiddle music blends the simplicity of an ancient art form with stunning virtuosity and contemporary flair that resonates with families, youth, seniors, and devotees of ethnic, jazz, and classical music.Now a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, Jamie began his music career studying classical music at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. In 2002 Laval won the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship and subsequently embarked on a full time touring career which today includes over 120 engagements per year throughout the U.S. and Scotland.
http://www.jamielaval.com/


Guitarist Robin Bullock has recorded eight critically acclaimed solo CDs, and a recent collaborative recording with guitarist Steve Baughman was an 'Editor's Pick' of Acoustic Guitar Magazine in 2003.Robin currently lives in the tiny village of Tripleval, near Paris. He tours and records on both sides of the Atlantic and has taught many times at the Swannanoa Gathering.
'What he offers is not just virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity,' says Trad Magazine (France), 'but also the sensibility of one on a quest between past and present, traditional and modern.'.

http://www.robinbullock.com/

Fri 10/2 South French Broads at Town Pump Tavern

Friday October 2

The South French Broads

at The Town Pump Tavern

8:30pm

The South French Broads are an eclectic 2-piece ensemble that incorporate bass, drums, sax, harp, vocals, and sound toys into an energetic mix of rock, punk, jazz, comedy and theatrics.

Based in Asheville, NC, the duo has been playing the local scene as well as touring both the region and the east coast. The energy on stage is incredible as Radix pounds the drums with punk rock abandon tempered with lush jazz styling... all while playing the sax, one handed, on selected numbers. Alex scurries around looping bass lines to enable the addition of harmonica and various toys. While seasoned musicianship is apparent, the duo seek foremost to entertain with a variety of styles, stories, and a fast paced set of pieces that rarely reach 3 minutes.

Oddly original.



http://www.thesouthfrenchbroads.com/
www.myspace.com/thesouthfrenchbroads
www.myspace.com/townpumptavernllc

Fri 10/2 James Richards at The Straightaway Cafe

Friday October 2
James Richards
at The Straightaway Cafe
6:30pm

James Richards makes music to live but not for a living, balancing music alongside graduate school, family and work. While Richards put musical roots in Asheville, NC in 2000 to live out his dream as a performing songwriter, he currently saves his voice and guitar mostly for campfire sing-a-longs, benefits, house parties, and places of worship.

Richards also collaborates with local musicians, particularly as a bass player for Night's Bright Colors.

A classicly trained singer steeped in self-described acousticfunkgrass, Richards looks to Lightnin' Hopkins, Otis Redding, and Peter Gabriel among others for inspiration.

Thu 10/1 The Lee Boys at White Horse Black Mountain

Thursday October 1st

The Lee Boys (Sacred Steel)

at White Horse Black Mountain

8:00pm

White Horse Black Mountain brings yet another of the country's most well-traveled and well loved bands to Black Mountain. The Lee Boys !!!!!

When The Lee Boys bring their joyous spiritual sound to the stage, audiences instantly recognize that this is not “sitting and listening” music: dancing, shouting out, and having fun are considered essential parts of their tradition. Founder and bandleader Alvin Lee explains “The inspiration and feeling that comes along with our music is the reason that people feel good. It is like the new music on the block and it’s just getting ready to explode!” It’s mostly original material, with a few standards and hymns the group “blueses up a little.” Audiences often dance, shout out, and always have a great time.


In just the last six months they performed for more than 250,000 music fans at festivals throughout the United States. In the process, their unique sound has attracted musical artists such as Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks Band w/ Susan Tedechi, The North Mississippi Allstars, Umphrey’s McGee, and Victor Wooten – all of whom have played with the Lee Boys and/or invited them to tour with them.


Their music attracts audiences from the jamband, folk, blues and Gospel worlds. They’ve performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and will continue influencing audiences worldwide with their “sacred steel”. They will funkify your soul and help you see the musical light.!!!

Ther recent tour includedheadline stops at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Memphis in May, and the Bonnaroo, High Sierra, Austin City Limits and Philadelphia Folk Festival.
This family group consists of three brothers, Alvin Lee (guitar), Derrick Lee and Keith Lee (vocals) along with their three nephews, Roosevelt Collier (pedal steel guitar), Alvin Cordy Jr. (7-string bass) and Earl Walker (drums). Each member began making music at the ages of 7 and 8 in the House of God church they attended in Perrine, FL. Here they underwent a rigorous course of training in a variety of musical instruments, including lap and pedal steel guitars.

Born and raised in Miami, each of The Lee Boys grew up in the church where their father and grandfather, Rev. Robert E. Lee, was the pastor and a steel player himself. “Sacred steel” is a type of music described as an inspired, unique form of Gospel music with a hard-driving, blues-based beat.

