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Lauren Sheehan, Songster
 July 2013
ROOTS AMERICANA BLUES AND FOLK
Summer is finally in full swing and I'm looking forward to playing in the Oregon summer heat! There are a few local shows as listed on the calendar and two rather special events.
First it's the Friday July 5th evening cruise with Jerron Paxton at the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival. Tickets sell out so get yours soon if you want to come along. At the end of the month I'll be teaching up at the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival for Centrum. It's a terrific week long players workshop for folks to learn mostly pre-war blues and related acoustic music. The final week end is performance oriented, so that's a great chance for listeners to enjoy.
Read on for more details and/or click on the calendar on the left
Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival DME Midnight Shanghai Cruise Friday July 5. 10:15 PM $35
http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com/Entry-and-Passes/DME-Blues-Cruises
This Portland Spirit late night cruise should be a blast. Check out the line up with the link above, but I'll be sharing the top deck, and some tunes, with Jerron Paxton.
Jerron Paxton is a songster, busker and itinerant bluesman, the living embodiment of the true blues in the 21St Century. The young bard was born in 1989, but his vast talent rivals the greatest in the genre. He is the whole package. He’s witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting, wonderfully skilled as a musician and a fine singer, he is the continuation of a proud tradition, literally and figuratively.
How can you resist?
The rest of the line up for the 26th annual festival looks to be stellar as always. Best to look at the website to find out when you want to be there. http://www.tickettomato.com/event.php?event_id=1796
Thank You Gibson Guitars!
I am enjoying the new "American Eagle" mahogany LG2 guitar that Gibson sent me. It's a great modern sound and addition to my Kalamazoo Gals Banner guitar show. The American Eagle is a nice finger picking guitar with a very comfortable small body and a warm resonant tone.
Let me know if you'd like to play it after one of my shows.
Kalamazoo Gals show, Reed College Chapel, Portland OR, June 2013
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Acoustic-Instruments/Small-Body.aspx
Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop and Festival July 28- Aug 4
http://centrum.org/2013/06/2013-port-townsend-acoustic-blues-workshop-sessions-announced/
  
Daryl Davis - Phil Wiggins, Zoe Carpenter,Lightnin' Wells - Eleanor Ellis
The heart of the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is the week-long workshop where participants live and play with the bearers of acoustic blues traditions. Our artist faculty is curated by artistic director Daryl Davis, and the focus of the week is on participants.
There are so many things to learn at the Festival, one of the biggest challenges is deciding when and how to get enough sleep! From the moment you check-in until you leave, you’ll be in community with and learn learn from acoustic blues masters. There will be playing opportunities, listening opportunities, and time for the unexpected…
http://centrum.org/2013/06/2013-port-townsend-acoustic-blues-workshop-sessions-announced/
Local favorites Mary Flower, Dean Mueller and Johnnie Ward will be there, as well as Jerron Pzxton, Rich Dek Grosso and Dom Flemmons. Lightnin Wells. Eleanor Ellis and Phil Wiggins and Jay Summerour teach in the Piedmont traditino, and many more ...
The Light Still Burns Lauren Sheehan
The Light Still Burns zoomed to #3 on the Folk DJ Radio charts and #2 on the Oregon Roots music charts. Thank you DJs for the air play.
» March 15, 2013 | NPR radio story, Laura the Luthier
» March 19, 2013 | Oregonian Story, "Portland's Lauren Sheehan salutes 'Kalamazoo Gals' with the guitars they built"
The story ...
While the men were off to the war, women filled in and kept the lights burnin' at Gibson's. The guitars of this period have a banner across the headstock, hence "Banner Guitars" and are oft considered among the treasures of Gibson guitars. Who were the women, what was their story, why did Gibson cover up the fact that they made these guitars, why are the guitars so wonderful sounding and how were they made? These questions and more about the story are the subject of the book.
But then the author, John Thomas, thought about how cool it would be if folks could also hear the guitars the women made. He raised some funds, got guitars donated from all over the country for a recording project and then found a women to play them - me. Many songs seemed to suggest themselves to me after I read the manuscript so picking the music was easy and it's mostly appropriate to the times and themes in the book. We used a different guitar for each track. Eric Tate engineered it in New Haven, CT, at Firehouse 12 Studio, so that you , the listeners, would be able to hear and appreciate the sonic details and differences of the guitars
Buy CD: http://www.laurensheehanmusic.com/buy.php
Buy book: http://www.kalamazoogals.com/
» Guitarkadia, Brooklyn NC story: http://guitarkadia.com/emon/blog/the-story-of-the-kalamazoo-gals/
» NBC NY: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Women-s-History-Month--Women-s-Role-in-the-History-of-Guitars/196643701
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