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SUMMARY:Nolan McKelvey and Mark Zubia
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nOver the course of his twenty-five-year career\, Nolan McKelvey has covered nearly every corner of the country and traversed all roads of Americana. From the pavement of alt-country\, to the dusty trails of bluegrass\, to the gravel roads of classic-country\, to the interstate highway of rock-n-roll. Nolan has received critical acclaim along the way from magazines like No Depression\, Country Standard Time\, The Boston Phoenix\, The Boston Globe\, and Performer Magazine among many others.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNolan has opened for luminaries of Americana like Greg Brown\, Peter Rowan\, Odetta\, Fred Eaglesmith\, Los Lobos\, Sam Bush\, Bela Fleck\, Tim O’Brien\, Jerry Douglas\, and Leon Russell. He has also opened for contemporary artists like Leftover Salmon\, Railroad Earth\, Cowboy Junkies\, Gregory Alan Isakov\, Jack Johnson\, Infamous Stringdusters\, Jeffrey Foucault\, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers\, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers\, Son Volt\, Josh Ritter\, David Grisman and the list goes on and on… \nNolan performed in several bands in Boston\, including The Benders\, The Resophonics\, with Kris Delmhorst\, Ry Cavanaugh\, The Vinyl Avenue String Band\, Jabe\, Bow Thayer\, and his own 33. He was dubbed “Central to the (Boston) roots-rock revival” by WBUR radio. His bands won two Boston Music Awards (BMA) and were nominated for BMA’s 7 times in his 5 years in the city. Since returning to Arizona\, Nolan was named “Best Musician” by the readers of the Arizona Daily Sun and has been dubbed “One of the best songwriters in the southwest\,” and “Flagstaff’s Poet Laureate.” (FlagLive) \nNolan’s studio credits include recording with grammy-winner Levon Helm (The Band)\, Dana Colley and Billy Conway (Morphine)\, Paul Q. Koldrie (Pixies\, PJ Harvey\, Radiohead and more)\, Jennifer Kimball (The Story\, Wayfaring Strangers) among many others. Nolan’s songs have appeared on 21 cds to date\, he released five solo albums\, five albums with The Benders\, six with Muskellunge\, four with former band Onus B. Johnson and a duo disc with Dave Desmelik. Nolan’s work as a bass player and harmony singer pushes the release list over 75 recordings. \nNolan has performed at the Newport Folk Festival (RI)\, Cambridge Folk Festival (MA)\, Boston Folk Festival (MA)\, Telluride Bluegrass Festival (CO)\, Sedona Bluegrass Festival (AZ)\, Tweed River Music Festival (VT)\, Roots on the River (VT)\, Tilted Earth Music Festival (AZ)\, Musical Instrument Museum Music Festival (AZ) and Pickin’ in the Pines Acoustic Music Festival (AZ) among many more. His music has aired on nationally syndicated radio shows like World Café\, Nashville Bluegrass Breakdown\, and Car Talk. \nNolan currently performs his own songs solo\, with Nolan McKelvey Trio\, with Muskellunge\, and he is the bass player in Tramps and Thieves. He performs regularly in the Southwest\, and occasionally on the east coast. \n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in the overheated environs of Phoenix\, Arizona\, Mark Zubia has become a veritable institution in the state\, helping lead a series of popular and successful combos. \nNotable among these groups were the Chimeras\, a powerhouse Zubia formed along with his brother Lawrence\, longtime friend Doug Hopkins – co-founder of Gin Blossoms – Scott Andrews and Mark Riggs. \nThe Chimeras eventually morphed into the Pistoleros and with the name change also came a major label recording and EMI publishing contract. The group’s Hollywood Records debut “Hang On To Nothing” found the Zubias collaborating with a number of notable names\, including Gary Louris & Marc Perlman (Jayhawks)\, Radney Foster (Foster & Lloyd) and Pat DiNizio (Smithereens). \nIn July 2019\, Mark was inducted into The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame. \nMZ continues to write\, record and perform solo\, with his band Los Guys and various acoustic projects. \nSave 10% with membership! Use unique member number at checkout. Household members receive two tickets at a discount and individual members receive one. To learn more about membership and how to find your discount code\, visit: https://www.coconinoarts.org/member-discount
