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Salsa Dance |
 Salsa dancing to the best recorded Latin Music. While no food will be served after 10:00pm, the bar will be open all evening.
Jorge will be offering a basic step warm-up from 9:30pm to 10:00pm. | |
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Honeyboy Edwards |
 David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi. Honeyboy is one of the last living links to Robert Johnson, and one of the last original acoustic Delta blues players. He is a living legend, and his story is truly part of history. He is the real deal.
Honeyboy was a part of many of the seminal moments of the blues. As he writes in his 1997 book The World Don't Owe Me Nothing, "...it was in '29 when Tommy Johnson come down from Crystal Springs, Mississippi. He was just a little guy, tan colored, easy-going; but he drank a whole lot. At nighttime, we'd go there and listen to Tommy Johnson play." Honeyboy continues, "Listening to Tommy, that's when I really learned something about how to play guitar." Honeyboy's life has been intertwined with almost every major blues legend, including Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Big Joe Williams, Rice "Sonny Boy Williamson" Miller, Howlin' Wolf, Peetie Wheatstraw, Sunnyland Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Walter, Little Walter, Magic Sam, Muddy Waters, and ... well, let's just say the list goes on darn near forever! In 1942, Alan Lomax recorded Honeyboy in Clarksdale, Mississippi for the Library of Congress. He recorded a total of fifteen sides of Honeyboy's music. | |
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The Lucky Charms |
 St. Patricks Day sees three of the area's finest singer / songwriter musicians joining forces to bring you an Irish extravaganza. Sarah Underhill is known throughout the Hudson Valley for her Celtic / Appalachian powerhouse vocals, and she is currently working on a new CD funded by her performances with Pete Seeger. Jude Roberts is a singer / songwriter / guitarist just returned from a tour of the West Coast; his blend of Celtic / Americana and tightly knit original songs have the ladies swooning in the aisles. Ian Worpole is himself sometimes found swooning in the aisles, but when he sits up straight, he performs a heady mix of English-Irish songs and tunes on guitar and mandolin, honed by years of abuse in English Folk clubs. The trio tonight will realize Mark's long time dream of naming a band, so for one night only come and join in the songs, sample the fine range of food, beers green or otherwise and cheer along... The Lucky Charms."Couldn't think of three more cheery folks to spend St. Paddy's Day with." --Cafe Guide | |
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Bruce Molsky |
 Alone or with fellow musicians; guitar, fiddle, or banjo in hand, Bruce Molsky has been exploring traditional music from an astonishingly broad range of cultures over the past two decades - synthesizing them and refracting them through his own evolving sensibilities to the point where the sources of his inspiration transform themselves into a sound that is uniquely his. While most identified with traditional American old-time music, Molsky's influences range from the Appalachian soul of Tommy Jarrell to Delta blues; from the haunting modal strains of Irish music to the rhythmically nimble music of Eastern Europe. | |
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Joy Kills Sorrow |
 With its bold new brand of acoustic music, Joy Kills Sorrow pushes right through the envelope and out the other side. The Boston-based stringband brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into elegant arrangements and well-crafted songs. While the group pays due homage to its Bluegrass roots... its name refers to one of the first radio stations to broadcast the music of Bill Monroe... the band truly excels in its rich and textured treatment of more contemporary material. Boasting a full arsenal of original songs, Joy Kills Sorrow plumbs the entire spectrum of its spare instrumentation, effortlessly merging influences as diverse as folk, rock, pop, and jazz. The songs that emerge are dark and often funny, ruminating on modern life and love with eloquence and wit. The result is a radical new strain of folk music, one that bravely breaks with tradition even as it salutes the past. | |
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Singer-Songwriter Tuesdays |
 Join host Wayne Montecalvo as he presents yet another in the Cafe's ongoing series of music showcases. Enjoy both veteran and up-and-coming performers playing 15 minute sets from 8:00pm-9:45pm.
The scheduled musicians for this evening are Finley and Pagdon, Doug Yoel, Betty Altman and Phil Miller, Eddie Fingerhut and John Pinder, Mike Aguirre, and Kate McCoy. | |
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Frank Vignola's Hot Club |
 In celebration of Django Reinhardt's 100th birthday, guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola, a leading proponent of Reinhardt's gypsy jazz style of playing, has assembled a topnotch quintet for a searing tribute to one of his earliest musical influences.
