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Thursday,
July 29
8pm |
$15 |
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Michael Tarbox
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Taking listeners to a place where country blues,
Appalachian string band music and gospel come together in powerful and
unexpected combinations, Michael Tarbox is a smokey-voiced singer with a pure
backwoods style. He’s also a killer slide guitarist, and possesses an uncanny
ability to make any song he plays sound new, as if it were somehow being sung
for the first time. His band, The Tarbox Ramblers, has released two CDs
on the Rounder label, toured with Robert Plant, and made a name for itself with
a rough-hewn, direct sound that’s been praised by Rolling Stone, The New Yorker
and NPR’s All Things Considered.
Tonight, in a special CD release show, Tarbox
will play The Ramblers' music along with selections from his new solo album,
"My Primitive Joy." The album's a gem, and we're eager to welcome Tarbox
back to The Palms for what promises to be a great show.
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Saturday,
July 31
8:30pm |
$15 |
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Sapo Guapo
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www.sapoguapo.com |
Sapo Guapo is a 10 piece Latin dance band based in
Vacaville that has cultivated a sizeable following for its Afro-Cuban sound. The
band has a large repertoire of familiar Latin dance music from Cuba, Puerto
Rico, Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico and yes, New York. The band also plays several
original songs composed by our co-founder, Juan Alejandro. While Salsa is
featured, the band also performs other popular dance rhythms such as the
Cha-Cha, Merengue, Cumbia and an occasional romantic Bolero. The energy created
by the band won’t allow your audience/guests to sit still. Four members of the
band have traveled to Cuba to study with famous Afro-Cubano performers. Other
members have roots in “San Pancho” (San Francisco’s Mission District).
The band also works with stunning Salsa dance instructor/ dancer, Angeline
Lucia, on select engagements. Last season they had
Grammy award winning horn players Julius Melendez and Abel Figueroa from
Santana’s band playing on many of their gigs.
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Monday,
August 2
8pm |
$25 |
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Dar Williams
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www.darwilliams.com
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The Palms is very pleased to present pop folk singer
songwriter Dar Williams. Williams has emerged over the years a most eloquent
poet whose observations on the personal and the political are captured with a
maturity not seen with most other artists. Her songs are not self analyses but
rather astute and nuanced character studies of people, places, and societies.
Over her career, Williams has released seven recordings, ranging from acoustic
folk to more lushly arranged folk pop. She also recorded and toured with kindred
souls Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell as part of their “Cry, Cry, Cry”
Cd and tour. Early in her career after opening for Joan Baez, Baez took a
liking to Williams’ work and has done tours and collaborated with her. .
"Dar Williams may be the best female
singer/songwriter in America today." - Stereo-type
"A new generation of pop-folk enthusiasts
lauds her as one of the genre's central figures." - Paste Magazine
"Williams has a beautiful singing voice, and
most of the tunes, their poetic images and warm melodies effectively demonstrate
her talents." - Associated Press
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Thursday,
August 5
8pm |
$20 |
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Steve Poltz
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www.poltz.com |
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Steve Poltz is a Canadian-born
American singer-songwriter and guitarist based in San Diego,
California. He is a founding member of the indie-rock band The
Rugburns and is best known for co-writing Jewel’s song "You Were
Meant for Me". He appeared in the video, and has worked with
Jewel on many occasions, such as tours, her platinum and diamond
albums, and singles.
As a solo artist, he often
performs acoustic-only "good old-fashioned sing-along" shows.
His songs feature simple, poignant melodies and quirky,
satirical lyrics.
“Poltz has the impish sense of
humor that lands mouthy but harmless boys in Saturday detention
and possibly not-so-harmless men in the relationship
doghouse—after a slap, or a drink, in the face or two…”
--The Washington Times
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Friday,
August 6
8:30pm |
$30 |
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Kinky Friedman
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www.kinkycigars.com
kinkyfriedman.com |
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Former Texas gubernatorial
candidate, political commentator and self-proclaimed “author,
columnist, musician and beautician,”
Kinky Friedman is performing on the West Coast this summer for
the first time in nearly 20 years. Two members of Kinky's
seminal band the Texas Jewboys, Little Jewford and Washington
Ratso, will join him on the tour. No prisoners will be taken.
Only the strong shall survive.
The Kinkster, often
referred to as the “Mark Twain of Texas,” will also be
hawking his wares, in this case his most recent (limited
edition) books, Heroes of a Texas Childhood and What
Would Kinky Do?, both of which will be available for
purchase and signing at the shows. As Kinky has often said,
he’ll “sign anything but bad legislation.” This includes
any of his dozens of top-selling books or columns, or even his
Kinky Friedman Cigars, which, rumor has it, will also be
available at the venues. Bring it, and he will sign it. And now,
for the first time in almost a generation, folks on the West
Coast will get to hear Kinky perform (live!) tunes like “Ride
’Em Jewboy,” “Sold American”
and “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.”
