notloB is Coming out of Hibernation, presenting Rushad Eggleston December 5 & 15

notloB Parlour Concerts has been in a long hibernation (its last concert, entitled "Celebrate Midsummer Eve with Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert" was June, 20, 2018), waiting for a "special" artist to present for its 200th. That "special" artist has turned out to be the one and only Rushad Eggleston, founding member of Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, Crooked Still, and Tornado Rider, and six-time notloBBer.

Concert #200 will be Thursday, December 5, appropriately at Outpost 186 in Inman Square, Cambridge, a familiar notloB haunt, which was the home to 29 presentations between February, 2013 and July 2015; coincidentally, the first there was #100, headlined by Eggleston.  #201 and 202 will be Sunday, December 15 at a new venue in Harvard, MA, its 19th century library re-purposed as a gallery/performing arts center, "Fivesparks." 

Jeff Boudreau, notloB’s chief cook and bottle washer, has had his eye on Fivesparks for some time and actually had two concerts planned but first a construction delay then a completion delay nixed both. "The first cancellation was particularly hard to take", opines Boudreau, as it would have been a fabulous birthday present. Fivesparks construction did not began until two months after the planned date. The second had been planned for March, 2019.

"But now we're back with a trifecta", explains Boudreau. Rushad called just a couple weeks ago, not knowing I had moved to Harvard in 2017, asking for a "Boston gig". After establishing I was now 35 miles west of Inman Square, he asked if we could do two gigs, one each in Cambridge and Harvard. Having seen Rushad perform numerous times for children at the Rhythm and Roots (Rhode Island) and Grey Fox Bluegrass (New York) festivals I came up with the idea of two Harvard concerts, an afternoon children's and evening adult. That is how things evolve when working with Rushad." Boudreau is hopeful the Eggleston concert will be the first of a new curated acoustic music series with old notloB friends, who include notable fiddlers Darol Anger, Brittany Haas, Natalie Haas, Hanneke Cassel. See the complete artist list at https://www.facebook.com/pg/notloBParlourConcerts/about/

About the artist:
“Eggleston is an eclectic, whimsical, inventive performer and personality…a cello player with a difference. Calling himself the Ambassador of Sneth and Wild Cello Goblin, Eggleston improvises in fiddle styles on the cello. Now touring the world—from Italy to Belgium and beyond—as a solo performer on cello, vocals, and kazoo, he wears a jester costume and sings in his own imaginary language.”

Gigs:

Thursday, December 5, 8pm at Outpost 186, 186 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA

notloB's 200th concert!
Suggested donation $15-20.
https://www.facebook.com/events/450608318973615/

Sunday, December 15, 5pm (kids) & 7pm (adults) at Fivesparks, 7 Fairbank Street, Harvard, MA.
Suggested donation $10 kids, $15-20 adults, $10 seniors.

https://www.facebook.com/events/745304965989059/

Etc.
Reservations for all: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-parlour-concerts-6730833315
Doors open 15 minutes prior to performance time.

Artist biographies:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushad_Eggleston
 https://www.berklee.edu/people/rushad-eggleston

Questions/more information:
email - notlobreservations@gmail.com

Phone – 978-226-8862

 Jeff Boudreau and Rushad Eggleston
Outpost 186
February 12, 2013
Photo credit Jon Strimish

About notloB Parlour Concerts:

Since 2007, notloB Parlour Concerts has presented 200 folk, Old-Time, Blue Grass, Progressive String, Celtic, and World concerts in unique venues throughout the greater Boston area.Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts/

notlob Music presents Rushad Eggeston

notloB Music presents Rushad Eggeston

Tickets on sale September 24.

Thursday, October 9, 8pm

Davis Square Theater

255 Elm Street, Somerville

Legend, clown, goblin, cello-shredder, acrobat. Wild "jazz" vocalist, bundle of laughs, writer of hit songs in other galaxies, Ambassador of Sneth. Inventor of bluegrass cello, time traveler, creator of worlds. Pentecostal dancer, proprietor of igwarfnees, president of Norwegian Ostrich Society, winner of some contest in 1725.

