Buckwheat Zydeco
VIP Sold Out!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Doors 7:00 pm, Show 8:00 pm
The New Hope Winery is very excited to welcome the amazing Buckwheat Zydeco to our stage! "No stranger to working with his hands, accordionist and keyboardist Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. Iikes to be in the thick of things. A competent mechanic, Buckwheat is better known as the leader of the world's most successful zydeco band..."
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His version of Southwest Louisiana's propulsive Creole French music was the first signed to a major label (Island, in 1986), and his band has maintained a higher profile worldwide than any other act in their genre. The group has recorded with Eric Clapton, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Mavis Staples is featured on their new record. They've opened gigs for U2 and other major artists. Buckwheat played on Rolling Stone Keith Richards' solo debut." Todd Mouton, (http://www.buckwheatzydeco.com/bwzydecoourstory/
bwzydecoourstory.html)
Seth Glier
Friday, March 2, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
Seth Glier is a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. USA Today has called Glier "a singer with an exquisite tenor, echoing Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel in the piano pop style of his latest release The Next Right Thing".
Glier, a Massachusetts native, abandoned studies at The Berklee College of Music after one year because he wanted to play for people not for grades. Throughout 2010 and 2011, Glier shared stages with such artists as James Taylor, Mark Knopfler, The Verve Pipe, Edwin McCain and Ani DiFranco. Seth is currently touring with his long-time collaborator and guitarist, Ryan Hommel.
Most recently, Glier received a nomination for the 2012 Grammy Awards Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his release The Next Right Thing, and earlier in 2011, he took home Best Love Song for his track Naia at the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards.
The Lemonheads with Evan Dando
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Doors 5:00 PM, Showtime 6:00 PM
Evan Griffith Dando formed The Lemonheads with two high school buddies in late winter '86, in their senior year at Boston's tiny Commonwealth School. A few months later, they spawned what is now one of the most sought-after punk relics of the 80s, the indie EP Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners.
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Boston-based Taang! Records immediately picked up on The Lemonheads, with three college radio pleasers to follow: the LPs Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988), and Lick (1989). In 1990 Atlantic Records took notice of the massively expanding Lemonheads fanbase in Europe (where they toured in 1989) and America by signing the band and releasing their well-received (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) fourth LP, Lovey.
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C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band
Friday, March 16, 2012
8:00 pm, Doors 7:00 pm
VIP SEATING SOLD OUT!
"The Boston Globe calls him "the crown prince of zydeco." Living Blues magazine hails him as "the best living zydeco singer and accordionist." To his legions of fans he is simply the man whose music moves them deep in their souls. And to those fans who just love to dance he's the man who provides the beat that moves their feet.
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He is the source of the infectious, rhythmic music fueling the wild dance parties that erupt wherever he plays. He is Clayton Joseph Chenier, son of legendary zydeco master and pioneer, Clifton Chenier. Known as just C.J. to his fans, Chenier's debut Alligator Records release of a few years ago was appropriately titled, "Too Much Fun." And that is exactly what happens whenever C.J. Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band get together and play."
-Ray Stiles
http://www.mnblues.com/profile/cjchenier2000.html
Musical Equipment Expo and Exchange!
Saturday, March 17, 2012
9:00am - 5:00pm
Sell your guitars, drums, keyboards, amps, speakers, and more! There will be food and wine for purchase, as well as live entertainment.
Admission is $5.00, which goes towards a guitar raffle! Pay at the door.
For vendors:
$20.00 for (1) table,
$30.00 for (2) tables.
Call the winery to reserve a table! (payments must be made via check)
Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow Presents: An Evening With Lucy Kaplansky
Saturday, March 24, 2012
6:00pm
Come out to support the Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow! The winery will offer appetizers at 6:00pm, followed by a meet and greet with Lucy Kaplansky from 7:00-7:30pm. Lucy will then take the stage at 8:00pm!
"She started out singing in Chicago bars. Then, barely out of high school, Lucy Kaplansky took off for New York City. There she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers - Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey, Cliff Eberhardt, and others - where she fit right in.
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With a beautiful flair for harmony, Lucy was everyone's favorite singing partner, but most often she found herself singing as a duo with Shawn Colvin. People envisioned big things for them; in fact, The New York Times said it was "easy to predict stardom for her."
James Maddock
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
First recognized in the U.S as the front-man for the band Wood (Songs From Stamford Hill - Columbia Records), Maddock has steadily gained traction in the Northeast U.S. with his infectious live performances and accessible touch with his fans. A top 50 chart position at non-comm radio in 2010 for Sunrise on Avenue C leaves Maddock poised to break through to a mainstream audience in 2011 with Wake Up and Dream.
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In little over a year, James Maddock has gone from "Whatever happened to James Maddock?" to "How can we live without the music of James Maddock?" With the release of Wake Up and Dream, Maddock firmly establishes himself as one of the truly gifted performing songwriters on the American landscape. As a transplanted Briton rooted on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Maddock effortlessly translates the aspirations and longing of his ever growing legion of followers into song. His 2010 NY Music Award for best Americana Album for Sunrise On Avenue C is long overdue corroboration of the fact.
