Hope you had as much fun as we did at Wednesday's Honky-Tonk Night!
It's Friday, and we're "swinging" into gear with Bruce and Pammie Forman - AKA "Cow Bop." They will be joined by Voiceworks faculty all-stars for a night of sizzling swing dance tunes.
We'll start things off at 7:30pm, and tickets at the door will be $10. To learn more, visit our performance preview for this show.
And don't forget to join us at Fort Worden's Balloon Hangar on Saturday, for our afternoon-long mainstage show at McCurdy Pavilion. A ton of great singing to be heard.
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Thanks to everyone who came out for some serious honky-tonk at Voiceworks--that was a lot of fun!
A reminder that we have a Swing Dance party happening on Friday night in Building 204, and then the big Pavilion show on Saturday afternoon. Weather looks to be clearing, so it's entirely possible that those enormous balloon hangar doors at McCurdy Pavilion will be open for the show.
Tickets for these shows are available online, or by calling 800-746-1982.
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Building 204 at Fort Worden turns into Honky-Tonk Central tonight, as Voiceworks welcomes Nadine Landry and the Black Pot Cookers, along with Wylie (Gustafson) and Wild West, for a night of great music in Port Townsend.
The fun begins at 7:30pm, and tickets at the door are $10 until we're sold out.
For more information, check out our performance preview for this show.
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Voiceworks' primary concert experience takes place on Saturday, July 3 at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. The soaring structure, built in the early part of the 20th century to house dirigibles, has been transformed into one of the West's most distinctive performance venues.
And it is simply a stunning place to hear people sing.
Tickets for Saturday's McCurdy Pavilion show, as well as all other Voiceworks performances, are available online, or by calling 800-746-1982.
Saturday, July 3
Mountain, Roots
& Bluegrass
McCurdy Pavilion | 1:30 pm |
$16/$20/$32
Elizabeth LaPrelle
Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth LaPrelle is exceptional in her devotion to
and mastery of the ancient and deep art of Appalachian unaccompanied
singing. She is renowned for her piercingly authentic mountain style and
the devotion and honesty with which she approaches the poetry of the
old songs. She sings with a sense of conviction, honor, honesty and an
emotional force that evokes the great Appalachian ballad singers of
generations past.
Pharis and Jason Romero
Pharis Romero is
an outstanding singer, songwriter, rhythm guitar player, and teacher,
and a respected figure in West Coast acoustic music circles. She is a prolific songwriter, influenced by early traditional music,
but looking to her Canadian home for songs about daily living – work, divorce, drug addiction, love
and death. She currently plays with old time trio The Haints, and
directs vocal and band workshops and the Old Time Vocal Choir in her
home of Cobble Hill, BC.
Blue Spruce with Jenny Lester
Jenny Lester's original songs, carefully crafted in the bluegrass convention, display a
contemporary freshness and vitality that breathes new life into the
fabled "high lonesome" sound. She is a veteran stage performer, beginning on the fiddle at age eight
with her family's Driftwood Canyon Family Band out of Smithers,
B.C. Now into 27 years touring the world with different configurations
of bands, Jenny most
recently toured with the Yukon-based bluegrass band, Hungry Hill.
Mark Graham and Orville Johnson
Songwriter Mark
Graham's harmonica virtuosity on Irish and American fiddle tunes and
his rich, woody sound on clarinet are well-known to Northwest acoustic
music mavens. His sardonic skewering of contemporary life in such songs as "I Can See
Your Aura and It's Ugly" and "Zen Gospel Singing," and his lampoons of
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, sex change operations, the bible, Oedipus
Rex, Oral Roberts, and dinosaurs have become immortal to
singer-songwriters in the same way that fervent “Repo Man” followers
gave rise to the term “cult classic.”
Orville Johnson, an instrumental gunslinger whom the Seattle Times describes as "the player's player," has a gift of finding the secret ingredient that makes a song sound letter-perfect, whether it's an R & B tune from New Orleans, a country blues or a jazzy ballad. guitar, dobro, and quavering, honeyed vocals have seasoned more than a hundred recordings, soundtracks and countless TV and radio commercials. He’s an extraordinary and magnificent musician, with interests and passions and contributions simply too wide to be categorized by marketing bins.
Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum
Though Laurie
Lewis has won a Grammy and has twice been named Bluegrass Female Vocalist
of the Year, you'll soon realize this soft-spoken, sweet-singing
California fiddler, singer and songwriter is something very special.
Since joining forces with Laurie more than 20 years ago, Tom's
versatility and diverse musical influences come to the fore every time
they play. He mostly plays mandolin, but is also an accomplished fiddle,
mandola, and guitar player. And he sings, the ideal harmony partner for
Laurie, as demonstrated on "The Oak and the Laurel," their
Grammy-nominated album of duets.
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Part of the 2010 Voiceworks gathering, on Friday, July 2, 2010, Centrum transforms Building 204 at historic Fort Worden State Park into Swing Dance Central. The terrific wooden floors on the second floor make it a fun dancing venue.
Friday, July 2
Swing Dance
Building 204 |
7:30 pm | $10
Tickets for the Friday night show, as well as Wednesday night's Honky-Tonk night and Saturday's McCurdy Pavilion show are available online.
Pammy and Bruce Forman are the dynamic husband and wife duo at the heart of Cow Bop, a Western bebop band mixing swingin' grooves, thrilling riffs, sweet and hot vocals, and acoustic western sensibilities.
Pammy won her first talent show singing at age 6 and has worked with many bands and fabulous musicians including Mood Indigo, The Martini Brothers Big Band, Sweet Thursday Jazz Band, Dan Hicks, and Howard Alden.
Bruce is a renowned jazz guitarist, whose guitar style has been an important part of international jazz for more than two decades. He has been featured as leader as well as sideman at most of the prestigious festivals and concert venues throughout the world. His numerous recording and performing credits include the likes of Bobby Hutcherson, Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Henderson, and Barney Kessel.
Together, these two are a lot of fun, and they'll joined by the all-star Voiceworks faculty for a swing dance to remember.
Watch this video of Cow Bop playing the Cow Cow Boogie (if you watch below, be sure to select 480p for best picture).
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