Kate Campbell Plays Durham Feb. 12

04Feb10

Dear Kate Campbell Fans,

Kate Campbell, one of the teachers at the Swannanoa Gathering this past summer, will be in concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 12th at St. Philip’s Parish Hall at 404 E. Main in Downtown Durham. Tickets: $15 Advance ($20 Day of Show) $8 Under 12 (Childcare Available). This is A Strings Attached Production. You can get more information at the Website: www.stphilipsdurham.org or by calling the Box Office at 919-682-5708.

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Pinecone show and winter weather

30Jan10

Pinecone is having their anniversary celebration this weekend and you know the winter weather is going to have an impact.  The latest word from Pinecone is that the show is still a go:

We know that many of you are wondering about this weekend’s Festival as the weather reports continue. As of now, we are on schedule to proceed as planned.

Many of the artists are already here, and the rest are on their way. We know many of you have had this date on your calendar for months, and that you have been anticipating it as eagerly as we have. If anything changes, we will post updates on PineCone’s website.

Pinecone put together a great two day show, but the weather has made travel a safety issue.

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Mayer Praises Buddy Guy

26Jan10

Writing for the Guardian in London, guitar player John Mayer has written about Buddy Guy who he calls a “Guitar Visionary.”

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Celebrating Django’s 100th

26Jan10

Jazz Times writer Lee Mergner in the article “All star tour in celebration of Django’s 100th birthday” writes that the Django All-star tour is celebrating Django’s 100th birthday (which is on January 24, 2010) with a series of performances at Iridium in NYC, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Dakota in Minneapolis, Yoshi’s in Oakland, Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz, Catalina’s in Los Angeles and venues in other cities.

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One man band Pat Metheny Plays Kansas City

24Jan10

Guitarist Pat Metheny is coming to UNC Chapel Hill next month performing as a one man band. Kansas City Star reporter Steve Paul in the article “One man band scores one for jazz guitarist Pat Methteny” writes that Metheny has now blazed another trail as the ultimate one-man band.

• Pat Metheny

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PineCone Winter Music Festival

20Jan10

Pinecone will hold its Winter Music Festival Saturday, Jan. 30 and Sunday Jan. 31 in Meymandi Concert Hall.

The lineup for Jan. 30 includes

• Kris Kristofferson (9:30-11 p.m.);
• Tift Merritt, with special appearance by Community Music School choir (8:15-9:15 p.m.);
• Tony Rice Unit (7-8 p.m.);
• Bearfoot (6-6:45 p.m.)

The lineup for Jan 31 includes:

• Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder (5:30-7 p.m.),
• Dale Ann Bradley (4:15-5:15 p.m.),
• Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper (3-4 p.m.),
• Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass (2-2:45 p.m.)

One-day Tickets, either day: $40-$50 PineCone members, $45-$55 public; Two-day pass: $70-$90 PineCone members, $80-$100 public. Tickets for all shows are available now. Call 919-664-8302 to order your tickets today.

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Los Lobos and Leo Kottke Perform at Duke

20Jan10

Los Lobos + Leo Kottke
Thursday, March 25, 8 pm, Page Auditorium — $42 • $34 • $22

Los Lobos makes smoking-hot rock in the borderlands of blues, R&B, and Tejano. Here the wolves of East L.A. look back, trading electrics for guitarones in an all-acoustic set of Latin American folk, todo caliente. They split the bill with Kottke, the jawdropping master of American acoustic; in his hands, 6- and 12-string guitar chords burn with the blues he picked up in Oklahoma, while flights of superhuman picking inscribe harmony over the throb.

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Chris Thile Performs at Duke

20Jan10

Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
Friday, February 19, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater — $32 • $24

“Wily, omnivorous bluegrass titans” (Village Voice), the Punch Bros. blaze while Grammy-winning mandolin genius Chris Thile, formerly of Nickel Creek, leads gospel and high-lonesome harmonies. They play Carnegie Hall in October. At Duke the tight-knit, countrified virtuosos play “The Blind Leaving the Blind,” a four-movement suite for bluegrass quartet that’s “as nakedly ambitious as popular music gets” (Slant Magazine).

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Ravi Coltrane Performs at Duke

20Jan10

Ravi Coltrane’s Quartet
Saturday, February 13, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater — $28 • $22

Coltrane is a bandleader and sax force who bears the weight of heritage – his father is the N.C.-born John; his mother is Alice, the piano star and organist from Detroit who stepped in for McCoy Tyner then married the bandleader. Now in his 40s, the newest Coltrane has aimed his legacy forward, inflecting the angles of bop with a “sinewy lyricism” all his own (Downbeat).

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Jason Moran Performs at Duke

20Jan10

Jason Moran with Alicia Hall Moran & Thomas Flippin, guitar
Thursday, January 28, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room — $22

Moran’s a jazz trailblazer whose longstanding relationship with Duke ratcheted up last year, when he performed the Duke-commissioned IN MY MIND: Monk @ Town Hall, 1958 at New York’s Town Hall, after premiering it in Durham. Here, his muscular piano is accompanied by the hypnotizing soprano of his collaborator and wife, Alicia Moran. (Jason also appears with LINES ballet, 1/29 & 1/30.)

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