[NEohioPAL] Fw: Melanie and Red Cross Fundraiser this week

[The Kent Stage]

November 118, 2008
330-677-5005
www.kentstage.org
wrfaa at yahoo.com 
 
  Melanie returns to Ohio  

pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Concert on Nov. 20th 

 
 
15, 60, 75 - The Numbers Band, The Twistoffs and Hillbilly IDOL 
 join forces to raise funds for the Northeast Ohio Red Cross




 


Upcoming Concerts @ The Kent Stage 
 

GTB Music Festival 11/22
(11 Kent bands)
The Know-Nothings 11/28 
 Rob McNurlin 11/29
 Carrie Rodriguez & KaiserCartel 12/4
Glen Phillips & Jonatha Brooke 12/5
The Diamonds "Christmas Concert" 12/6
Woodchopper's Ball 12/13
Tim O'Brien 1/16
  Kathleen Edwards 1/30
 Claire Lynch Band 2/28

Leo Kottke 4/2
John Gorka & Susan Werner 4/17 
  
Tickets on sale at Spin-More Records, Woodsy's Music or www.kentstage.org 
 







 





MELANIE
Thursday, November 20 -- 8:00 PM
Concert to include Melanie's famous Christmas presentation! 

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

Reserved tickets: $25.00
 
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The American Red Cross & The Number's Band proudly presents 
Music For Disaster Relief
Friday, November 21st
Doors open @ 7pm. Concert starts @ 8PM

In order of appearance:
Joe LaRose and Steve Downey
Rachel Wearsch and her Beatnik Playboys
Hillbilly IDOL
15 60 75 the numbers
The TwistOffs
$15 admission.  
This is an opportunity to truly help those in your community who need it most.  
All proceeds go to your local American Red Cross.
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ROB McNURLIN
also featuring
SASHA COLETTE & LUNA 
Opening Act ARTY HILL 
Saturday, November 29 -- 7:00 PM


Singing songs by Johnny Cash
Rob McNurlin was raised in Eastern Kentucky, the hymns in church, the Johnny Cash Show on TV, a harmonica from his grandmother, his parents records and a guitar on his ninth Christmas set him on a very musical path.
He began studying traditional music learning hundreds of folk, hillbilly-blues and Gospel tunes. Inspired by Cash, Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams he started writing songs and mixing these originals with the traditional .
Rob has released five cds including "Cowboy Boot Heel", recorded at Johnny Cash's Cabin Studio, produced by his son John Carter Cash and a duet with guest Ramblin' Jack Elliott. "Lonesome Valley Again" reached #26 on the FAR charts and #55 on the Americana chart, remaining in the top 100 over two months. The cd "River, Road or Rail" was a collaboration with Nancy Apple and reached #1 on the FAR chart, top 40 on the Americana Europe chart. His latest cd "Sacred Numbers" is a collection of Gospel songs.
McNurlin has toured with Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Hot Tuna, his songs have been covered by Ronnie Elliott among others and used in two award winning documentaries. He is currently touring and working on a new cd.

Behind the guitar of Sasha Colette lies the purity of an Eastern Kentucky voice rich in heritage, soul and emotion. The delicate blend of her skills on the fretboard and her vocal stylings can only be described as: Honest.
Sasha embraces her Carter County roots while embracing various artists. The result is a style that is Sasha Colette. Appalachian, Bluesy, Folk. Sasha's music and lyrics are real, for real people, about real life, and evoking real emotion.


Luna is a singer/songwriter that combines traditional, rock, and folk music. Through her brother's association with The Beatnik Cowboys, she met Rob McNurlin. Rob introduced her to folk music such as Bob Dylan and Johnny and June Carter Cash. They later collaborated many times sharing the stage and vocals in Europe as well as the states. This partnership caught the attention of Mickey Fisher and Ritchie Collins who co-wrote the stage production "Something in the Water" which features old time music of Kentucky artists. Luna was asked to sing songs such as "Pretty Saro", "Blue Moon of Kentucky", and "Coal Miner's Daughter." Her vocal support has been recorded with Rob McNurlin and Jeff Walburn.

Like Dale Watson, Redd Volkaert, and others carrying the cross for traditional country, Arty Hill remains faithful to country's roots while forging his own distinct songs that blend the old and new. Jackson Shake, I Left Highlandtownâ and Driftin' In, are "SONGS SALTED WITH TEARS AND STEEPED IN THE RICH BREW OF CLASSIC COUNTRY AND WESTERN THAT, IN THE RIGHT HANDS, NEVER LOSES IT POWER." (John Lewis, Baltimore Magazine). Arty's songs have been covered by Austin's TEXAS SAPPHIRES, and one of his bluegrass tunes was recently recorded by the Grammy-nominated KENNY AND AMANDA SMITH BAND.
Tickets Available at Spin-More Records -- 330-678-3495
$20.00 General Admission







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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, or at www.kentstage.org or call 1-800-595-4849 or 330-677-5005.  Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before concert.  If you have any questions please email us at wrfaa at yahoo.com or information at kentstage.org or call 330-677-5005.  







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