[NEohioPAL] Jack Bruce concert POSTPONED, The Avett Brothers on-sale Monday

[The Kent Stage]

--- On Sun, 3/29/09, The Kent Stage <wrfaa at yahoo.com> wrote:





















 
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JACK BRUCE TOUR POSTPONED!
 The Jack Bruce concert scheduled for Wednesday April 1st has been postponed.  The entire tour has been postponed due to illness.  The management of The Kent Stage and the band's agent are working to reschedule the concert as soon as possible.  A new date should be announced within a few weeks.  Tickets for the April 1st concert will be honored at the rescheduled show.  For additional information, please contact The Kent Stage @ 330-677-5005 or information at kentstage.org. 
 
The remaining concerts of The Kent Stage's Seven Year Celebration Series will go on as scheduled.
 
 
The Avett Brothers return to Northeast Ohio! 
 
The Western Reserve Folk Arts Association is pleased to announce that The Avett Brothers will be performing at  the Akron Civic Theatre on June 19, 2009 @ 8PM.  The Western Reserve Folk Arts Association, which manages The Kent Stage and the Akron Civic Theatre are teaming up to bring one of the hottest, young bands of the folk music scene back to the area after selling-out The Kent Stage last year.  Tickets will go on sale on Monday March 30th at 11AM.  Tickets are $26.50 and all seats are reserved.  The Civic Theatre Box Office is located in the Arcade accessed from Main Street. Tickets may be purchased in person or by calling (330) 253-2488, Monday - Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster. Outlets are located in Macy's and select Giant Eagle stores. These outlets are cash only - credit cards are not accepted. There is a service charge per ticket at the outlets.  Tickets are also available on-line at www.ticketmaster.com. 
 For additional information, please contact The Kent Stage @ 330-677-5005 or information at kentstage.org.
 

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JACK BRUCE
 POSTPONED

 Jack Bruce, composer, bassist, singer and multi-instrumentalist was born in the ship-building, Scottish city of Glasgow to working class parents. his love of music was stimulated by his mother (Scots folk music) and father (jazz). At age sixteen he won a scholarship in cello and composition to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama of which he now holds an Honorary Doctorate of Music.
He left home at seventeen to seek fame and fortune and travelled around Europe playing with many jazz bands before settling in London. There he played with Alexis Korner's Blues Inc., The Graham Bond Organization, John Mayall and Manfred Mann before forming the world's first super group, Cream with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker. He composed most of Cream's hits, including I Feel Free, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and many others during the band's meteoric career. After the demise of Cream he began his dream of pursuing his personal goal of forging his own musical language and playing with many of the finest musicians in the world in his own bands.
In 1993 Jack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream, and the band had a tremendously successful reunion in 2005. The following year, Jack was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his work with Cream.
He continues to be prolific musically and records and plays concerts all over the globe.
His most recent releases are Seven Moons with guitar god, Robin Trower and the six CD box set entitled Can You Follow? which traces his career from the age of nineteen up until (almost) the present day. 
Tickets: $35 adv/$40 door 

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an evening with 
LEO KOTTKE 
Thursday, April 2 -- 8:00 PM 

Innovative acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone before trying his hand at the guitar at age 11. 
Kottke entered college, dropping out after several years to hitchhike across the country as an itinerant musician. After settling in the Twin Cities area and becoming a fixture on the city's folk club circuit, he issued his 1969 debut LP, Twelve String Blues. 
Kottke's 1971 major-label debut on Capital, Mudlark, positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still, despite battles with label heads, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol, as records like 1972's Greenhouse and 1973's live My Feet Are Smiling and Ice Water found him branching out with guest musicians and unusual song covers drawing on folk, rock, jazz, and bluegrass, all the while honing his propulsive fingerpicking mastery.
With 1975's Chewing Pine, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 50 for the first time; he also gained an international cult following thanks to his performances at folk festivals the world over. Kottke's contract with Chrysalis ended, and he moved over to the independent Private Music label.
Kottke's powerful technique, combined with his prolific output and extensive touring schedule, resulted in a lingering pain in his hands that began to hamper his playing in the middle of the 1980s. Consequently, the beginning of his tenure on Private Music coincided with the beginnings of a shift in technique closer to classical guitar performance.
Simultaneously, Kottke cut back dramatically on his live schedule, settling comfortably into his role as a cult figure. 
Tickets: $25 adv/$30 door 
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 ROGER McGUINN 
Friday, April 3 -- 7:30 PM 

