Charlie Loesel
Tickets: $8 advance, $12 at the door.
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Charlie Loesel is a versatile singer-songwriter with a country-blues voice and deft hand for the acoustic guitar. Loesel’s debut CD, Westfalia, chronicles six years of travels across the states in a Volkswagen camper. Westfalia covers a lot of American ground. Blues. Folk. Country. A craftsman at heart, Loesel ties it all together in songs about loving, drinking and dying.
Loesel developed his sound playing gigs around Traverse City, Austin, and Charlottesville. Starting out, he lived, camped and traveled in his Westfalia. The van was a songwriting retreat that carried Loesel on several trips across the United States. As a solo performer, Loesel mixed his upbeat originals with the cover material he was performing.
During an extended stay in Nashville, Loesel recorded his songs. The experience turned his focus from guitar to songwriting. Looking for a place to write away from the music business, Loesel moved to Seattle.
Loesel spent two years developing his material before hiring a studio band to record Westfalia. The project was mixed in NYC with an all-star lineup of sidemen to fill out the arrangements. The CD was independently released in May 2010 through Incochee Trail Music. Loesel tours and performs regularly in Seattle.
Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps
Tickets: $16 advance, $20 at the door.
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Traveling for years the same well-worn roads of the touring musician (crossing paths constantly, missing one another by a day here or a week there), it wasn’t until the end of 2009 that Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps found the opportunity to play music together. Performing alongside Corinne on a series of CD release shows for her own record ‘The Promise’, Kelly Joe realized that he’d met a true musical partner, and she the same. By the end of their second show together they decided to forge their respective solo careers into a powerhouse duo.
The fundamental layer of Corinne and Kelly Joe’s new partnership is mutual admiration and respect both for the ideal of honest, inspired, poignant art, and each other’s own creativity and musical vision. They also share a ravenous passion for the acoustic guitar. From this foundation these two are creating beautiful, exceptional music. Intricate and lush harmony vocals wrap themselves around layers of interlacing, weaving guitar parts. Alongside this rise lyrics rich in imagery and testament, held aloft by melodies soaring in tandem through two voices seemingly born to sing together.
Corinne and Kelly Joe’s first duo record ‘MagneticSkyline’ – recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch – was released in October 2010 on British indie label ‘Tin Angel Records’. This release has received wide European acclaim, including 4 star reviews from the BBC and the well-respected music publications ‘Q’ and ‘Uncut’. 2011 will see them in the studio to record their second duo release and touring extensively, with three European tours already slated.
“This exquisite record is a pairing in folk heaven…often mesmeric.”
-Uncut 4 STARS
“West and Phelps are a natural, effortless pairing.”
-BBC 4 STARS
David Rogers
Tickets: $13 advance, $15 at the door (general)
Student price: $8 advance, $10 at the door.
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David Rogers presents an eclectic solo guitar concert with strong leanings towards jazz, world, and classical music. David will play music from his soon to be released new CD, music from his last recording, The Lone Wild Bird, Spanish guitar favorites, a few songs by the Beatles, as well as his own ‘jazzy’ version of La Bamba. David’s background in jazz, improvisation and classical music allows him to go into many different musical genres during his concerts.
Recently termed ‘a prominent guitarist’ by the New York Times, David Rogers fuses classical, jazz, early, and world music elements into powerful, moving and virtuosic performances based on both original compositions and traditional repertoire. The Washington Post has praised his ‘astonishingly florid’ solo improvisational passage work. He has been called a ‘modern master’ of the classical guitar’ by 20th Century Guitar. Classics today.com has praised his ‘first rate instrumental artistry,’ and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique ‘formidable.’
He is an endorsing artist for GHS Strings and his music has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre in Germany. His solo and ensemble performances have been broadcast on American National Public Radio and Bayrische Rundfunk. He has given recitals and conducted master classes throughout North America, including performances and classes at the San Francisco Conservatory, the University of Southern California and The Interlochen National Arts Camp.
To hear and see David play, visit his website at http://www.davidrogersguitar.com/
