[NEohioPAL]Karla Bonoff, Jesse Winchester, Pat Donohue, Bo Diddley, Peter Rowan, Tony Rice, Slaid Cleaves, Woodchopper's Ball

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An extremely rare Northeast Ohio concert by two great singer/songwriters!
Karla Bonoff and Jesse Winchester 
Thursday Nov. 18th

 
Direct from Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" 
 Pat Donohue
Friday Nov. 19th
 
Two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers!  
Bo Diddley and Johnnie Johnson!
Friday Dec. 3rd
 
Two legends and a future legend:
 Peter Rowan, Tony Rice and Slaid Cleaves
Saturday Dec. 4th
 
The greatest guitar concert in Northeast Ohio: 
Woodchopper's Ball
Sunday Dec, 5th
 
A star of folk music returns to "finish" a concert she started at Lock Three: Melanie
Friday Dec. 10th
 
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The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio.  There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets.  Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, Little Mountain Music in Middlefield at www.kentstage.org or at 330-677-5005.  Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before the concert time.  If you have any questions, please call 330-677-5005.

 

 

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KARLA BONOFF
and JESSIE WINCHESTER

Thursday, November 18
8:00 PM

Singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff grew up in Los Angeles and briefly attended UCLA. Emerging from the Monday night hootenanny scene at the ~Troubadour nightclub, she was a member of Bryndle, a folk-rock group also featuring Wendy Waldman, Andrew Gold, and Kenny Edwards, that formed in 1969, signed to AM, and cut an album that was never released. Edwards, a former member of the Stone Poneys (a band featuring Linda Ronstadt), and Gold were later part of Ronstadt's backing band, and they brought Bonoff to her attention. Ronstadt recorded three of Bonoff's songs on her 1976 album, Hasten Down the Wind, leading to a recording contract for Bonoff and the release of three albums on Columbia Records, the last of which, Wild Heart of the Young (1982), featured the Top 40 hit "Personally." Bonoff worked on movie soundtracks during the '80s, notably on Footloose (1984) and About Last Night (1986). She released her fourth album, New World, in 1988. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Jesse Winchester was the music world's most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader, though his renown came from a body of wry, closely observed songs. 

After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his draft notice in 1967 and moved to Montreal, Canada, rather than serve in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, who helped launch his recording career. In the same way that James Taylor's history of mental instability and drug abuse served as a subtext for his early music, Winchester's exile lent real-life poignancy to songs like "Yankee Lady," which appeared on his debut album, Jesse Winchester (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. 

Despite critical acclaim, his inability to tour in the U.S. prevented him from taking his place among the major singer/songwriters of the early '70s, but he made a series of impressive albums — Third Down, 110 to Go (August 1972), Learn to Love It (August 1974), Let the Rough Side Drag (June 1976), and Nothing but a Breeze (March 1977) — before President Jimmy Carter instituted an amnesty that finally allowed him to play in his homeland. By that time, the singer/songwriter boom had passed, though Winchester continued to record (A Touch on the Rainy Side [July 1978], Talk Memphis [February 1981], Humour Me [1988]) and even scored a Top 40 hit with "Say What" in 1981. 

His most prominently covered songs include "Yankee Lady" (Brewer & Shipley), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Joan Baez, Ian Matthews), "Biloxi" (Tom Rush, Jimmy Buffett), "Mississippi, You're on My Hind" (Jerry Jeff Walker, Stoney Edwards [for a Top 40 country hit]), "Defying Gravity" (Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris), "Rhumba Girl" (Nicolette Larson [for a pop chart entry]), "Well-A-Wiggy" (the Weather Girls [for an R&B chart entry]), and "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" (Michael Martin Murphey [for a Top Ten country hit]). In 1999, Winchester returned from a long recording hiatus with the new album Gentleman of Leisure. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide 

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FOLK ALLEY PERFORMANCE
by PAT DONAHUE

Friday, November 19
8:00 PM

Presented by FolkNet

Nationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Pat Donohue has earned prominent recognition for his mastery of acoustic fingerstyle guitar, which he exhibits weekly as the guitarist for the Guys All Star Shoe Band on Garrison Keillor's radio program "A Prairie Home Companion." Chet Atkins called him one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today; Leo Kottke called his playing "haunting."

