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Saturday, February 8
Alan Senauke & Friends
Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
8 pm (doors at 7:30) - $15.50 advance / $16.50 door
Advance tickets available now. All ages.
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Singer, guitarist, and Zen Buddhist priest Alan Senauke steps out in front with the release of his solo recording, Wooden Man: Old Songs from the Southern School, a collection of American roots music that encompasses old-time country and brother duets to blues, folk and cajun. He writes that even though he has never “waited out a dust storm or sat in a small town jail or dreamed about kissing my dead lover,” that old songs carry truths that connect us to other lives. “In a strange sense, we live a new life, and the song becomes our own.”
Alan is known to audiences as a key member of several leading traditional bands in the Bay Area, including the Bluegrass Intentions, the Aux Cajunals, The Earls, and the Blue Flame Stringband (which reunited for the first SF Bluegrass Festival in 2000). In the 1970s he edited the folk music magazine Sing Out!, and toured as half of The Fiction Brothers.
Tonight he’ll be joined by several of his longtime musical companions, who appear with him on the CD, including Kate Brislin, Yassir Chadly, Larry Cohea, Brendan Doyle, Bill Evans, Mary Gibbons, Larry Hanks, and Eric & Suzy Thompson.
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