David Bromberg

Friday, August 3rd
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm

$30 Flat   All Ages

(Tickets On-Sale Tue. 5/15 at 5pm)

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For Americana godfather David Bromberg, it all began with the blues. His incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes - but is not limited to - adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son. A musician's musician, Bromberg's mastery of several stringed instruments (guitar, fiddle, Dobro, mandolin), and multiple styles is legendary, leading Dr. John to declare him an American icon. In producing John Hartford's hugely influential Aereo-Plain LP, Bromberg even co-invented a genre: Newgrass. Add in a period of self-imposed exile from his passion (1980-2002), during which he became a renowned violin expert, and Wilmington, Delaware's cultural ambassador; top that off with a triumphant return to music-making, and you have an amazing tale leading back to one place: the blues.

Now, with The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, his first release for Red House Records, Bromberg and multi-Grammy-winning producer/accompanist Larry Campbell (Dylan, Levon Helm, Paul Simon) focus on the music David discovered in high school, when, circa late 50s, he was introduced to a friend's dad's collection of blues 78s. He'd only just taken up guitar as a means to pass the time while in bed with the measles. "I loved those 78s so much," says David, "I taped them on a portable reel-to-reel, so I could listen at home and learn." That love is evident in The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues. The album is both blues primer and an opportunity to witness a master embracing this distinctly American music with passion and grace.

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Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$8 Advance $10 Day of Show

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Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$20 Advance $25 Day of Show

All Ages

Jeff Austin and Friends, the next chapter is launched for the mandolin player and front man of Yonder Mountain String Band. Jeff is known for high octane bluegrass jams and furious mandolin playing, new and bluegrass picking and singing. Jeff has bent bluegrass , rock and other influences to create acoustic tunes filled with dazzling chops and passionate stories, with a “Jeff Austin anything goes attitude”.

David Bromberg

The Listening Room Series

Friday, September 20
Doors 7pm  Show 8:30pm
$28 Reserved $18 General Admission

All Ages

David Bromberg’s range of material, based in the folk and blues idioms, continually expanded with each new album to encompass bluegrass, ragtime, country and ethnic music, and his touring band grew apace. By the mid-’70s, the David Bromberg Big Band included horn-players, a violinist, and several multi-instrumentalists, including David himself. With the release of  Try Me One More Time, his 2007 solo return to the studio, David continued his musical revitalization, playing shows on his own, backed by (and supporting) Angel Band, his own David Bromberg Quartet, and reunions of the David Bromberg Big Band, the configuration depending on the circumstance.

Billy Bragg

w/ Joe Purdy

Sunday, September 22nd
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$27 Advance $30 Day of Show

All Ages

Billy Bragg was recently described by The Times newspaper as a “national treasure.” In the two decades of his career Bragg has certainly made an indelible mark on the conscience of British music, becoming perhaps the most stalwart guardian of the radical dissenting tradition that stretches back over centuries of the country’s political, cultural and social history. It’s a legacy that’s brought Bragg fans the world over as an artist with a keen sense of political activism as well as a way with a pop hook, all informed with a sense of humanity and humor.

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