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Sep 11, 2011 | 12:30 PM | St. Pius X Catholic Church | Portland, OR

Sep 15, 2011 | 7:00 PM | House concert, contact Melinda Erickson, merickson01@insightbb.com | Louisville, KY

Sep 17, 2011 | 7:00 PM | Brown-Forman Amphitheater, Waterfront Park . with Jim Kweskin and the Barbeque Orchestra | Louisville, KY

Sep 18, 2011 | 2:00 PM | Third Street Park, Vaudevillle Show | Bloomington, IN

Sep 18, 2011 | 7:00 PM | House Concert, contact Carolyn, blueroom7@COMCAST.NET | Bloomington, IN

Sep 22, 2011 | 8:00 PM | Muddy Rudder Public House | Portland, OR

Sep 24, 2011 | 9:30 AM | Cedar Mill Farmer's Market | Portland, OR

Sep 29, 2011 | 8:00 PM | Muddy Rudder Public House | Portland, OR

Oct 6, 2011 | 8:00 PM | Muddy Rudder Public House | Portland, OR

Oct 9, 2011 | 7:15 AM | Portland marathon, with Eagle Ridin' Papas

Oct 12, 2011 | 7:30 PM | The Upstage | Port Townsend, WA

Oct 14, 2011 | 7:30 PM | Rogue Folk Club | Vancouver, BC

Oct 15, 2011 | 7:30 PM | Seattle Folklore Society, 6532 Phinney Avenue N ,Phinney Neighborhood Association headquarters) Seattle, WA 98103 | Seattle, WA

Oct 19, 2011 | 10:25 PM | Arts NW showcase | Eugene, OR | With the Potluck Stringband, Spud Siegel and Bill Uhlig

Oct 22, 2011 | 9:45 AM | panelist for Farwest Folk Alliance | Eugene, OR

Oct 22, 2011 | 10:45 PM | Farwest showcase "The Root Cellar" | Portland, OR

Nov 3, 2011 | 7:30 PM | Hezekiah Stone's Coffeehouse | Leicester, MA | http://www.hezstone.com


Port Townsend Blues Festival 2011


With Mark Graham and Washboard Chaz



Phil Wiggins, Zoe Carpenter and Lightnin' Wells







Blind boy Jerron Paxton




Steve Cheseborough



Peter McCracken

Have you gotten intrigued by the idea of hosting a host concert?

Here is a great site to help you get started.
- end October/Nov - Maine to PA
- Dec. seasonal shows - in the NW



For hosts: www.ConcertsInYourHome.com


Lauren Sheehan, Songster
Late Summer, 2011

FREE-RANGE AMERICANA BLUES * BALLADS * COUNTRY * FOLK


Kentucky, Indiana, Seattle, Port Townsend, Vancouver BC and New England ahead.

It's been a long, wonderful summer and a busy fall is around the corner. Hope to see you along the CD tour route. House concerts continue to be a fantastic addition to other shows as I move along, so let me know if you are interested in helping put one together in your neighborhood.

See Calendar for dates and towns.


The New Barbeque Orchestra with Jim Kweskin at the

National Jug Band Jubilee, Louisville, KY 9/17 http://www.jugbandjubilee.com/

Portland's Barbeque Orchestra heads to Kentucky to join Jim Kweskin for a rollicking day of good time jug band celebration. The BBQ Orchestra was ignited by Fritz Richmond, (jug-blower, washtub bass master and former Jim Kweskin Jug band member), in Portland, OR, where Fritz lived the last part of his life. Several members of the BBQ have kept the coals burnin’; notably Peter “Spud” Siegel mandolinist and Jon “Doc” Stein dobro player. Roots musician Lauren Sheehan and all around bottom end guy Michael Gifford spice up the current marinade. In various configurations, this saucy lot has toured in far flung places such as the Grenadines, North Carolina, Maine, Ireland, Italy and beyond.

