Nectar Lounge Bluegrass/Americana Shows Spring 2014

Our friends at the Nectar Lounge in Fremont, WA will be featuring a bunch of shows with bluegrass/Americana bands. First up this weekend March 22 and 23rd 2014 have two shows. Bluegrass is featured on Saturday 3-22-2014 with Nectar & The PBJ Presenting HEAD FOR THE HILLS ,Left Coast Country and The Warren G. Hardings. $8adv / $12dos

8pm doors 21+ and Sunday 03-23-2014 a bluegrass/folk show with THE APRIL VERCH BAND and Squirrel Butter $12adv / $15dos 7pm doors 7:30pm show 21+

Upcoming shows include

3.28 Friday (Americana / Roots / Blues)
Nectar and The PBJ Present:
HILLSTOMP CD Release Party
Heels To The Hardwood
Blake Noble
$8adv / $10dos
8pm doors
21+
3.29 Saturday (Country / Americana)
Nectar Presents:
Weatherside Whiskey Band
Deception Past
Hallstrom
The North Woods
$5adv / $8dos
8pm doors
21+
5.1 Thursday (Country / Bluegrass)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
Mayday! Bluegrass! w/
LEFT COAST COUNTRY
The Blackberry Bushes
Jacob & Melody (of Front Country)
$6adv / $10dos
8pm doors
21+
5.15 Thursday (Bluegrass Allman Brothers)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
An Evening With:
POOR MAN’S WHISKEY
performing the music of
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
plus a full set of originals
$10adv / $15dos
8pm doors
21+
5.16 Friday (Americana / Acoustic Roots)
Banjo Killers Present:
SCOTT LAW BAND
“Black Mountain” Album Release
with Tony Furtado
special guest Samson Grisman
and more tbd
$10adv / $15dos
8pm doors
21+
5.22 Thursday (Bluegrass)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
FOLKLIFE BLUEGRASS KICKOFF feat
The Warren G. Hardings
Renegade Stringband
Steep Ravine
$6adv / $10dos
8pm Doors
21+
6.5 Thursday (Folk / Bluegrass)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES
Patchy Sanders
Br’er Rabbit
$6adv / $10dos
8pm doors
8:30pm show
21+
7.17 Thursday (Brazilian / Latin / Bluegrass)
Nectar y El PBJ Presente:
MATUTO
Eduardo Mendonça & Show Brazil
The Cumbieros
$10adv / $15dos
8pm doors
21+

Wintergrass 2014 Performers -The Scott Law Band

Scott Law, originally from Southern California, brings the Appalachian bluegrass sound to Portland, Oregon, where he is now based. A versatile and sought-after guitar player, Law is adept at a range of styles rhythm & blues, vintage country, rock n’ roll, and bluegrass, and is equally as talented on the electric guitar as he is on the acoustic. This killer singer-songwriter released a solo album in 2009, and another electric album in 2012, quietly showcasing his flexible and imaginative playing. With articulate phrasing and impressive arrangements, Scott Law released his latest album, Black Mountain, in October 2013. He collaborated on the project with a variety of folks including Crooked Still’s Aoife O’Donovan, who has sung on National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” Also collaborating on the project are The Deadly Gentlemen, a progressive bluegrass quintet that provides the majority of the instrumentals on the album. It’s a fiddle-driven, Appalachian sound, with more energy than you can imagine. Scott Law is a live performance junkie; he exudes love for the stage that allows him to perform totally unique and organic improvisations, a style much like that of
the Grateful Dead. Before the release of Black Mountain, Law played in the bands Hanuman, Brokedown in Bakersfield, and Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings. In addition, he has collaborated with Chris Funk of The Decemberists, The String Cheese Incident, Peter Rowan, and Tony Trischka. Huffington Post referred to Law as “a musician who is intently focused on his art and the pursuit of musical freedom… a versatile, talented guitarist who has been compared to Jerry Garcia, Doc Watson, Jerry Reed, Mike Bloomfield, and Clarence White.” Like Scott, the other members of his band are fully-fledged performance junkies. Bassist Sam Grisman, was a longtime member of The Deadly Gentlemen and regularly tours with various incarnations of David Grisman bands. Jack Dwyer, on mandolin, likes to call himself a shredder/songwriter and strummer for hire. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland and has toured with The Blackberry Bushes Stringband, Tim Connell, and has recently released a duet project with Ellie Hakanson. Finally Luke Price, also a teacher at Lewis & Clark, adds his passion for infusing old fiddling traditions into new music. Luke has toured with Tony Furtado, Tristan & Tashina Clarridge and many others.

Wintergrass 2013 Workshop Schedule!!

