Music

June 22nd, Friday Night Open Air Farm Table Dinner – Samabada, Gopal Slavonic – Flamenco guitar and dancers.

Tickets $40.00 soon available at Briar Patch and Brown Paper Tickets

2012 MUSIC LINE-UP

Andrju – For the past 17 years Andjru has been devoted to creating experiences that enrich, inspire, educate and entertain.  His music and dance program/assembly is active in numerous schools throughout Nevada City and Grass Valley as InDidjInUs Kids Music and Dance.  As a musician, dancer and storyteller with a deep connection to Aboriginal Australia, Andjru’s intention is to generate confident, creative, and environmentally connected music makers, dreamers and dancers regardless of age or background.  The joy of music is alive and well and he intends to move your soul with the ancient sounds of the didjeridu, percussion, song, dance and storytelling.

Haute Trash - Fashion created out of trash, made to empower, educate and entertain people into re-using, re-thinking and recycling.

Beaucoup Chapeaux - From a beautiful river blessed area of Northeastern California, Beaucoup Chapeaux’s music is richly arranged and performed on piano accordion, violin, oboe, English horn, tenor guitar, banjo, dobro, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, flute, piccolo, and voice. “Maggie McKaig and Luke Wilson are two of the finest musicians, singers, and songwriters performing today.” –Utah Phillips.

The Earls of Newtown - Earles of Newtown is an acoustic eight piece multi generational band. Our music focus is around Dixieland and Swing music that was popular in the 1920′s. Our music styles range from original Jazz compositions to 20′s Swing Era standards such as Al Bowlly to Bob Wills and Hank Williams. Our music has the tendency to invoke dancing .

Virgil Shaw – Mr. Shaw gets his extroverted waltzes and rockers from a honky-tonk somewhere in the “wilderness of this world” that he sings about in his cracked voice. It’s a place where the mystic Americana of the Band meets Mr. Shaw’s own surreal tales and hard-luck images.” The New York Times

Zion Roots- Audiences love dancing and swaying to the music of Zion Roots as they play original roots reggae with cultural island vibes as well as music from Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, and Culture.

Zion Roots band was created in 1999 in the Santa Cruz Mountains when Rasta countryman, Nicholas Gregoire, from the Caribbean Isle of Dominica, began making his own reggae music. Infusing a positive Rasta message of peace and love in a roots reggae style, Zion Roots performs to packed houses at a variety of festivals, clubs, and private events through out Northern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and has opened for major reggae artists such as Culture, Burning Spear, Damian Marley, The Wailers, Junior Reed, Lucky Dube, Israel Vibration, Anthony B, Luciano, and Eek-a-Mouse.

Nicolas Gregoire, on lead vocals and percussion has been singing and song writing since the age of eighteen. Hank “John” Joseph, also from the Island of Dominica, performs on lead vocals, lead guitar, and background. Cliff Maxwell from Trinidad plays bass and directs the band. Filling in on keyboards is Dennis from Grenada, Tete from Africa, and Nicholas Newman from Bermuda. David Larry, reggae musician from Colorado, fills in on guitar and sound.

Whild Notes – is James Carlson mandolin and guitar. Al Ferguson banjo. and Allen Rogers gut bucket bass. The band is an off shoot from Ragged but Right, where as the name says we try a  bit more freedom in our expression, also a few more of James’ original songs and of course Als great banjo playing and skin head drumming  all tied together with the crazy dixieland thump drone of Allen.