[NEohioPAL] AMOS LEE April 30 few Brandi Carlile tix remain

[The Kent Stage]

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Jack Bruce Update



As you know the Jack Bruce concert has been postponed.  We are working to reschedule asap.  As of Sunday April 5th, we do not have a soild date.  We will continue to update you and hope to have good news in the near future.  If you have any questions, please send us an email at wrfaa at yahoo.com 
  



 






 

JUST ANNOUNCED
AMOS LEE
April 30 @ 9:00 PM 
The Kent Stage and Jimson Productions are pleased to announce that Amos Lee will be performing on April 30th @ 9PM.  Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 6th at 11AM.  Tickets are $25.00.  
 Singer/songwriter Amos Lee draws inspiration from such soul and folk artists of the '70s as Bill Withers, John Prine, Neil Young, and James Taylor. The Philadelphia native first became serious about performing while attending the University of South Carolina during the mid-'90s. After graduating, the English major taught elementary school before deciding to pursue a music career full-time. A period of waiting tables and bartending followed as Lee honed his songwriting skills. Eventually, he landed some high-profile opening-slot gigs including an extended tour with pianist/vocalist Norah Jones. He released his eponymous debut album on Blue Note in 2005 and his sophomore effort, Supply and Demand, in 2006. Last Days at the Lodge followed in 2008. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide

Tickets are available on-line at www.kentstage.org, Spin-More Records or Woodsy's Music in Kent 
 For additional information, please contact The Kent Stage @ 330-677-5005 or information at kentstage.org.
 

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A handful of ticket still available  
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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FRED WESLEY and the New JB's 
Tuesday, April 14 -- 8:00 PM 
One of the music world's most-sampled artists thanks to his work with the Godfather of Soul James Brown, Fred Wesley is one of the key architects of funk music. Born in Mobile, Ala., he began his professional career as a teenage trombonist with Ike and Tina Turner. He was music director, arranger, trombonist and a primary composer for James Brown from 1968-1975, then arranged and played for Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band. He has played with and arranged for a wide variety of other artists including Ray Charles, Pancho Sanchez, New York Voices, Slide Hampton, Van Morrison, the SOS Band and Cameo, to name a few. Scores of other artists including Janet Jackson ("That's the Way Love Goes") and Nas ("Nastradamus") have sampled his work. After a stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, he's nurtured a devotion to jazz - playing, recording, writing and promoting it. His solo jazz recordings include "To Someone," "Amalgamation," "Comme Ci Comme Ca,"
 "Full Circle" and "Wuda Cuda Shuda." In Japan, FUJIPACIFICMUSIC and Columbia Music entertainment just released his latest excursion back into the funk, "Funk For Your Ass," and the remix album "The Godfather of Soul Train."

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



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



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

WHO'S YOUR MOMA?
Kent's Earth Day Celebration
Apr 24 Environmental Film Festival
Apr 25 Street Fair & concert with John Sinclair, The Kidney Brothers & Mitch Reed.  More info: www.whosyourmama.org
 
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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