There's more to a Rushad Eggleston show than fantasy, though. His show is a performance, complete with flashy gallivanting, intricate playing, wild storytelling and some of the most unique sounds ever produced on a cello. It isn't chamber music, but it isn't bluegrass, rock or folk music, either. Much like Sneth, it's whatever Eggleston wants it to be... Eggleston isn't just weird for the sake of being weird. [His] playing is dynamic and complex. His right hand bounces from bow to plucking with indefatigable precision and the fingers on his left hand scuttle across his cello's neck like a tarantula jigging it up. The music is upbeat, playful, well-composed and as diverse as Sneth is ever-evolving. Eggleston is constantly developing new cello methods and writing new material... "It's every musician's duty to fill the world music that they wish was in the world," Eggleston said. "It's your job to put that music out there. I'm really just representing a lot of sounds that I like."

Shaun Kittle ~ The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Rushad Eggleston presents himself as an ambassador from another world, and it can be easy to believe him. Onstage, the cellist and fountain of off-kilter creativity looks like an overgrown elf in his pointed cap and brightly colored stretch-pants. His songs are populated by strange characters and littered with inscrutable neologisms, with story lines sometimes taking place in an imaginary world he playfully calls the Land of Sneth... But behind the boisterous showmanship and dogged weirdness is a natural talent who netted a Grammy nomination while still an undergrad at Berklee College of Music. “It's been rare to find players who can really move around on the cello with a lot of facility in an improvisational way,” says cellist Eugene Friesen, who’s won three Grammy Awards himself ...and taught Eggleston as a faculty member at Berklee. “...It’s thanks to a handful of pioneers who have really been out there trying to push the envelope. And Rushad is one of them."

Jeremy D. Goodwin ~ The Boston Globe

Imagine a listening room environment...

"Since June 2, 2007, notloB has presented close to 100 folk*, old-time, bluegrass / newgrass, string band. Celtic and acoustic blues concerts to audiences throughout the greater Boston area. Our primaru home is the historic Loring-Greenough House (built in 1760, 40 intimate seats, unplugged) in Jamaica Plain. The concerts are volunteer-run and not for profit. 100% of the patron donations go to the artists and production expenses."

Imagine a listening room environment, either in a private residence or the historic Loring-Greenough House (see below) or a tiny gallery space where the world-class ARTISTS, not the some corporation takes the proceeds. Now you get an idea of what a notloB concert is all about.

As tonight's Rushad Eggleston concert at Outpost 186 sold out in less than 72 hours and the upcoming Brittany Haas (Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, Crooked Still), Natalie Haas (Alasdair Fraser), Lily Henley and Kellen Zakula with Rene Del Fierro concert is about to, patrons are beginning to catch on that getting onto the mailing list in order to make reservations when concerts and workshops are announced is a sound policy.

So, what's on the horizon?

notloBMusic / notloB Parlour Concerts presents...

Brittany Haas, Natalie Haas, Lily Henley and Kellen Zakula w/ Rene del Fiero

Monday February 18, 2013

Venue is a private residence in Watertown
Reservations and advance donation are required

Suggested donation $20-25* 

NATALIE HAAS

Natalie is one of the most sought after cellists playing traditional music today. She and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser have toured as a duo for over 12 years, wowing audiences at festivals and concerts worldwide with their unique sound. Their first album together, Fire & Grace, was awarded Best Album of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards 2004. Natalie has also toured with Mark O'Connor as a member of his Appalachia Waltz Trio. She and O'Connor premiered his double concerto for violin and cello, ¨For The Heroes¨, with the Grand Rapids, East Texas, and San Diego Symphonies. As a studio musician, Natalie has been a guest artist on over 50 albums, including those of Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster and Irish super-group Solas. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with cellist Fred Sherry, Natalie discovered the cello at age nine. In addition to having extensive classical music training, she is accomplished in a broad array of fiddle genres. Her music journey found purpose when she fell in love with Celtic music at the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School at age 11. Inspired and encouraged by director Fraser, she began to investigate the cello's potential for rhythmic accompaniment to fiddle tunes, and to this day, the two continue to resurrect and reinvent the cello's historic role in Scottish music. Natalie's skills as an educator make her one of the most in demand teachers at fiddle camps across the globe. She also teaches privately and in a workshop setting, and has held an associate professorship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Natalie now makes her home in Montreal, where she is an active member of the traditional music scene.

