Sweet Music
April 30, 2005 - McCarthy's Kitchen
This week we will hear from McCarthy's Kitchen, at the music tent, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Come hear what the band is cookin' up!posted April 26, 2005 | permanent link to this article
April 23, 2005 - Michael Shay
Michael Shay
Catch this outstanding artist from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Music Tent. Enjoy a treat of culinary persuasion while you listen in on this musical treat.
Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Michael Shay is living in the Lone Star State once again.. In addition to leading his own band, he's been on tour with Libby Kirkpatrick, with Alive and Well (a duo with Geoff Union of the Two High String Band) and has been seen performing (on cello) in Austin, at the Kerville Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rocky Mountain Folksfest, and High Sierra Music Festival accompanying songwriters such as Eliza Gilkyson, Johnsmith, Brian Joseph, Zoe Lewis, David Amram, and even jamming with jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan. He keeps a regular Monday night residency with his band at Ruta Maya.
Growing up in a musical family, Michael played piano, cello, guitar, and bass for ten years before starting to write songs. At that point, he set out travelling through Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, learning the folk music of whomever he happened upon, and sharing with them the Texas music he knew. He carried his cello and guitar by foot, mule, horse, and hitch all the way back to the U.S. with enough vivid memories to fuel the writing of two albums: Alive and Well’s "Life is Short" (a duet with Geoff Union of the Two High String Band), and the new CD, "Lines of Darkness, Lines of Light ". With guest appearances by Eleanor Whitmore on violin (Slaid Cleaves, Susan Gibson), Raphael Bas on guitar and harmonica, Billy Bright, Geoff Union, Bryn Davies, Alex Coke, Anais Mitchell, Libby Kirkpatrick, Idgy Vaughn, Elizabeth Suggs, Melanie Hersch, Aaron Lack, and Jeremy Brown and Doug Marcis on drums, "Lines of Darkness..." is a 99% acoustic, self-produced project in which Michael can be heard playing guitar, piano, bass, cello, mandola, pump organ, and percussion, among other instruments.
Michael contributed music to the Academy Award-Nominated film "Become the Sky", has performed and recorded with Libby Kirkpatrick, Eliza Gilkyson, Johnsmith, Will Taylor, Paula Nelson, Brian Joseph, Zoe Lewis, members of String Cheese Incident, the Onion Creek Crawdadies, Melanie Hersch,and Victoria Woodworth. He also teaches composition, theory, improvisation, guitar, cello, and bass to students of all ages, and produces and engineers recordings for musicians of all kinds.
Photo and bio from website: http://www.michaelshay.com
posted April 20, 2005 | permanent link to this article
April 16,,2005 -- Laura Freeman
Laura Freeman writes and performs educational programs for children. Laura’s writing is dynamic. She has a winter show for the underprivileged snowless children of the south. She also has a very exciting palette of color songs where children experience the natural world around them one color at a time. "Orange, it makes me want to cha-cha-cha". Sometimes she just goes crazy and turns everyone into monsters, lightening bugs or whatever else strikes her fancy. She has appeared on the stages of; The Vancouver Folk Festival, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Kerrville Folk Festival of Texas, Blue Skies Festival of Ontario and all points in between.
In 2002, Laura Freeman recorded a whole slew of hilarious and educational sing-a-long songs. The Solar System, Alternative Energy, Composting and Math are just some of the subjects explored on her first children's album, Laura Freeman a Baker's Dozen. Laura's CD was voted one of the top children’s album’s of 2004 by www.JustPlainFolks.org
Her song ‘Fruit Boogie’ was selected to appear on "Shaking it Up! With Fruits and Veggies" an award winning CD produced in 2004 for the Los Angeles Unified School District Nutrition Network to encourage children, teachers, families and school community members to eat more fruits and vegetables and engage in adequate physical activity.
Come sing along with her from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the music tent!
posted April 13, 2005 | permanent link to this article
April 9, 2005 - Full day of music
A full day of music at the Market accompanies our mood of life and food and celebration in conjunction with the Louisiana Swamp Romp. Come join us for the fun!9-10 Stephen Kearley, Bill Corsbie and Erik Rivas-Wood, folky bluegrass
10 - 11:30 Charlie Hurtin, country
11:45 - 1 p.m. The Meter Men
posted April 6, 2005 | permanent link to this article
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