Thursday, November 29, 2012

2 Great Entertainment Events this Saturday - Loafers Glory, and Roy Zimmerman

Believe me, if the Ash Grove were around, this would be one of our most amazing

evenings. Unfortunately, you have to make a choice between one of the greatest

bluegrass bands today, and one of the funniest, most musical and meaningful comedians

you'll ever experience. I still can't make up my mind which to get to.

BOULEVARD MUSIC CONCERT BULLETIN
4316 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230
Phone (310) 398-2583 - BoulevardMusic.com
Come down to the crossroads... Culver and Sepulveda

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Saturday, December 1, 2012 Loafer's Glory - 8 pm
Tickets $20.00 (On sale 11/17/2012)

Loafer's Glory

Southern California has always been a haven for interested parties trying to find good live bluegrass, folk and blues. In the winter of February 2010, four players decided to form a new group with a direction combining the best of old-time and bluegrass music. These brave hearts have been playing acoustic music for the better part of 45 years, and found that this is indeed the time for another highly skilled acoustic band... "Loafer's Glory". Featuring Tom Sauber on fiddle and 5 string banjo, Patrick Sauber on 5-string banjo, mandolin, and guitar, Bill Bryson on upright bass, and Herb Pedersen on guitar and banjo. Four players with incredible resumes that could fill a book.
www.herbpedersen.com

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PARLOR PERFORMANCES NOVEMBER UPDATE!

entertaining ideas from the historical to the hysterical!

Jeannine Frank * (310) 476-6735 * (310) 666-9066

jeannine@frankentertainment.com * www.frankentertainment.com

Parlor Performances at Cornerstone Conservatory presents...

An Evening with Singing Political Satirist ROY ZIMMERMAN

PEACENICK -- THE HOLIDAY SHOW!

Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society's

foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer. Los Angeles Times

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Saturday, Dec. 1st at 7:30pm

CORNERSTONE MUSIC CONSERVATORY, 2nd Floor

12121 W. Pico Bl. * one door w. of Bundy * Lot of free parking!

$25 / $20 for next 10 people to RSVP! * Cash at the door!

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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, November 29, 2012

2 Great Entertainment Events this Saturday - Loafers Glory, and Roy Zimmerman

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