BRITTANY HAAS is a 5-string fiddle player from the Bay Area, currently residing in Nashville. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide and came to her unique sound through the old-time fiddling of Bruce Molsky and the innovative styling of Darol Anger. A prodigious youth, she began touring with Darol's Republic of Strings at the age of 14. She simultaneously studied baboons in the evolutionary biology department of Princeton University and joined seminal chamber-grass band Crooked Still. She has toured with them since, and also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (her cellist sister), Abigail Washburn and the Waybacks, She played fiddle on Steve Martin's Grammy Award winning CD, "The row" and performed in his band on Letterman and SNL. She released her debut self-titled solo album at 17, produced by Darol Anger and featuring Bruce Molsky, Mike Marshall, Alison Brown and others. 

LILY HENLEY is a singer, songwriter and fiddler who is gaining recognition as one of the most unique and passionate voices on the acoustic music scene. Born in Boston and raised accross more than 20 locations, Lily brings a diversity of experience and depth to her music; synthesizing her many influences to breathe life into a style all her own. 

KELLEN ZAKULA - An accomplished old-time fiddle player, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Kellen artfully blends together traditional Appalachian music with the burgeoning contemporary songwriting and folk music scenes of the northeast, and is regularly accompanied by world class musicians, including fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Bridget Kearney, and mandolin virtuoso Jake Joliff.

RENE DEL FIERO - Guitarist/producer Rene del Fierro was born and raised in California's Bay Area. His mother Betsy (a music teacher specializing in orff schulwerk) and father George provided heavy exposure to a wide range of music from the time he was born. For his eleventh birthday he received his first guitar and soon after discovered the Blues, which ignited a deeper passion for music and became the foundation of his playing . In his early teens, Rene began playing in local bars and clubs, usually with musicians three or four times his age, as he was more interested in the music of their generation. Rene attended high school at SOTA, an arts school in San Francisco before moving to Boston where he attended Berklee College of Music. Here he discovered a passion for music production, majoring in Music Synthesis. Rene began playing professionally around 18. Since then he has performed and/or toured with Santana, Lauryn Hill, Wycleff Jean, and Berrington Levy to name a few. Rene currently resides in Brooklyn where he does freelance production and guitar work.

* RESERVATIONS AND PRE=PAYMENT ARE REQUIRED. When payment has been received you will be given the address. email notlobreservations@gmail.com for instructions.

Fellswater 

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Fellswater is a four piece Celtic ensemble that plays a wide range of music from Traditional to modern compositions, and draws from the heritage of all the Celtic nations, especially Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Canada. Our instrumentation changes depending on the musical selection and includes whistle, flute, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki,violin, smallpipes and border pipes.

Betsy Ketudat, Fiddle

Jim MacConduibh, Guitar/Bouzouki

Sarah MacConduibh, Flute/Whistle

Matthew Phelps, Smallpipes

Fellswater's website: http://fellswater.com/

Suggested donation $10-20 sliding scale + less 20% JPTC member discount + $1 preservation fee

20% discount for Loring-Greenough museum members. 

Reservations suggested and strongly recommended, email notlobreservations at gmail dot com

Coffee from JP Licks

Pastries from Fiores Bakery

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Catherine Bowness 

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00

Preceded by separate admission workshops*

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is an award-winning fiddler from Charlottesville, Virginia. She began fiddling at the age of three and has studied with many wonderful musicians on the folk music scene including Beth Telford, Jerry Holland, Cleek Schrey, Matt Glaser, John McGann and Darol Anger. Bronwyn is a fluent player of Irish, Cape Breton, Scottish and American traditional music. She has performed throughout the U.S, Ireland and France and has traveled to Ireland extensively to study with local traditional musicians. She has been featured on Irish RTE One television and the Irish Comhaltas Live Programme. At the age of sixteen she was awarded a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she is currently in her final year.

