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TDawg is excited to present the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton in the intimate confines of the Red Light Cafe! I caught him there last month right before the Holiday Hootenanny, and it was truly just what the DR ordered!
Col. Bruce will be joined on stage by another incredible ensemble of musicians, including the absolutely mesmerizing Johnny Knapp on keys, whose career spans performing with Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, and countless others. Johnny tore it up at the Holiday Hootenanny, leaving folks in their tracks with a dazed look on their face. His performance with Bruce wasn’t jazz, wasn’t Bruce, WAS pure Zambi!
We are just a few days out from a freakin’ incredible musical experience! For those of you who attended Warren Haynes’ 25th Annual Christmas Jam last weekend in Asheville, well, this should be a solid capper for you! Musicians are communicating amongst themselves, the auction is falling into place, and I hope that we can have a packed house at Terminal West in our first year working with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity!
Here is a general flow to the concert, music starting at 7pm.
Silent Auction 5pm, Doors to venue 6pm, SHOWTIME 7PM.
SET I ~ 7:00pm-8:00pm
Featured Musians: Jeff Sipe Trio, Lefty Williams, Donna Hopkins, Ralph Roddenbery & Diane Durrett.
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SET II ~ 8:30pm-9:45pm
Featured Musicians: John Cowan, Tommy Talton, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Jason Kenney & Leah Calvert
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SET III ~ 10:15pm-MIDNIGHT
Featured Musicians: Randall Bramblett, Grant Green Jr., Col. Bruce Hampton, Women of Rock feat. Caroline Aiken, Diane Durrett & Donna Hopkins
Core Musicians: Jeff Sipe, Joe Craven, John Cowan, Ted Pecchio, Kevin Scott, Count M’Butu, Gaurav Malhotra, Yonrico Scott, Leah Calvert, Bobby Miller, Tony Giordano, Donna Hopkins, Lefty Williams, Diane Durrett, Jeff Autry.
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Get your advance tickets now and know you’re doing your part for a great cause!
Come at 5pm and enjoy an incredible silent auction with live music from Sans Abri. Below are samples of some of the items up for auction!
Sandy Beaches Cruise (Delbert McClinton, Marcia Ball and much more!)
Sixthman
Artwork – ARU 2001 Variety Playhouse (4 prints)
Scramble Campbell
Artwork – 3D String Cheese Incident – Conscious Alliance 2010
Scramble Campbell
Artwork – Yonder Mountain String Band – Bonnaroo 2003
Scramble Campbell
Artwork – Woodstock 30th Anniversary
Scramble Campbell
Artwork – Drumhead Artwork
Yonrico Scott
Artwork – Guitart
Tommy Talton
Autographed WSP Tour Poster
John Griffin
Bhojanic for 10 ($150 value)
Bhojanic
Calloway Garden getaway package
Callaway Gardens
Stadium Gibson SG Guitar Replica signed by Los Lobos
The first two editions of Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny have featured southern music luminaries, and this year’s is no different. I am very excited to be able to present three music visionaries that date back to the 70’s with their respective music repertoires.
Randall Bramblett, Tommy Talton & John Cowanhelped to define an era of music discovery that ranged from the classic Capricorn Records in Macon and acts like The Allman Brothers Band, Cowboy, Marshall Tucker Band, and Sea Level to the progressive “new grass” sound created by the likes of the late John Hartford and New Grass Revival in the early 70’s, which originally featured Sam Bush, Cowan, Dr. Dobro Curtis Burch, and the late Courtney Johnson in the 70’s and Bela Fleck and Pat Flynn in the 80’s (replaced Burch & Johnson). These two styles have merged many times over the years for what turns out to be a match made in musical heaven, and the 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny is going to certainly showcase those two styles.
Randall with his current band from Music City Roots earlier this year.
And you here you have some vintage John Cowan with a great prelude by Sam Bush talking about John.
Here’s a clip of Tommy Talton Band performing last March in NYC at the Hittin’ the Note party.
Get your advance tickets now, and know that you’ll be supporting a wonderful cause and witnessing a piece of music history!
Johnny Knapp is music history. He has assumed every role you possibly can as a musician – a pianist, conductor, composer, performer, educator, arranger – Knapp has worked with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis, Barbara Streisand, Mary Martin, Frank Sinatra, Paul Chambers, and countless others.
We are extremely honored to have him grace the stage at the 3rd Annual Atlanta’s Holiday Hootenanny during the sequence led by Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret. on Sunday, December 22, at Terminal West in King Plow Arts Center. The video above is from earlier this year at Music On Main Street. Y’all, this show is truly going to be off the charts. You are going to want to be there to witness the journey! Get yourself a ticket NOW to ensure your presence THEN! You’ll be donating to a great cause and receiving the gift of one of the finest performances of the year.
* 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!
One of my favorites clips from last year’s edition is this instrumental jam featuring Papa Mali and Co. tearing it up. Enjoy!
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!
(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!!!
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!
…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’!
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!
Happy Hump Day everyone! Thought you’d enjoy a couple of fun videos from The Ragbirds & Strung Like A Horse to help you through the day. I hope you can make it out to these shows! Both early, both manageable!
The first is “Lucky Rhythm” by The Ragbirds at the Summercamp Music Festival earlier this year w/ a quite a festive late night crowd. While our show will be the polar opposite time-wise, they’re gonna have quite a groove going in the cozy confines of the Red Light Cafe!
The second is “Horizontal” by Strung Like A Horse from Scenic City Roots this past summer. Y’all Music On Main Street is a BYOB venue, and you can bring your dinner picnic set up, and it’s a great venue for kids!
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