John Hammond
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
2011 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, 2011 Blues Music Award WINNER for Acoustic Artist of the Year.
2010 GRAMMY Nominee for Rough & Tough (Best Traditional Blues Album) Rough & Tough, his 33rd album since his 1962 self-titled debut, was recorded live in November 2008 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in NYC; solo and acoustic, he plays National Steel, Guild 12-String and Stubbs 6-String guitars and harmonica. Included are songs written by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Willie McTell and Tom Waits among others, as well as two of his own.
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Charlie Musselwhite
Friday, May 4, 2012
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
2011 GRAMMY Nominee for The Well for Best Traditional Blues Album. Featured on Cyndi Lauper's, Memphis Blues, also nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album. 2012 Blues Music Award Nominee for Best Instrumentalist- Harmonica and for Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year (last year's winner in both categories)
2011 Blues Music Award Winner for Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica and Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year! Also nominated for Album of the Year for The Well, Traditional Blues Album of the Year for The Well and Song of the Year for "Sad and Beautiful World"
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Charlie Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Dan Aykroyd's character in the Blues Brothers.
Over the last 43 years Musselwhite has released over 30 albums. Three of those — 1990s Ace Of Harps, 1991’s Signature and 1993’s In My Time — were recorded for Alligator Records and remain among his best-selling titles. Now, Charlie Musselwhite returns to Alligator with The Well. With musical flavors from Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago, The Well is steeped in the music of Charlie’s youth — country and city blues as well as rockabilly and gospel — the music that inspired his signature sound. The fresh, new songs speak from his decades of experience, hard living, and his triumph over adversity.
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Hoots and Hellmouth
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Doors 7:00pm, Show 8:00pm
Hoots & Hellmouth was formed in 2005 by Sean Hoots and Andrew Gray. The formation of the band was partially a reaction to and a rebellion against the grandiose rock-star attitude of modern rock bands, with which both were previously involved. They initially started the group as a duo, playing roots music intended to evoke the feeling of revival shows.
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They eventually expanded to four members after adding Pilot Round The Sun guitarist Rob Berliner and John Branigan. Most of the time, they play without a live drummer, instead stomping and using hand percussion such as tambourines. The group's self-titled debut appeared in 2007 on MAD Dragon Records, distributed by Warner. In early 2008, the album, Hoots & Hellmouth, won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best College Record Label Album. Their follow-up album, The Holy Open Secret, arrived in 2009.
Ari Hest
Friday, May 11, 2012
7:00 pm Doors, 8:00 pm Show
The release of Sunset Over Hope Street on March 1, 2011 via Downtown Records’ Mercer Street imprint marks Ari Hest's first full-length album of new material in four years. That’s not to say he hasn’t been busy in the years in between.
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After releasing The Break-In on Columbia Records in 2007, Ari decided it was time to take more creative control over his music and parted ways with his label. Utilizing all the technology available to him, in 2008 he launched his highly successful 52 project, a web based subscription service that found him writing, recording, and releasing a new song every Monday for an entire year. For those keeping track, that’s 52 new songs in 52 weeks! Performing Songwriter called these songs “high-caliber and heartfelt." At the end of the year, the subscribers were asked to vote for their 12 favorite songs from the project and the ones that got the most votes were then reworked and digitally released in the form of the album Twelve Mondays in early 2009. The Washington Post wrote “An urbane folk-rocker with a sonorous baritone, Ari Hest sounds like a man out of time" and said Twelve Mondays was “skillful, pretty and straightforward."
Real Diamond
Mothers Day Concert!
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
Treat your mother to a Diamond this year!
Real Diamond is a professional band dedicated to the faithful re-creation of the live Neil Diamond experience. They are obsessively passionate about providing the finest Neil Diamond show short of having the man there himself.
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Their set list includes note-for-note renditions of all Neil Diamond's greatest hits including: Cherry Cherry, Holly Holy, Kentucky Woman, Cracklin Rosie, Sweet Caroline, America, Love on the Rocks, September Morn, Solitary Man, I'm a Believer, Song Sung Blue, Heartlight, You Don't Bring me Flowers, If You Know What I Mean, Thank the Lord for the Nighttime, I am..I Said, Hello Again, Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show, Play Me, Desiree, Shilo, He ain't Heavy, Red Red Wine, Forever in Blue Jeans, Beautiful Noise and many more.
The Refugees
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Doors 7:00PM, Show 8:00PM
The trio of women that is The Refugees emerged on the music scene as a verifiably unmatched force of talent, diversity, and experience. Each successful in her own right as a solo artist, Cindy Bullens, Deborah Holland and Wendy Waldman formed their unique and innovative group in 2007 and since that time have been wowing audiences, radio DJs, and music critics alike with their soaring harmonies, indelible musicianship, and unforgettably humorous stage presence.
