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Four Shillings Short play a fantastic collection of world instruments:
Hammered & Mountain Dulcimer, Mandolins, Renaissance Woodwinds, Bouzouki , Recorders, Sitar, Tinwhistles, Banjo, Percussion & Psaltery.
“Four Shillings Short takes you on a musical journey through time and across the seas as they perform everything from traditional Irish tunes and airs to Indian Ragas.”
– The Foothills Sun-Gazette/ Exeter, CA
“Their musical virtuosity makes old songs sound new and new songs sound like
time-worn Celtic spells.” – CITY PAGES, Wausau WI
“The international duo have carved out a musical identity all their own.”
– River Stages, Dubuque IA
The Flow is playing at Emerson Vineyards 11665 Airlie Rd., Monmouth!
Friday, August 8, 6:00-9:00 p.m.,
This is a family-friendly show on a beautiful country hillside where you spread your picnic blanket or set up your chairs under the oak trees, watching the sun set while taking in local music and drink. Admission is $7.50 per person plus a can of food for a local food pantry. Round out your dinner with Emerson wine and/or Deluxe Brewing Company pilsner for purchase. If you don’t feel like packing a picnic dinner, Tom will be grilling and selling hot dogs, $3.50 for a dog and bag o’ chips.
Tom says we hold the attendance record for our show out there a couple of years back and so, obviously, we want to break it. Maybe that’s a lame reason for you to come to our show, but a really good reason to come to our show is that I think you’ll have a great time.
Rita for The Flow
Deemed a “banjo virtuoso” by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt has fused several traditional old-time idioms to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo style. Most recently, Adam joined forces with his regular music partner Beth Williams Hartness on “Fine Times at Our House,” a CD of old-time duets featuring Adam’s clawhammer banjo and fiddle along with Beth’s signature fingerstyle guitar. Their aim was to capture some of their favorite music as they play it at home for their own enjoyment; the result is a project that is at once intimate and enveloping.
Robert “Berto” Boyd
Robert “Berto” Boyd began his musical training on the piano at age 5 and has been playing guitar for over 25 years. A rigorous musician and careful researcher, Berto has studied and performed in Spain and the United States, with some of the world’s finest Flamenco and Jazz artists.
Born into a family of artists, which includes famed lead singer Brandon Boyd of the multi-platinum band Incubus, he is one of the rare and few Americans who has dedicated his musical dreams to mastering the art of Flamenco and the Spanish Classical guitar.
Berto has recently from moved from Santa Barbara to Corvallis, Oregon with the intent to concentrate fully on concert performances, composition, and the international instruction series – FlamencoGuitarClass.com along with Jose Luis Rodriguez. Berto now divides his time between transcribing, composing, recording, mentoring, gardening, skateboarding, and spending time with his new family.
7:30 Rita Brown and Bill Smythe
Besides great singing, songwriting and guitar playing, this is the couple that created our annual benefit for CARDV
8:30 Jazzopolis
Great musicianship by a group that brings classic interpretations of the music of the 30’s and 40’s. Featuring Bev and Ray Brassfield, Fred Berman, Faye Cummins, and JG.
7:30 Rebecca Smith and Laura Zaerr
These two wonderful harpists bring musical influences from all over the globe. They play in support of Rebecca’s new CD.
8:30 Shanghaied on the Willamette
Gordy Euler and Jonathan Lay will make there way down the Willamette, well, I-5 actually, to entertain us with strong vocals, multi-instrument skill, and story telling. They’ve been a Best Cellar favorite for a long time.
Corral Creek Bluegrass Band
Corral Creek comes to you bringing a mix of good old Gospel and Bluegrass music. Ron, Pam, Ed, Carl and Tracy have come together from various backgrounds and experiences to share their music for the last ten years. Others join as welcome guest players from time to time. Most band members keep busy with day jobs, but at night or on the weekends they share their music at Bluegrass festivals, fund raisers, churches, house concerts, wineries, and special occasions. Their music has entertained folks at the Oregon Bluegrass Association Gospel Show, the High N’ Dry Bluegrass festival in Bend Oregon, many years of season openers at the Butteville Store, Church Services, Weddings, Funerals and Community festivals! It’s always a family show including sing-a-longs, humorous stories, and good times by all.
7:30 Mike and Carleen McCornack
This singer-songwriter couple from Eugene has been delighting audiences for over 40 years with their own brand of original and contemporary, folk-influenced music, exceptional vocal harmony and guitar accompaniment that sparkles! They are a Best Cellar favorite.
8:30 Pete Kozak
Pete plays mandolin, guitar, banjo, fiddle, dobro, and harmonica. He’s a great musician who has played in several local bands, through the years: The Bush Pilots, Yellow Rose, Pickin’ Noodle Soup, and The Rubes. He’s stood on stage with Neal Grandstaff, Paula Walters, Jeff Hino, Creighton Lindsay, Mark Weiss, Ray Brassfield, and Gary Nolde. On top of all that, before coming out west, Pete earned a Best Vocalist award at the Nebraska Old Time Fiddlers and Country Music Festival.
Hass Kowert Tice Trio
Together, Haas, Kowert, and Tice have produced a body of work containing flights of improvisation and interesting compositional turns all grounded by memorable melodies and driving rhythms. The group’s adventurous spirit and desire to show the audience something new is never at the expense of the most intrinsically rewarding elements of music such as the beauty of a well crafted melody or the dance-inspiring energy of a great groove.
