On tour from Scotland, Jim Malcolm, one of Scotland’s finest singers and songwriters, is bringing a blast of Scottish culture to Corvallis. Scotland’s Songwriter of the Year in 2004 and three-times nominated for Scots Singer of the Year, Jim is one of those performers who will have you laughing and crying during an evening of wonderful songs and entertaining stories about Scotland and his life on the road. Jim Malcolm  performs award-winning original songs, traditional ballads and the works of Robert Burns, with guitar and harmonicas. His harmonica work is pretty hot. Jim tours extensively in Germany, USA and UK. He’s also known for dynamic performances as lead singer with Old Blind Dogs. His career highlight of 2011 was to perform his own songs Lochanside and Battle of Waterloo with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at a sold-out concert in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.

Four years ago, Jim performed to a sold-out crowd in the same venue here in Corvallis. He included a highly entertaining presentation of songs by Robert Burns. If you missed that special happening, you can still catch it on a DVD he released! It is titled: Jim Malcolm’s Bard Hair Day.

Burns wrote about everything — life, love, sex, the Scottish weather, legends, mice, horses, travels, food, work, grieving, and friendship are but a handful of his topics. Jim Malcolm’s rich vocal style brings new life to Burn’s timeless musical words. Jim’s latest CD, Sparkling Flash, features Jim’s songs, traditional songs  and ones by Scottish poets such as Robert Burns and Robert Tannahill. Here is what others say:

“Jim Malcolm’s voice has the complex individuality of an aged single-malt whisky.”   Boston Globe

“One of those pure warm Scottish folk voices one never tires of listening to.”   Dirty Linen

“One of the finest singing voices in Scotland in any style”   Living Tradition

“Undeniably stunning” Mojo

All advance tickets will be honored on the new date, Thursday Feb. 20.

 Location will be announced, so watch this site.

If you have a ticket and can’t make it  contact Chere at  cherep@comcast.net

Roy Zimmerman is a satirical songwriter in the Tom Lehrer/Phil Ochs tradition with a great gift for clever and funny lyrics that really rhyme and an incredibly entertaining banter between his song

“You’re brilliant. Just brilliant!” — Terry Jones, Monty Python

Tom Lehrer himself says, “I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on reintroducing literacy to comedy songs.  And the rhymes actually rhyme, they don’t just ‘rhyne.'”

Joni Mitchell says, “Roy’s lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection.”

Don’t miss this opportunity to see him in concert Friday, February 7, at 8 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (2945 NW Circle Blvd, Corvallis) Advance tickets will be at Grass Roots Books; $15 for CFS members, $17 for nonmembers, add $2 at the door. For your convenience, credit card purchases will be $17 (plus a small fee through https://www.tickettomato.com). Note that there is no member discount for the credit card purchases.

He spent the Comedy Boom years of the Eighties doing stand-up in San Francisco, sharing stages with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller and many others. He wrote all the material for his funny folk music quartet The Foremen, recording two albums for Warner/Reprise Records. He’s done several shows with The Pixies’ Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting.

“Roy Zimmerman simultaneously inspires me and makes me laugh my ass off,” says comedian/author Paul Krassner.

Zimmerman tours almost constantly, taking his funny songs about fracking, creationism, marijuana laws, government shutdown, same-sex marriage, guns, taxes and abstinence across the country, often playing in some of the least Progressive places in America for the most Progressive people there – the “Blue Dots” he calls them. So this is his “Blue Dot Tour”. “I get accused of preaching to the converted,” he says, “but I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as entertaining the troops.”

The world is full of funny songs, but Zimmerman’s hilarious, rhyme-intensive originals are also incisive calls to action, smart, savvy and undeniable. The “Blue Dot Tour” is ninety minutes of these songs – funny songs like “The Faucet’s on Fire!” and “I Want a Marriage Like They Had In the Bible,” heartfelt songs like “Hope, Struggle and Change” and “I Approve This Message.”

In thirteen albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. He has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records. He’s been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Zimmerman’s YouTube videos have amassed over seven million views, and he’s a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.

Sing Out! Magazine writes, “Zimmerman is a guy on the left skewering folks on the right with rapier-sharp lyrics … underneath the caustic satire is a man who is surprisingly optimistic.”

We have seen him twice and loved it, as did the rest of the audience (falling out of their chairs laughing). Check out his you-tubes, and if you like what you see, join us on Feb. 20. 

Your existing tickets will be good. If you purchased tickets and cannot attend on Feb. 20, contact Chere Pereira at cherep@comcast.net. Please check back to this site for further details.

Roy Zimmerman is a satirical songwriter in the Tom Lehrer/Phil Ochs tradition with a great gift for clever and funny lyrics that really rhyme and an incredibly entertaining banter between his song

“You’re brilliant. Just brilliant!” — Terry Jones, Monty Python

Tom Lehrer himself says, “I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on reintroducing literacy to comedy songs.  And the rhymes actually rhyme, they don’t just ‘rhyne.'”

Joni Mitchell says, “Roy’s lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection.”

Don’t miss this opportunity to see him in concert Friday, February 7, at 8 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (2945 NW Circle Blvd, Corvallis) Advance tickets will be at Grass Roots Books; $15 for CFS members, $17 for nonmembers, add $2 at the door. For your convenience, credit card purchases will be $17 (plus a small fee through https://www.tickettomato.com). Note that there is no member discount for the credit card purchases.

