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Shelby Lynne has recorded 15 albums, founded her own record label, and acted in both TV and in movies.

After high school, Lynne left Alabama for Nashville. There she found her first record deal and released three albums. In 1991, she won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist award. After two more albums, Lynne released I Am Shelby Lynne, which she recorded on the Northern California coast. This earned her the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2000, an especially deserved accomplishment as she had been in the music business for nearly 13 years. Lynne will perform at Strings in a duo with guitarist and producer Ben Peeler, formerly of The Mavericks.

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Led by dynamic vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski, and drawing on diverse musical influences from Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, and New Orleans second-line, the California Honeydrops bring vibrant energy and infectious dance-party vibes to their shows. They’ve toured with heavy-hitters such as Bonnie Raitt,  B.B. King, Allen Toussaint, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John. Whether in those high-profile performances or in more intimate venues where the band can leave the stage and get down on the dance floor, the California Honeydrops’ vision and purpose remain: to make the audience dance and sing.

The band has come a long way since guitarist and trumpeter Lech Wierzynkski and drummer Ben Malament started busking in an Oakland subway station but the band has stayed true to that organic, street-level feel. Lech’s vocal stylings are influenced by recordings of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong, as well as Oberlin College education and lessons from the club circuit in Oakland, California. With the additions of Johnny Bones on tenor sax and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards, and Beau Bradbury on bass, they’ve built a powerful full-band sound and contagious energy.

More like parties than traditional concerts, their shows feature extensive off-stage jamming and crowd interaction. “The whole point is to erase the boundaries between the crowd and us,” Wierzynski says. “We don’t make setlists. We want requests. We want crowd involvement, to make people become a part of the whole thing by dancing along, singing, picking the songs and generally coming out of their shells.”

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It’s appropriate that Boz Scaggs‘ new album is Out of the Blues since the blues are what first sparked his five-decade musical career.

Born William Royce Scaggs in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, where he spent his teenage years immersed in the blues, R, B and early rock ‘n’ roll. While attending school in Dallas, he played in local combos. After several years as a journeyman musician around Madison, WI and Austin, TX, Scaggs spent time traveling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, eventually settling in Stockholm where he recorded the album Boz.

Returning to the U.S. in 1967, Scaggs joined the Steve Miller Band in San Francisco, performing on that group’s albums Children of the Future and Sailor, before launching his solo career with 1968’s seminal Boz Scaggs LP, recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL for Atlantic Records. Scaggs continued to mine a personalized mix of rock, blues and R&B influences, along with a signature style of ballads on such influential ’70s albums as Moments, Boz Scaggs & Band, My Time, Slow Dancer and 1976’s Silk Degrees. The latter release became a massive commercial breakthrough, reaching Number Two and remaining on the album charts for 115 weeks. It spawned three Top 40 hit singles: “It’s Over,” “Lido Shuffle” and the Grammy-winning “Lowdown.” Subsequently, “We’re All Alone” from that same album, would become a #1 single for Rita Coolidge. Silk Degrees was followed by the albums Down Two Then Left and Middle Man, and such hit singles as “Breakdown Dead Ahead,” “Jo Jo” and “Look What You’ve Done to Me.”

Despite his ’70s successes, Scaggs spent much of the 1980s out of the music-biz spotlight, traveling, opening a family business, fathering young children and founding the San Francisco nightclub, Slim’s, He returned to the studio after an 8-year hiatus and released, Other Roads, Some Change, Dig, the Grammy-nominated Come on Home, the unplugged Fade Into Light, the in-concert retrospective Greatest Hits Live as well as a stint touring with Donald Fagen’s New York Rock & Soul Review; all while continuing to maintain a loyal audience in the U.S. and overseas, particularly in Japan. A pair of albums of jazz standards, But Beautiful and Speak Low, the latter topping the Billboard Jazz chart, demonstrated Scaggs’ stylistic mastery, as did the Southern-flavored Memphis and the rhythm & bluesy A Fool to Care.

As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia has merged global music influences with their own southern roots. Founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, the band’s latest album Leylines, conveys a sense of unity and immediacy. Special guests on Leylines include folk hero Ani DiFranco, soulful songwriter Trevor Hall, and jazz trumpeter Maurice Turner. The album title alludes to the concept of invisible lines believed to stretch around the world between sacred spaces, bonded by a spiritual and magnetic presence. That deep sense of connection is key to understanding Rising Appalachia as a whole.

“Rising Appalachia has come out of this idea that we can take these traditions of southern music – that we’ve been born and raised with – and we can rise out of them, creating all these different bridges between cultures and stories to make them feel alive,” Leah says. “Our music has its foundation in heritage and tradition, but we’re creating music that also feels reflective of the times right now. That’s always been our work.”

Although Leah and Chloe Smith consider their voices as their primary instrument, Leah also plays banjo and bodhran on the album, while Chloe plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo. They are joined by longtime members David Brown (stand-up bass, baritone guitar) and Biko Casini (world percussion, n’goni), as well as two new members: West African musician Arouna Diarra (n’goni, talking drum) and Irish musician Duncan Wickel (fiddle, cello). The sonic textures of these two cultures are woven into Leylines, enhancing the stunning blend of folk, world, and urban music that has become Rising Appalachia’s calling card.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason has been performing live shows for over 50 years. What keeps audiences coming back year after year is his authentic approach to performing and the loyal presentation of his music. Mason often says, “There are no old songs, only good songs.” His love for the songs he works into his set list is evident and his enthusiasm for music is contagious. Audiences always leave his shows upbeat, happy and inspired.  

Mason’s Feelin’ Alright Tour will feature all the classic songs fans love such as Only You Know And I Know, We Just Disagree, Every Woman, All Along The Watchtower, Rock N Roll Stew, and, of course, Feelin’ Alright. In addition, you will hear songs that have inspired him as well as personal stories about rock music that only can be told by a man who has walked that historical path. Mason is a legendary living classic rock artist and will be joined by his band: Johnne Sambataro on guitar & vocals, Alvino Bennett on drums, Anthony Patler on bass, keyboards & vocals and Gretchen Rhodes on vocals. 

Best known for his soulful voice and unsurpassed guitar playing, Dave Mason was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a founding member of the group Traffic and continues performing as a solo artist with sold-out shows. His career spans several important rock eras and encompasses his work as a producer, performer, songwriter, and consummate guitarist. A quintessential ‘artiste’, Mason has collaborated with numerous members of the music elite including Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, among many others. 

More at www.davemasonmusic.com.

PHOTO CREDIT: Rebecca Caridad

Donors of $500 or more to the 2020 Annual Fund get pre-sale access starting on September 10, 10 a.m. MDT.

Donors of $500 or more to the 2020 Annual Fund get pre-sale access starting on September 10, 10 a.m. MDT.

Family Concert, All Ages.

Since bursting to national acclaim after appearing as semi-finalists on America’s Got Talent and winning the top honors on TRU TV’s Fake Off, Lightwire Theater has gone on to enthrall audiences worldwide. Actors combine skill and grace with technological innovations to create moving light characters. People of all ages will be captivated by the dazzling visuals and unique menagerie of characters that magically appear out of the darkness.

For A Very Electric Holiday, Lightwire Theater combines the arts of puppetry, theater, and dance with the music of timeless holiday hits to tell a magical tale of friendship and hope. This show is absolutely one-of-a-kind and is destined to create an inspired and exhilarating holiday experience that will be a treasured memory for years to come.