Bronwyn has won numerous fiddle contests in Irish and Scottish fiddle styles. In 2006 at the age of fourteen, Bronwyn placed third in the Open Division of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship. She holds the 2007 Virginia State Fiddle Champion title and has also won at the 2008 and 2009 Mid-West Fleadh Cheoil fiddle competition. 
Bronwyn performs frequently at Berklee and around the Boston area. She performed with Mark O'Connor at the Berklee Performance Center in 2009 and was featured in the Fall 2010 String Showcase held at the Berklee Performance Center. She is part of the group Atlantic Seaways, which is a collaboration of young traditional American and Scottish musicians from Berklee, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance in Glasgow and Strathclyde University in Glasgow. In 2011 they performed in Lorient, France at the Inter-Celtic Festival. In March 2012 she went on tour in France with the international Irish music and dance show Celtic Dances, run by music directors Liz Knowles and Kieran O'Hare. In addition to being a highly accomplished performer, Bronwyn is also a skilled group and private teacher. She taught at the 2010 Kanack School Fiddle Camp and currently teaches privately in Boston.

Catherine Bowness
In her hometown, Koitiata, New Zealand, Catherine (BB) began her musical studies with banjo tutor, Mark Warren. A few years later she received the Frank Winter memorial award at the Auckland Folk Festival to travel to the USA and study with world renowned banjo players Tony Trischka, Alan Munde and Bill Evans. She won the Uncle Dave Macon banjo competition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at just 15 years old and came runner up in the Rockygrass bluegrass banjo contest in Colorado. In 2007, she was invited to join Colorado bluegrass band, Long Road Home, for their tour of summer festivals in the USA. BB has performed throughout New Zealand and Australia with the bluegrass band, Twisted Oak, in a banjo duet with tenor banjoist, Alex Borwick and most recently with Cy Winstanley and Vanessa McGowan in their country/bluegrass trio, ‘Sandpaper Tango’. In 2010, she recorded her debut album, Village Green, which features original compositions and collaborations with some of the best acoustic musicians from all around NZ. BB travelled on a Massey University scholarship in 2011 to study at the Miles Davis program in Jazz studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This year, BB has completed her BMus in Jazz performance at the NZ school of music, being the first person to be accepted on the banjo. 

*WORKSHOPS
Prior to the concert, from 6:45 to 7:45pm (you can arrive at 6:30) 

Bronwyn will teach an Irish fiddle workshop.
Catherine will teach a bluegrass banjo workshop.
For both, class size is minimum of 4 and a maximum of 20.
Each workshop will be in a closed, private room.
$10/person, payable directly to Bronwyn and Catherine.
Reservation required, email notlobreservations@gmail.com

CONCERT

Suggested donation $10 plus $1 preservation fee. 20% discount for Loring-Greenough museum members. 
Reservations are strongly recommended for the concert, email notlobreservations at gmail dot com

Doors 7:30pm.

When making your reservation, specify if it is for the workshop, the concert, or both, and the number in your party.

Coffee from JP Licks

Pastries from Fiores Bakery

Check back for April and May concert news.

The historic Loring-Greenough House, notloB's home in Jamaica Plain

notloB's home, the historic Loring-Greenough House

12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

The history of the Loring-Greenough House begins in 1760 when Joshua Loring, a commodore in the English Colonial naval forces constructed the large four-square frame residence in the historic center of Jamaica Plain.  An outstanding example of Georgian Colonial architecture, the House was the hub of a large and actively developed farm that was Loring’s chief interest following his retirement from military service.  His life as a distinguished member of the Colonial gentry came to an abrupt end with the bitter factionalism of the incipient Revolution.  He fled the House in August 1774, for the greater security of Boston. He and his family permanently left Boston for England, in 1776...

continued at http://loring-greenough.org/about-2/history/

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Loring-Greenough House is the last surviving 18th century residence in Sumner Hill, a historic section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston. It is located at 12 South Street on Monument Square at the edge of Sumner Hill.

