–Thursday, July 5th 2012, 6:00-9:30pm
The Jamal Walker Band has become a favorite in the Northern California Foothills music scene. They play a variety of blues, soul and rock-n-roll tunes, along with some powerfuly original songs that are sure to get you on your feet and singing along. The Jamal Walker Band performs steadily at many venues including clubs and benefits from the Sierra Foothills to San Francisco and the Bay Area. They have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some of the greatest blues musicians around, including Tommy Castro, Walter Trout, Laurie Morvan, Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers, Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, Rick Estrin and the Nightcats, and many more. This group of musical veterans puts on a high energy rockin' show that is sure to keep you dancing all night!
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Ivan Najera & Friends
–Thursday, July 12th 2012, 6:00-9:30pm
Born into a large, musical family in Quito, Ecuador, Iván Nájera began singing and performing at the age of nine.At 14, Nájera commenced his formal studies of guitar and piano at the National Conservatory in Quito. Equally skilled in both performing and directing, he led several high school choirs and musical groups, including one with his five brothers.
In 1975, at the age of 22, Nájera moved to California to further his career. He began performing and later recording his original compositions, and simultaneously earned a degree in digital electronics with emphasis in television.
Nájera's music has been described as exhilarating and contagious. Exciting and explosive. Emotional and sensual. His influences are rich in cultural diversity, inspired by styles that include traditional Spanish and Flamenco, Brazilian, Tropicalia, Andean, jazz, and contemporary. He complements these with an underlying hint of classical seasoning, which he believes lies at the heart of any truly good composition.
The majority of the music he plays is original, but he just might surprise audiences with an Ecuadorian-infused cover of "Autumn Leaves." In addition to his solo performances, he has shared the stage with stellar performers that include Jose Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, and Enrique Coria.
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Tempest (Click link to go to website)
–Thursday, July 19th 2012, 6:00-9:30pm
When Tempest was formed sixteen years ago by Lief Sorbye, a transplanted electric mandolin player and singer from Oslo, Norway, it was with a specific purpose: taking Celtic and Scandinavian traditional music and fuse it with rock and roll."I wanted rock and roll musicians to sink their teeth into the traditional music forms," says Sorbye. "We’ve been evolving ever since and we're still exploring what we can do." With 11 albums to its credit, Tempest is America’s most prolific and road-tested Celtic rock band. Tempest's greatest strength is their high energy, musically marveling live performance. "We're a band that likes to have fun; that's the number one thing. Our music sometimes can get intricate and very arrangement intensive, but we never forget it's fun. We take our music very seriously but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We show that in our stage show and I think the audience enjoys that. They can expect a very loose sense of humor and kick-ass music." Tempest's members hail from five countries across three continents, Lead vocalist, electric mandolinist and founder Lief Sorbye from Oslo, Norway; drummer Adolfo Lazo from Havana, Cuba; guitarist Ronan Carroll form Dublin, Ireland; bassist Ariane Cap form Innsbruck, Austria, and the bands original fiddler Michael Mullen from Fresno, California.
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Achillies Wheel (Click link to go to fan page)
–Thursday, July 26th 2012, 6:00-9:30pm
Achilles Wheel - Original rock and roll band with Gary Campus, Paul Kamm, Mark McCartney, original members of the Deadbeats, teaming up with bassist Marty Holland and guitarist,singer songwriter Jonny Mojo Flores.
Achilles Wheel is a new band project with Paul Kamm on guitar and vocals, Gary Campus on drums, Mark McCartney on drums, are teaming up with former Deadbeat and JGB member , bassist Marty Holland and Placerville based guitarist Jonny Mojo Flores.
Achilles Wheel will feature our original material, as well as some great jamming dance music...and a taste of the great Dead tunes we all love.
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–Thursday, August 2nd 2012, 6:00-9:30pm
An All-Star Band that has played together over 20 years, Buck Love & The Humperheads is no ordinary, live-mixed bar band. Their music is a melting pot of R&B, Soul, Funk, Southern Rock, Reggae, Folk and Jazz, Their worldbeat influence and jam band style party music has brought entirely different musical universes into alignment with each other like some weird and crazy musical solar system.
