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Hearth Music and Columbia City Theater Present
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
Saturday, January 28
An Evening of Acoustic Roots Music with
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
Columbia City Theater
Show at 8pm, Tickets $15
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Wow, this is going to be a great night of bluegrass and acoustic roots music with two of our most favorite bands! Cahalen & Eli are fresh off a series of tours in the UK and Europe and have some new music to share. John Reischman & The Jaybirds are one of the finest bluegrass bands around and are always a delight to catch live.
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
In a marketplace flooded with virtuosic bluegrass ensembles, John Reischman & The Jaybirds have found a recipe to stand out from the rest: they go back to the roots of bluegrass and old-time music for their inspiration, then spin these roots into a new sound. On their new album, Vintage & Unique, they cover songs and tunes from Bill Monroe, Hobart Smith, and Hazel Dick
ens & Alice Gerrard, but the real gems of the album are the band’s originals. These songs and tunes are clearly informed by the tradition, but John Reischman & The Jaybirds have an eclectic creativity that guides their excursions in acoustic roots music.
John Reischman & The Jaybirds: Hurry Up and Harvest
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
Starting from their mutual love of old-time and bluegrass singing, Cahalen Morrison & Eli West have brought in a myriad of new ideas and influences, like the wide, empty spaces of Cahalen's home state of New Mexico, or Eli's crooked harmonies and unorthodox syncopations. But more importantly, they get that the music needs space to breath, space to think, space to belong. This is rare in the barn-burning speedster world of today's bluegrass picking parties, and it transforms their music into something entirely new and refreshing.
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West: Jealous Sea
Saturday, February 4
An Empty Sea Studios Evening with Master Bagpiper
Dick Hensold
Saturday, February 4
Empty Sea Studios
6300 Phinney Ave, Seattle
Show at 8pm, Tickets $12 adv/$15 Door
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Renowned bagpiper Dick Hensold will be coming to Seattle for a rare appearance at Empty Sea Studios to showcase his many bagpipes. He'll be performing the dance piping tunes of Cape Breton, Eastern Canada, Scotland, and beyond. He performs on the Scottish smallpipes (a quieter cousin of the Highland pipes), Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England), Swedish bagpipes (säckpipa), Medieval greatpipes, Scottish Highland pipes, recorder, seljefløyte (Norwegian willow flute), low whistle and traditional Cambodian reed instruments. This will be a wonderful chance to catch a lively and engaging performer on a variety of beautiful bagpipes, and a chance to learn more about the dance piping tunes of Cape Breton. Dick has learned Cape Breton and Scottish music directly from bagpiper John Maclean, who learned from the great Alex Currie. Both Dick's teachers are some of the last Cape Breton dance pipers, a style nearly lost in Scotland as well.
“Dick Hensold is a master piper with an exquisite touch.” –City Pages, Minneapolis, MN
Dick Hensold is the leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, and for the past 20 years has performed and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. He has released numerous CDs as a member of the groups Piper’s Crow, Way Up North, The New International Trio, the Lyra Baroque orchestra, and with Ruth MacKenzie’s Kalevala. His solo Northumbrian smallpipes CD Big Music for Northumbrian Smallpipes was released in 2007.
Dick Hensold: Mysteries of Knock (Northumbrian pipes)
CHECK OUT some of Dick's double-reed instruments (w/sound samples)
www.dickhensold.com/instruments.html
ALSO: Dick will be leading a Dusty Strings Workshop earlier in the day:
The Rhythmic Fundamentals of Cape Breton Music
Instructor: Dick Hensold
Sat., February 4, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., $35.
This workshop for all instrumentalists will introduce new methods for learning the rhythmic subtleties of Cape Breton dance music. These are methods best suited for learning a musical tradition as an “outsider”, i.e., someone who has not grown up in the tradition. Although the workshop is centered on Cape Breton dance piping, it is of value to everyone interested in learning unfamiliar styles of dance-music. Bring practice chanters, other instruments, and favorite Cape Breton CDs. Master piper Dick Hensold has studied Cape Breton music and piping with fiddler David Greenberg and piper John MacLean. www.dickhensold.com