Thursday, July 12, 2012

Woody in Echo Park, The Ciro Hurtado Band and Conjunto Jardin at LACMA

Hi. Here are two terrific shows, almost in tandem.

From: Adele Wallace [mailto:awallace2@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:28 PM

Hope you can come tto this great free event. It's at El Centro Del Pueblo in Echo Park (1157 Lemoyne St LA 90026),

Adele

(From Ed: I like this layout a lot so hope you don't mind the 2nd mailing. Lemoyne is between Echo Park Ave and Alvarado,

immediately So. of the Masa restaurant , the big blue bldg. on the corner of Sunset & Lemoyne.)

http://www.woodyinechopark.com/

Event Schedule

10 am - 5:30 pm
5:30 pm - 6 pm
6 pm - 9 pm

Concert, picnic, arts activities, exhibit
Second Line parade
After-hours concert (venue: TBA)

An Echo Park Tribute
to Woody Guthrie

Free Concert, Picnic, Street Art

July 14th, 2012

10 am - 6 pm

El Centro del Pueblo
1157 Lemoyne St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Happy 100th Birthday, Woody!

Join us in a free backyard picnic celebrating the life and music of Echo Park resident Woody Guthrie. Enjoy an afternoon concert of hip-hop, blues, jazz, psychedelic and bluegrass by Woody-inspired musicians. Art activities will take place throughout the day. End the day with a second line parade led by Superbroke Brass and Tin Marching Band Ensemble.

Woody disappeared from public life 15 years before he died – he was suffering from Huntington's Disease. During that time he become something of a living legend. Folk musicians used to put a stone in their shoe to remind them of Woody's days jumping trains, hitchhiking on Route 66, sleeping in shantytowns and ditches, swaping stories with folks down on their luck during the Great Depression.

Woody wrote more than 2,000 songs in his lifetime. Like Walt Whitman, his songs capture the strength and the dignity of the American people. One hundred years after his birth, Woody's music reminds us that when we stick together and listen to one another's stories, "a better world's a-coming."

Featured Artists

Olmeca
Leroy Moore
Krip-Hop Nation
Kevin Robinson
and
Conference of
the Birds
Superbroke
Brass and Tin
Michelle Shocked

Volunteers

Interested in volunteering for this event?
Learn how: http://www.edmontonfolkfest.org/get-involved/volunteer

About Woody Guthrie

While living in Los Angeles Woody made trips to agricultural fields in the Central and Imperial Valley to sing for and give encouragement to farm laborers in their fight for better living and working conditions. Woody was joined on those trips at times by John Steinbeck, Will Geer and others to help publicize conditions for farm laborers. Woody understood the power of music to help people get through hard times. He sang for people of all backgrounds. The experience helped his political views matured. Corrido singers will perform work songs

About Us - The Trailer Trash Project

The Trailer Trash Project operates out of a vintage trailer to bring free concerts, plays, exhibits and plays to neighborhoods around Los Angeles. We collaborate with a multicultural, multidisciplinary group of artists who share a common interest in using art to explore the meaning of home and community in a changing world.

Donate

Contributions to the Trailer Trash Project are tax-deductible through the Emerge Fiscal Sponsorship Program of the Pasadena Arts Council.

From: Conjunto Jardin <trova9888@aol.com>
To: Ed Pearl epearlag@earthlink.net

Conjunto Jardin News / Noticias!

Half of Conjunto Jardin (Cindy, Libby and Gary) perform in Ciro Hurtado's band. Come see us this Saturday at LACMA -- here's the info from Ciro:

The Ciro Hurtado Band

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Sat. July 14

5 to 7 p.m.

Free

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036

www.lacma.org

Hola Amigos:

I'm going to be performing with my band, a group of stellar musicians, on July 14th at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 5-7 p.m., as part of the Latin Sounds Concert Series. Come and enjoy a FREE afternoon concert on the lawn of LACMA. There will be food and cocktails available for purchase or you can bring your own picnic. Spend a relaxing summer afternoon in the middle of the city. Also, come early so you can check out the eagerly anticipated environmental sculpture, "The Levitated Mass," by Michael Heizer.

I hope you all can make it. I will be performing favorite Latin American World-Jazz-Folk tunes from my past albums and my new solo guitar compositions from my upcoming album "Los Angeles Blues."

Playing with me will be:

Aaron Serfaty: Drums

Cindy Harding: Vocal, Quena, Flute, Zampoñas, Bombo Leguero

Gary Johnson: Keyboards, Accordion, Percussion

Guillermo Guzman: Bass

Libby Harding: Vocal, Cuatro Venezolano, Zampoñas

Walter Rodriguez: Percussion

Hola Amigos:

Voy a estar tocando con mi banda, un grupo de músicos estelares, el 14 de julio en el Museo del Condado de Los Ángeles (LACMA) de 5 a 7 pm., parte de la serie de conciertos de "Sonidos Latinos". Vengan y disfruten de una tarde de música en los jardines del museo. La entrada es gratis. Habrá comida, bebida y cócteles a la venta, o pueden traer su propio picnic. Pase una tarde de verano relajado en el centro de la ciudad. Vengan temprano para poder apreciar la anticipada exhibición de la escultura ambiental "La Masa Levitada" de Michael Heizer.

Los espero a todos. Estaré tocando temas favoritos de World-Jazz-Folk Latino Americano de mis discos anteriores y también composiciones nuevas de mi próximo álbum de solo de guitarra "Los Ángeles Blues".

Estarán acompañándome:

Aaron Serfaty: Batería

Cindy Harding: Voz, Quena, Flauta, Zampoñas, Bombo Leguero

Gary Johnson: Teclado, Acordeón, Percusión

Guillermo Guzmán: Bajo

Libby Harding: Voz, Cuatro Venezolano, Zampoñas

Walter Rodríguez: Percusión

Thanks for your support! Gracias por su apoyo! -- Conjunto Jardín

www.conjuntojardin.com

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Woody in Echo Park, The Ciro Hurtado Band and Conjunto Jardin at LACMA

Event Schedule

An Echo Park Tribute
to Woody Guthrie

Free Concert, Picnic, Street Art

July 14th, 2012