Scottsdale Sounds - Local Musician Showcase at Scottsdale Library

Name: Scottsdale Sounds - Local Musician Showcase at Scottsdale Library
Start: 2025-05-07T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-07T18:30:00-07:00
Location: Scottsdale Public Library

Schedule

Wed May 07 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Scottsdale Public Library | Scottsdale, AZ

Scottsdale Sounds - Musician Showcase at Scottsdale Public Library will be on Wed May 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm and will feature two great local musicians. Come enjoy this free community concert.
Jerry Scarsbrook
Jerry Scarsbrook's journey is a testament to the power of music and the enduring spirit of the Southwest. Arriving at Luke AFB in 1970 as an airman with the 541st Air Force Band, he quickly fell in love with Arizona and made it his home. He married a Glendale native, raised three children, and built a life here. But music was always his undercurrent. Inspired by the folk scene of the 60s, Jerry picked up a guitar and began writing songs, his early Arizona years (the 70s) filled with gigs in local haunts – dive bars, hotel lounges along Central Ave, and even a stint at the Opry House in the now-legendary Legend City. As life unfolded, his music took a backseat to family and career. However, in 2020, after 46 years of marriage, Jerry faced the loss of his beloved wife. Coupled with the stillness of the pandemic lockdowns, this loss reignited his passion for music. Now retired and residing in Goodyear, Jerry is fully immersed in creating and performing, expressing his gratitude for the supportive Phoenix music community. His songs are a reflection of his life, his love for Arizona, and the stories he's collected along the way. Don't miss the opportunity to experience the heartfelt music of Jerry Scarsbrook.
Three-Legged Dog
Three-Legged Dog is today’s version of the string bands that existed all about the country in the Thirties and Forties, groups that played everything – oldtime mountain music, blues, ballads, devotional and dance music, jazz, pop tunes of the day – on acoustic instruments. The Dog takes to the stage with anywhere from sixteen to twenty instruments including multiple guitars, banjos, mandolins, accordion, bouzouki, harmonica, stand-up and fretless electric bass, Dobro and Hawaiian guitar, cello, and fiddle.
Their background and influences are individually as diverse as the music they play together.
Ant Bee, classically trained, plays cello, stand-up and fretless 5-string bass, and from time to time picks up an accordion.
Odie Piker, whose background is in rock, is a fine songwriter, moving freely among guitar, mandolin, bazooki, and banjo and taking on most of the lead singing.
Jim Sallis has behind him forty years of country blues and bluegrass, as well as years of playing steel guitar in Texas country bands; with the Dog he plays guitar, Dobro, mandolin, harmonica, banjo and fiddle.
In a single set you may hear Civil War-era songs, blues, vintage country, Cajun, calypso, gospel, jazz, swing, and originals that sound like all those.