Only a musician the caliber of Frank Vignola, an accomplished and influential guitarist in his own right, could dare tackle the monumental task of honoring the centennial of the legendary Django Reinhardt. "How versatile is Frank Vignola? He's collaborated with Lionel Hampton and Madonna, covers Mozart and Black Sabbath on the same record, and [was] one of Les Paul's favorite guitarists." - The Boston Globe | |
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Bob Stump and the Blue Mountain Band |
 Tom White on Fiddle , Bob Stump Guitar, Roy Coates bass , the Blue Mountain "Tree-o". Music on the edge of the bluegrass horizon."These boys got old time like they own it." --Cafe Guide | |
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Irish Song and Tune Session |
 Sarah Underhill and Ian Worpole host a traditional session, and fellow Irish musicians are cordially invited to bring instruments and sit in. Sarah is an acclaimed Hudson Valley singer, and Ian and friends join her to provide a warm three hours of music from 4:00pm-7:00pm. The audience is attentive and appreciative, and the sound is modestly amplified.
Occurs monthly on the fourth Sunday. "These guys transport you to a pub in Dublin where you relish the company of your neighbors and the spirit of the music and ale as well." --Cafe Guide | |
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Susan McKeown |
 Once heard, you would never take Susan McKeown for anyone else. This year's Grammy-winning album Wonder Wheel from The Klezmatics, features Susan on lead and harmony vocals throughout; her strong, richly colored contralto soaring on the dramatic survival anthem "Gonna Get Through This World.""She walks on the wild side of Gaelic melody." --Boston Globe "A singer of passion, grace and striking presence with the ability to capture both the essence of a traditional folk song or the more hard-edged domain of contemporary adult rock; she seems to personify both past and present." --Irish Examiner | |
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Gerry O'Beirne and Rosie Shipley |
 Irish singer/songwriter Gerry O'Beirne and American fiddler Rosie Shipley have been delighting audiences worldwide for over seven years.
A native of Ennis, Co. Clare, Gerry O'Beirne is known for his much-covered original songs, innovative guitar tunings, and prowess on a variety of stringed instruments, including 12-string guitar, National Steel guitar, and ukulele. O'Beirne's recent instrumental album, The Bog Bodies and Other Stories, was hailed as "one of the most perfect acoustic albums I've heard" by NPR's John Diliberto. Rosie Shipley has been playing the fiddle since she was three years old. She learned her first Irish tunes at age eight from master fiddler Brendan Mulvihill in Baltimore, MD. As a teenager, Rosie attended the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where she became well versed in Cape Breton-style fiddling. Her recording with singer Lisa Moscatiello was described as "achingly beautiful" by The Washington Times. Together, O'Beirne and Shipley perform traditional music from Ireland and North America as well as O'Beirne's original compositions and songs. Please join us for an evening with a duo that reviewers have called "an unstoppable and potently creative force." | |
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8th Annual Ron Finck Memorial Scholarship Concert |
 The cats who'll be playing: Roswell Rudd on trombone, Mike Kull on piano, Matt Finck on guitar, Lew Scott, Bass;
Harvey Kaiser,Saxophone and T. Xiques,Percussion. You will hear the music of Monk, Parker, Scofield, and everything else in between. All proceeds support the scholarship fund awarded to a graduating senior from Rondout Valley High School in pursuing a career in music. Ron Finck was a brilliant musician who resided in the Hudson Valley for 30 years. He constantly strived to better himself musically, and was passionate about supporting young musicians in their musical journeys. This passion was the catalyst for starting the long-running Ron Finck Memorial Scholarship. "Assembled on one stage in honor of the great musician / humanitarian Ron Finck, some of the Jazz world's greatest reaching-out to the next generation of players... quite beautiful! With Love to Ron." --Cafe Guide | |
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Professor Louie & The Crowmatix |
 Professor "Louie" and The Crowmatix pump out a combination of rhythm & blues and rock 'n' roll. They hail from Woodstock and have been recording and touring nationally for the past seven years. Their 2008 CD release "As The Crow Flies" complements their six studio CDs and two live CDs on The Woodstock Records label."Professor Louie's upstate ensemble is an Americana template that jams out timeless rock, country, blues and New Orleans influenced originals." --The Village Voice | |
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Mary Gauthier |
 A rare Wednesday night. Mary Gauthier is one of the most challenging artists to rise up from the underground in a long, long time, writing songs that tell hard truths with a desolate eloquence. Gauthier's path has wound through devastation and despair. She has beaten back demons, learned from the streets, sunk to the bottom of life, turned 18 behind bars, emerged from darkness, and to completely confuse things won notice as a respected restaurateur... all before writing her first song."We all set out on that Royal Road to be a good person. We falter and fail, sometime crash in flames. Mary knows the heart of darkness and the promise of light and a better day. Her performance should not be described as an 'act' because she is much deeper and closer to the core of truth, with its suffering and momentary joy. I don't subsribe to a church or a 'religion', but when Mary sings I'm willing to try to be that person again." --Cafe Guide | |
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Duke Robillard Trio |
 What do Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond, the late Jimmy Witherspoon, Dr. John, Maria Muldaur, Roomful of Blues, and the Canadian band The Rockin' Highliners all have in common?
