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Holiday Hootenanny & Silent Auction!

4 Dec

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* The Silent Auction will feature some fantastic items up for auction! Including a cabin for two on the Sandy Beaches Cruise, hosted by the legendary Delbert McClinton and featuring fellow luminaries Marcia Ball, Paul Thorn, Richard Thompson, Holiday Hoot alum Jimmy Hall and Fred Eaglesmith, as well as Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real, plus so much more!!  An autographed guitar by Los Lobos, a guitar to be signed at this year’s 25th Annual Christmas Jam, an autographed photo of Greg Allman and Mama Louise (love!), a $150 catering certificate to Bhojanic, a deluxe overnight stay at Callaway Gardens, a signed acoustic guitar by all participating Holiday Hootenanny musicians, and so much more!  The auction will begin in person at 5pm on Sunday, December 22 and sooner online.  Enjoy live music by Sans Abri featuring members of Packway Handle Band while you browse the auction items!  And just think, proceeds from this concert will go directly to Atlanta Habitat for Humanity!!  Complete information for the auction will be out next week!

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Now that the announced lineup is firm, the fun has started in constructing the flow for the evening 😉 Rest assured your anticipation will be outdone!  Expect some surprise special guests to show on up for this one – this show is going to be so damn fun you aren’t going to know what to do with yourselves!  Starting with the Silent Auction on through the entire evening, you will stop wondering how you are so lucky to be attending this event and believe that you were meant to be a part of some musical memories that will last a lifetime!

Get your advance tickets now online at the Terminal West website (or in person at their box office to avoid a service fee), committing to a cause far larger than the music itself, and enjoy one of the finest music experiences you will happen upon!

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One of my favorites clips from last year’s edition is this instrumental jam featuring Papa Mali and Co. tearing it up.  Enjoy!

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Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny News!!

15 Nov

Well folks, the 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny keeps getting sweeter by the day, both on the concert side and the silent auction side.  It’s been fun to stir the pot and get some exciting items to bid on (see pictures below for one item!), and TDawg Presents is excited to announce some additions to the lineup!

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(Stadium Gibson SG Replica Guitar Brand New signed by legendary LOS LOBOS, provided by John Griffin at The Big House Museum, donated by Scott Kendrick, Middle Georgia Pawn in Macon, GA)

Two amazing songwriters from opposite ends of the sprectrum – original Capricorn Records recording artist Tommy Talton (Cowboy) and multi-instrumentalist Jason Kenney – are joining this already on-fire lineup, with just a couple of more to be added soon.  Both bring a passion to their unique sound, full of purity and soul.

Talton is walking music history, as a founding member of Capricorn Records original Cowboy (also featuring Chuck Leavell), and through most of the 70s as a studio musician recording with artists such as Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Band, Bonnie Bramlett, Martin Mull, Corky Lang (West, Bruce and Lang, Mountain, Dickey Betts, Clarence Carter, country legend Kitty Wells, Alex and Livingston Taylor, Arthur Conley of Sweet Soul Music fame, and more.  He toured extensively throughout the U.S. with Cowboy and with the Gregg Allman tour, from Carnegie Hall (as special guests) to Fillmore West in San Francisco and most cities in between. Talton was also the guitarist on Gregg Allman’s “Laid Back” album.

Kenney has been performing and recording professionally for only eight years now, but it seems like a generation’s worth of time based on how he plays, sings, and writes.  His most recent effort is a group called the Kenney Blackmon String Band with legendary fiddler David Blackmon, and their album was produced by famed Widespread Panic producer John Keane.

Stay tuned for a couple of more lineup announcements, and SPREAD THE GOOD WORD!  There’s not another show with as much heart and positive energy as the 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny – A Benefit for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity!  HOOT HOOT!!

Below is nice clip from this past March in NYC at BB King’s Blues Club for the Hittin’ the Note After-party, post Allman Brothers Band concert, featuring the Tommy Talton Band…enjoy!!!

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Updated Holiday Hootenanny Poster!

11 Nov

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The 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny is going to be epic, to put it simply.  There are going to be some surprises, no doubt, and the listed lineup is yet again an A++ group of musicians that represent Georgia and the Southeast as well as any in letting the world know how freakin’ amazing our energy, talent, soul, and rhythm truly are.  You’ll see it all on one stage in various formations.  Breakdown of the concert to come!

This year, we are incorporating a silent auction into the mix, and I must say there are some pretty nifty items to be auctioned or raffled off, including an electric guitar donated by the one and only Col. Bruce Hampton and to be signed by a group of who’s who at the Christmas Jam in Asheville the weekend before!  Stay tuned for an updated list to be released in the next week or so.

TDawg Presents is excited to have the participation of Tree Leaf Music, a subsidiary of Tree Sound Studios in archiving this year’s Holiday Hootenanny.  We will be working towards a release of the show for download purchase, with proceeds to benefit Atlanta Habitat for Humanity!