Though he considers himself foremost a folk guitarist, Pat manages to blend jazz and blues with folk, and the mix is seamless. Over the years he has captivated audiences with his unique original compositions, dazzling instrumentals and humorous song parodies, including Sushi-Yucky and Would You Like to Play the Guitar? 

Honors include several Minnesota Music Awards and the prestigious title of 1983 National Finger Picking Guitar Champion. His original tunes have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss and Kenny Rogers. Pat has also been a featured performer at major music festivals including the Newport, Telluride, Philadelphia and Winfield Folk Festivals. 

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BO DIDDLEY
and Johnnie Johnson

Friday, December 3
8:00 PM

He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knockoffs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His trademark otherwordly vibrating, fuzzy guitar style did much to expand the instrument's power and range. But even more important, Bo's bounce was fun and irresistibly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized rock & roll at its most humorously outlandish and freewheeling... 

His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955), was a double-sided monster. The A-side was soaked with futuristic waves of tremolo guitar, set to an ageless nursery rhyme; the flip was a bump-and-grind, harmonica-driven shuffle, based around a devastating blues riff. But the result was not exactly blues, or even straight R&B, but a new kind of guitar-based rock & roll, soaked in the blues and R&B, but owing allegiance to neither. 

In addition to singing and performing, he also did some songwriting. His hambone beat [shave-and-a-hair-cut, six bits] was his trademark, and was often copied by others in their music. Although he had few hit songs in the pop vein, his powerful delivery, somewhat intimidating songs, and the pounding rhythm of his guitar caused him to be a performer in demand. He toured with Dick Clark's road shows, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. 

Bo Diddley took his name from a one-stringed African guitar, and usually played a guitar with a rectangular box shape. He managed to work his name into some of his songs. He is still singing and performing, and took his place in the Rock-and-Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987. 

JOHNNIE JOHNSON

Johnnie Johnson, who has been called the "world's greatest living blues pianist" and "the founding father of rock and roll," will share the stage with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bo Diddley on this special evening!

Johnson began playing the piano in 1928; he was 4 years old when his parents brought a new piano into their Fairmont home. Taking to it immediately, Johnson seemed to possess an innate mastery of the instrument. By age 9, he was playing jazz tunes by Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Earl "Fatha" Hines on the local radio station. By the 1950s, he was living in St. Louis where he worked in a factory by day and fronted the Johnnie Johnson Trio, an R & B band, as time allowed. 

Right before a big date on New Year's Eve in 1952, Johnson suddenly had to replace his ailing saxophonist, so he called a guitar-playing friend to sit in. His name was Chuck Barry.

Berry's rocking hillbilly style melded with Johnson's jazz-tinged blues and boogie, and rock and roll was the result. Many of Berry's rock and roll classics - including "Sweet Little Sixteen," "School Days" and "Roll over Beethoven," - came about during impromptu rehearsals, when Berry would show up with lyrics and ask Johnson to put some music behind them. "Just me, Chuck and the piano," is how Johnson put it.

Johnson's musical contributions to Berry's songs were essential to their success. The overlooked pianist finally received some long-overdue recognition in the 1985 Chuck Berry film documentary, "Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll," where Keith Richards and others talked about the importance of Johnson's piano stylings.

Johnnie Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 as a Founder of Rock.

Advance discount tickets: $30.00
Day of Show: $35.00



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


























PETER ROWAN &
TONY RICE
with special guest SLAID CLEAVES

Saturday, December 4
8:00 PM

Grammy-award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, Peter Rowan was born in Massachusetts to a musical family. He began his professional career playing guitar, singing lead vocals and co-writing as a member of the Bluegrass Boys, led by the founding father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. 

