Out and About - July Tour!
As I write, the band and I are eagerly preparing to leave Los Angeles in just about a week's time for destinations North! We have a marvelous Summer 2011 Hilonesome Band Tour planned, and we're "scratchin' gravel" to get goin'! We're excited about seeing friends old and new, playing some of our favorite places from last summer, and just getting out on the road together and having adventures!
The whole tour schedule is below and we hope that if you are in the areas of our shows you will come out and see us, and if you're not, please let your friends and family in those areas know that we're on the way and we have fantastic new music! This year we're debuting four new songs from our own Rob Carlson, and one each from our So. Cal. buds Ernest Troost and Steve Werner. We've also dusted off some of our oldies from the first solo album "Home On The Hill," (including the title cut from that album by our good friend Dan Jenkins), songs from Jean Ritchie's brilliant catalogue of mountain ballads and original writing, along with songs from our faves Steve Earle, Gillian Welch and the late great Hazel Dickens. I'm particularly excited to be working with the great Bay area banjoist Bill Evans on his guest feature with us at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage on July 13th. We'll be doing some banjo/voice material that is profound and beautiful. We hope you can join us there! We'll also have our new album "Live at The Freight & Salvage" with us on the road from last year's concert there. You've gotta get your copy!
Please see our schedule below, and we really want to see 'yall out on the road!
Here's to a great summer, and thanks for reading!
With love,
Susie
TOUR BEGINS!!!
Friday, July 8, West Side Theatre
1331 Main Street, Newman, CA 95360
The theatre is a restored 1940 movie house now serving as a performing arts venue. Seating has been converted to cabaret style. Doors open at 7PM and shows begin at 8PM.
To order advance tickets: go to http://www.westsidetheatre.org/tickets.html
or by calling 800.838.3006 Contact: 209-862-4490. Email: rick@westsidetheatre.org
Website: http://www.westsidetheatre.org/
Saturday, July 9, Landfall House Concerts
500 Lakeview Road, Watsonville, CA 95076, Showtime: 8:00 p.m. Contact: 831-724-9583. Email: amsail@aol.com
Sunday, July 10th, KPIG Live In Studio with John Sandidge on "Please Stand By"
11:30 am on KPIG 107.5FM, Watsonville, CA Listen online at http://www.kpig.com/.
Sunday, July 10th, Don Quixote's International Music Hall
On a double-bill with Houston Jones! 6275 Highway 9 in Downtown Felton, CA 95018, located just 10 minutes from Santa Cruz, CA. Tickets and reservations call 831-603-2294. Restaurant Features Fine Mexican and American Dining. Showtime 7:00 p.m. Tickets: $15.00.
Website: http://www.donquixotesmusic.info/ /
Monday, July 11, Live on KKUP's Monday Nite Bluegrass with Mike Russell
From 7:30-8:30 pm. http://www.kkup.org/ Call the studio (408) 260-2999 for the ticket giveaway for Freight show on July 13!
Tuesday, July 12, Stanford Radio KZSU 90.1 FM with Lois Kellerman (aka – "Sarah Bellum") Special featured program 8-10. Hilonesome Band live in studio performance and interview. 8:30 – 9:30. Listen live at: http://kzsu.stanford.edu/
Wednesday July 13, Freight & Salvage Salvage Coffee House
With special guest, banjo great and Bay area favorite, Bill Evans. 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $20.50 in advance and $22.50 at the door (half price for 18 and under, seniors and Freight members get $1 discount). 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704. (510) 548-1761. http://www.thefreight.org/ /
Info on tickets: http://www.freightandsalvage.org/ticket-information
Thursday, July 14th, KVMR, Nevada City, CA
We join Kim Rogers on KVMR, 89.5 FM, Nevada City, CA for in-studio live performance and interview. 3:00 p.m. Listen live on http://www.kvmr.org/
Thursday, July 14th, Evangeline's Café
We return to Evangeline's lovely listening room/café in the beautiful Sierra foothills near Grass Valley. 5 Depot Street, Colfax, CA 95713. Showtime: 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $15.00. http://www.evangelinescafe.com/ Phone: (530) 346-8833.
Friday, July 15th, Mama Llama's Coffee House
490 Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093. A great listening room in the heart of historic downtown district of Weaverville, California. Doors open at 7:30. Showtime: 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $15.00 advance/$18.00 at the door. Contact: 530-623-6363 Email: donna@mammallama.com Website: http://www.mammallama.com/
July 16-17, Scott Valley Bluegrass Festival
Our second year in a row at this fine bluegrass festival in Etna, CA. Showtimes: Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Sunday, 12 noon. Contact: 530-467-4144 or visit festival website: http://www.scottvalleybluegrass.com/
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
June's News
New Business Partnerships
We're excited to start the summer with two new partnerships, Hearth Music and Unbound Booking.
