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| Sat., Sept.
12 8PM in
Chatham
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PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE
with special guest Amy Speace |
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Pioneers of country/rock, Pure Prairie
League are best known for a string of high-spirited feel-good
hits for RCA Records ,
including their 1972 classic Amie (Falling In And Out Of Love
With You), Let Me Love You Tonight (with then-vocalist Vince
Gill), Two Lane Highway, and I'm Almost Ready.
After a twenty-year hiatus from recording, the League released
All In Good Time in 2006 and have not looked back since.
Founder/lead singer
Craig Fuller will be joined by longtime bassist and leader
Mike Reilly, guitarist Curtis Wright,
and Nashville sideman supreme Fats Kaplin on pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, washboard
and accordion.
Hobokenite Amy Speace is an
Americana singer/songwriter who "combines the best parts of Lucinda
Williams and Roseanne Cash...with an unflagging sense of
21st-century hipness." (Vintage Guitar Magazine).
Tickets: $30
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| Sat., Sept.
26 8PM in
Chatham

Our Two Hundredth
Concert!
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TOM
PAXTON with special guests
Hot Soup plus Sanctuary Concerts' 200th Concert Celebration |
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"I think we are all born singing Tom Paxton songs."
- Nanci Griffith
"Toms songs have a way of sneaking up on you. You find
yourself humming them, whistling them, and singing a verse to a
friend. Like the songs of Woody Guthrie, they're becoming part of
America." -Pete Seeger
From the 1960's, when he would leave his army
base at Fort Dix, NJ to haunt the Village folk clubs at the height
of the Great Folk Boom, through some four decades as probably the
most widely-known folk songwriter since Woody Guthrie,
Tom Paxton has been the
beloved voice of a generation...addressing issues of injustice and
inhumanity; laying bare the absurdities of modern culture; and
celebrating the most tender bonds of family, friends and community.
He is often outspoken, often wonderfully funny, and always
accessible and warm-hearted.
Dozens of Tom's songs have become absorbed
into our oral tradition: "Ramblin' Boy," "Bottle
of Wine," "Whose Garden Was This," "The
Last Thing On My Mind," "Goin' to the Zoo,"
and "The Marvelous Toy" are just a few. He's recorded
34 albums, published 16 children's books, and had his songs covered
by hundreds of artists as diverse as Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson and
Placido Domingo. He's also a Grammy nominee and an ASCAP Lifetime
Achievement Award winner.
Special
guests Hot Soup
are a quirky vocal trio from Maryland. One presenter gave this
recipe: ""Mix the tight, intricate harmonies of the Hills,
Herdman, Mangsen trio with the stylistic variety of the Four
Bitchin' Babes, then add the zaniness and energy of the
Chenille Sisters. You've just made Hot Soup!"
Please join us for Birthday Cake at
intermission, to celebrate The Sanctuary Concerts' 200th Concert!
Tickets: $25
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| Sat., Oct.
17 8PM in
Chatham
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JIMMY WEBB with special guest
Machan Taylor |
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"Jimmy Webb is blessed with the emotion and talent of the great
lyricists" -Frank Sinatra "One of the real, real
geniuses." -Sammy Cahn
"One of the most innovative and proficient songwriters of our
generation." -Billy Joel
There is no shorthand way to sum up the first
35 years of Jimmy Webb's
career. He's known worldwide for the instant classics he wrote for
Glen Campbell (“By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Wichita
Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Where’s The Playground, Susie”),
Richard Harris (“MacArthur Park,” “Didn’t We”), the
Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up and Away,” “This Is Your Life”),
The Brooklyn Bridge (“Worst That Could Happen”), Art Garfunkel
(“All I Know”), Linda Ronstadt (“Easy For You To Say”),
Joe Cocker (“The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress”) and countless others
from Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney to Urge Overkill, Reba McEntire,
and R.E.M..
He's the only artist ever to receive
Grammy awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration. He's
been elected to the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter’s
Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Songwriters. “By
The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Up, Up and Away” are among
the fifty most-performed songs of the past fifty years ("Phoenix" is
Number Three).
As a performer of his own songs, he's
recorded ten albums and appeared in theaters and high-end cabaret
rooms around the world. And, he brings with him a lifetime of stories
and the passion and playfulness of his own compositions. There is
nothing like hearing Jimmy Webb sing Jimmy Webb.
Special guest
Machan Taylor is a
New Jersey-based jazz/pop performer who first found fame as the
"Margret" in the fondly-remembered jump-jazz group Grover Margret &
Za Zu Zazz. She went on to sing with artists as diverse as
Foreigner, Sting, Pink Floyd, George Benson,
and Govt Mule. Her recent solo work shows off her love for
Brazilian jazz.
Tickets: $25 |
| Sat., Oct.