After his departure as Monroe's guitarist and lead vocalist, Rowan formed folk-rock band Earth Opera with David Grisman, recording two successful albums for Elektra Records and subsequently joining Richard Greene in jazz-rock fusion group SeaTrain. In the early '70s, Rowan, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements and John Kahn formed a bluegrass band christened Old & In the Way. 

He embarked on a well-received solo career in the late '70s, releasing such diverse and critically acclaimed albums as Dustbowl Children and Bluegrass Boy, as well as much-admired collaborations with ace Dobro player Jerry Douglas, Flaco Jimenez, and his brothers Christopher and Lorin Rowan. 

Rowan's songs have also been recorded by hit country artists and featured in motion pictures. His recent projects include a recording at Jamaica's famed Tuff Gong Studios with an imposing array of hardcore reggae and bluegrass musicians, and select performances touring as Peter Rowan and Crucial Reggae, featuring members of both the Burning Spear and Peter Tosh bands.

Arguably the finest flat-picking guitarist of all time, Virginia-born and California-raised Tony Rice is revered as perhaps the single most important bluegrass guitarist alive. Introduced to the genre by his musician father, he formed the seminal band Bluegrass Alliance and later joined J.D. Crowe's New South, one of the best, most progressive and commercially successful bluegrass bands of all time. 

Rice left to join the David Grisman Quintet, working on original material that blended jazz, bluegrass and classical styles. He then embarked on a highly respected and successful solo career that included a part-time venture in bluegrass supergroup, The Bluegrass Album Band. With his signature subtle touch, beautiful tone, amazing speed and imaginative phrasing, Rice has inspired guitarists far and wide for decades, as both a peerless lead player and the quintessential rhythm player. His inventive syncopation encompasses many acoustic music genres in addition to bluegrass, including jazz, blues, classical, folk, and swing, as is evident in his numerous solo and collaborative recordings. 

Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, he won for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 1986 as a member of New South. In 2003, Rounder Records released Tony Rice's 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection. "Guitar World Acoustic" gave the collection 4 stars stating "Remarkable guitar, remarkable guitarist; it's a combination that can't be beat." 

Slaid Cleaves grew up amid dairy farms, abandoned sawmills and the ever-encroaching suburban strip malls. The first of four kids, Cleaves was picking though the family record collection at the age of three, beginning a lifelong fascination with the music of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Everly Brothers and Woody Guthrie. 

He began his career as a "busker," singing on the streets of Cork, Ireland, while attending college there in 1985. Returning to the U.S., he formed the roots-rocking Moxie Men in 1989, playing extensively throughout New England and winning a semi-finalist slot in Musician Magazine's best unsigned band contest. Having outgrown the small but vital music scene in Portland, Maine, he landed in the roots-rock Mecca of Austin, Texas, in 1991. There, he rose swiftly through the ranks of the local singer-songwriter scene.

In 1992, he won the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk competition, an award previously given to such striking talents as Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Steve Earle. By 1996, he had signed to Rounder Records and released No Angel Knows, which attracted widespread critical acclaim. 

Advance discount tickets: $18
Day of Show: $22





 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

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WOODCHOPPER'S BALL

Sunday, December 5
8:00 PM

The Woodchopper's Ball features 12 of the nation's top guitarists, playing round robin style — 4 artists on stage at a time, each taking turns playing until everyone has played three selections.