The musical genre is rooted in Gospel, but infused with rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk, hip-hop, country and ideas from other nations. Influenced by the Hawaiian steel guitar fad of the 1930’s, brothers Willie and Troman Eason brought the electric lap steel guitar into the worship services of the House of God church in Jacksonville, FL. The Pentecostal congregation embraced the soulful sound, and over time this unique sound became the hallmark of the church. The pedal steel guitar was added to the mix and soon became the central instrument.

The Lee Boys are part of the fourth generation of musicians in this faith. This music form was totally unknown to the world outside the church until the mid 1990’s, when folklorist Robert Stone attended House of God services and recorded the music, as well as its history, contributing the name “sacred steel.” A series of compilations featuring artists such as Aubrey Ghent, Calvin Cooke and the Campbell Brothers, as well as the late Glenn Lee followed on legendary roots label Arhoolie Records, for whom The Lee Boys also record.

Needless to say it's a special treat to have them playing at the White Horse.

www.leeboys.com/?q=bio
www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/

Thu 10/1 Beaucoup Blues at The Town Pump

Thursday October 1

Beacoup Blues

at The Town Pump Tavern

8:30 pm

David and Adrian Mowry of Beaucoup Blue identify their musical influences as blues, folk, soul, R&B, jazz, country and bluegrass. Or if you have to use one word to sum it up, Americana. "If you're going to put a label on it, that's the best that I can think of," Adrian Mowry says.The Philadelphia-based father-and-son duo -- which released its third album, "Free To Fall," in January -- is known for its warm, casually soulful and surprisingly full sound. "We really try to mesh our guitars and our vocals together, to sound like there's more than two of us onstage," Mowry says.---Jay Lustig/The Star-Ledger



The Town Pump Tavern is excited to have David Mowry, 62, and Adrian Mowry, 38, on stage here in Black Mountain.


Father and son have been performing their roots based music nationally and internationally as a duo, quartet and on occasion quintet. Bridging many gaps in American music, their soulful traditional and contemporary styles mesh into an innovative and authentic sound. Although blues is a staple in their repertoire, they base their love in music from Folk, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Country and Bluegrass. All these interests and influences come out in their original song-writing in a unique way.


Beaucoup Blues recent CD "Free To Fall" had a successfu run on the radio charts in the Americana/Roots music genre.
#25 on AMA's Americana Radio Top 40
#25 on Radio and Records Americana Top 40
#30 on Cashbox Magazine's Top 40 Americana Albums
#27 on AMA's Americana Internet Airplay Top 40
#8 on Roots Music Report's Folk Top 50



A handsome range of instruments like six and twelve string guitars, slide guitar, round neck resonator guitar, combined with two soulful voices, encompasses a rich and honest feel, noticeably influenced by familial ties.

Says Sing Out! Magazine.- “Their voices work superbly together, frequently attaining a mesmeric panache that must be thrilling to view in person. Beaucoup Blue is a versatile, imaginative team that has something to say and say it with an adventurous sense of personality from the bottom of their hearts.”

Richard Cucarro from Acoustic Live NYC says- ”David's slide guitar is the first thing you notice. In tandem with Adrian's deft finger-picking it's precision and grace is the aural equivalent of a hot fudge sundae. Their singing individually and in harmony combines grit and spirit. David's baritone is big and warm and Adrian's tenor is sweet and soulful. How father and son came to be musical partners is a story worth telling.”



City Paper Rochester, NY- “When a band like this Philadelphia pair keeps it this bare-boned and simple, there's room for the music's ghosts to cavort in the dust and decay. David and Adrian Mowry's harmonies are that kind of bloodline magic that aren't written or rehearsed; that's just how they are. Their music has that journeyman feel of American folk built up by travels up and down the Eastern Seaboard and beyond. Beaucoup Blue is riveting and haunting, with that kind of beauty you can still hear long after the last note fades away.”



www.beaucoupblue.com/
www.myspace.com/beaucoupblue
www.myspace.com/townpumptavernllc

Thu 10/1 W Michael Freer at Beacon Pub

Thursday October 1

W Michael Freer

at Beacon Pub

9pm

W. Michael Freer is an acoustic bluesman accompanying himself on his Larrivee acoustic or 'blues uke' and using rich baritone vocals and mellow harp style to create a intimate personal performance to connect with audiences across the country. His songs ring true with listeners who find a kinship with their own "blues".

Having served as a local government professional for almost 30 years, Mike's skills as a bluesman were a well kept secret. In 2007 he changed that. He walked away from working for the government and recorded his debut cd, 'Wilbur's Blues', and hit the road touring the midwest with his harmonicas and 'blues uke' sharing his unique style of acoustic blues. The blues he shares with us in his debut CD, "Wilbur's Blues", tells us of his 50+ years. We share his joy and sorrow, success and failures, the women who left and the woman who stayed. He sings to us personally about his past, his pride in his children, his hopes and his fears. In many ways "Wilbur's Blues" is 'our' blues.

www.reverbnation.com/wmichaelfreer
www.myspace.com/wmichaelfreer
http://www.beaconpub.info/