He spent the Comedy Boom years of the Eighties doing stand-up in San Francisco, sharing stages with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller and many others. He wrote all the material for his funny folk music quartet The Foremen, recording two albums for Warner/Reprise Records. He’s done several shows with The Pixies’ Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting.

“Roy Zimmerman simultaneously inspires me and makes me laugh my ass off,” says comedian/author Paul Krassner.

Zimmerman tours almost constantly, taking his funny songs about fracking, creationism, marijuana laws, government shutdown, same-sex marriage, guns, taxes and abstinence across the country, often playing in some of the least Progressive places in America for the most Progressive people there – the “Blue Dots” he calls them. So this is his “Blue Dot Tour”. “I get accused of preaching to the converted,” he says, “but I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as entertaining the troops.”

The world is full of funny songs, but Zimmerman’s hilarious, rhyme-intensive originals are also incisive calls to action, smart, savvy and undeniable. The “Blue Dot Tour” is ninety minutes of these songs – funny songs like “The Faucet’s on Fire!” and “I Want a Marriage Like They Had In the Bible,” heartfelt songs like “Hope, Struggle and Change” and “I Approve This Message.”

In thirteen albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for Peace and Social Justice. His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. He has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records. He’s been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Zimmerman’s YouTube videos have amassed over seven million views, and he’s a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.

Sing Out! Magazine writes, “Zimmerman is a guy on the left skewering folks on the right with rapier-sharp lyrics … underneath the caustic satire is a man who is surprisingly optimistic.”

We have seen him twice and loved it, as did the rest of the audience (falling out of their chairs laughing). Check out his you-tubes, and if you like what you see, join us on Feb. 20. 

7:30 Gumbo

Joe Casprowiak and Sid Beam, surely one of Corvallis’s finest performing duos

8:30 Wild Hog in the Woods

Stringband music from a bygone era played the way it always should have been.

7:30 Tim Hardin and The Pagan Angels
Folk, country, and humor from Tim and friends.

8:30 Jazzopolis
Music from the golden, swing era by Bev and Ray Brassfield, Fred Berman, Faye Cummins, and JG. Wonderful singing accompanied by some very classy instrumental work.

7:30 Thorharp Combo
Dave and Sharon Thormahlen return with their unique harp-guitar music, celebrating their new CD release.

8:30 Cooper HollowWith members Jim Hockenhull (Fiddle, guitar, accordion, vocals), Sally Clark (Mandolin, guitar, harmony vocals), and Paul Scheerer (Guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, harmonica, lead vocals), Cooper Hollow is a high energy string band. They perform a mix of bluegrass, old-time fiddle tunes, country, blues and rags with a bit of Cajun thrown in for spice.

Alex Hargreaves and Nathaniel Smith join with Sarah Jarosz to form the Sarah Jarosz Trio.

SARAH JAROSZ is a 22- year-old, Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who hails from just outside Austin, TX.  A recent graduate from the prestigious New England Conservatory, she released her third album, Build Me Up From Bones, for Sugar Hill Records on September 24^th.  Over the past four years, Jarosz, who musically fits comfortably where contemporary folk, Americana and roots music intersect, has covered a remarkable amount of ground thus far.  She has toured the United States extensively, as well as Canada and the UK, taped Austin City Limits and the BBC Series The Transatlantic Sessions and appeared on A Prairie Home Companion.  Her two previous records (Song Up In Her Head andFollow Me Down) received high praise from outlets including Rolling Stone, New York Times, USA Today, Paste, Mojo, Acoustic Guitar and American Songwriter, and she has received multiple Grammy and Americana Music Association nominations.

Sarah is supported on the road by stellar musicians Alex Hargreaves (fiddle) and Nathaniel Smith (cello).  Hargreaves recently completed the prestigious Berklee Global Jazz Institute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and has been tapped to perform and record with such musicians as Jerry Douglas and jazz master Danilo Perez.  Smith has toured for years with renown Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster and, more recently, in various configurations with Jeremy Kittel.  Jarosz, Hargreaves and Smith, who met at various music camps when they were much younger, have been performing together since 2010; the sheer joy they express on stage during performances is contagious.  Hargreaves and Smith are both featured on Jarosz’s upcoming release Build Me Up From Bones.

7:30 MC Squared

Corvallis veterans, Mark, Chere and Cliff are returning to the Best Cellar for the umpteenth time.

8:30 The Wallop Sisters

formerly known as The Ukes of Hazard, host the Corvallis Ukulele Cabaret on the 1st Friday of each month from 7-9pm at the First Alternative Food Coop meeting room. They’re bringing their uke music to the Best Cellar.

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.

John McCutcheon 2014

See:   https://corvallisfolklore.org/home/event/john-mccutcheon2017

returns for his traditional fall concert in Corvallis.  He’s been doing this for decades and fills the hall with both audience and amazing music, his own and others’, accompanied by a wide array of instruments.

More details about John McCutcheon and the concert

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.

CFS Swing Dance

Music by Swing & a Ms, with Audrey Perkins

Come down for a swing lesson/refresher at 7:00pm and dance away to live music starting at 7:30.

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.

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.

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.