As the frontman of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. in the process. James Joseph McGuinn was born on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, where by his teenage years he was already something of a folk music prodigy. After touring with the Limelighters, in 1960 he signed on as an accompanist with the Chad Mitchell Trio, appearing on the LPs Mighty Day on Campus and At the Bitter End; frustrated with his limited role in the group, he soon joined Bobby Darin's group when the singer moved from pop to folk.
After appearing on sessions for Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, and Tom & Jerry (soon to be known as Simon & Garfunkel), McGuinn began playing solo dates around the Los Angeles area, where he soon formed the Jet Set with area musicians David Crosby and Gene Clark. After a failed single under the name the Beefeaters, the group recruited bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, changed their name to the Byrds, and set about crystallizing McGuinn's vision of merging the poetic folk music of Bob Dylan with the miraculous pop sounds heard via the British Invasion. McGuinn was the only member of the Byrds to play on their landmark debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man," but his jangly guitar work quickly became the very definition of the burgeoning folk-rock form; still, despite the Byrds' immediate success, both commercially and critically, the group was plagued by internal strife, and following the release of their 1968 country-rock breakthrough Sweetheart of
 the Rodeo, McGuinn was the only founding member still in the band.
Under the direction of McGuinn -- who had changed his first name to Roger after a flirtation with the Subud religion -- the Byrds soldiered on, delving further and further into country and roots music before finally dissolving in February 1973. That same year, McGuinn issued his self-titled solo debut, an ambitious, eclectic affair which explored not only folk and country but surf and even space rock. 1974's Peace on You and 1975's Roger McGuinn & His Band preceded a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, which helped revitalize his standing within the musical community. 1976's Cardiff Rose was regarded as his best solo effort to date, but the next year's Thunderbyrd, which featured a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl," failed to connect with audiences.
In late 1977, McGuinn reunited with Byrds mates Chris Hillman and Gene Clark; the resulting LP, 1979's McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, notched a Top 40 pop hit with the McGuinn-penned "Don't You Write Her Off." Midway through recording the follow-up, 1980's City, Clark departed, and the album was released under the name "Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman Featuring Gene Clark." Following another effort, 1981's McGuinn/Hillman, they went their separate ways. After undergoing another religious conversion, this time becoming a born-again Christian, McGuinn spent the remainder of the 1980s without a recording contract and performing solo dates.
The appearance of a faux Byrds led by Michael Clarke prompted McGuinn to reform the group with Hillman and David Crosby in 1989, resulting in a series of club performances, an appearance at a Roy Orbison tribute, and a handful of new recordings for inclusion on a box set retrospective. In 1991 -- the same year the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- McGuinn issued his first new solo recordings in over a decade, the all-star Back to Rio, which was met with great public and critical acclaim. Live From Mars, a retrospective of songs and stories, appeared in 1996
Tickets: $25adv/$30door 
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Brandi Carlile
April 6
Brandi Carlile grew up in Ravensdale, Wash., and made her live debut when she was just eight years old. As the story goes, her mother got her up on stage at "the Northwest's version of the Grand Ole Opry," where the young girl performed her version of Rosanne Cash's "Tennessee Flat-Top Box."
When she was still very young, Carlile taught herself to sing and play piano. She didn't teach herself to play guitar until she was 17.
Since then, she's never had a "real" job. She started out singing back-up vocals for an Elvis impersonator, and was playing gigs every chance she got. She eventually developed a back-up band with brothers Tim and Phil Hasenroth. Together, they began playing at local restaurants and bars, weddings, parties, and every other gig available. 
In 2004, Carlile finally signed a deal with Columbia Records, and continued recording throughout that year. The resulting album, Brandi Carlile was recorded partly in studios in Seattle, and partly in her home in Maple Valley, Wash.
Since then, Carlile's career has taken off at rocket speeds. She was named one of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2005, and was invited to sing backing vocals for the Indigo Girls on their album Despite Our Differences. She's toured persistantly throughout the US and around the world with artists like Sheryl Crow, Ray LaMontagne, Train, Maroon Five, and others-as well as selling out headlining dates around the world.
Tickets: $25adv/$30 door
 
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JOHN GORKA & SUSAN WERNER 
FridayApril 17th @ 8PM 
 
John Gorka received his first guitar as a Christmas gift, though Gorka alleges that his older brother stole it from him shortly thereafter. He eventually learned, instead, to play the banjo, and began performing in a folk music group at his church.
Gorka attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and joined the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band which would also include guitarist Richard Shindell. He later began performing solo at the Godfrey Daniels coffee house as the opening act for various musicians who toured there. These included Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy.
In 1984, Gorka took first place at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Since then he has toured with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Michael Manring, Christine Lavin, Dave Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt, David Massengill, Frank Christian and Lucy Kaplansky. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what's been dubbed the New Folk Movement."
In 2008 John Gorka decided to go to Europe. In October, he played four times in the Netherlands, he played live on VPRO radio and he did a session for the John Gorka video site.

Farm girl Susan Werner was raised in rural Iowa but began her professional music career in Philadelphia, after studying classical voice at Temple University. Inspired by a Nanci Griffith concert, Werner left behind her opera training and began performing as a singer-songwriter at coffeehouses throughout the northeast.
With 6 albums under her belt, an active touring career throughout the U.S. and a string of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The New Yorker, Susan Werner has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre. Her songs effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop, and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm.
Tickets $25 adv/$30 door

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Coming Soon




SEAN BENJAMIN; STORM & DRIVE;
SEE URCHIN;
THE GEORGE HARRISON FORD EXPLORERS 
Saturday, April 4 -- 8:00 PM 
$6 adv/$6 door: general admission

FRED WESLEY & THE JB's 
Tuesday, April 14-- 8:00 PM
$20 adv/$25 door: general admission

ONE UNDER 
Thursday, April 23 -- 8:00 PM
$8 adv/$10 door: general admission

CADILLAC SKY featuring David Mayfield 
Sunday, April 26 -- 8:00 PM
$15 adv/$17 door: general admission

MAIA SHARP 
Friday, May 1 -- 10:00 PM
$15 adv/$17 door: general admission 

RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT 
Saturday, May 2 -- 8:00 PM
$20 adv/$25 door: reserved seating

PETER and GORDON with special guest DENNY LAINE of Wings 
Friday, May 8 -- 8:00 PM
$30 adv/$35 door: reserved seating
 

THE JOHN COWAN BAND 
Saturday, May 9 -- 8:00 PM
$15 adv/$18 door: general admission



THE AVETT BROTHERS @ The Civic Theatre
Friday, June 19 -- 8:00 PM

$26.50 reserved
 
ROSANNE CASH
Saturday July 11th @ 8PM
$30 adv/$35 door: reserved seating

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Location & Ticket Info
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 24-hours a day at www.kentstage.org or call 1-800-595-4849.  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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