This mid-Georgian mansion was built as a country residence and farmstead in 1760 for wealthy British naval officer Commodore Joshua Loring on the original site of John Polley's estate established in the 1650s. Originally, the Loring-Greenough house was situated on a 60-acre (240,000 m²) estate. Loring, a Loyalist prior to the American Revolution, abandoned the house in 1774, just prior to the conflict, and he fled from Boston in 1776. The house was confiscated by colonial forces and in 1776 served as a headquarters for General Nathaniel Greene and, soon after, a hospital for Continental Army soldiers following the Battle of Bunker Hill.

In 1780, the house was sold to Isaac Sears, the rebel leader from New York, and was then purchased in 1784 by Ann Doane, a rich widow, who soon after married David Stoddard Greenough. Their descendants lived here for five generations until 1924. At that time the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club (until 1993 a ladies'-only club and today a community group) purchased the house, along with almost two acres of landscaped grounds, to convert it into a museum and save it from development.

The Loring-Greenough House is a very well-preserved structure of almost 4,500 square feet, on property that includes sweeping lawns, historic flower beds, handsome trees, and the two-and-one-half-story house itself. The property is fenced and gated with wrought-iron restricting access except for times when the building is open to the public. The Tuesday Club has been careful to preserve the house and grounds over many decades. The most recent restoration occurred with a $350,000 grant and included painting and other repairs.

The Loring-Greenough property is now a historic house museum still owned and operated by the Tuesday Club, which offers tours and other events throughout the year. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Massachusetts Landmark and a Boston Landmark.

notloB Folk Concerts are dedicated to the memory of Jack Hardy (d. March 11, 2011), who, with David Massengill and Peggy Seeger, graced our stage November 1, 2008, and John McGann (d. April 6, 2012), who performed with Flynn Cohen, Matt Heaton, and Danny Noveck  on November 20, 2012. 

Rest in peace, Jack and John!

*  Traditional arts are those art forms that are learned as part of the cultural life of a group of people whose members share a common ethnic heritage, language, religion, occupation, or culturally united geographic region. Folk and traditional arts are shaped by the aesthetics and values of a shared culture and are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community through observation, conversation and practice. 

Source: The National Endowment for the Arts

notloB takes this very seriously, it is a pop-free zone!

Falcon lands in Cambridge (Rushad Eggleston solo acoustic cello)

notloBMusic / notloB Parlour Concerts presents

Rushad Eggleston

solo acoustic cello

Rushad Eggleston, Berklee grad, member of Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, founding member Crooked Still, and currently fronting Tornado Rider, will be breezing through Cambridge on the heels of winter storm NEMO and performing a solo, acoustic concert in a very tiny venue.

Rushad is a mystical cello wizard from the coastal forests of california who is chipping away at his dream of littering the earth with melody, and calling itself rushadicus.

www.rushadicus.com info 

www.rushad.bandcamp.com music

OUTPOST 186, 186 1/2 hampshire st. (inman square), cambridge ma 02139

map

Tuesday 2/12

doors 7:30
concert 8:00pm 

Suggested donation $10-15 sliding scale

Facebook event 

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED! notlobreservations at gmail dot com

More info  

Rushad in a car commercial? 

Rushad Eggleston...in a car commercial???!!!

notloB Folk Concerts artist emeritus and Berklee graduate Rushad Eggleston co-features with Tina Guo

...in the yet-to-be released "2014 Mazda6 - Global Reveal" commercial, covering the Kinks "All Day and All of the Night"

 (note 3/1/14, the original video has been taken down, this is a replacement from Youtube)
See photo outtakes here. 
The Kinks' original:

Rushad's band, Tornado Rider, was a huge hit at the recent Grey Fox Bluegrass (Oak Hill, NY) and Rhythm and Roots (Charlestown, RI) Festivals. Rushad also performed at Grey Fox with notloB alum and Berklee professor Darol Anger and Bruce Molsky (coming to notloB in late Winter) at Grey Fox as the "Old-Tyme Kozmik Trio." 