Enjoy the clips of the band from Fritz's time, listen to Lauren and Spud in another project and imagine the good time with the New Barbeque Orchestra.

http://www.laurensheehanmusic.com/bands_bbq.php


Band members

Spud Siegel [www.bondstreetblues.com]
Doc Stein
Lauren Sheehan [www.laurensheehanmusic.com]
Michael Gifford


Songs
[click to listen]
Barbeque Orchestra, Sweet Sue
Barbeque Orchestra, You May Leave
Lauren Sheehan, Won't You Be Kind
Lauren Sheehan, Oil In My Vessel





Rose City Ramble - purchase new CD here
http://www.laurensheehanmusic.com/buy.php


The new CD is doing very well and getting all sorts of accolades. You can listen and/or purchase on my web site or on itunes. Both digital and hard copies are available. And let me know what you think, as it's always rewarding to get feedback from you fans who matter most.

“Your CD is excellent — it accompanied me (over and over) on my swing up from Seattle to Anacortes when I was very tired and had done too much driving. It's a keeper.” —Peggy Seeger


Reviews:

http://coverlaydown.com/2011/08/tidbit-thursday-a-tribute-to-hearth-music/

http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blog/list?q=sheehan

http://flyinshoes.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lauren-sheehan-rose-city?xg_source=activity

#3 FolkDJ Radio Chart -May http://www.folkradio.org/

#2 Oregon Roots Radio - early June

“Lauren, your new CD is absolutely gorgeous - wonderful singing, playing and arrangements". - Eleanor Ellis, blueswoman


Portland News Lessons, Muddy Rudder and local shows


Lessons are starting up again so give me a shout if you are interested in guitar, mandolin, banjo, singing, singing AND playing, musicianship, performance coaching - solo or ensemble.

And new this year is the TUNE UP session. Many of you appreciate feedback and general guidelines from time to time instead of regular lessons.

I decided to play at the MUDDY RUDDER again this year and will do so on Thursdays when I am in town. That will be sporadically as I'll be on the road a bit this fall, but I do look forward to being back, especially as the noise levels have been cut and the musical experience is so much better now.

Check the calendar on my web site to find me at different spots.


Some thoughts about Honey Boy Edwards, the blues, time and definitions.
Portland musician Steve Cheseborough sent this out in his newsletter. It's provocative and thoughtful so I'm including it with his permission. See his site to learn more about Steve and his music. www.stevecheseborough.com

As you may have heard, blues artist David Honeyboy Edwards died recently at age 96, a few months after he finally retired from touring.

I am happy that there was so much news coverage of his passing. But the reports described him as "the last of the Delta bluesmen," "the last of the first generation of Delta bluesmen" and "the last musician to have played with Robert Johnson." I don't really agree with those descriptions.

Was he the last Delta bluesman? When Big Bill Broonzy died in 1958, he was memorialized as "the last of the blues singers." Certainly there has been some wonderful blues since then. Some might believe Broonzy (or Honeyboy, or someone else) is the last great blues singer, but that is an aesthetic debate we won't go into here.There are still people in the Delta, and from the Delta, playing the blues.

Was he the last living person to have played with Robert Johnson? Probably not. There are probably several musicians who did not continue with music as a public career who played with Johnson, and some of them might still be alive. Honeyboy was close to Johnson, and was with him at his final performance. But I prefer to remember Honeyboy for his own accomplishments over his long and fruitful life, not for his connection to the short-lived Johnson.

Was he the last of the first generation? Not really. Honeyboy was born in 1914, which I'd say is a generation behind such pioneering figures as Mamie Smith (born 1883), Ma Rainey (1886), Jim Jackson (1886), Sara Martin (1884), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893) and many others.

Honeyboy is very significant as a great musician and performer; a great rememberer and storyteller (his autobiography, The World Don't Owe Me Nothing, is #1 on my list of recommended blues books); and for outliving most of his contemporaries and still touring and performing into extreme old age, making him a living spokesman from an earlier age for the last few decades of his life. Along with Robert Junior Lockwood, Henry Townsend and Pinetop Perkins, he was a survivor of the earliest days of the blues, someone who knew many of the first generation of blues artists, someone who grew up in sharecropping and did everything, knew everybody connected to the blues. All four of those men died in the past few years (Pinetop earlier this year). There undoubtedly still are people around of that age who are not professional musicians who remember sharecropping and the early days of the blues. But probably not anyone else is left who a vital part of the scene. Those four are gone, and Honeyboy was the last of them. It feels like the closing of an era, the death of the eldest member of my tribe, the blues tribe. But hopefully the tribe will go on and continue to make music!

Speaking of which...come hear me at these places during these glorious, Delta-like dog days of late summer:




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