The Lineup is:
Todd Hallawell, Richmond VA
Brian Henke, Bay Village OH
Frankie Starr, Brecksville OH
Alex Bevan, Madison OH
Jon Mosey, Kent OH
David "Bassboy" Mayfield, Kent OH
Neil Jacobs, Columbus OH
Jim Volk, Columbus OH
Bill Dutcher, Columbus OH
JJ Haas, Berea OH
Richie Terbush, Dayton OH
Eric Loy, Dayton OH

Advance discount tickets: $15
Day of Show: $20



 

 

 

 

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MELANIE

Friday, December 10
8:00 PM

With guitar in hand and a talent that combined amazing vocal equipment, disarming humor, and a vibrant engagement with life, she was booked as the first solo pop/rock artist ever to appear at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Sydney Opera House, and in the General Assembly of the United Nations, where delegates greeted her performances with standing ovations. The top television hosts of the time — Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett — battled to book her. (After her stunning performance on his show, Sullivan goggled that he had not seen such a "dedicated and responsive audience since Elvis Presley.")

Accolades rolled in, from critics ("Melanie's cult has long been famous, but it's a cult that's responding to something genuine and powerful — which is maybe another way of saying that this writer counts himself as part of the cult too," wrote John Rockwell in The New York Times) as well as peers ("Melanie," insisted jazz piano virtuoso Roger Kellaway, "is extraordinary to the point that she could be sitting in front of us in this room and sing something like 'Momma Momma' right to us, and it would just go right through your entire being.")

In the years that followed Melanie continued to record, continued to tour. UNICEF made her its spokesperson; Jimi Hendrix's father introduced her to the multitude assembled for the twentieth anniversary of Woodstock. Her records continued to sell — more than eighty million to date.  "She's had her songs covered by singers as diverse as Cher, Dolly Parton, and Macy Gray. She's raised a family, won an Emmy, opened a restaurant, written a musical about Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane...

Melanie has given the world wonderful songs including: "Look What They've Done to my Song, Ma," "Brand New Key," Ring The Living Bell," "Peace Will Come," Momma, Momma," Candles in The Rain, Lay DOwn," and "The Nickel Song."

She has, in short, lived a rare life. But all of it was just a prelude to what's about to come.

Advance discount tickets: $20.00
Day of Show: $25.00








 

 


 














