Highlands House Concerts hosted a special summer show at
Chapultepec Too!
The evening began with Kraig's amazing songs, fingerpicking
and slide guitar.
Kraig was followed by the Jack Hadley Band
Highlands House Concerts hosted Harry & Kit, who have
both dedicated their careers to supporting the Denver music
community, local and touring artists, through their music stores. They
both have hosted their own concerts and music workshops for decades.
Harry Tuft & Uncle Kit Simon
May 17th, 2008
Highlands House Concerts hosted its 4th Marriage in Music
for it's third season with Rich Moore & Mollie O'Brien.
They performed songs from their new release,
900 Baseline, with blues, vintage roots covers and gorgeous
ballads that all got the Mollie and Rich treatment - just one voice and
one guitar covering the whole range of great American music.
The was a very special evening that included
a suprise guest musician, guitarist Ross Martin.
Highlands House Concerts hosted its second house concert
of it's third season and another married musical duo "Stacey Earle &
Mark Stuart".
Click Here for photos and a movie clip from the show
Stacey and Mark over the years have lived and learned so much from each
other.
They have always found themselves inseparable from the beginning. It is
playing music Day in and out together that locked in the sound and love
they could not unlock if they tried.
Their Songs are the diaries of their life good times and bad, completing
the love they have. They live in Ashland City TN west of Nashville but call home
from the road most of the time.
The
Laws shared a special evening at Highlands House Concerts with their
love of music and food.
Click Here for photos and a movie clip from the show
In 2007, The Laws have released a new CD, Ride it Out, and won
1st place at the 2007 Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at Merlefest
in Wilkesboro, North Carolina!
Listen to their music and watch a video of their August 2007 performance
on Entertainment Tonight at The Laws
Website
Highlands House Concerts hosted
Nashville's Bob Tyler for one of the most memorable performances ever!
With a mixture of longtime Bob fans from when he lived here years ago
along with those who never ever heard of Bob before, he had guests
captivated on every song. From swing jazz, blues and folk to country, rock
and bluegrass, Bob mixed it up and included some killer fingerstyle
instrumentals. His selection of songs, stories and animated performances
had everyone laughing and screaming the whole night through!
Highlands House Concerts hosted Boulder Acoustic Society
with their new five piece band and a new CD. Aaron, Brad, Kailin and the two Scotts are
accomplished multi- instrumentalists who captivate audiences with guitar,
fiddle, string bass, marimba, ukulele, percussion, accordion, banjo and mandolin.
Tom Kimmel may be best known for his songs, which have been recorded by dozens of major artists (including Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Linda Ronstadt and Shawn Colvin) and featured in film and television (Twins, Runaway Bride; Miami Vice, Touched By An Angel). He is however a unique, critically acclaimed recording and performing artist in his own right. He tours widely, has released seven albums, and his music is appreciated around the world.
"A singer/songwriter who possesses the best
qualities of John Wesley Harding or John Hiatt—superb songwriting and
raw, hard-driving vocals. —San Francisco Herald Examiner
"Kimmel has his own ‘voice’ and it rings with
authority. A master poet." —The Tennessean
[His songs] "have an anthemic, urgent quality
earned through sheer quality of songwriting." —New York Daily News
Highlands House Concerts hosted
Boulder Acoustic Society - a four piece band
with a new take on American Roots Music. Aaron, Brad, Kailin and Scott are
accomplished multi- instrumentalists who captivate audiences with guitar,
fiddle, string bass, marimba, ukulele, percussion, banjo and mandolin.
Their deep respect for tradition, passion for innovation and intriguing
instrumentation creates a remarkable and memorable listening experience.
The music is modern and accessible, subtle yet virtuosic and serious yet
light hearted.
Kraig
Kenning who captured first place honors in the first annual "National
Slide Guitar Festival" competition in Brevard, North Carolina.
The event was sponsored by the National Guitar Company, along with co-sponsor
Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
Call him contemporary folk, blues, roots rock, American Fingerstyle or
Americana. Regardless of the genres crossed, Kraig Kenning manages to
leave every audience feeling like they've just spent some quality time
with an old friend. Few artists are as capable of connecting so directly
with such diverse listeners while playing over 200 dates a year, receiving
airplay on 40 stations nationwide, and selling 60,000+ recordings of six
self-produced CDs. But Kenning has shaped himself into one of the most
capable performers on the planet, touring non-stop for the past decade.
