Volume 177 Post Office Box 6086, Pistol River, Oregon  Sept 1, 2008

Tickets  for the    Tracy Grammer    show are available for $15 from the ticket outlets shown below.  Reservations can also be made by calling 247-2848 or online by clicking on the link above.

TICKET OUTLETS:

MEMBERSHIPS:

Memberships are available for a yearly donation of $15.00. Membership will ensure that you will have advance notice of all upcoming concerts and events.  To join, click on the link above.

FOOD DONATIONS:

There is a bin located in the entrance to the hall for the collection of nonperishable food items.  Your generous gifts will be distributed through the Oasis Shelter Home to women and their children in need.

Saturday, October 4th, 8:00 p.m.

Tracy Grammer

For the uninitiated, Tracy Grammer rose to acclaim as one half of the duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Called "one of the fastest-rising acts in folk music" by the Boston Globe, the duo released three internationally acclaimed albums featuring Carter's award-winning postmodern, mythic Americana song craft; toured with Joan Baez as her backing band and spotlight artists; and earned a diverse and devoted following with their indelible live performances at festivals and venues all across North America.

Just as the duo seemed poised to receive much-deserved mainstream recognition, Carter died suddenly of a heart attack while touring with Grammer in July, 2002. He was 49.

Three years later, Grammer has emerged from the darkness of tragedy -- armed with the richness of her experience with Carter, and the help of a few new friends -- with her first full-length solo album, the beautifully textured Flower of Avalon.

Flower of Avalon, named after a song Carter penned as a gift for Grammer in 1999, features nine previously unrecorded Dave Carter gems, delivered with a loving clarity that only Tracy Grammer can provide. Multi-tasking masterfully here as co-producer, singer, and instrumentalist, Grammer digs deep into the spirit of Carter's poetic verses and haunting melodies to color each song with textures and flourishes that blur the boundaries of categorization. The result is a bold, rewarding, and transcendent love letter to the world, one of those rare musical experiences that compels the listener to drop everything and hear each song in sequence, start to finish.

As Grammer herself puts it, "Dave was a fearless songwriter. He searched well beyond the reaches of everyday influence and experience and wrote from the deeper realms of myth, sound, and dream. He dug deep, and wrote from a place where we're all the same. That's why his words resonate the way they do."

And they will continue to resonate among larger and larger audiences as long as the extraordinarily talented Tracy Grammer continues to celebrate and share them.

"Tracy Grammer has that elusive quality of being able to speak directly to another person's heart - instantly bypassing all of the usual infrastructure - the moment she starts singing. She's great."

www.tracygrammer.com/

Saturday, October 18,  8:00 pm

Eliza Jane Schneider: singer, fiddler, author, actress, voice artist, dialectologist, composer, oral historian and playwright. Voice of the female population of TV’s "South Park," and winner of the "Best Solo Show" award at the NYC Fringe Festival. A classically trained vocalist, she sings her own tunes, combining socially pertinent foot-stompers and heartfelt love ballads in a folk fusion style she call "Gypsy Grass." while collecting dialect recordings and also performing her award-winning multiple character solo shows. Her diverse background also includes starring roles in two CBS Saturday Morning live action television series, including the Emmy-Award winning "Beakman's World" as "Liza."

Eliza Jane has an Emmylou Harris–like soprano-alto range, floating over her syncopated picking patterns on the twelve string guitar, the bluegrass mandolin, and gypsy violin.  The Gypsies' vast repertoire of raucous old-timey and traditional Irish and Bluegrass fiddle tunes get audiences young and old, urban and rural, kicking up their heels, and begging for more.

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