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» 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"

Kalamazoo Show, Gibson "American Eagle"


http://www.kalamazoogals.com/

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Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 | 6:45 PM | Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival | Portland, OR | Venue details | Crossroads stage | Price: -

Thursday, Jul 03, 2014 | 10:00 PM | Waterfront Blues Festival | Portland, OR | Venue details | on the Hoo Doo cruise and sharing a set with Jerron Paxton. | Price: $35

Saturday, Jul 05, 2014 | 9:30 AM | Cedar Mill Farmer's Market | Portland, OR | Venue details | Price: -

Sunday, Jul 27, 2014 | 7:00 PM | blues@Centrum | Port Townsend, WA | Venue details | teaching all week at this intensive and fun roots blues camp, stellar faculty, wonderful students from beginners to advanced. | Price: -

Saturday, Sep 20, 2014 | 9:30 AM | Cedar Mill Farmer's Market | Portland, OR | Venue details | Price: -

Monday, Oct 27, 2014 | 9:30 PM | Cantab Lounge | Cambridge, MA | Venue details | Price: -

Watch Lauren play "My Baby's so Sweet" from the new CD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOO2NaZ8l0

"See you in Port Townsend," Lightnin' Wells



Jerron Paxton

Johnnie Ward

Mary Fower

Dean Muelller

Concerts In Your Home

www.ConcertsInYourHome.com


Lauren Sheehan, Songster

July 2014

ROOTS AMERICANA



BOOM - it's fourth of July which means Waterfront Blues in Portland, farmers markets, Muddy Rudder and the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival.


Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival

Thursday, July 3

6 :45 Crossroads Stage

10:30 pm DME HooDoo Moon Cruise, with Jerron Paxton & Lloyd Jones
http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com/Entry-and-Passes/DME-Blues-Cruises


There is a great line up again at the Portland OR blues festival.
Catch me this evening, two sets. One is on land and the other on water with Jerron Paxton. We'll be entertaining on the Portland Spirit late night cruise upper deck, along with Lloyd Jones, but doing separate sets. Bring your wrap, the night gets a little chilly.
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. I recommend Mary Flower and the barbeque boys on stage after me Thursday and Karen Lovely's Prohibition Orchestra on Friday, but best to look at the website to find out what you want to be sure to catch.

http://www.tickettomato.com/event.php?event_id=1796

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 - Rich Del Grosso

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/port-townsend-acoustic-blues-festival-workshop/

Local favorites Mary Flower, Dean Mueller and Johnnie Ward will be there, as well as Alvin Youngblood Hart, Rich Dek Grosso and Lightnin Wells, and the list goes on ...

The Light Still Burns Lauren Sheehan

A cool American History story

» 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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