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Saturday,
August 7
8:30pm |
$20 |
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Carlos Reyes
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www.carlosreyesmusic.com |
Carlos Reyes recording artist, producer, engineer,
harpist and violinist-- has been breaking musical barriers since his first
public performance at the age of five. Born in Paraguay South America. He began
his musical education at the age of three and a half on the violin. A few years
later, his father, a musical and national hero in Paraguay, dared young Carlos
to learn the complicated 36 string native Paraguayan harp. Being called a child
prodigy at an early age he took his fathers challenge seriously, Carlos
purchased his first harp for $50.00 when he was just ten years old. Two weeks
later, he earned a double encore and $250 at his first professional harp
concert. Since then he has taken the Harp and its music to new and ground
breaking levels.
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Friday,
August 13
8:30pm |
$15 |
The Stone River
Boys
featuring Dave Gonzalez and Mike Barfield
I See Hawks in LA |
http://www.myspace.com/stoneriverboys
http://www.iseehawks.com |
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This evening we thrilled to present the
great country funk of The Stone River Boys featuring Dave Gonzalez and Mike
Barfield. After tearing it up in the Lone Star State and across the country for
nearly two years, Austin’s Stone River Boys are celebrating their new recording
called Love on the Dial. The Texas-based quintet features the talents of two
well-traveled roots music practitioners — guitarist Dave Gonzalez, formerly a
driving force in the Hacienda Brothers and the Paladins, and vocalist Mike
Barfield, “The Tyrant of Texas Funk” and onetime leader of The Hollisters.
Together, Barfield and Gonzalez have fashioned a gutsy crossbreed of country and
R&B they’ve labeled “country funk” blending honky tonk, deep country, and roots
rock with classic soul and funk. It’s a unique and thoroughly engrossing sound
with Gonzalez’ perfect playing and lead singer Mike Barfield’s great singing and
unique flair. Gonzalez and Barfield, are joined in the current edition of the
Stone River Boys by bassist Scott Esbeck, pedal steel guitarist Gary Newcomb and
drummer Mark Patterson, who all played in Austin singer-songwriter Bruce
Robison’s group.
Playing first will be the fabulous LA
based alt country band I See Hawks in LA. The Hawks are among the country’s
finest bands that combine a traditional country sound with a dash or two or
psychedilia all supporting some of the best songwriting going on. Lead singer
and primary wordsmith for the band is Rob Waller, whose smart, incisive, and
evocative songs have become favorites around here. Rounding out the band is Paul
Lacques on guitar, Paul Marshall on bass, and drummer Shawn Nourse.
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Thursday,
August 19
8pm |
$25 |
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Antsy McClain &
the Trailer Park Troubadours |
http://www.unhitched.com |
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This evening we welcome the return of
the great music and crazy genius of Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park
Troubadours. Antsy and the gang sing about all things “Trailer Park”. It Ain’t
Home (Til You Take the Wheels Off) is probably their signature tune and is just
the starting off point…other classics include Aunt Beula's Road Kill Overcoat,
Skinny Women Ain't Hip, Living in Aluminum, Cubic Zirconium in the Rough, I
Married Up and lots more
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Friday
September 3
8:30pm |
$20 |
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Jimmy Thackery
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http://www.jimmythackery.com |
Jimmy Thackery is one the premier
guitar pyrotechnician on the blues scene today. Thackery became
widely known as the innovative guitarist with the Nighthawks,
one of the hardest-working and most popular blues bands of the
'70's and '80's. Starting in 1974, the group recorded over
twenty albums and constantly toured the U.S., Europe, Canada and
Japan. Jimmy was the heart, soul, and adrenaline of the
Nighthawks sound during his fourteen year tenure with the
Washington, D.C.-based band, creating a distinctively raw,
powerful guitar style and establishing a reputation as a
spectacular soloist. Thackery has been acclaimed as one of the
hottest live acts around, with his jaw-dropping performances
becoming the stuff of legend.
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Thursday,
September 9
8pm |
$22 |
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Eliza Gilkyson
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http://www.elizagilkyson.com
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The shows over the past couple years
here with Austin’s Eliza Gilkyson have been some of the most beautiful and rich
performances we’ve had in recent memory. Her voice, a rare combination of
beautiful vulnerability and worldly experience, is perfection. Her songs address
things both personal and political and she writes them with a real poet’s touch.
“An exquisite weaver of story-songs
that strike at the heart of personal experience . . .” - No Depression
Magazine
"The title "artist" is bestowed on
anyone who makes a recording, but in Gilkyson's case it truly applies. " …
poetic, honest..." - St Louis Post Dispatch
“Masterfully structured, startlingly
intimate songs in a beautifully lived in voice . . .” - Boston Globe . |
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