Dancing to this music is like taking a big hit of fresh air...and while their kinetic and intoxicating energy with old classic songs is stunning, their original songs and lengthy improvisational jams are even better.
The band hails from Nevada City CA and made their first appearance on July 4, 1986 and have been playing together ever since at clubs, festivals, benefits & parties all around Northern CA. The group is made up of six professional musicians each of whom performs all around the country with a variety of acts as sidemen or fronting their own shows.
One of the longest-running Nevada County bands, Buck Love and the Humperheads is comprised of Mikail Graham, Paul Kamm, Billy Smart, Tom MacDonald and Mark Yedinak & Friends.
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Clan Dyken (Click link to go to website)
–Thursday, August 9th 2012, 6:00-9:00pm
Based in California's Calaveras County Foothills, Clan Dyken, formed by brothers Mark and Bear Dyken, has harmonized, toured, activated, and entertained for more than two decades.
During a lifetime of playing music with a great number of diverse, talented musicians the Dyken sound has continued to evolve. Over the course of 10 albums, the Dyken sound ranges from a stark, acoustic solo project by Bear to an eight piece band with screaming guitar solos, keyboards, horns and long percussion jams to jazz instrumentals in 5/4 time to drum and voice chants.
Clan Dyken continues to refine the tribal-funk-eco-folk-rock-hippy-soul music they've been making for more than 20 years, while taking us on an incredible journey into the heart of how we can all contribute to society's positive evolution through collective and personal action.
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James Carlson & Steady Hand
–Thursday, August 16th 2012, 6:00-9:00pm
James Carlson’s roots run deep. They begin in the foothills and canyons near Sunland – Tujunga; the ‘twin cities’ located on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the City of Angels. His songs weave traces of his wanderings, from the yucca and chaparral there, through the miles he hitchhiked from Southern to Northern California, and on to the deeper greens of the orchards of Yakima, Washington where he picked apples, more as a sustenance for his soul than for his wallet.
His parents met in a college choir, and James and his brother Rob began singing at an early age, soon going on to craft their own songs.
First influences: The legendary hard-living country balladeer Merle Haggard who hailed from Bakersfield, made a profound impression on the young songwriter who marveled at Merle’s surviving prison time. Upon his release from prison, Merle began his new life on the outside as a free man wearing prison-issued paper shoes.
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Dyin Breed (Click link to go to fan page)
–Thursday, August 23rd 2012, 6:00-9:00pm
Dyin' Breed is like a modern day Johnny Cash and June Carter with Hank williams 3 flare. We mostly do a tribute to Outlaw Country and add a twist of rock n roll. Started by Allison Green and Chris Hescock as a duet seven years ago, they have evolved into one of Nevada Counties' favorite band.
They have played in Sacramento, Placer, Sierra and Nevada County at bigger events like, Old Sacramento Gold Rush Days, Auburn Rodeo, Auburn Brew Fest, Grass Valley Fair, Penn Valley Rodeo, Booze fighter Biker events, Nevada City Parade, Grass Valley Sportsman's Annual Crab feed and Steak Feed 4 years running, and all the usual roadhouse's in these area's.
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–Thursday, August 30th 2012, 6:00-9:00pm
The bridge between U.S. blues and traditional Malian music was made palpable in live performances by Markus James and The Wassonrai. It is always a dynamic and memorable event for an enthusiastic audience.
"James’ celebration of the universality of legends and spiritual themes is outdone only by his pleasure in working the West African roots of the blues…"
American guitarist-singer-songwriter James, who has been recording and performing his original blues-based, Mali-tinged numbers for a decade, appeared with a pair of traditional Malian musicians. Accompanied by the African kora and calabash drum, James’ rich baritone voice blended amiably with the seemingly unlikely sounds, enlivened by his rhythmic strumming and bottleneck slides.
James’ compositions largely abandoned familiar blues chords in favor of a hypnotic suspension of moving harmonies and an emphasis on lyrical expressiveness THIS IS A DANCE PARTY SO BRING YOUR DANCING SHOES!
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