Hass Kowert Tice Trio is:
- Fiddler Brittany Haas, known for her work with Crooked Still and Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings
- Bassist Paul Kowert who plays with the Punch Brothers and David Rawlings Machine/ Gillian Welch
- Virtuosic guitarist Jordan Tice who performs regularly with Tony Trischka
It’s gonna be a great concert! We expect it will sell out so let us know right away if you plan to come so we can reserve you a ticket.
PS: since so many have asked. You’re welcome to bring either snacks or beverage to share (or not) and nothing is expected…
Eric & Suzy have devoted their lives to the pursuit of weird and obscure old-time American music – warped fiddle tunes in odd tunings, cinematic ballads, country blues songs that contain mysterious metaphors, early Cajun music with incomprehensible French lyrics and backwards chords. Using fiddle, mandolin, guitars, Cajun accordion, banjo (and the occasional odd instrument such as the ten-stringed cuatro) they bring these early 20th century sounds right into the present day.
Eric’s flatpicking on guitar and mandolin is exceptional for its purity of tone, speed, and soulfulness; Suzy is a powerful singer, an award-winning fiddler and Cajun accordion player who has apprenticed with older generation Louisiana Cajun musicians under an NEA Fellowship. Founding members of many influential roots music groups including the Black Mountain Boys, Any Old Time, the Klezmorim, and the California Cajun Orchestra, Eric and Suzy have also worked with Maria Muldaur, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Jerry Garcia, Darol Anger, Laurie Lewis, the Savoy Doucet Cajun Trio, and many other fine musicians.
An evening of Moroccan, Yemenite and Hebrew devotional music
featuring the soulful Yemenite singer Maya Haddi.
With David Reihs on percussion.
and special guest dancer, Jane Archer
Yuval Ron is an internationally renowned World Music artist, composer, educator, peace activist and record producer. Among his many honors, he composed the songs and score for the Oscar winning film West Bank Story in 2007, was the featured artist in the Gala Concert for the Dalai Lama’s initiative Seeds of Compassion in the Seattle Opera Hall in 2008, has collaborated with the Sufi leader Pir Zia Inayat Khan since 2006 and was the musical producer of master-musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek’s albums ONE and ONE Truth. He received commissions for original music scores from the Getty Center, Japan-America Theater and LAX International Airport and provided numerous scores for TV and films including the PBS/Nova special, Breaking the Maya Code, Proteus, Oliver Twist, The Spiral Staircase, Golda’s Balcony and Dance of the Maize God. Yuval Ron is a noted lecturer and has been invited to speak at numerous schools including: Yale, John Hopkins University, UCLA, Middlebury College, MIT, Berklee College of Music, University of Chicago. Yuval Ron has been on the faculty of Esalen Institute since 2009, is an affiliated artist with the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, and a “Guiding Voice” for Seven Pillars – House of Wisdom. His awards include the Los Angeles Treasures Award and prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum, California Council for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the author of the book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom published by Oracle Institute Press.
Note: This month the Best Cellar will be upstairs, at the top of the church.
Enter through the main 11th St. entrance.
7:30 Mark Weiss
Mark celebrates 50 years of playing the guitar with a number of friends: Pete Kozak, Dave Plaehn Chere and Cliff Pereira, Ed and Linda Waymire, Audrey Perkins, Tim Hardin, and a little piece of dynamite named Aurelia Rensema.
8:30 Audrey Perkins
As fine a singer as our community has, Audrey will be joined by Suzannah Doyle, Nancy Snowden, Bill Pfender, Page Hundermer, John Bliss, and Paul Regan. Songs will come from Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Bruce Cockburn, Irving Berlin, Rogers and Hart, Nat King Cole, Lambert-Hendricks-Ross, and some guy named Neal Gladstone.
Peter Mayer writes songs for a small planet—songs about interconnectedness and the human journey; about the beauty and the mystery of the world. Whimsical, humorous, and profound, his music breaks the boundaries of “folk”, and transcends to a realm beyond the everyday love song, to a place of wonder at the very fact of life itself. Peter has gradually gained a dedicated, word-of-mouth following, playing shows from Minnesota to Texas, New England to California. He has nine CDs to his credit, and has sold over 70 thousand of them independently.
Ralph Penunuri
Folksinger
Played in Marin County bands Fairfax Street Choir (Gospel Rock), Happy Valley (Progressive Folk); and in Corvallis, Oregon, played in Two Hits & a Ms. (Orig. Roots & Swing), Bon Ton Roulet (Cajun-Zydeco) and Inner Strength Gospel Quartet (Black Congregational style covers — Blind Boys of Alabama, Dixie Hummingbirds, etc…).
Played in front of thousands at UC Berkeley Amphitheater, San Francisco Cow Palace & Golden Gate Park Festivals. Played for just a handful too. Most memorable was SF Cow Palace with Fairfax Street Choir, opening for Crosby-Stills-Nash & Young.
Currently write, play, sit in with friends and host a monthly vocal jam in Corvallis, OR.
7:30 Mike and Carleen McCornack
Singer-songwriters Mike & Carleen McCornack have been delighting audiences for over forty years with an engaging musical style that blends clear, expressive, harmonious vocals with sparkling acoustic instrumental accompaniments. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes many critically-acclaimed original compositions. They have released seven albums during their career: Possibilities; Live On Earth; Beasties, Bumbershoots & Lullabies; Sunshine Cake; High Hopes; A Road To Call Your Own; and Ready For Christmas.
8:30 Triple Play – featuring Kurt Dietrich
Great three part harmony. Triple play features Kurt Dietrich, owner of Bull Frog Music, in his first Best Cellar performance.