Tornado Rider - Rushad Eggleston crowd surfs and plays cello with his teeth - Rhythm & Roots 2012
Fred Robbins

Tornado Rider - "Bob Jumped Over the Fence" - Backstage Cam - Rhythm & Roots 2012
Fred Robbins

Old-Tyme Kosmik Trio - "Cotton Eyed Joe" - Grey Fox 2012
Fred Robbins

Tornado Rider

"In this era of pop-driven acoustic music, notloB is keeping the folk tradition alive." ~ Jack Hardy

notloB Folk Concerts

  

presents.....

Tornado Rider

Saturday, May 7

Unity Somerville, 6 William Street 

(corner College Ave. 3 blocks north of Davis Square) 

Somerville

doors 7:30, concert 8:00

Rushad Eggleston - Cello, Vox

Graham Terry - Bass, Vox

Scott Manke - Drums, Vox

Wild Western Neolithic Cello Banditry meets Thunder-Twinged Yodeling Elf Rock of the 4th Dimension!!!

Tornado Rider is a one-of-a-kind mystical experience driven by the mammoth power of an electric cello. They sing powerful anthems about falcons, whirlwinds, and pretty girls, which will haunt your brain for weeks. Their delivery of this groundbreaking new style of music is filled with so much energy, it forces you to do a lightning dance! They are fronted by the most animated and original cellist known to man, who yells triumphant melodies as he leaps around the stage dazzling the crowd with his virtuosity. If you ever have the chance to witness Tornado Rider’s magically costumed theatrical parade of showmanship, musicality, athleticism, and humor, you will be transported to another dimension, and you WILL be entertained!!!

This will be the THIRD time notloB has presented Tornado Rider.

Doors 7:30
Concert 8:00

Suggested donation $12 at the door; $10 if reservation is made at least 24 hours in advance* and to Unity members; $5 student (with ID) rush (limit 50) and under 18.

*reservations to notlobreservations at gmail dot com

Tornado Rider- https://www.facebook.com/tornadorider

Event - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119880428090686

A Crooked Double - Tashina Clairridge & Jefferson Hamer // Tornado Rider

notloB Parlour Concerts and notloB Folk Concerts leads you down the crooked road this coming Friday and Saturday.  Who will show up is anyone's guess.

Tashina Clarridge & Jefferson Hamer - presented by notloB Folk Concerts

At the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain

Friday, September 17

Doors 7:30

Concert 8:00

Tashina Clairridge

"Tashina is taking her music very seriously to the point where she will make a lasting impact on the people she touches with her talent in the future. She is in music for the right reasons and we as listeners will benefit from it". -Mark O'Connor

Tashina Clarridge has played Fiddle for 22 years - since the age of two. She has performed throughout the western United States, taught hundreds of lessons and works...hops, and won countless awards.

Raised in the mountains of northern California, Tashina studied with Megan Lynch and Rob Diggins. Her musical horizons were greatly expanded by frequent visits to Nashville for Mark O'Connor's fiddle camp where she studied with many fiddle heroes such as Darol Anger, Natalie MacMaster, Buddy Spicher, Matt Glaser, and Mark O'Connor. She is the current Grand National Fiddle Champion, a 6-time Grand National finalist, 6-time California State fiddle champion, and 2-time Western Open Grand Champion. Though her contest history clearly distinguishes her as a sparkling clean, studied player in the genre of Texas-style fiddling, it is her enthusiasm for many diverse styles of music that brings such a high level of creativity to her playing.

Tashina has performed at Carnegie Hall as part of Grammy winning bassist Edgar Meyer's young artists concert, and will be touring with Mark O'Connor this fall. She travels and performs throughout the western United States with her brother Tristan, the Bill Evans String Summit, and the contemporary bluegrass outfit, Due West. Together Tashina and Tristan have taught many lessons and workshops and have instructed at Mark O'Connor's Strings Conference for the past 5 years.