24 8PM in
Chatham
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DAN
HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS with special guests
The Two-Man Gentleman Band |
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Droll wit and Western swing-influenced musical chops still
intact 40 years after his debut. -Detroit Free Press A
frosty-cool mix of utterly relaxed hep, excelling in jazz-tinged
original flights and affectionate, slightly spindled versions of
old-timey pop classics. -LA Weekly Dan
Hicks is a one-of-a-kind raconteur of swing, jump-jive, and Americana
music, leading his high-octane band and the
delectable Lickettes through scat vocals, roadhouse revelry, and sassy
jazz tunes. He is a charismatic master of acoustic swing, and we
expect him to bring down the house when he visits The Sanctuary.
Dan and the Licks
recorded five ground-breaking and Billboard-charting records for the
Columbia, Blue Thumb and Warner Bros. labels, appearing on the cover
of Rolling Stone Magazine three times. More recently, they released "Beatin'
the Heat," featuring collaborations with Bette Midler, Elvis
Costello, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones and Brian Setzer, "Alive &
Lickin," and 2008's "Tangled Tales."
Special guests
The Two-Man Gentleman Band
describe themselves as "original circus-country and dixieland-swing
with plectrum banjo, string bass, dueling kazoos, foot percussion, and
a triangle." Their witty songwriting and retro-Vaudeville
performances are as mischievous and sly as a vintage Warner Brothers
cartoon. Tickets: $25 |
| Sat., Nov.
7 8PM in
Chatham
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An Evening with
JOHN SEBASTIAN |
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H e's
in the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He had a string of top-ten
hits with The Lovin'
Spoonful, including "Do
You Believe in Magic", "Hot Time,
Summer in the City," "Did
You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind," "Six O'Clock," and "Younger
Girl." His song "Welcome Back" (for the television show
Welcome Back, Kotter) reached #1. He played harmonica on The Doors'
album Morrison Hotel. And, for forty years, he's been one of
the hardest working and most treasured performers in pop music.
We love
John Sebastian for
all those things, of course...but what we really love is his
boundless affection for Americana music, the never-ending twinkle in
his eye, and his aw-shucks joy in performing his upbeat songs.
Tickets: $25 |
| Sat., Nov.
14 8PM in
Chatham
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An Evening with
SLAID CLEAVES |
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We are thrilled to welcome back Sanctuary favorite Slaid Cleaves, now touring in support
of his new album Everything You
Love
Will Be Taken Away.
Slaid combines rootsy rowdiness with gothic twang, creating a
one-of-a-kind folk-country style inspired by his musical heroes Hank
Williams, Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers, and Woody Guthrie. A teller
of timeless stories of the hard times and good luck of folks riding
along life's highways and dead-end streets, Slaid began his career as a
"busker," singing and playing guitar on the streets of Co. Cork,
Ireland in the mid-1980s. In 1992 he won the prestigious New Folk
competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival, joining the company of
Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, and Lyle Lovett, and went on to record
seven stellar albums, including the award-winning Broke Down (Rounder).
Tickets: $20 |
| Sat., Nov.
21 8PM in
Chatham
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LIVINGSTON TAYLOR with special guest
Seth Glier |
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"An unrepentant romantic, with a razor-sharp mind, a biting
sense of humor, and a quirky view of the world." Wood and Steel Magazine
"The Ultimate Crowd Pleaser...." Performing
Songwriter Magazine
Liv
Taylor is a charmer. His exuberant and buoyant performing
style is reminiscent of classic Tin Pan Alley. His warm-hearted concerts feature his entertaining and intelligent songs,
including such Top Forty hits as "Carolina Day, " “I Will
Be in Love with You” and “I’ll Come Running”; and,
recorded by his brother
James Taylor, “I Can Dream of You,” “Going Round
One More Time,” and “Boatman” (from James'
double-Grammy-winning album Hourglass). To his own
songs, he'll often add heartfelt renditions of classics like Hoagy
Carmichael's "Heart And Soul."
Liv takes his job as an entertainer so
seriously that he both wrote the book on stage performance ("Stage
Performance" (Pocket Books 2000)) and teaches it as a full
professor at Berklee College of Music.
His
ringing open guitar style is so distinctive that he teaches it in a
series of popular instructional videos. He is also the author of two
children’s books, Pajamas and Can I Be Good? Both were
published by Harcourt Brace.
Liv
will be touring in support of two new albums: a CD of new
music recorded in Nashville, and a compilation called "Songs
for the End of the Day" which contains Liv's light, gentle
versions of favorite Broadway songs ("Where is Love," "Getting to
Know You," "Maybe," "Wouldn't it be Lovely," "Surrey with the Fringe
on Top" etc.).
Special
guest Seth Glier is
a 20-year-old pianist/songwriter whose heartfelt performances have
led to raves like "He's
gonna be huge!" (Ellis
Paul), "The next generation is alive and well," (Livingston
Taylor) and "One of the Best Albums of 2007" (The Village Voice).
Tickets: $25
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