"There is an exchange at a spiritual level in a great performance. My
goal is to journey with all my listeners to this magical place."
Together with his trademark dobro and passionate lyrics, Kraig reminds us
just how personal--and potent--original music can be.
Working in both the intricately syncopated
Piedmont fingerpicking style and her own deeply bluesy lap-slide guitar,
Mary Flower has earned raves from critics and audiences alike for her
springwater-clear vocals and guitar mastery. As the only woman in history
to twice place in the top three at the legendary national Fingerpicking
Guitar Championships, and with six critically acclaimed CDs and three
instructional DVDs to her credit, Flower is in demand for festivals,
concerts and guitar workshops on both sides of the Atlantic...
“A hopeless mistress of the blues, she plies her trade wherever she might find kindred spirits -- fellow travelers on a life journey called the blues. But Flower doesn't content herself with rehashing the well-trod southern soil-borne wailings of a by-gone era. But neither does she forsake its rich tradition. Flower is one of those rare artists who manages to create a tincture of the aged authentic with the freshly
original.”
"I came to
your house the other night to see Buddy Mondlock. I had one of the most
memorable, fun times of my life..."
Highlands House Concert Guest
Nashville-based,
Buddy Mondlock, writes songs. He does it so well that some great
songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci
Griffith and Janis Ian, to name just a few. Recently he collaborated
with the legendary Art Garfunkel and the wonderfully musical Maia Sharp.
The three of them wrote and recorded an album together called
“Everything Waits To Be Noticed” and then toured all over America and
Europe.
He won the New Folk
Award and Song of the Year Award at Kerrville. David Wilcox and
recorded his song "The Kid". Peter, Paul and Mary also recorded
this song and then asked him to sing with them on their “Great
Performances” TV special.
Buddy did some
writing with this other new kid in town named Garth Brooks. Garth became a
star and “Every Now and Then” ended up on his album “The Chase.”
Janis Ian heard him singing at the Bluebird Cafe and asked him if he’d
like to write with her. Their song “Amsterdam” got recorded by Joan
Baez. Nanci Griffith asked Buddy to sing on a show she was taping for
Irish television. She ended up liking that song so much that she recorded
“Comin’ Down In the Rain” on her Grammy Award winning collection
“Other Voices, Other Rooms.”
"You
obviously don't know about this woman because if you did, she'd be very
rich. O'Brien has one of the clearest, truest voices of our time. She is way
underrated. I can not listen to her live without getting goosebumps, and
this rootsy collection of blues, acoustic folk and hybrid Americana
showcases her voice as well as a recording can.
Mollie
O’Brien sings. Does she ever. Jazz, R&B, blues, gospel, southern
mountain traditional — you name it. And she approaches each with an ease
that makes you think she was steeped in the style since the first time a
note left her throat.
Mollie’s
recordings are a tribute to the variety of her taste and the versatility
of her performance. On her solo CDs — Every Night in the Week and I
Never Move Too Soon (on Resounding Records) and Tell It True, Big Red Sun,
and Things I Gave Away (on Sugar Hill) — she moves without hesitation
from style to style, dipping into the songs of Lennon and McCartney, Percy
Mayfield, Memphis Minnie, Chuck Berry, and the Subdudes.
Laurence Juber is a solo artist, composer and arranger, and
soon developed a reputation as a world-class guitar virtuoso, being
voted #1 by Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has released 11 critically
acclaimed solo albums, including "LJ Plays the Beatles" and
"Guitarist". His new release, "One Wing", is a
collection of solo guitar arrangements drawn from the Paul McCartney and
Wings repertoire.
As a studio and touring musician he has
worked with such artists as George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul Williams
and Al Stewart. His guitar playing is featured on films such as
"Dirty Dancing", "Pocahonatas", "Good Will
Hunting" and many TV shows including "Home Improvement"
and "Seventh Heaven". His solo guitar arrangement
of "The Pink Panther Theme" is featured on the GRAMMY®-winning
collection "Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar".
