Greetings. I have exciting news. We have nailed down the lineup for our Spring Fund Riser concert: Patty Larkin and Michael Reno Harrell!!!
The concert will take place Saturday March 24th at Flagler College Auditorium, doors open at 6 and music at 7PM. Tickets are $35 for VIP seating and $25 for general admission. Tickets can be ordered by phone at 904 794 4163 or by sending a check to Paul Linser at 6713 Hidden Creek Blvd, St. Augustine 32086 (make out checks to ?Gamble Rogers Folk Festival?). Also, tickets can be purchased locally after February 1st at Music Matters and Simple Gestures. All advance ticket purchasers will receive free of charge a Gamble Rogers Folk Festival compilation CD!
Patty Larkin is simply one of the best touring singer-songwriter-guitarists on the planet. If you do not believe me visit her web page at www.pattylarkin.com. Michael Reno Harrell was among our headliners at the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival in 2011 and he simply stole the show from the other acts on the billing Saturday night.
Again, if you need validation please visit his web site www.michaelreno.com.
Help get the word out and please plan to come and enjoy an evening of truly great entertainment.
Best, Paul Linser
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From: Bob & Joline Patterson Subject: Bob has a new book!!!!
Dear Friends,
Yes, it?s true, I do have a new book, a novella entitled ?Dorothy?. This book is beautifully illustrated by my longtime friend and artist Joe Mark. Margaret Longhill, President Emeritus of the Will McLean Foundation wrote the Forward. Here?s what she writes:
In this charming novella, St. Augustine resident Bob Patterson, chronicler of Florida in story and song, creates the character of a valiant woman who lived in Florida at the end of the eighteenth century. An intenses sense of place gives the area of Little Talbot Island and the town of Fernandina an important role in the story as the author digs deep into its Timucuan history and eighteenth century way of life. It is as if the area wanted to be turned into a story. The reader is transported to a place and time when Florida was wilder, but will recognize the enduring qualities of sea, and rivers, of palms and palmettos, and, yes, of hurricanes.
Bob Patterson, who has given us the well beloved song, ?Lullaby of the Rivers?, and the delightful book, ?Forgotten Tales of Florida?, here presents the vivid story of one woman?s life and the place that wanted to be turned into a story.?
We had hoped to have books before Christmas but it just didn?t work out. But we have learned that the publisher has just shipped some and, in fact, we have some.It will be a little while before it finds its way to the shelves of local bookstores. If you would like an advance copy for yourself, or to give as a gift, send me your name and address
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and I will promptly get it in the mail to you.
You can mail me a check when you receive it.
The book is $14.99 and I will pay the shipping and handling.
Wishing you the best for the New Year
Bob Patterson
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I'm so pleased to post that Grant Peeples 2011 release, Okra and Ecclesiastes,
has made the Americana Music Association?s Top 100 Albums of 2011.
Here?s a link to see the list in full: http://www.americanamusic.org
Click on the Americana Top 100 button, and open the file.
In addition, the record was named to Taproot Radio?s Best of 2011, www.taprootradio.com , WMBR (Cambridge, MA) Lost Highway Top 20, and WMNF(Tampa) Cameron Dilley Best of 2011.
Thanks to all of you who have supported Grant and his music this year. Looking forward to another great year with you in 2012.
Donna Mavity, Donna?s Americana Promotions
www.grantpeeples.com www.donnasamericana.com donnasamericana@gmail.
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Etta James, whose powerful, versatile and emotionally direct voice could enliven the raunchiest blues as well as the subtlest love songs, most indelibly in her signature hit, ?At Last,? died on Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. She was 73.
Her manager, Lupe De Leon, said that the cause was complications of leukemia. Ms. James, who died at Riverside Community Hospital, had been undergoing treatment for some time for a number of conditions, including leukemia and dementia. She also lived in Riverside.
Ms. James was not easy to pigeonhole. She is most often referred to as a rhythm and blues singer, and that is how she made her name in the 1950s with records like ?Good Rockin? Daddy.? She is in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame. For the full bio go to this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/arts/music/etta-james-singer-dies-at-73.html
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