Stay tuned for more info soon, but PLEASE support the cause and buy a ticket to what can be regarded as the concert of the year by many!  Advance tickets ($30 adv/$35 dos) are available online through the Terminal West website and the box office is open Tue-Fri 11-5, as well as any night where we have another show, should you want to avoid a service charge.

Here’s a fantastic clip from last year’s Holiday Hootenanny featuring Papa Mali, Jimmy Hall, Oteil Burbridge, and a host of others!

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TDawg Presents ROOTSTAND and SCOTT WARREN & the BOOZE MOUNTAINEERS, 11/22!

5 Nov

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Date: FRIDAY, NOV 22

Where: Red Light Cafe, 553 Amsterdam Ave., 404-874-7828

When: Doors @ 7pm, Meet & Greet  with Rootstand @ 8pm, Showtime 9pm

Admission: $10 Adv/$12 door

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About the Rootstand Sound:

…Rebel Rootsgrass and Reggae, Swashbucklin’ Folk and Blues… a highland, island sound, abound with the wild blood of american roots and grass, alive with the joy of the jam and the pain of the ballad…Acoustic-electric battlefield blues and rootsrock, country-boy hip-hop and whiskey reggae…

Scott Warren, a Rome GA native, has been writing and performing his original brand of folksy-rock, Appalachian inspired Americana music for over 20 years. His voice is the real thing, saturated with life and soul.

 

Y’all this is going to be quite a time!  The jams will be flowin’!

 

 

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Tickets on Sale NOW for the 3rd Annual Holiday Hootenanny!

28 Oct

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Alright folks!  Let’s go on and get your tickets, supporting a great cause while anticipating yet another incredible one-of-a-kind jam that you probably will never see again in such a way!  This show is stocked full of southern soul, Americana, and that space in between that gets jazzy, bluesy, and funky in a moment’s notice ~ You’ll certainly be as happy as those in the picture just above!  Advance tickets are $30, $35 at the door, click HERE to get yours now!

The initial lineup is as follows with more to be announced soon!

Randall Bramblett

John Cowan

Col. Bruce Hampton

Rev. Jeff Mosier

Caroline Aiken

Count M’Butu

Jeff Sipe Trio

Grant Green Jr.

Yonrico Scott

Mark Van Allen

Jeff Autry

Donna Hopkins

Diane Durrett

Bobby Miller

Ralph Roddenbery

Leah Calvert

Gaurav Malhotra

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Big Week of Shows for TDawg Presents!

30 Sep

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Come on out for a special early weeknight show at The Red Light Cafe on Thursday, October 3, with one of the most dynamic bands touring these days in The Ragbirds!  Fresh off having a baby in August, Erin Zindle leads these road warriors back on the road for the first time since that time on the proudly proclaimed “Brave New Baby Tour”.

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They will be traveling in their new bio-fuel vehicle tailor made for including a new little family member!  I personally am looking forward to welcoming them with open arms and an amazing audience Thursday night!  It’s also my wife’s birthday, and The Ragbirds is one of her favorite bands.  So if you know her, come on out and celebrate with us.  If you don’t know her, come on out and celebrate with us!  Below is a great video of the band performing one of my favorite songs by them, “Brave New Beat”, from Music City Roots.  Enjoy!

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On Saturday, October 5, Strung Like A Horse visits Music On Main Street for an evening under the large oaks in a beautiful backyard setting in historic downtown Lilburn, just 20 minutes east of the ATL.  It’s an early show, starting at 7pm, and be ready for two sets of the some of the finest self-proclaimed “gypsy punk garage grass” you’re ever going to see!  Cover is only $10!  These kind folks are on a roll right now, doing good things, and are the top band out of Chattanooga right now.  DO NOT MISS THEM!  Music On Main Street is a very family friendly venue that is BYOB and you can bring your own dinner spread, too.  Be sure to bring a blanket and/or chairs!  Below is a video of their song titled “Gypsy Jane”, some of which was filmed at beautiful Cherokee Farms.

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Funk’n’Soul FallFest a success!

24 Sep

We had a fantastic time at Twain’s on Saturday evening for the inaugural edition of the Funk’n’Soul FallFest!  Special thanks to owners and brothers Ethan and Uri Wurtzel for their willingness to try new things, and THANK YOU to all of you who made it out on Saturday for at least a part!  The crowd flowed wonderfully all through the night, and there was always a steady audience for the music.

Jango Monkey kicked off the music shortly after 6pm for a rousing 80 minute set full of fantastic interwoven jams that kept everyone grooving.  They certainly enjoyed the set, and let’s just say it was the perfect kick-off to the evening.