THE WINSTONS' latest
CD,COMING
THROUGH, debuted at
#5 on folk radio's Top Albums & Songs, spent four months on folk
radio's Top 50 Albums list, and earned THE WINSTONS the title of 1st Place
Folkies and the award for 1st Place Folk Song ("Up In The Air")
in the 2002 Boulder Folk & Roll Awards.
Victory
Review calls COMING THROUGH "extraordinarily satisfying, like the
smoothest sipping whiskey, magical, slightly inebriating and addictive;
this is what we all wish we'd hear when we turn on the radio."
Rich
Moore's CD, Steady State, contains seven of Moore's compositions along
with three tasty covers, including a Ray Charles-inspired "You Don't
Know Me."
RICH MOOREis
well-known and well-loved in Colorado's acoustic music family and has
lived and performed here for over 25 years. He made his reputation early
on as bassist and guitarist with stellar local outfits like The Solid
Senders, and in recent years has been the rhythmic bedrock for Pete
Wernick's Live Five, Celeste Krenz, and with ensembles fronted by his
wife, the internationally- esteemed vocalist Mollie O'Brien.
Legendary
songwriter Tom Paxton says of Rich’s playing:
"Whenever
I'm trying to work out a guitar arrangement I inevitably come to a point
where I ask myself, 'How would Rich play this?' Then I laugh at my
pretensions to greatness and go back to my usual plunk, plunk style. Fact
is, Rich plays the way I hear it in my head. I just wish my hands heard it
that way, too."
DWIGHT
MARKshares
his stories of travels, relationships and appreciation for nature with his
songs performed on acoustic Hawaiian Weissenborn slide guitar, mandolins,
mandolas, Portuguese guitarras, guitar and dobro.
Acoustic
Guitar Magazine’s Andy Volk says, “Dwight’s vibrant, richly textural
arrangements and soaring vocals describe a crossroads where acoustic, folk,
rock, and pop meet in songs that celebrate the beauty of nature and the
unbridled joy of the groove.”
Highlands House Concerts hosted singer-songwriter, John Magnie, who has graced the performances and
recordings with Shawn Colvin, Anders Osborne, Bonnie Raitt, Keb Mo', Amy
Grant and Sam Bush to name just a few. John is best known
for his great songs and trademark accordion performances with the Subdudes
- the band he started back in 1987, which has recently regrouped and is
touring to sell-out crowds across the country.
Since the late 90's, John has also released a solo CD and three CD's as
the 3 Twins, which includes Subdudes members Tim Cook and Steve Amedee.
These recordings show his mastery of mixing musical genres on piano,
soulful vocals with engaging lyrics, and some of the most memorable vocal
melodies, harmonies and grooving band tracks.
Kraig
Kenning who captured first place honors in the first annual "National
Slide Guitar Festival" competition in Brevard, North Carolina.
The event was sponsored by the National Guitar Company, along with co-sponsor
Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
Call him contemporary folk, blues, roots rock, American Fingerstyle or
Americana. Regardless of the genres crossed, Kraig Kenning manages to
leave every audience feeling like they've just spent some quality time
with an old friend. Few artists are as capable of connecting so directly
with such diverse listeners while playing over 200 dates a year, receiving
airplay on 40 stations nationwide, and selling 60,000+ recordings of six
self-produced CDs. But Kenning has shaped himself into one of the most
capable performers on the planet, touring non-stop for the past decade.
"There is an exchange at a spiritual level in a great performance. My
goal is to journey with all my listeners to this magical place."
Together with his trademark dobro and passionate lyrics, Kraig reminds us
just how personal--and potent--original music can be.
Celeste's music
spans genres of folk, country, pop and rock with a voice that is
timeless. She shares her stories of growing up on a ranch in North
Dakota and most recently in her latest recording, Beautiful Soup, stories
of finding the love of her life and starting a family of her own.
Nashville-based,
Celeste Krenz, will join us in a special solo concert in a break from her
tour through Colorado and Wyoming with the "Women in the Round"
series featuring Liz Barnez and Rebecca Folsum.
