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| Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are held at: AMSDconcerts 4650 Mansfield Street San Diego, CA 92116 (619) 303-8176 All shows start at 7:30 pm, unless otherwise noted |
| MAILING ADDRESS: 1205 Buena Vista Avenue ~ Spring Valley, CA 91977 |
| Neil Innes - May 1 @ 7:30 |
Neil Innes first gained recognition because of his work with The Bonzo Dog Band during the mid to late Sixties (he
wrote their biggest hit, The Urban Spaceman).
Innes went on to collaborate with members of Monty Python and released several solo albums in the Seventies. In
1978, Innes and Eric Idle of Python created a Beatles spoof band, The Rutles, and filmed a mockumentary of the
same name. Innes then became the star of a BBC television series, The Innes Book of Records which ran from
1979 to 1981.
Innes now tours England and the United States regularly and continues to record.
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| Bert Lams & Tom Griesgraber - May 9 @ 7:30 |
Michael Chapdelaine is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world's top
competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres; the Guitar Foundation of
America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle
Championships.
He is Professor of Music and head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico,
and has given concerts and master classes throughout the world including, China,
Thailand, Malaysia, Peru, Venezuela, Taiwan, Indonesia and at institutions such as,
University of Miami, Mannes School of Music, University of Texas, and California
State University. His teachers included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia. His
repertoire includedes everything….Bach to Motown, blues to cowboy songs, as well as
his own compositions of musical landscapes, portraits and short stories.
competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres; the Guitar Foundation of
America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle
Championships.
He is Professor of Music and head of guitar studies at the University of New Mexico,
and has given concerts and master classes throughout the world including, China,
Thailand, Malaysia, Peru, Venezuela, Taiwan, Indonesia and at institutions such as,
University of Miami, Mannes School of Music, University of Texas, and California
State University. His teachers included the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia. His
repertoire includedes everything….Bach to Motown, blues to cowboy songs, as well as
his own compositions of musical landscapes, portraits and short stories.
VIDEO: Click HERE to watch
- Founder of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
- "Unofficial seventh member" of Monty Python
VIDEO: Click HERE to watch
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| Dave Alvin - May 8 @ 7:30 |
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After Dave Alvin served as a respected member of the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene,
especially its rockabilly and cowpunk strains, with his genre-crossing guitar playing for The
Blasters, The Flesh Eaters, X and the Knitters, he started a solo career. Alvin’s first solo
album, entitled Romeo’s Escape (1987) in the United States and Every Night About This Time
in England, added a purer country influence along with a larger side-portion of the blues.
After releasing Museum of Heart in 1993, Alvin began to turn his attention to acoustic music
with 1994’s King of California, and over the next several years Alvin moved back and forth
between hard-edged roots rock and more introspective acoustic material that still honored his
influences (and allowed him to display a greater range as a vocalist).
In 2000, Alvin recorded a collection of traditional folk and blues classics, Public Domain:
Songs From the Wild Land, which earned him a Grammy award for Best Contemporary Folk
Album.
| Bluegrass Etc - May 2 @ 7:30 |
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Bluegrass Etc. performs a hard-hitting show of instrumental expertise, vocal precision and stage personality that never fails to entertain. The group
is well known internationally and tours more than eighteen countries per year, performing more than 200 shows annually at festivals and in concert.
Bluegrass Etc. consists of: John Moore (mandolin, guitar, vocals); Dennis Caplinger (banjo, fiddle, vocals); and Bill Bryson (bass, vocals). The band
has its roots in bluegrass music, but has evolved over the years into a much more dynamic and eclectic acoustic band.
JOHN MOORE: In addition to being the mandolinist, guitarist and vocalist for Bluegrass Etc., John was also the mandolinist with the internationally
acclaimed band California, the International Bluegrass Music Association's 1992, 1993 and 1994 Instrumental Band of the Year. John's musical
performances have led him throughout the U.S. and Canada, Europe and Japan, as well as into the studio doing sessions for other artists. He does
radio and television commercials, movie sound tracks including "Blaze" for Touchstone Pictures, "El Diablo" for HBO, "Christmas in Connecticut"
in which he also appeared and "The Spitfire Grill" for Hallmark Hall Of Fame. John also recorded the soundtrack for, and appeared in the CBS
Television Special "The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies" in a four-piece band along with Roy Clark, Byron Berline and Earl Scruggs. He recently
recorded a Grammy nominated album with Byron Berline, Vince Gill, Bill Bryson, Dennis Caplinger, Rick Cunha and Jann Browne, and another with
Mike Oldfield of "Tubular Bells" fame.