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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#0000bf size=4>Karla Bonoff and Jesse Winchester <BR><FONT size=3>Thursday Nov. 18th</FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center> <FONT color=#0000ff size=4><STRONG>Pat Donohue<BR><FONT size=3>Friday Nov. 19th</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers!  </STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#0000bf size=4>Bo Diddley and Johnnie Johnson!<BR><FONT size=3>Friday Dec. 3rd</FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#111111>The greatest guitar concert in Northeast Ohio: </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#0000bf size=3><FONT color=#000000 size=2>A star of folk music returns to "finish" a concert she started at Lock Three: </FONT><FONT size=4>Melanie<BR></FONT><FONT size=3>Friday Dec. 10th</FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0000bf size=+2>KARLA BONOFF<BR>and JESSIE WINCHESTER</FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Thursday, November 18<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>Singer/songwriter <B>Karla Bonoff</B> grew up in Los Angeles and briefly attended UCLA. Emerging from the Monday night hootenanny scene at the ~Troubadour nightclub, she was a member of Bryndle, a folk-rock group also featuring Wendy Waldman, Andrew Gold, and Kenny Edwards, that formed in 1969, signed to AM, and cut an album that was never released. Edwards, a former member of the Stone Poneys (a band featuring Linda Ronstadt), and Gold were later part of Ronstadt's backing band, and they brought Bonoff to her attention. Ronstadt recorded three of Bonoff's songs on her 1976 album, Hasten Down the Wind, leading to a recording contract for Bonoff and the release of three albums on Columbia Records, the last of which, Wild Heart of the Young (1982), featured the Top 40 hit "Personally." Bonoff worked on movie soundtracks during the '80s, notably on Footloose (1984) and About Last Night (1986). She released her fourth album, New World, in 1988. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music
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<P align=left><B>Jesse Winchester</B> was the music world's most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader, though his renown came from a body of wry, closely observed songs. </P>
<P align=left>After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his draft notice in 1967 and moved to Montreal, Canada, rather than serve in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, who helped launch his recording career. In the same way that James Taylor's history of mental instability and drug abuse served as a subtext for his early music, Winchester's exile lent real-life poignancy to songs like "Yankee Lady," which appeared on his debut album, <EM>Jesse Winchester</EM> (1970). He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. </P>
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<P align=left>His most prominently covered songs include "Yankee Lady" (Brewer & Shipley), "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" (Joan Baez, Ian Matthews), "Biloxi" (Tom Rush, Jimmy Buffett), "Mississippi, You're on My Hind" (Jerry Jeff Walker, Stoney Edwards [for a Top 40 country hit]), "Defying Gravity" (Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris), "Rhumba Girl" (Nicolette Larson [for a pop chart entry]), "Well-A-Wiggy" (the Weather Girls [for an R&B chart entry]), and "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" (Michael Martin Murphey [for a Top Ten country hit]). In 1999, Winchester returned from a long recording hiatus with the new album <EM>Gentleman of Leisure.</EM> ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide </P>
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<P align=left><B>Friday, November 19<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
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<P align=left>Nationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist Pat Donohue has earned prominent recognition for his mastery of acoustic fingerstyle guitar, which he exhibits weekly as the guitarist for the Guys All Star Shoe Band on Garrison Keillor's radio program "A Prairie Home Companion." Chet Atkins called him one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today; Leo Kottke called his playing "haunting."</P>
<P align=left>Though he considers himself foremost a folk guitarist, Pat manages to blend jazz and blues with folk, and the mix is seamless. Over the years he has captivated audiences with his unique original compositions, dazzling instrumentals and humorous song parodies, including Sushi-Yucky and Would You Like to Play the Guitar? </P>
<P align=left>Honors include several Minnesota Music Awards and the prestigious title of 1983 National Finger Picking Guitar Champion. His original tunes have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss and Kenny Rogers. Pat has also been a featured performer at major music festivals including the Newport, Telluride, Philadelphia and Winfield Folk Festivals. </P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0000bf size=+2>BO DIDDLEY<BR>and Johnnie Johnson</FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Friday, December 3<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knockoffs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His trademark otherwordly vibrating, fuzzy guitar style did much to expand the instrument's power and range. But even more important, Bo's bounce was fun and irresistibly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized rock & roll at its most humorously outlandish and freewheeling... </P>