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(Jango Monkey)

Grant Green Jr. followed, and his two sets were as tight and flowing as could be, even if we had to assemble a lineup for him last minute.   He had some fine young players with him that didn’t skip a beat.  I believe it’s safe to say that Twain’s stage is a perfect outlet for Grant, and I hope we can do more with master of the jazz & soul guitar.  Quite a site to behold when you can catch him!

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Young stewards of the funk from Augusta, GA, Funk You, closed out the night performing originals alongside tasteful covers by The Rolling Stones, Bill Withers, and Van Morrison just to name a few.  I was extremely impressed by these fellas in their debut in Decatur and look forward to seeing them moving forward.  I sat down at one point and pressed record on the iphone and got some good footage in the throes of a jam for almost 9 minutes.  I hope you enjoy it!

Please mark down Thursday, October 3, on your calendar for An Evening with The Ragbirds!  Advance tix are available by clicking on the link in the previous sentence.  This is a special early show (8pm’ish start time), so come on out and see one of the most vibrant bands going these days, a band that describes their music as “infectious global grooves”.

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TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny is 3 weeks out!

12 Sep

I figure that this repost is relevant today 😉 In this crazy world that we inhabit, surrounded by so much wrong, it’s nice to have “it” right. The Hootenannies are right! If you’ve never been, you need to give it a try.  The testimonials below are from the last Hootenanny back in April of  this year.  They’re a fun read!  Come on y’all!!

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Howdy y’all!  We’re just over three weeks away from an absolutely incredible weekend of music at the serene property in the NW Georgia mountains known as Cherokee Farms on the weekend of September 13-14, and I thought I’d get you all fired up with some observations from enthusiastic musicians and patrons from the April Hoot.  Dave Jordan (Neighborhood Improvement Association) summed up nicely just yesterday the feeling one gets about coming to a camping TDawg event:

“Looking forward to playing another one of Thomas Helland‘s festivals. I was on his first one, 15 years ago and it’ll be nice to catch up with some old friends. Rumor has it, Duane Trucks will be joining Gregory Hodges and Will Repholz and I to rock Cherokee Farms. Yeah u rite!”

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Caroline Aiken – “A weekend full of family and friends, and the HOOTNENANNY was SO wonderful, the line…

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Hootenanny Advance Tix end THU 9/12 at 11PM EDT!

11 Sep

Get your advance tickets NOW so you can be just as chillin’ as the mighty fine individual in this picture!  Also, check out our own Ralph Roddenbery creating a “Hootenanny Song” 😉  And remember, you’ll receive a compilation CD from the 2nd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny on Dec 16, 2012 at the Variety Playhouse!  Artists featured include Papa Mali, Larry Keel, Jimmy Hall, Grant Green Jr., Ike Stubblefield, Col. Bruce Hampton, Rev. Jeff Mosier, and many more!

FRI-SAT $50 ADV/$60 gate (includes camping)

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SAT ONLY $40 ADV/$50 gate (includes camping)

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SAT DAY passes are available at the gate for $40.  Kids 13-16 are $20, Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE.  NO DOGS PLEASE!!

Lodging

Key West Inn, 2221 N Main St  LaFayette, GA 30728
PH:  (706) 638-8200

Days Inn, 2209 N Main St  LaFayette, GA 30728
PH:  (706) 639-9362

Chillin' Cherokee Farms

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Hootenanny Artist Preview: Vagabond Swing (4 days out y’all!)

9 Sep

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Please welcome Vagabond Swing to the Hootenanny Family!  I have not witnessed a Vagabond Swing concert, but by all accounts and from what I have found on YouTube, the 45-minute set from 4:15pm-5pm on Saturday afternoon under the Grateful Fred Tent is going to be bouncing all directions with creative musical anarchy – too much fun for your own good!

These fellas come from Lafayette, LA, and they are bringing their own unique sound to the table here.  Instrumentation includes dual guitars, drums, mandolin, trumpet, and upright bass.  I’m sure there are some surprises in there, too.   With musical influences including gypsy/folk/bluegrass, punk/ska, avant garde/classical, and jazz, well, this is what you might get.  They describe their music as “a surprisingly smooth mixture of progressive Gypsy/Experimental/Circus-vibe/Swing tunes.”  That pretty much sums it up.  The video below is a good indicator of the fun and intensity that is a performance by Vagabond Swing.

Vagabond Swing is going to stick around after their set, so expect them to pop up possibly on stage elsewhere!  Y’all we’re going to have ourselves an incredible time this weekend, and you can purchase advance tickets until Thursday, Sept 12 @ 11pm EDT. 

***All advance purchases will receive a copy of a compilation from TDawg Presents’ 2nd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny that occurred in December of 2012, featuring Papa Mali, Larry Keel, Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Hall, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ike Stubblefied, Grant Green Jr., Deep Blue Sun and more!

FRI-SAT $50 ADV/$60 gate (includes camping)

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SAT ONLY $40 ADV/$50 gate (includes camping)

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