Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Night 2 - Laura Love, Peter Rowan
Schedule
Sat Apr 22 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
Freight & Salvage | Berkeley, CA
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For the seventh year, the Freight & Salvage celebrates incredible talent with the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival, April 21-April 23, 2023. With concerts programmed by Grammy-award winner Laurie Lewis and the Freight’s Artistic Director Peter Williams, plus instructional workshops curated by Ms. Lewis with Freight Education Associate Leah Wollenberg, Berkeley Bluegrass Festival brings together leaders of the genre, up-and-coming artists, and music fans for three days of concerts, jams, workshops (free for ticket holders!), and good old-fashioned merriment to kick off the summer music festival season.MC’d by Allegra Thompson
Free workshops, jams and other activities will be offered throughout the weekend.
thefreight.org/bluegrass
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Laura Love’s latest CD, Uppity, was released in 2021. “The January 6th insurrection by mostly angry white men in our nation’s capital, pushed me over the edge”, Laura has told friends and fans alike. “I decided, at 61, I had one more album left in me before I’m done.” In 2017, after taking nearly a decade off the festival/touring circuit to live off grid, grow her own food, and raise her daughter, Laura returned to the stage to continue where she left off. She felt “compelled to get back on the road, reach out to other human beings, spread kindness and try to heal,” from what she described as a “savage couple of years” which left her battling to recover from a brutal assault, followed by the sudden suicides of both her beloved sister, Lisa and her mother, Winifred. To that end, she grabbed her fabulous guitarist, Terry Hunt and exploded back onto the festival scene in 2017-2018, taking the Kate Wolf, Strawberry, Valhalla, FalconRidge and Philadelphia Folk Music Festivals by storm. With these powerful performances she showcased a whole new batch of songs that left audiences leaping to their feet, mid-set and some concert-goers telling her, “she was even better than she’d been years ago.” She has expanded her story-rich, socially conscious repertoire to include Field Hollers, Civil Rights Era Songs and Gospel music into her deep catalogue of original songs. Laura and Terry have just released a brand new CD of original songs called, She Loved Red, dedicated to the memory of her precious sister.
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Grammy-award winner and member of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame Peter Rowan is a singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. From his early years playing under the tutelage of Bluegrass veteran Bill Monroe, to his time in Old & In the Way and his breakout as a solo musician and bandleader, Rowan has built a devoted, international fan base through a solid stream of recordings, collaborative projects, and constant touring.
Born in Wayland, Massachusetts to a musical family, Rowan learned to play guitar from his uncle. He spent his teenage years absorbing the sights and sounds of the Hillbilly Ranch, a legendary Country music nightclub in Boston frequented by old-time acts like The Lilly Brothers and Tex Logan. In 1956 Peter Rowan formed his first band, the Cupids, while still in high school.
After three years in college, Rowan left academia to pursue a life in music. Rowan began his professional career in 1963 as the singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the Bluegrass Boys, led by the founding father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. “One thing I started to like about the Monroe style was that there was a lot more blues in it than other styles of bluegrass,” reflects Rowan. “It was darker. It had more of an edge to it. And yet it still had the ballad tradition in it, and I loved that.”
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Where is it happening?
Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
