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Marwood has performed such esteemed NYC rooms as The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge and The Knitting Factory as well as London’s distinguished Broadway Market Gallery. Rogers traveled over 53,700miles in 2006 and 2007 on his “One Mile Down The Road Tour”, and he’s tired so make sure you buy him a drink in 2008! Catie Curtis
John Schindler
His music is memorable, poignant, hopeful, wise, and passionate. Winner of both the 2003 Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Contest & the 2006 Rose Garden Performing Songwriting Competition, John lives in Jaffrey, NH with his wife, Jane and cats, Iko & Godzilla. "New Hampshire's John Schindler knows how to translate life into wise, oddly witty songs and his new Memory Train album collects many of the calm little gems he's been writing in recent years." Daniel Gewertz, The Boston Herald
During the release of her first few albums, advice and support from the likes of Suzanne Vega, Ani DiFranco and Eric Burdon (The Animals) encouraged Sage to stick to her musical roots and "just keep doing what I loved and not think a whole lot about what was going on in the music industry." As a songwriter, she was energized by the sensibilities of Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Laura Nyro; as a visual artist (Sage also paints, decorates instruments and designs much of her vibrant stage-wear), pop-art pioneers Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring were ongoing visual muses. After receiving the 2005 Independent Music Award for Best Folk/AAA artist and the 2005 OutMusic Award for Best Songwriter for her previous CD BALLADS & BURLESQUE, Sage headed back into the studio and emerged with her newest full-length work, THE BLISTERING SUN. The 15 song album "focuses on the rare moments where action follows instinct, without procrastination." Fittingly, the cover-art depicts a colorful, super-heroine-esque image of Sage staring unflinchingly at the sun. Brooks Williams
But it wasn’t until he moved to Boston, Massachusetts in his late teens that Williams put it all together. In Boston, Williams first heard roots and blues music on the radio and started to go to shows in the city’s many acoustic music clubs. Inspired by what he was seeing and hearing Williams began to perform on his own. He played loud, smoky bars on the weeknights and quiet coffee houses on the weekends and very quickly developed a loyal following eager for his innovative acoustic guitar playing and buttery soulful voice. Brooks Williams is as diverse and versatile a musician as you are likely to encounter. It is pleasantly difficult to pin him down. He’s a guitarist, a songwriter, and an interpreter; he is a frontman, a sideman, he works solo or in a band - and he is quite simply one of the most entertaining and engaging performers on the circuit today. From coast-to-coast, country-to-country, Williams and his guitars roll and tumble like nobody’s business. |
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If I'm not playing shows I ought to be, and if I'm not writing songs I'd better get back to it, as this is what puts a big old smile on my face!
Catie Curtis just wanted to play the drums. She got her first kit when she
turned 12. At age 15, she was hired to play drums for a musical theater
production at the amusement park in her hometown of Saco, Maine. The
production manager of the show gave Curtis her first guitar saying, "I will
give you this if you promise me you'll learn to play it." Curtis taught
herself to play and write songs by listening to singer/songwriters like the
quirky "Melanie," Karla Bonoff and the quietly philosophical Cat Stevens.
Later, she learned about the grassroots folk scene while attending Brown
University. Friends took her to concerts at the Stone Soup Coffeehouse,
introducing her to "under the radar" artists like Cheryl Wheeler and Greg
Brown. Curtis gravitated toward the solo acoustic guitar, lyric-driven
music, and the sometimes comedic exchange between performer and audience.
After graduation and a short stint as a social worker in Boston, Curtis was
signed to EMI/Guardian Records in 1996 and has gone on to release 8 CDs to
date.
Originally from Saint Louis, Missouri, John was influenced early on by that town's rhythm and blues and his Oklahoma mother’s singing. This funky start was drastically tempered by a nine-year stint in a Catholic seminary where silence and Gregorian chant were his daily bread. After leaving the brotherhood, and armed only with his vow of poverty, John moved to New England and pursued the path of an itinerant musician, playing in sundry bands and bad barrooms. It was during this time, he realized, that his audience could not understand Latin.
With bluesy finger-picking, soaring bottleneck slide, and swinging flat-picking, Brooks Williams’ music is rooted in the blues and is as fresh and original as any music you are likely to hear. His unique combination of traditional and original music inspired Dirty Linen magazine to call Brooks Williams one of "America's musical treasures." His guitar skills won him a place on the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists list, in company with the likes of Michael Hedges, Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, Doc Watson, and David Bromberg, to name a few.
A Statesboro, Georgia native – the town made famous by Blind Willie McTell in his song Statesboro Blues – Brooks began playing guitar at age 10 after being shown the opening riff to Purple Haze by a summer music camp counselor. Brooks’ mother responded to her son’s enthusiasm for the new instrument by buying him a Jose Feliciano-styled nylon string guitar with a double pickguard and arranged for him to learn a few chords and songs from the daughter of a friend. That was all he needed to get started. In the years following Brooks taught himself to play by listening to recordings by the likes of Eric Clapton, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, Jorma Kaukonen, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal.
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