<P align=left>His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955), was a double-sided monster. The A-side was soaked with futuristic waves of tremolo guitar, set to an ageless nursery rhyme; the flip was a bump-and-grind, harmonica-driven shuffle, based around a devastating blues riff. But the result was not exactly blues, or even straight R&B, but a new kind of guitar-based rock & roll, soaked in the blues and R&B, but owing allegiance to neither. </P>
<P align=left>In addition to singing and performing, he also did some songwriting. His hambone beat [shave-and-a-hair-cut, six bits] was his trademark, and was often copied by others in their music. Although he had few hit songs in the pop vein, his powerful delivery, somewhat intimidating songs, and the pounding rhythm of his guitar caused him to be a performer in demand. He toured with Dick Clark's road shows, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. </P>
<P align=left>Bo Diddley took his name from a one-stringed African guitar, and usually played a guitar with a rectangular box shape. He managed to work his name into some of his songs. He is still singing and performing, and took his place in the Rock-and-Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987. </P>
<P align=left><FONT size=4><STRONG>JOHNNIE JOHNSON</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=justify>Johnnie Johnson, who has been called the "world's greatest living blues pianist" and "the founding father of rock and roll," will share the stage with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bo Diddley on this special evening!</P>
<P align=justify>Johnson began playing the piano in 1928; he was 4 years old when his parents brought a new piano into their Fairmont home. Taking to it immediately, Johnson seemed to possess an innate mastery of the instrument. By age 9, he was playing jazz tunes by Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Earl "Fatha" Hines on the local radio station. By the 1950s, he was living in St. Louis where he worked in a factory by day and fronted the Johnnie Johnson Trio, an R & B band, as time allowed. </P>
<P align=justify>Right before a big date on New Year's Eve in 1952, Johnson suddenly had to replace his ailing saxophonist, so he called a guitar-playing friend to sit in. His name was Chuck Barry.</P>
<P align=justify>Berry's rocking hillbilly style melded with Johnson's jazz-tinged blues and boogie, and rock and roll was the result. Many of Berry's rock and roll classics - including "Sweet Little Sixteen," "School Days" and "Roll over Beethoven," - came about during impromptu rehearsals, when Berry would show up with lyrics and ask Johnson to put some music behind them. "Just me, Chuck and the piano," is how Johnson put it.</P>
<P align=justify>Johnson's musical contributions to Berry's songs were essential to their success. The overlooked pianist finally received some long-overdue recognition in the 1985 Chuck Berry film documentary, "Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll," where Keith Richards and others talked about the importance of Johnson's piano stylings.</P>
<P align=justify>Johnnie Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 as a Founder of Rock.</P>
<P align=justify><B><FONT color=#990000>Advance discount tickets: $30.00<BR></FONT></B><B>Day of Show: $35.00</B></P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0000bf size=+2>PETER ROWAN &<BR>TONY RICE<BR>with special guest SLAID CLEAVES</FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Saturday, December 4<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>Grammy-award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, <B>Peter Rowan</B> was born in Massachusetts to a musical family. He began his professional career playing guitar, singing lead vocals and co-writing as a member of the Bluegrass Boys, led by the founding father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. </P>
<P align=left>After his departure as Monroe's guitarist and lead vocalist, Rowan formed folk-rock band Earth Opera with David Grisman, recording two successful albums for Elektra Records and subsequently joining Richard Greene in jazz-rock fusion group SeaTrain. In the early '70s, Rowan, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements and John Kahn formed a bluegrass band christened Old & In the Way. </P>
<P align=left>He embarked on a well-received solo career in the late '70s, releasing such diverse and critically acclaimed albums as Dustbowl Children and Bluegrass Boy, as well as much-admired collaborations with ace Dobro player Jerry Douglas, Flaco Jimenez, and his brothers Christopher and Lorin Rowan. </P>
<P align=left>Rowan's songs have also been recorded by hit country artists and featured in motion pictures. His recent projects include a recording at Jamaica's famed Tuff Gong Studios with an imposing array of hardcore reggae and bluegrass musicians, and select performances touring as Peter Rowan and Crucial Reggae, featuring members of both the Burning Spear and Peter Tosh bands.</P>
<P align=left>Arguably the finest flat-picking guitarist of all time, Virginia-born and California-raised <B>Tony Rice</B> is revered as perhaps the single most important bluegrass guitarist alive. Introduced to the genre by his musician father, he formed the seminal band Bluegrass Alliance and later joined J.D. Crowe's New South, one of the best, most progressive and commercially successful bluegrass bands of all time. </P>
