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dustin hamman

Dustin Hamman returns tonight to his hometown Silver City and “Silver City Acoustic” at the end of his soundtrack-promoting tour, just as he visited the show to kick off the national tour last February.

Besides sharing some of his extraordinary music, he’ll share stories about how he and his music were selected, his process of creating the movie soundtrack, his experiences as an actor in the film, about the tour, and the two, live soundtrack performances and Beneath the Harvest Sky movie screenings that will take place this Friday and Saturday at the Pinos Altos Opera House.

7008770_origIn the second hour, our guest will be another local musician Jessie Lee Thetford, a singer/songwriter, artist, and musician whose debut album AWAKE presents an artist’s coming of age and awareness.

Her debut album-release party will be this Friday at the Little Toad Creek Inn Brewery & Distillery in Silver City.

Thanks, everyone in the Gila-Mimbres area as well as those around the nation, for listening and communicating your comments on this show!  We really appreciate the great feedback.

So tune in and tune up!

6:15-ish (whenever the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News are over)
til 8 pm – MT.

on KURU 89.1 FM Silver City

or stream it live on GMCR.org!

(Send comments and ideas to sca@gmcr.org.)

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar, Workers Independent News, and Radio Bilingue, and continuing until 8pm!
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

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Both our guests this evening have the distinction of having an original song accepted for inclusion on the compilation CD Wild Gila:  Forever Free – and being invited to perform their songs at the upcoming Gila River film festival and CD release celebration this Saturday, June 7, at the Pinos Altos Opera House in Pinos Altos, NM.  (The fundraiser will support the defense of the free-flowing Gila River by the Gila River Information Project.)

barbiewilliamsonBarbie Williamson is a singer/songwriter in the folk tradition.  “Raised in mountains of West Virginia, she has been involved with music for almost 50 years, with her primary influences being bluegrass, folk, blues, rock and roll, and a little bit of country.  Playing primarily the 12-string guitar, her melodies are enchanting; her voice, gentle; her lyrics, potent and living words that penetrate to the deepest places inside of you.”

She has two albums released and a third almost ready for release.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERACharlie Alfero is a folk musician known for his skills on the mandolin and tenor guitar.  He has played as a sideman for a number of musicians in and around southwest New Mexico and has been performing in a duo with Greg Renfro for a decade, during which they released the album, Settle on In.  He has appeared in two “Tucson Folk Festivals” and a handful of “Glenwoodstocks,” and he continues to perform regularly in and around Silver City.  His song “Simple Things” is on the new Wild Gila  CD.

So tune in and tune up to

KURU 89.1 FM – 6:15-ish – 8 pm (MT)

or stream it live at GMCR.org!

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar, Workers Independent News, and Radio Bilingue, and continuing until 8pm!
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

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Jammin' Jeff
Jammin’ Jeff

Tonight!!  Jammin’ Jeff, back by popular demand, will be spending the whole two hours  sharing stories and his amazing bluesmanship with us – on Silver City Acoustic, 6:15-ish – 8 pm, MT.

Last week, Jeff shared with us a few stories of his blues career, including 23 years traveling in Bo Diddley’s band.

People are writing from around the nation, telling us what a great show we have here – thanks to all the local and traveling musicians who’ve shared their time with us!

So don’t miss it!  Silver City Acoustic every Thursday night, 6:15-ish (right after the Community Calendar and Workers’ Independent News) til 8 pm, MT.

on KURU 89.1 FM

or streaming live on GMCR.org.

Tune in and tune up!

Appreciate your listening.  And appreciate your comments – sca@gmcr.org.

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar, Workers Independent News, and Radio Bilingue, and continuing until 8pm!
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

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playing on the rocksAzaima Anderson, a Kerrville New Folk Finalist who studied songwriting with Rosanne Cash, is a lyric-driven songwriter as well as an interfaith minister, astrologer, yoga teacher, and shamanic healer who uses music in her healing work.

She’ll perform music from her new CD, Heart Lightning, a fusion of her music and healing work, with guest musicians joining on the first few songs, after which she’ll finish the hour solo.

daleatyankieIn our second hour, Dale Rucklos, a guitar player and songwriter for 47 years, will share with us his lyrical songwriting process, fusing rock, blues, acoustic, New Age, and jazz.

