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Willowdale Live presents Elephant Collective Showcase featuring founding members of Elephant Revival: Niwot’s own Bridget Law alongside Dango Rose and Sage Cook and a very special guest!
Award winning Western Swing and Jazz from Central Texas. Not to be missed!
Big Cedar Fever is a string swing band out of central Texas that specializes in Western swing and jazz. Three part harmonies and tight musical arrangements draw listeners in, only to be taken away by the classic style and lyrics that recall another time and place.
Formed in January of 2018, the trio includes Georgia Parker on jazz-box guitar, Ian Lee on fiddle, and Nick Lochman on the upright bass. With all three sharing vocal duties and trading instrumental solos, this is a group whose constant harmony is right up there with their prowess as a dance band. The up-and-comers have played host to crowds of Lindy hoppers, Texas two-steppers, and Western swing dancers. In their short time together they have also been at home in listening room environments, providing intimate sets that showcase a true love for the history of the music.
Eli West is a Seattle-based acoustic musician.
Known for his solo work and collaborations with Norwegian fiddler Olav Mjelva, Cahalen Morrison, and more, the singer and multi-instrumentalist oozes understated talent.
‘Making music the world needs’ – Tim O’Brien
‘West is an artist overflowing with ideas and music’ – Green Man Review
‘Eli West is an exceptional singer, guitar player and musician, really deep stuff’ – Martin Simpson
"I had such a wonderful time playing music with Eli West and am so happy our first notes together are documented here on this beautiful recording.” - Bill Frisell
Bowregard has taken the Colorado bluegrass world by storm, winning both the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest and the 2018 Ullrgrass Bluegrass Band Contest within a year of forming. Sweet and mournful vocal harmonies join nimble picking and strikingly original songwriting to create a sound that’s unlike anything else on the front range of Colorado. The band’s onstage energy is undeniable, pulling the crowd into a whirlwind of bluegrass, old-time fiddle tunes, and Americana that fills the dance floor and doesn’t let up until the last note of the night.
Bowregard began in Boulder, Colorado when guitarist Max Kabat and five-string banjo player James Armington met fiddler Colleen Heine and bassist Zachary Smith, who were newly transplanted to Colorado after making a name for themselves in the music scene of Savannah, Georgia. Rockygrass 2016 Dobro champion Justin Konrad joined the group in early 2019.
Bowregard’s first full-length album is due in early 2020.
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Cahalen Morrison writes songs that sound like a Cormac McCarthy novel: simple, beautifully crafted, and seemingly formed from raw natural elements. Known for his earlier duo work with Eli West, Cahalen is inspired by his love for cowboy poetry and the New Mexican desert where he grew up. He's got a knack for bending words around stories until they're as funny as they are tragic, as fantastic as they are real. His songs grow like mesquite in the desert; they twist and turn. He is the co-founder of the Country music super group “Western Centuries.”
Pete Wernick, known for his banjo playing with Hot Rize, and his singer-guitarist wife Joan present one of the West's most engaging country duets. Joan's clear, soulful singing and Pete's masterful picking bring life to a diverse repertoire including traditional bluegrass, vocal duets and blazing instrumentals. In the early 70s the pair performed with the groundbreaking progressive bluegrass band Country Cooking, based in Ithaca, New York. Since 1976 they have lived in Niwot, Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Since 1990 they have performed all over the continental US as well as England, Ireland, Russia, Hawaii, Israel, Holland, and recently on national TV in Denmark. They also work together in presenting Pete's Bluegrass Camps at locations around the US.
Pete's "Dr. Banjo" handle is based both on his banjo expertise and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University. He has been nominated for Banjo Player of the Year in national polls and is also known for his best-selling instruction videos and books, and his banjo and bluegrass camps since 1980. For 12 years he toured full-time with the much-lauded Hot Rize band, and continues to play a limited schedule with the long-lasting quartet and with his Flexigrass band which also features Joan's vocals. Pete's critically acclaimed solo album, "On a Roll", received several award nominations and produced a #1 song, "Ruthie".
Joan, also known to music fans as "Nondi", has sung with various groups in Colorado and hosted a bluegrass radio show on KGNU Boulder since 1978. Her natural sparkle and the couple's on-stage repartee adds an extra dimension to their duet performances. Bluegrass Now magazine said, "Joan's singing is guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of any bluegrass traditionalist."
By The Lee is a duo born of the Colorado based band, The Railsplitters.
Inspired by touring the world together, Lauren Stovall and Peter Sharpe continue to cultivate new and old music while incorporating their love of adventure and discovering new passions.
When they aren't playing music in the mountains of Colorado, you will likely find them sailing in San Diego, surfing in Mexico, and hiking with Skippy, their four-legged sidekick.
By The Lee finds inspiration for their music among the trees, waves, and new friends they meet along the way. Learn more at https://www.peteandlauren.com
Help us celebrate the sprouting of this exciting home-grown folk-based duo at Willowdale Live!
Equally at home on a festival stage, performing arts hall, private event or a dance party, the Flyers take their unique brand of music coast to coast and around the world. Churning out true blue masterful Texas flavored music, internationally-renowned guitar master Joey McKenzie drives the train, reigning 4-time US National Swing Fiddle champion Katie Glassman's improvisation astounds, and world- class upright bassist Metthew Mefford adds fuel to the fire. Named 'Best Western Swing Group' at the Ameripolitan Awards, as well as their debut album 'Wild Blue Yonder' receiving the Best Western Swing Album Award from both the Academy of Western Artists and the Western Music Association, the trio is a singular musical experience; a fresh take on a venerable American art performed by three acoustic virtuosos.
Kicking things off and getting to know us.
630pm: Willowdale Founder & Emmy-nominated director and National Geographic photographer, Andy Mann, combines his passions with purpose as a voice for the world’s oceans, following scientists to some of the most extreme locations on the planet in the hope of inspiring change. Andy’s journey from rock climber to ocean storyteller involves some remarkable detours and misadventures that prove that field science can be every bit as thrilling as the climbing adventures of his past. He has dived alongside crocodiles, sperm whales, and sharks and survived near misses with icebergs, all in pursuit of his ultimate goal: to shed light on Earth’s incredible ocean environments and advocate for their protection. He now spends over 100 days a year at sea, documenting cutting-edge marine science and telling the story of our rapidly changing planet. Niwot, CO local.
800pm - Willowdale Founder, Nick Dunbar, brings his band, 300 Days, who exploded onto the Front Range bluegrass scene in 2016 with their fiery, original tunes, handcrafted by a trio of veteran musicians. The powerful, take no prisoners vocals and gravity defying fiddle playing of Melissa McGinley (StereoFidelics), finely honed songwriting by mandolinist and guitarist Nick Dunbar (Mountain Standard Time) and tight rhythms of jazz-trained Dave “Pump” Solzberg (Fox Street All Stars) on upright bass have been electrifying audiences across Colorado.
For being such a young group, 300 Days boasts the instrumental prowess, vocal harmonies and host of original material of a well seasoned band. This Boulder-based ensemble combines their background in bluegrass, folk, rock, jazz and Americana into a sound they call “prograss” that will knock you off your chair and keep your toes tapping.
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