Vashon Island’s Red Bicycle Bistro: Valentine’s with Baby Gramps, Fashion Show, Watermark
February 13, 2009 at 4:55 am Leave a comment
Friday, 02/13/09 Americana Roots — Free Show — 9:30 PM — 21+
The Starlings play music ranging from “pin-dropping ballads” to “foot-stompin’” barn-burners. The band, featuring Joy Mills and Tom Parker, features banjo, guitar and harmonica.
VALENTINES DAY with BABY GRAMPS (Folk/Americana)
Saturday, 02/14/2009 at 9:30 PM — 21+ FREE COVER!
The Red Bicycle Bistro presents Baby Gramps, an amazing amalgamation of everything that anybody’s ever heard including Mississippi John Hurt, Uncle Dave Macon, Charlie Patton, Blind Blake, Captain Beefheart, the Tuvan Throat Singers and Popeye. Baby Gramps has created a highly developed and completely original musical concoction that is easily the most intriguing synthesis to come out of the roots revival of the late 20th Century. He plays beautifully “betwixt the cracks in the piano” a la Ornette Coleman, can scat the blues three notes at once, and has invented his own guitar technique he calls “scribbling”. Gramps does amazing tricks with timing, timbre, tempo and pitch that no one can hope to imitate, and reinvents himself nightly, never performing a song the same way twice.
If the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film has any associative power, this may finally be the public moment for Baby Gramps, an eccentric, seemingly very old (though nobody seems to knows how old) singer and steel-guitar player based in Seattle, with a voice like Popeye after smoking an entire tin of Prince Albert. His performances on “Rogue’s Gallery” (Anti), a two-disc set of sea chanteys produced by Hal Willner, are among the album’s best, and that’s saying a lot: among the other contributors are Sting, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Bono, a gravel-voiced Bryan Ferry, a midnight-voiced Nick Cave, a twee Van Dyke Parks and Bill Frisell with a beautiful guitar track.
Baby Gramps performed on The Late Show with David Letterman Aug. 28, 2006 backed up by Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan’s band leader and bass player), The Akron Family, and Jason Krekel from “The Mad Tea Party”.
Baby Gramps finger picks an old steel national guitar and sings in a wild, extemporaneous gravel vocal style with phenomenal vocal rhythmic improves and a guitar technique that borders on early ragtime. He combines early jazz, blues, ragtime, and good-time novelty music… Most important for Gramps is not his obvious musical genius, but the ability for having fun; and this is all pure delight…
Come witness Baby Gramps unique Valentine’s songs for bugs and other loveable creatures & critters…..you’ll love it! A very special Valentines Day show for Vashon, get your tickets early because this is a very rare visit from a legendary musician.
Island Artisan Couture – Runway Fashion Show and Sale
Sunday, 02/15/2009 at 02:00 PM.
$10 Cover. Doors open at 1:30pm – Curtain goes up at 2:30pm. Advanced tickets on sale now call the Red Bike at 206-463-5959, 11am to 5pm.
Come enjoy Vashon’s own “Project Runway” featuring our local textile artists’ latest creations in Wearable Art.
Hand Dyed Clothing and Costumes by: Dova Silks, Dorthy Dunniclif – Art Projects & Design, Patricia Toovey. Designer Clothing by: Cicada, Elizabeth Klob – Elemental Stitches, Tess Crocker – Wild Like CLothing Co., Sally Shivers. Original Hand Bags by: Re Genr 8, Roxy Hathaway – Nancy Scott Wienkler. Jewelers: Ciszek Designs, Ginny Ciszek – Danielle Carbone, Kristen Ford, Anne Gordon, Jade Grace
Sunday, 7:00 PM Vashon’s own Watermark.
WATERMARK is:
Roger Taylor – guitar and vocals
Kevin Almeida – bass and vocals
Larry Lawson – flutes
Charles Reed – guitar and vocals
Entry filed under: • Vashon Events, Enrichment, Music. Tags: Baby Gramps, The Starlings, Vashon Island event, Vashon Island music, Vashon Island Red Bicycle Bistro, Watermark.
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