Dale has been in Silver City for a few years and is now co-owner of Yankie Creek Coffee House, where he hosts performers every Saturday afternoon, 2-4 pm.  His album is entitled The Journey 2012.

Tune in and tune up!
KURU 89.1 FM or
GMCR.org – 6:15-ish – 8 pm MT
(right after the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News)

Thanks for listening!  And for commenting here or writing me at sca@gmcr.org.

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News until 8pm
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

 

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Loupe-yvuchh9lTonight on “Silver City Acoustic” (6:15-ish – 8 pm), we’ll visit in the first hour with brothers Eric and George Montoya, who’ve been performing for over 17 years as both rhythm section for many local musicians and as the core of the “Friends of The Underground.”

Born and raised in Silver City, they’ve both been continuously performing live and recording their own original music and on various projects by artists both local and out of town.

Influenced by The Beatles, the Beach Boys, Merle Haggard, and War, to name a few, singing vocal harmonies is one of their favorite aspects of making music.

The Montoyas were recently recognized by the Grant County Chicano Music Project as one of the few remaining groups to continue the musical legacy rich in this community.

As well as hearing them live in the studio, we look forward to talking about the local music scene, how it’s changed over the years, and how Silver City has both given birth to and attracted great music and musicians for many years.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIn the second hour, we’ll visit with “Gleemaiden,” a local, all-women a cappella group which performs regularly at a variety of local venues, including Pickamania in 2012.

Wind Markham, Elizabeth DeMoss, Maria Casler and Kori Wilken are all mothers of young children – and sometimes one might sing with a babe in her arms.

Local musical matriarch Jeanie McLerie writes of them, “Their repertoire comes from many sources, and they put their own organic style into everything they sing.  Their voices merge in a lovely interplay of unison, harmony and rhythmic back-up vocals.  Their sound feels like the heart of Silver City—laid-back, yet inspired; peaceful, yet captivating.”

We expect to talk to them about how music is a part of everyone’s lives, the role of music in family and community, and the unique role of a cappella music in the world today.

So tune up and tune in to KURU 89.1 FM!
or stream it live at GMCR.org.

We’ll begin right after the “Community Calendar” and “Workers Independent News,” at about 6:15-:20.

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News until 8pm
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

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headerDustin Hamman, recently here from Portland, may be a little-known musician in town, but not for long, as he’ll soon kick off a national tour for the months of March and April.  The tour will promote the music he wrote for a film, “Beneath the Harvest Sky,” as well as two other albums of original music.  The tour (as “Run On Sentence” with Dan Galucki) begins here in Silver City at the Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery downtown, Saturday, March 1.  He’s our guest in the second hour.

Music columnist Claire Blaustein of NPR wrote of Dustin, “Hamman’s visions of folk music are realized with rich imagery and entrancing instrumentation, as he crafts vivid story lines and long strings of compelling narration.”

In the first hour, we visit with Douglas Francisco, who will tour with Dustin and open for him Saturday night.  Douglas Francisco plays “haunting lap steel guitar, drawing from blues, country, jazz and gypsy music.”

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News until 8pm
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org

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Phil and Mary Brown, The Oversouls

This week’s guests will be, in the first hour, Phil and Mary Brown, formerly of “The Oversouls,” and in the second hour the “Latchkey Kids.”

Long-time musical heroes in Silver City, Phil and Mary Brown anchored the popular Oversouls until recently, when Phil and Mary decided to pursue a new musical sound. They’ll play some new and original acoustic music for us, talk about the process of songwriting, their Oversouls CD, and “The April-May Project”!

We’re looking forward to hearing all about the new music flowing through!

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The Latchkey Kids

The Latchkey Kids have been playing around town for a few years now, the band consisting of James “Skippy” Sanders, Daniel Eady, Billy Jack Dominguez, and occasionally Alex Hallwyler.

They have an (unusual for them) all-acoustic set planned to share with us, along with stories about how they came together and where they’re going next.

So tune in and tune up!

KURU 89.1 FM, 6-8 pm MST (or a quarter after 6 or so)

or stream it live at GMCR.org.

Silver City Acoustic broadcasts live

  • Every Thursday
    Shortly after 6pm following the Community Calendar and Workers Independent News until 8pm
  • Greg would be delighted to hear from you
    Just drop him a line at sca@gmcr.org