Two iconic voices of indie folk share one stage for a rare night of music. Dan Mangan, a two-time JUNO Award-winner and Polaris Music Prize nominee, has built a global following with albums like Over two decades, Dan Mangan has managed an enviably strong creative ethic, and his integrity as both a singer and songwriter has only strengthened with age.
renowned as a festival favorite everywhere from Bluesfest in Byron Bay and High Sierra Music Festival in California and Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado to Cayamo Cruise
New Monsoon (NM) is a staple of the SF Bay Area Jam scene and are veterans of the national touring circuit. The music is a unique blend of both electric and acoustic sounds, sophisticated songcraft, and infectious grooves.
Sign-up via email to openmic@swmh.com. You may sign up anytime between 6 pm the night before and 3 pm on the actual Tuesday. If you are in school and need to go early, please indicate that in your request. If you would like a certain time slot, please indicate that as well, no guarantees. You will receive a confirmation and the performance times by 5 p.m. that day. Each performer will have 2 songs/10 minutes to perform. There will be a bass amp, a guitar amp, a set of drums, and a piano already set up for anyone to use.
The China Camp Family Band is a brand-new group of well-known players in the Grateful Dead-Jerry Garcia Band wing of the jamband world who fell together and decided to make their own band.
Formed in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica, in the late-1960s, Wailing Souls have experienced numerous transformations. Their discography (over 26 albums to date) includes singles recorded as The Renegades, Pipe & the Pipers, and Atarra. Sly & Robbie and the Roots Radics are only a few of the stellar musicians who have worked with Wailing Souls. Still one of the most powerful forces in Reggae, Wailing Souls continue to tour globally and record new songs with that same vigor they had back in Kingston’s Trench Town decades ago.
For nearly four decades, Laurie Lewis has gathered fans and honors for her powerful and emotive voice and her versatile, dynamic songwriting. She is a sought-after recording producer and an equally skilled teacher and mentor. And she is an inspiration and a ground-breaker – across genres, across geography and across gender barriers.
Maria Muldaur will be performing her special Music for Lovers show this year on Valentine’s Day. As many of her fans tell it, her music has been the soundtrack to many a love & lust affair over the last 40+ years, so why not bring a lover, a friend, or just treat yourself to an evening of romantic bluesy jazzy love songs guaranteed to put you “in the mood” and inspire you to fall in love all over again!
*… An unholy hybrid of Joe Walsh and Paul Gilbert, shreds, picks and squawks through the lead….No matter how technically dazzling his (guitar) playing gets, it always keeps a refreshing sense of humor.” – Guitar Player Magazine
When Cedric Burnside prepared to record Hill Country Love, the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy-winning album I Be Trying, he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, a town with 5,000 residents that’s known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style.