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Sunday, July 24
Ryan Smith (Four Year Bender)
Matt Bauer
@ The Rite Spot
2099 Folsom St. @ 22nd
5:00 pm EARLY show
FREE (donation to musicians)
"...tear-in-ma-beer, down-but-not-out hopeful heartbreak that marks
the best traditional country music."
www.fouryearbender.com
"Spare yet vivid, the songs of Nandina pair Matt
Bauer's rich vocal with drifting antique banjo lines
from another time.A Kentucky transplant,Bauer's now a Bay
Area dweller who ties Southern musical traditions to those of
contemporary, local folk revivalists. Kindling the kind
of warm folk that fellow San Franciscan Jolie Holland
revitalizes, and meshing it with the darker explorations
of The Court & Spark or Virgil Shaw, Matt Bauer drifts
down his own inlet."
- Miles of Music
mattbauermusic.com/
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Monday, July 25
Toshio Hirano
8:00 pm
Free (donation to musicians)
@ The Rite Spot
2099 Folsom St. @ 22nd
TOSHIO HIRANO was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan
embraced everything American, including American popular music. As a
teenager he became interested in bluegrass and country music. One of
his first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman.
He later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers.
Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a
family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass
Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated
to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in
Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has
been his home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars
around town. The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales
of trains and cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain
Toshio's imagination and art.
"His faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes, with substantial nods to legends like Jimmie Rodgers, is something to behold."
Beth Lisick/SF Gate
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7/31
Meric Long
Leyna Noel
8:00 pm
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 22nd
www.ritespotcafe.net
Free (donation to musicians)
"We might stretch comparisons to Elliott Smith or Simon and Garfunkel when we hear such impeccable guitar work and such longing, tender lyrics. Pretty much as lush as the singer-songwriter thing gets."
www.mericlong.com
www.myspace.com/mericlong
Song by song, Leyna Noel mourns the smallness of family, the distance and death that keeps her dusty matriarchs and patriarchs away. Her music is the cleanest way for her to find the lost and hold the far away. The solace she finds in singing, so do her audiences in listening. Following an April performance, one woman responded with a single word: incantatory.
myspace.com/leynanoel
(do listen to the song here called orphantine!)
Ryan Smith (Four Year Bender)
Matt Bauer
@ The Rite Spot
2099 Folsom St. @ 22nd
5:00 pm EARLY show
FREE (donation to musicians)
"...tear-in-ma-beer, down-but-not-out hopeful heartbreak that marks
the best traditional country music."
www.fouryearbender.com
"Spare yet vivid, the songs of Nandina pair Matt
Bauer's rich vocal with drifting antique banjo lines
from another time.A Kentucky transplant,Bauer's now a Bay
Area dweller who ties Southern musical traditions to those of
contemporary, local folk revivalists. Kindling the kind
of warm folk that fellow San Franciscan Jolie Holland
revitalizes, and meshing it with the darker explorations
of The Court & Spark or Virgil Shaw, Matt Bauer drifts
down his own inlet."
- Miles of Music
mattbauermusic.com/
---
Monday, July 25
Toshio Hirano
8:00 pm
Free (donation to musicians)
@ The Rite Spot
2099 Folsom St. @ 22nd
TOSHIO HIRANO was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan
embraced everything American, including American popular music. As a
teenager he became interested in bluegrass and country music. One of
his first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman.
He later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers.
Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a
family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass
Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated
to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in
Atlanta, Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has
been his home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars
around town. The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales
of trains and cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain
Toshio's imagination and art.
"His faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes, with substantial nods to legends like Jimmie Rodgers, is something to behold."
Beth Lisick/SF Gate
---
---
7/31
Meric Long
Leyna Noel
8:00 pm
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 22nd
www.ritespotcafe.net
Free (donation to musicians)
"We might stretch comparisons to Elliott Smith or Simon and Garfunkel when we hear such impeccable guitar work and such longing, tender lyrics. Pretty much as lush as the singer-songwriter thing gets."
www.mericlong.com
www.myspace.com/mericlong
Song by song, Leyna Noel mourns the smallness of family, the distance and death that keeps her dusty matriarchs and patriarchs away. Her music is the cleanest way for her to find the lost and hold the far away. The solace she finds in singing, so do her audiences in listening. Following an April performance, one woman responded with a single word: incantatory.
myspace.com/leynanoel
(do listen to the song here called orphantine!)
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