Every workshop listed below is included in the price of your single day or weekend pass!

Thursday Festival Workshops

Regency Ballroom
5:00-6:30pm Simple Songs to Jam To
Peter Rothbart & Ricky Gene Powell
6:30-8:00pm Three Chord Tunes
Cliff Perry & Friends

Friday Festival Workshops

2nd Floor

Regency Ballroom – Main
10:00 Intro to Clogging
Mary Jensen
11:30 Tone Poems: A Collaboration on Vintage Instruments with David Grisman & Kenny Smith
David Grisman & Kenny Smith
1:30 Songwriting with Della Mae
Della Mae
2:45 Brother Vocal Duets
Spinney Brothers
4:00 Grooving with Acoustic Instruments
The Student Loan

Cedar Ballroom
10:00 Bluegrass Harmony Bootcamp: Get Started with Harmony Singing
Sue Thompson & Don Share
11:15 That Pesky Octave Mandolin: What it Can & Can’t Do
Darol Anger
12:30 Master Fiddle
Jason Carter (Travelin’ McCourys)
1:45 Master Banjo
Rob McCoury (Travelin’ McCourys)
3:00 Master Mandolin
Ronnie McCoury & Frank Solivan

3rd Floor

Juniper
10:00 Beginning Guitar – Rhythm, Chords & Strumming
Peter Rothbart
11:15 Fiddle Playing
Mike Barnett (Deadly Gentlemen)
12:30 Banjo
Greg Liszt (Deadly Gentlemen)
1:45 Cello
Rushad Eggleston
3:00 Bluegrass Bass
Sam Grisman (Deadly Gentlemen)
4:15 Brazilian Folk Music
Matuto
5:30 Hosted Bluegrass Jam
Ricky Gene Powell & Peter Rothbart

Laurel
10:00 Idiots Guide to the Mandolin I
Ricky Gene Powell
11:15 Beginning Gypsy Jazz Chords
Yusuf Kilgore & Jim Char
12:30 Beginning Dobro
Greg Maass
1:45 Mandolin
Sarah Jarosz & Dominick Leslie (Deadly Gentlemen)
3:00 Master Bass
Alan Bartram (Travelin’ McCourys)
4:15 Beginning Americana Guitar
Scott Law

Madrona
10:00 Beginning Fiddle
Mary Simkin Maass
11:15 Fiddling Techniques for Bluegrass
Joe Weed

Larch
9:00 Festival Yoga
Lucy Weberling
11:00 Gypsy Jazz Guitar
Grant Gordy (The David Grisman Sextet)
12:30 Bass – Playing in the Pocket
Amanda Kowalski (Della Mae)
1:45 Beginning Bluegrass Rhythm on the Guitar
Yusuf Kilgore
3:00 Fiddle Technique Master Class
Kimber Ludiker (Della Mae)
4:15 Resomania
Tom Foote (plus guests)

Saturday Festival Workshops

1st Floor

Evergreen Ballroom – G
10:00 Making a Song Your Own
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
11:30 Mandolin Improvisation
Jenni Lynn Gardner (Della Mae)

Evergreen Ballroom – H
10:00 Spice up your Songs – Band Arranging
Wayward Vessel
11:30 Intro to Bluegrass Jamming – All Instruments
Robert Bulkley (Howdy Boys)

Evergreen Ballroom – I
10:00 ToddlerGrass
Hilary Field & Katie Peterson
11:30 Finding Freedom from Frets: Fiddle de-mystified
Darol Anger, Brittany Haas, Tristan Clarridge & Mike Barnett

2nd Floor

Regency Ballroom – Main
10:00 Intermediate Clogging
Mary Jensen
11:15 Interpreting Old-time Music for the Modern Audience
Pert Near Sandstone

Cedar Ballroom
10:00 Mandolin Technique
John Moore (California)
11:15 Mandolin Workshop
Sharon Gilchrist
12:30 Bluegrass Harmony Licks, Tricks and Troubleshooting
Sue Thompson & Don Share
1:45 Guitar – Solo, Fingerstyle and Accompanying a Singer
Rich Moore (Mollie O’Brien)
3:00 Right Hand Rhythm Techniques on Guitar
Courtney Hartman (Della Mae)
4:15 The Good, Bad, the Ugly: Backing Up the Song
Darol Anger, Sharon Gilchrist, Emy Phelps

3rd Floor

Juniper
10:00 Banjo
Troy Engle (Kenny Smith)
11:15 Intermediate Guitar
Kenny Smith
1:45 Cello
Rushad Eggleston
3:00 Beginning Old Time Rhythm Guitar
Charmaine Slaven
5:00 Hosted Old Time Jam
Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck

