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Saturday, February 15
Darol Anger’s American Fiddle Ensemble
Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals
Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco
7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm) - $25
Advance tickets available now. All ages.
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The fourth and final Noe Valley Music Series show in the Festival features a pairing of two internationally renowned (and locally based) artists in the world of bluegrass and acoustic music, Darol Anger and Laurie Lewis, each joined by an ensemble of stellar musicians that will make this a night to remember.
To be honest, we weren’t sure quite what to expect from Darol Anger’s American Fiddle Ensemble when they appeared at last year’s SFBOT Festival—how many fiddles did they mean, exactly? The sold-out show turned out to be a fest highlight—one of the freshest and most interesting performances we’d heard in a long time. Anger’s genre-expanding approach (Turtle Island String Quartet, David Grisman Quintet, Psychograss, Anger-Marshall Duo) is matched by guitar master Scott Nygaard, cello phenomeon Rushad Eggleston, and fiddle’s newest prodigy, Brittany Haas. Their repertoire (with traditional music from Appalachia, Sweden, Brazil and Mali, plus original compositions by Anger and Nygaard) showcases the ensemble’s virtuosity, open-heartedness, and irresistible sense of fun.
With increasing success as a singer and songwriter in a multiplicity of traditional acoustic settings, the Rounder Records release Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals was a another dip by Lewis into the well of traditional bluegrass. Twice voted the IBMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year, Lewis was a key performer in a long roster of Bay Area bluegrass bands in the 1970s and 80s—Phantoms of the Opry, Arkansas Sheiks, the Good Ol’ Persons, Grant Street String Band, and Blue Rose. Tonight she’s joined by the Bluegrass Pals, in which Lewis and Tom Rozum (vocals, mandolin) are joined by Mary Gibbons (The All Girl Boys, The Avocado Brothers) on tenor vocals and rhythm guitar, with Todd Sickafoose on bass.
Address
1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco
Buying Advance Tix
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Getting there
The Noe Valley Ministry is located at the corner of 23rd Street and Sanchez,
in San Francisco. Parking is often limited in this residential neighborhood,
so give yourself plenty of time. Or consider public transit--the J Church,
24 and 48 Muni bus lines all place you within 2 blocks of the Noe Valley
Ministry. About the venue For 20 years Larry Kassin's Noe
Valley Music Series has earned a reputation as one of the most diverse
and innovative music/performance series in the Bay Area. The Noe Valley
Ministry (the site of the performances) is an intimate and acoustically
ideal 110 year old Victorian church in the picturesque Noe Valley neighborhood
of San Francisco. The series has garnered praise for its programming of
nationally and internationally known musicians (many who've won Grammys,
Guggenheim Fellowships and other awards) and Bay Area performers of the
highest quality.
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