<P align=left>Rice left to join the David Grisman Quintet, working on original material that blended jazz, bluegrass and classical styles. He then embarked on a highly respected and successful solo career that included a part-time venture in bluegrass supergroup, The Bluegrass Album Band. With his signature subtle touch, beautiful tone, amazing speed and imaginative phrasing, Rice has inspired guitarists far and wide for decades, as both a peerless lead player and the quintessential rhythm player. His inventive syncopation encompasses many acoustic music genres in addition to bluegrass, including jazz, blues, classical, folk, and swing, as is evident in his numerous solo and collaborative recordings. </P>
<P align=left>Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, he won for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 1986 as a member of New South. In 2003, Rounder Records released Tony Rice's 58957: The Bluegrass Guitar Collection. "Guitar World Acoustic" gave the collection 4 stars stating "Remarkable guitar, remarkable guitarist; it's a combination that can't be beat." </P>
<P align=left><B>Slaid Cleaves</B> grew up amid dairy farms, abandoned sawmills and the ever-encroaching suburban strip malls. The first of four kids, Cleaves was picking though the family record collection at the age of three, beginning a lifelong fascination with the music of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Everly Brothers and Woody Guthrie. </P>
<P align=left>He began his career as a "busker," singing on the streets of Cork, Ireland, while attending college there in 1985. Returning to the U.S., he formed the roots-rocking Moxie Men in 1989, playing extensively throughout New England and winning a semi-finalist slot in Musician Magazine's best unsigned band contest. Having outgrown the small but vital music scene in Portland, Maine, he landed in the roots-rock Mecca of Austin, Texas, in 1991. There, he rose swiftly through the ranks of the local singer-songwriter scene.</P>
<P align=left>In 1992, he won the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk competition, an award previously given to such striking talents as Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Steve Earle. By 1996, he had signed to Rounder Records and released No Angel Knows, which attracted widespread critical acclaim. </P>
<P align=left><B><FONT color=#990000>Advance discount tickets: $18<BR></FONT></B><B>Day of Show: $22</B></P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0000bf size=+2>WOODCHOPPER'S BALL</FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Sunday, December 5<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>The Woodchopper's Ball features 12 of the nation's top guitarists, playing round robin style — 4 artists on stage at a time, each taking turns playing until everyone has played three selections.</P>
<P align=left>The Lineup is:<BR><B>Todd Hallawell, Richmond VA<BR>Brian Henke, Bay Village OH<BR>Frankie Starr, Brecksville OH<BR>Alex Bevan, Madison OH<BR>Jon Mosey, Kent OH<BR>David "Bassboy" Mayfield, Kent OH<BR>Neil Jacobs, Columbus OH<BR>Jim Volk, Columbus OH<BR>Bill Dutcher, Columbus OH<BR>JJ Haas, Berea OH<BR>Richie Terbush, Dayton OH<BR>Eric Loy, Dayton OH</B></P>
<P align=left><B><FONT color=#990000>Advance discount tickets: $15</FONT></B><B><FONT color=#990000><BR></FONT></B><B>Day of Show: $20</B></P></TD>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0060bf size=+2>MELANIE</FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Friday, December 10<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>With guitar in hand and a talent that combined amazing vocal equipment, disarming humor, and a vibrant engagement with life, she was booked as the first solo pop/rock artist ever to appear at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Sydney Opera House, and in the General Assembly of the United Nations, where delegates greeted her performances with standing ovations. The top television hosts of the time — Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett — battled to book her. (After her stunning performance on his show, Sullivan goggled that he had not seen such a "dedicated and responsive audience since Elvis Presley.")</P>
<P align=left>Accolades rolled in, from critics ("Melanie's cult has long been famous, but it's a cult that's responding to something genuine and powerful — which is maybe another way of saying that this writer counts himself as part of the cult too," wrote John Rockwell in The New York Times) as well as peers ("Melanie," insisted jazz piano virtuoso Roger Kellaway, "is extraordinary to the point that she could be sitting in front of us in this room and sing something like 'Momma Momma' right to us, and it would just go right through your entire being.")</P>
<P align=left>In the years that followed Melanie continued to record, continued to tour. UNICEF made her its spokesperson; Jimi Hendrix's father introduced her to the multitude assembled for the twentieth anniversary of Woodstock. Her records continued to sell — more than eighty million to date.  "She's had her songs covered by singers as diverse as Cher, Dolly Parton, and Macy Gray. She's raised a family, won an Emmy, opened a restaurant, written a musical about Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane...</P>
<P align=left>Melanie has given the world wonderful songs including: "Look What They've Done to my Song, Ma," "Brand New Key," Ring The Living Bell," "Peace Will Come," Momma, Momma," Candles in The Rain, Lay DOwn," and "The Nickel Song."</P>
<P align=left>She has, in short, lived a rare life. But all of it was just a prelude to what's about to come.</P>
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