Laurel
10:00 Dobro
Orville Johnson
11:15 Clawhammer Banjo
Charlie Beck
12:30 Gypsy Jazz & Swing Chords for Mandolin
Tim Connell
1:45 Idiot’s Guide to the Mandolin II
Ricky Gene Powell
3:00 Intermediate Gypsy Jazz Guitar
Yusuf Kilgore & Jim Char

Madrona
10:00 Constructing a Break for a Bluegrass Song – Basics of Improvisation
Mary Simkin Maass
11:15 Songwriting Workshop
Emy Phelps
12:30 Intermediate Americana Guitar
Scott Law
1:45 Beginning Rhythm Guitar
Peter Rothbart

Larch
9:00 Festival Yoga
Lucy Weberling
10:15 “Afromericana” with Mamajowali
Mamajowali (Joe Craven, Mamadou Sidibe, Walter Strauss)
11:30 Banjo
John Hickman (California)
12:45 Bass Workshop
Eric Thorin & Mike Bub
2:00 Beginning Guitar
Peter Rothbart
3:15 The Art of the Mandolin Duo
Tim Connell & Jack Dwyer
5:00 Hosted Gypsy Jazz Jam
Yusuf Kilgore & Jim Char

Auditorium
11:00 Polishing your Act: A Live Performance: Master Class for Solo Artists and Bands
Vicki Ambinder
12:30 Recording Acoustic Instruments
Joe Weed

Wintergrass 2011 Performers-Darol Anger & The Republic of Strings

 

A Wintergrass favorite, fiddler Darol Anger returns to Wintergrass 2011 with his band The Republic of Strings for two days. For those of you that have seen the Republic of Strings before may have not seen this configuration of string players. Darol was an original member of the David Grisman Quintet where he played his blend of jazzy,classical,gypsy fiddle style for 10 years. Darol went on to play in a variety of instrumental groups including The Duo (with Mike Marshall), Montreux , Turtle Island String Quartet and Fiddlers Four. Along with his performing Darol has been very involved with violin education.

Anger helped found the String Resource Board of the International Association of Jazz Educators. He has led seminars at the Stanford, Oberlin and Amherst Jazz Worshops, regularly teaches at the Berklee School of Music and the Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp, and at workshops and clinics from Campo Do Jordao, Brazil to the Music Conservatory at Bremen, Germany. He has released two popular instructional videos for Homespun Tapes, is a Contributing Editor for Strings magazine, and serves on the ASTA Editorial Board.

The recipient of a 1995 California Arts Council Composer Fellowship, Anger was nominated in 1997 for the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts. He is a McDowell Fellow and received a Composers’ Residency from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has been a featured soloist on a number of motion picture soundtracks, and he wrote and performed the score for the Sundance Award-winning film Best Offer. He was the winner of the Frets Magazine Readers’ Poll for Best Jazz Violinist for four years running. he is the Music Director of the StringNation Festival, an annual contemporary music festival hosted by Rutgers University.
Darol always surrounds himself with stellar musicians and The Republic of Strings features some great players.   Mike Block on cello has been
hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”  Mike is the singer, cellist and composer for the Mike Block Band, which features a unique mixture of original songs and instrumentals drawing upon multiple genres. In addition to the MBB, Mike performs with the Triboro Trio featuring contemporary arrangements of traditional and new folk music from around the world. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, joined Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio. In addition to Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, Mike also plays in the Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, and New York Arabic Orchestra.

Guitarist Scott Law a brilliant and versatile instrumentalist, Law has connected onstage with many of the foremost in contemporary American music – among them Phil Lesh & Friends, String Cheese Incident, Melvin Seals, Bill Nershi, Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Railroad Earth and many others.  Scott has scored and performed music for film and television, including an original song for the CBS primetime feature “Viva Laughlin” in 2007 and scores for 2 full-length documentaries by The Columbia Land Trust and Tom’s Of Maine. Like Darol he is an experienced music educator, having taught at workshops, camps, schools, festivals and private sessions throughout his career.

Violinist Lauren Rioux also performs with  Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly, and the StringNation Orkestra. A classically trained violinist and violist, Lauren discovered traditional fiddle music in 2001 at the first National American String Teachers’ Association Convention.  Her powerful sound, vibrant rhythmic sense, fluency in old-time, Celtic and Scandinavian fiddle styles, and her tremendous personal charm add depth and interest to any ensemble. Lauren plays an active role in her native state of Maine’s music education network and served two terms as the state president for Maine ASTA. She is a highly sought teacher and workshop clinician, leading classes at Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camps as well as National and State Conferences held by the American String Teacher’s Association.