Hearth Music is a fantastic promotional company in the Pacific Northwest focusing on Roots and Americana artists throughout North America and Canada. Check them out below!
Check Out Hearth Music's Blog
http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/index.html
…Or read it here:
Songs We Can't Stop Listening To: Winter 2011
We get a lot of music at Hearth Music HQ, and are currently working on a stack of about 30 CDs up for review. We listen to everything we get, of course, and we've been blessed to have received so much great music recently. Still, some songs stand out. Way out. These are the songs we keep listening to over and over. We keep coming back to them for more. It's not always something we can describe, but this music hits deep and stays in our mind for days, weeks, sometimes months.
Thanks to a miserable Winter/Spring (we'd call this blog post "Spring 2011" except we never got a Spring) in the Northwest, we've been listening to lots of dark Celtic and old-time music, so that's seeped into this list for sure. It's now mid-May and still feels like deep winter. Dive into these old, eerie ballads that have been keeping us awake at night.
Susie Glaze: Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
The high lonesome sound is rarely used to describe women in bluegrass and old-time music, but it's there. It's not as raw and keening as Roscoe Holcomb, but it's a sound that flies over the tops of our heads and nestles in the high rafters of our music halls. Susie Glaze has this sound in her voice, and she knows how to use it.We found this gorgeous cover of the old Childe ballad, "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender," on Susie's tribute album to the music of Jean Ritchie. Ritchie, a seminal bard of the Appalachian mountains, is known for singing unaccompanied ballads. These epic songs are melodically difficult to pull off, especially since tradition forbids the cushioning use of vibrato. So the fact that Susie Glaze would approach this song in the spirit of Ritchie, who grew up deeply immersed in the tradition, is impressive. We love Susie's voice on this song. It's as delicate as a crystal goblet, immaculately shaped and conceived, but too pure to survive anything but the most perfect of moments. There's something magical about her singing here, especially when you consider the deep heartbreak in these ancient words.
NOTE: You can hear more from Susie Glaze in Hearth Music's Online Listening Lounge!
http://www.hearthmusic.com/listening_lounge.html
From Hearth Music's Listening Lounge
Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band
The high lonesome sound is rarely used to describe women in bluegrass and old-time music, but it's there. It's not as raw and keening as Roscoe Holcomb, but it's a sound that flies over the tops of our heads and nestles in the high rafters of our music halls. Susie Glaze has this sound in her voice, and she knows how to use it. She lives for the ache of a good bluegrass song, and when joined by her ace band of instrumentalists, the Hilonesome Band, her music is an immediately accessible blend of bluegrass, old-time Appalachian, and Americana influences. Joined by veteran folk songwriter, Rob Carlson, Susie incorporates Rob's songs, the Hilonesome Band's rock-solid bluegrass, and a wide selection of traditional songs into her signature sound. In a fantastically innovative musical landscape, it’s sometimes refreshing to harken back to some pure roots —not reinvented roots, but the real thing. Susie Glaze takes us there. She is Dolly Parton without makeup or glitz, soaring on the high notes like a mountain bluebird.
With five CDs released in the past 10 years, Susie's a prolific recording artist and clearly draws a lot of inspiration both from the California bluegrass scene, and from traditional artists across the US. Her newest album, Live at the Freight & Salvage, is a joyous live recording of her music with the Hilonesome Band. She tears through some of the favorite numbers from her repertoire, pausing to tell funny stories and to laugh about the good times. Her previous album, Green Kentucky Blues, was produced by Laurie Lewis and featured a host of hot pickers like Tom Rozum, Patrick and Tom Sauber, and Herb Pederson. Her tribute CD to Appalachian bard Jean Ritchie, Singin' the Moon Up, garnered praise from Ritchie herself: "Her true pitch and the simple honesty of her 'telling the story' with the song is the mark of a real folksinger..." We couldn't agree more! Susie Glaze is a real folksinger and she proves it at every turn.
We're happy to have just signed with Unbound Booking for nation-wide library appearances. Steve and I will present "From Appalachia to Bluegrass" as a touring duo! Get in touch with Jessica at Unbound Booking and visit their website to find out more:
JUNE SHOWS
Friday, June 10, Fireside Concert Series
Saturday, June 18th, Make Music Pasadena
Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut Street, Donald R. Wright Auditorium. 11:00 a.m.
We're excited to start the summer with two new partnerships, Hearth Music and Unbound Booking.
Hearth Music is a fantastic promotional company in the Pacific Northwest focusing on Roots and Americana artists throughout North America and Canada. Check them out below!