Jefferson Hamer

“…sounds like a forgotten Gram Parsons release suddenly discovered….”
-Marquee Music Magazine

Jefferson Hamer started performing on music-club stages around Boulder, Colorado in the late 90′s, where he was immersed in the thriving bluegrass and jamband scene. He toured constantly on the national circuit, first with his original acoustic trio Single Malt Band, and later in the electric country-rock outfit Great American Taxi. After a decade spent living and working in the West, he moved to New York, seeking a broader audience for his original songs. As a newcomer to the big city, he found his way to the traditional Irish and Appalachian Old-Time sessions of lower Manhattan, where his ear, voice, and acoustic guitar playing earned him a seat alongside the fiddles, banjos, and pints of stout. His musicality reflects this breadth of influences, and his own songs echo the distilled melodies and lyricism of British, Irish, and American traditional music. In addition to his own full-band and solo shows, which are often flogged to life by unaccompanied electric guitar, he plays and sings with a decorated roster of performing artists including Anais Mitchell, Kristin Andreassen, Tao Seeger, Tashina Clarridge, and Laura Cortese. His 2004 release “Left Wing Sweetheart” earned a 4-star review from Marquee Music Magazine, who wrote it “sounds like a forgotten Gram Parsons release suddenly discovered.”

The artists' websites:
http://www.clarridgefiddlers.com/
http://www.jeffersonhamer.com/

Suggested donation $12- at the door; $10 if reservation is made at least 24 hours in advance and Tuesday Club members. Addition of a $1/person “preservation fee” that goes to the LG House.

The Jamaica Plain series is in addition to larger concerts presented at the Unity Church of God in Davis Square, Somerville.

Additional information about this and other notloB concerts can be found at the http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/ and/or by joining the mail list at http://groups.google.com/group/notlobmusic or by sending an email to notlobreservations@gmail.com

Reservations recommended – notlobreservations (at) gmail (dot) com

See other notloB Parlour Concerts at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136759883033069

then.....

TORNADO RIDER - presented by notloB Folk Concerts

at the Unity Church of God, 6 William Street (Davis Square), Somerville

Saturday, September 18

Doors 7:30

Concert 8:00

A tornado will be descending upon Davis Square on Saturday, September 18, will you be there to ride it?

http://www.tornadoriderband.com/
http://www.facebook.com/tornadorider
Tornado Rider is a magic band of otherworldly sneth-glee. Hardly a band, actually, more like an explosive imaginary experience above the clouds which you flew to on a mystical melody-carpet. Made up of equal parts raging pack of hyenas, effortlessly gliding haw...k, buffalo stampede, and over-excited puppy, Tornado Rider is an unforgettable experience that will dramatically increase your quotient of joy. Add to that the fact that all this colorful electric dynamite power comes from just 3 people playing cello bass drums and singing, and you have the makings of a champion. 3 champion sneth-animals rolled into one: a singular burrito of victory named Tornado Rider.

Featuring Rushad Eggleston, cellist/creator, who graduated from Berklee on full ride in 2003, and traveled the world with Darol Anger and Crooked Still. Tornado Rider is the ultimate expression of Rushad's rambunctiously melodic power-potential.

Witness Tornado Rider’s magically costumed theatrical parade of showmanship, musicality, athleticism, and humor, you will be transported to another dimension, and you WILL be entertained!!!

Rushad Eggleston - Cello, Vox
Graham Terry - Bass, Vox
Scott Manke - Drums, Vox

notloB website
http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/

notloB Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/notloB-Folk-Concerts/118395891509908

Public info / reservations
notlobreservations@gmail.com

SUGGESTED DONATION: $12 at the door; $10 if reservation is made at least 24 hours in advance and to UCG members. 50 seats will be set aside for student rush @ $5.
notloB website
http://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/

Note: Due to the Loring-Greenough House's 250th anniversary, the parking lot will be closed to all except handicap parking.  There is a large public lot behind Blanchard's, just down Centre Street.

notloB Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/notloB-Folk-Concerts/118395891509908

Public info / reservations
notlobreservations@gmail.com

Other upcoming concerts

Friday, September 24	UCG	Ben Powell Band
Wednesday, October 27	LGH	David Rovics
Saturday, November 6	LGH	tba
Saturday, December 4	LGH	Julie Metcalf and Mariel Vandersteel

LGH = Loring-Greenough House
UCG = Unity Church of God

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