DENNIS CAPLINGER: Grammy Award winner Dennis Caplinger is a multi-talented musician who has toured and recorded with many different
artists including Bluegrass Etc., Vince Gill, Eric Clapton and JJ Cale (on their Grammy Award winning album The Road To Escondido), Chris Hillman
and Herb Pedersen, Kenny Loggins, Juice Newton, B.J. Thomas, America, Byron Berline, Dan Crary, Richard Greene, Chris Thile, Sean Watkins,
John Reischmann, Ray Park, Jann Browne, Kevin Welch, Kelly Willis, Ray Price, Rita Coolidge, Buck Howdy (another Grammy winner!) and The
Academy of Country Music Awards Show Band. His busy touring schedule as Banjoist/Fiddler with Bluegrass Etc. has taken him all over the world
and yielded three critically acclaimed albums to date, one of which, Home Is Where The Heart Is, was voted one of the top ten bluegrass recordings of
the year by the Chicago Tribune. A highly sought-after player/producer in the West-coast studio scene, he has worked on countless jingles,
commercials, cartoons and movies and has his own production company based in Vista, Ca.
BILL BRYSON: Bill Bryson is one of the legendary bass players of the L.A. country / bluegrass music scene, and has been held in high esteem for
the last 30 years. He was a founding member of the Desert Rose Band and the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, and has toured extensively with Dan
Fogelberg, Chris Hillman (of The Byrds), Bernie Leadon (of Eagles), the Bluegrass Cardinals and Country Gazette. Bill has recorded with Merle
Haggard, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmy Lou Harris and The Oak Ridge Boys, to name a few. He has been nominated
for two Grammys, and has won the Academy of Country Music's Bass Player of the Year Award multiple times. His credits also include feature films
such as "The Long Riders", "Cannery Row" and "Bound for Glory", as well as numerous television and radio commercials.
is well known internationally and tours more than eighteen countries per year, performing more than 200 shows annually at festivals and in concert.
Bluegrass Etc. consists of: John Moore (mandolin, guitar, vocals); Dennis Caplinger (banjo, fiddle, vocals); and Bill Bryson (bass, vocals). The band
has its roots in bluegrass music, but has evolved over the years into a much more dynamic and eclectic acoustic band.
JOHN MOORE: In addition to being the mandolinist, guitarist and vocalist for Bluegrass Etc., John was also the mandolinist with the internationally
acclaimed band California, the International Bluegrass Music Association's 1992, 1993 and 1994 Instrumental Band of the Year. John's musical
performances have led him throughout the U.S. and Canada, Europe and Japan, as well as into the studio doing sessions for other artists. He does
radio and television commercials, movie sound tracks including "Blaze" for Touchstone Pictures, "El Diablo" for HBO, "Christmas in Connecticut"
in which he also appeared and "The Spitfire Grill" for Hallmark Hall Of Fame. John also recorded the soundtrack for, and appeared in the CBS
Television Special "The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies" in a four-piece band along with Roy Clark, Byron Berline and Earl Scruggs. He recently
recorded a Grammy nominated album with Byron Berline, Vince Gill, Bill Bryson, Dennis Caplinger, Rick Cunha and Jann Browne, and another with
Mike Oldfield of "Tubular Bells" fame.