Answer: Duke Robillard. Guitarist, Bandleader, Songwriter, Singer, Producer, Session musician... and a one-man cheering section for the blues, in all its forms and permutations. And every one of those names has shared recording studio space or stage time with a man who is a legend in the blues community. The Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C.Handy Awards) have named Duke Robillard "Best Blues Guitarist" four years out of five (2000,2001,2003,2004) making him the second most honored guitarist for that award! He was also nominated in that category in 2005, 2007 and again this year of 2008. | |
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Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew |
 Jesse Lege is one of the most admired Cajun accordionists and vocalists from Southwest Louisiana. Beginning with Cajun accordion at age 16, Jesse has been playing traditional Cajun music for over 35 years with a variety of bands in various Louisiana dancehalls.
His ensemble includes Evie Schneider on five-string bass; Darren Wallace on fiddle, electric guitar; Jesse himself on accordion, guitar, vocals; and Erica Weiss on guitar, vocals. Lege has garnered numerous Cajun French Music Association awards, known as the "Cajun Grammys". These include Traditional Band of the Year, Accordion Player of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Band of the Year, and for "Memoires Dans Mon Coeur", he won Song of the Year. He has recorded three CDs with the Lake Charles Ramblers, the Southern Ramblers, and the album Live at the Isleton Crawdad Festival, in California with master Creole fiddler Ed Poullard. Jesse has played many Cajun events in Louisiana and elsewhere in the U.S. and world, including Festivals Acadiens, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the prestigious Chicago Folk Festival, major festivals in CA and FL, and in England and Canada. In 1998 Jesse was inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame. "Jessie sings in the traditional high pitched, emotional style reminiscent of the late Iry LeJeune... and plays the accordion with equal power and conviction..." --Arhoolie Records "Lege's soaring voice resonates with... piercing, yet beautiful heartache... [he] possesses one of the truly great voices in contemporary Cajun music. Listeners who do not experience frissons hearing him sing... had better check their pulse." --LSUE Office of Public Relations "His penetrating style and emotion-laden lyrics can make veteran festival producers such as this one weep backstage." --Barry Ancelet, MC of the Liberty Theatre shows, producer of Festivals Acadiens, and Professor of French at USL. | |
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The Saturday Night Bluegrass Band |
 Bluegrass, Country, and Gilbert and Sullivan...
Featuring Brian Hollander on guitar and vocals; the extraordinary Bill Keith on banjo; Tim Kapeluck on mandolin, fiddle, and vocals; Guy "Fooch" Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle; and Geoff Harden on bass and vocals. Special guests might also be in the cards... "Ulster County's answer to Nashville, these boys spit bluegrass like a threshing machine." --Big Pick Newsletter | |
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Roy Book Binder |
 The rambling country blues legend returns to the Hudson Valley for a night of frightfully good music and humor."Roy's one of the Great Ones, unearthly pickin', story tellin' wit... he's an ambassador of the tradition and a legend himself." --Cafe Guide | |
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Chris Smither |
 Some artists continually reinvent themselves; others identify their muse early on and spend their careers single-mindedly pursuing it, remaining recognizably themselves through a career-long process of refinement, growth and discovery. Chris Smither belongs to the latter group. "Leave the Light On," Smither's masterful twelfth album stands as the quintessence of his life's work while throwing in some new wrinkles that reflect where he's been and what he's encountered since the last time around."[Smither] taps his foot to keep the rhythm, much like the late blues legend John Lee Hooker. His finger-picked guitar lines are sleek, unhurried and insistent. And then there's the voice - equal parts gravel and molasses, Smither's singing sounds like a distillation of the folk and blues heroes he grew up listening to in New Orleans." --National Public Radio "Smither is an American original, a product of the musical melting pot, and one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world." --Associated Press "Bathed in the flickering glow of passing headlights and neon bar signs, Smither's roots are as blue as they come. There is plenty of misty Louisiana and Lightnin' Hopkins in Smither's weathered singing and unhurried picking. So fine." --Rolling Stone "The masterful combination of pure folk songwriting and intricate guitar blues are tangible signs of the singer-songwriter's vigorous genius. A megawatt solo performer." --Wired | |
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The Rosendale Cafe®
434 Main St. • PO Box 436 • Rosendale, NY 12472 • 845.658.9048
Hours: 11:00am-10:00pm every day, except Wednesdays 5:00pm-10:00pm