Check Out Hearth Music's Blog
http://www.hearthmusic.com/blog/index.html
…Or read it here:
Songs We Can't Stop Listening To: Winter 2011
We get a lot of music at Hearth Music HQ, and are currently working on a stack of about 30 CDs up for review. We listen to everything we get, of course, and we've been blessed to have received so much great music recently. Still, some songs stand out. Way out. These are the songs we keep listening to over and over. We keep coming back to them for more. It's not always something we can describe, but this music hits deep and stays in our mind for days, weeks, sometimes months.
Thanks to a miserable Winter/Spring (we'd call this blog post "Spring 2011" except we never got a Spring) in the Northwest, we've been listening to lots of dark Celtic and old-time music, so that's seeped into this list for sure. It's now mid-May and still feels like deep winter. Dive into these old, eerie ballads that have been keeping us awake at night.
Susie Glaze: Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
The high lonesome sound is rarely used to describe women in bluegrass and old-time music, but it's there. It's not as raw and keening as Roscoe Holcomb, but it's a sound that flies over the tops of our heads and nestles in the high rafters of our music halls. Susie Glaze has this sound in her voice, and she knows how to use it.We found this gorgeous cover of the old Childe ballad, "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender," on Susie's tribute album to the music of Jean Ritchie. Ritchie, a seminal bard of the Appalachian mountains, is known for singing unaccompanied ballads. These epic songs are melodically difficult to pull off, especially since tradition forbids the cushioning use of vibrato. So the fact that Susie Glaze would approach this song in the spirit of Ritchie, who grew up deeply immersed in the tradition, is impressive. We love Susie's voice on this song. It's as delicate as a crystal goblet, immaculately shaped and conceived, but too pure to survive anything but the most perfect of moments. There's something magical about her singing here, especially when you consider the deep heartbreak in these ancient words.
NOTE: You can hear more from Susie Glaze in Hearth Music's Online Listening Lounge!
http://www.hearthmusic.com/listening_lounge.html
From Hearth Music's Listening Lounge
Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band
The high lonesome sound is rarely used to describe women in bluegrass and old-time music, but it's there. It's not as raw and keening as Roscoe Holcomb, but it's a sound that flies over the tops of our heads and nestles in the high rafters of our music halls. Susie Glaze has this sound in her voice, and she knows how to use it. She lives for the ache of a good bluegrass song, and when joined by her ace band of instrumentalists, the Hilonesome Band, her music is an immediately accessible blend of bluegrass, old-time Appalachian, and Americana influences. Joined by veteran folk songwriter, Rob Carlson, Susie incorporates Rob's songs, the Hilonesome Band's rock-solid bluegrass, and a wide selection of traditional songs into her signature sound. In a fantastically innovative musical landscape, it’s sometimes refreshing to harken back to some pure roots —not reinvented roots, but the real thing. Susie Glaze takes us there. She is Dolly Parton without makeup or glitz, soaring on the high notes like a mountain bluebird.
With five CDs released in the past 10 years, Susie's a prolific recording artist and clearly draws a lot of inspiration both from the California bluegrass scene, and from traditional artists across the US. Her newest album, Live at the Freight & Salvage, is a joyous live recording of her music with the Hilonesome Band. She tears through some of the favorite numbers from her repertoire, pausing to tell funny stories and to laugh about the good times. Her previous album, Green Kentucky Blues, was produced by Laurie Lewis and featured a host of hot pickers like Tom Rozum, Patrick and Tom Sauber, and Herb Pederson. Her tribute CD to Appalachian bard Jean Ritchie, Singin' the Moon Up, garnered praise from Ritchie herself: "Her true pitch and the simple honesty of her 'telling the story' with the song is the mark of a real folksinger..." We couldn't agree more! Susie Glaze is a real folksinger and she proves it at every turn.
We're happy to have just signed with Unbound Booking for nation-wide library appearances. Steve and I will present "From Appalachia to Bluegrass" as a touring duo! Get in touch with Jessica at Unbound Booking and visit their website to find out more: 
Friday, June 10, Fireside Concert Series
Borchard Community Center, 190 Reino, Newbury Park, corner of Borchard and Reino, Newbury Park - Fireside Room. Showtime: 8:00 p.m. Tickets $7.00. http://www.crpd.org/parkfac/borchard/fireside_concerts.asp
Sunday, June 12, Songwriter Sanctum Concert Series
Songwriter Sanctum acoustic music series at the Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. Free with suggested donation. 2:00 p.m. 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Phone: 310-399-1631 http://www.churchop.org/
Saturday, June 18th, Make Music Pasadena
Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut Street, Donald R. Wright Auditorium. 11:00 a.m.
Next up: Summer Tour!
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