DENNIS CAPLINGER: Grammy Award winner Dennis Caplinger is a multi-talented musician who has toured and recorded with many different
artists including Bluegrass Etc., Vince Gill, Eric Clapton and JJ Cale (on their Grammy Award winning album The Road To Escondido), Chris Hillman
and Herb Pedersen, Kenny Loggins, Juice Newton, B.J. Thomas, America, Byron Berline, Dan Crary, Richard Greene, Chris Thile, Sean Watkins,
John Reischmann, Ray Park, Jann Browne, Kevin Welch, Kelly Willis, Ray Price, Rita Coolidge, Buck Howdy (another Grammy winner!) and The
Academy of Country Music Awards Show Band. His busy touring schedule as Banjoist/Fiddler with Bluegrass Etc. has taken him all over the world
and yielded three critically acclaimed albums to date, one of which, Home Is Where The Heart Is, was voted one of the top ten bluegrass recordings of
the year by the Chicago Tribune. A highly sought-after player/producer in the West-coast studio scene, he has worked on countless jingles,
commercials, cartoons and movies and has his own production company based in Vista, Ca.
BILL BRYSON: Bill Bryson is one of the legendary bass players of the L.A. country / bluegrass music scene, and has been held in high esteem for
the last 30 years. He was a founding member of the Desert Rose Band and the Laurel Canyon Ramblers, and has toured extensively with Dan
Fogelberg, Chris Hillman (of The Byrds), Bernie Leadon (of Eagles), the Bluegrass Cardinals and Country Gazette. Bill has recorded with Merle
Haggard, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmy Lou Harris and The Oak Ridge Boys, to name a few. He has been nominated
for two Grammys, and has won the Academy of Country Music's Bass Player of the Year Award multiple times. His credits also include feature films
such as "The Long Riders", "Cannery Row" and "Bound for Glory", as well as numerous television and radio commercials.
- "Bluegrass Etc. is a band that we definitely want to hear more often around
here." ~ The Stuttgarter Zeitung (Germany) - "Dennis Caplinger, a jack of all strings, provides lustrous fiddle and acoustic
guitar work . . ." ~ Los Angeles Times - ". . . some of the cleanest, smoothest, most exquisite bluegrass guitar licks in the
country." ~ Bluegrass Now Magazine
Reserved Seating - Rows 5+: $20
Dinner Package - Rows 1 - 4: $45 (click HERE for details)
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| Michael Chapdelaine - May 14 @ 7:30 |
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| ~ Two world class performers. One diverse evening of instrumental music ~ |
Since 2004, California Guitar Trio member Bert Lams and Chapman
Stick player Tom Griesgraber have been organizing tours in the US
together, performing primarily as a duo but also dual soloists. Their
music draws from their highly eclectic backgrounds and includes
everything from the music of Bach and Chopin to original pieces and
California Guitar Trio (CGT) covers that range from progressive rock to
spaghetti westerns.
As a member of the renowned California Guitar Trio, guitarist Bert Lams
nightly blends musical styles as diverse as Beethoven Symphonies, Bach
preludes, progressive rock, surf guitar and spaghetti westerns together
with a unique cello-like guitar tuning. An honors graduate of the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Belgium, Lams recently released his first solo
CD Nascent which features the music of Bach adapted to steel string
acoustic guitar.
Stick player Tom Griesgraber have been organizing tours in the US
together, performing primarily as a duo but also dual soloists. Their
music draws from their highly eclectic backgrounds and includes
everything from the music of Bach and Chopin to original pieces and
California Guitar Trio (CGT) covers that range from progressive rock to
spaghetti westerns.
As a member of the renowned California Guitar Trio, guitarist Bert Lams
nightly blends musical styles as diverse as Beethoven Symphonies, Bach
preludes, progressive rock, surf guitar and spaghetti westerns together
with a unique cello-like guitar tuning. An honors graduate of the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Belgium, Lams recently released his first solo
CD Nascent which features the music of Bach adapted to steel string
acoustic guitar.
Tom Griesgraber is one of the world’s most active players of the Chapman Stick, a unique 12-string guitar/bass hybrid. An honors
graduate of Berklee College of Music, he has performed across the US and Europe as a soloist and with his groups Marotta/ Griesgraber
and Agent 22. Sketchbook, his latest solo CD journeys from instrumental rock, to jazz and classical music with original compositions and
unique takes on well known covers.
graduate of Berklee College of Music, he has performed across the US and Europe as a soloist and with his groups Marotta/ Griesgraber
and Agent 22. Sketchbook, his latest solo CD journeys from instrumental rock, to jazz and classical music with original compositions and
unique takes on well known covers.