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LOCATION:Coconino Center for the Arts\, 2300 North Fort Valley Road\, Flagstaff\, AZ\, 86001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Greenhouse Productions Presents: Tinsley Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n\n“A legend of American blues music…An American music treasure…Ellis delivers a sermon on the power and glory of the blues.” –Premier Guitar \n“Powerful\, spine-tingling guitar and gritty\, soulful vocals.” –Relix \nAccording to Atlanta-based blues guitarist\, singer and songwriter Tinsley Ellis\, his new\, first-ever solo acoustic album\, Naked Truth\, is both “a departure and an arrival.” Ellis has been recording and travelling the world for over four decades\, delivering his feral\, guitar-fueled\, original electric blues-rock to ever-growing audiences at concert halls\, festivals\, and clubs. Naked Truth is steeped in the folk blues traditions of Muddy Waters\, Skip James\, Son House\, Robert Johnson and even Leo Kottke. To the casual fan\, this might seem to be a new direction\, but for Ellis\, it’s an extension of his music\, as he taps into the raw essence of the blues. “This is a record I’ve always wanted to make\, and one that my longtime fans have been asking for\,” he says\, noting he’s included an acoustic mini-set in his concert performances for years. In the last 12 months\, Ellis has already performed over 100 solo shows\, many as co-bills with his Alligator label-mate Marcia Ball. “I’m having so much fun playing these shows\,” he says.On Naked Truth (his 21st album)\, Ellis swaps his blistering\, guitar-fueled full band workouts for equally passionate\, soul-searching acoustic folk blues. His famed guitar chops and musical creativity are on full display throughout the album’s 12 songs\, including nine newly written originals. Naked Truth was produced by Ellis\, with the foot-stomping cover of Son House’s Death Letter Blues produced by Atlanta roots musician Eddie 9V. The album was recorded live in the studio using Ellis’ beloved 1969 Martin D-35 (a gift from his father) and his 1937 National Steel O Series guitars. Whether intricately fingerpicking the Martin or playing hair-raising slide on the National Steel\, Ellis delivers each song with unvarnished intimacy. \nThe opener\, Ellis’ original Devil In The Room\, comes from an expression Ellis’ close friend\, the late Col. Bruce Hampton\, would tell his musicians just before a show was about to begin (“We’re here to put the devil in the room\,” he’d say). From the original\, Skip James-inspired Windowpane to the Delta-styled Tallahassee Blues\, to the humorous Grown Ass Man\, Ellis goes deep\, singing and playing the blues’ honest truths. The inclusion of four introspective instrumentals (including a transcendent cover of Leo Kottke’s A Soldier’s Grave On The Prairie\, a song he’s been playing live for almost 50 years) adds even more depth and substance to an album overflowing with riches. Each song carries the weight\, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road\, infusing Naked Truth with an emotional authenticity that is palpable from start to finish. \nTinsley Ellis has been immersed in music his whole life. Born in Atlanta 1957 and raised in southern Florida\, he acquired his first guitar at age seven\, inspired by seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. He took to guitar instantly\, developing and sharpening his skills as he grew up. Like many kids his age\, Ellis discovered the blues through the back door of British Invasion bands like The Yardbirds\, The Animals\, Cream and The Rolling Stones as well as Southern rockers like The Allman Brothers. One afternoon after high school in 1972\, he and a friend were listening to Al Kooper and Michael Bloomfield’s Super Session record when his friend’s older brother told them that\, if they liked Super Session\, they should go see B.B. King\, who was in town that week. Tinsley saw that show from the very front row. As fate would have it\, King broke a guitar string while playing\, and after changing it without missing a beat\, he handed the broken string to young Tinsley. And yes\, Tinsley still has that string. \nLess than three years later\, Ellis\, already an accomplished teenaged musician\, left Florida and moved to Atlanta. He soon joined a hard-driving local blues band\, the Alley Cats. In 1981\, along with veteran blues singer and harpist Chicago Bob Nelson\, Tinsley formed The Heartfixers\, a group that would become Atlanta’s top-drawing blues band. After cutting four Heartfixers albums (three for the Landslide label)\, Ellis was ready to step out on his own. \nGeorgia Blue\, Tinsley’s first Alligator release\, hit the unprepared public by surprise in 1988\, as press and radio brought his music to more people than ever before. His next four releases—1989’s Fanning The Flames\, 1992’s Trouble Time\, 1994’s Storm Warning\, and 1997’s Fire It Up—further grew his reputation as well as his audience. (His song A Quitter Never Wins\, a highlight of Storm Warning\, was recorded by Jonny Lang\, selling almost two million copies.) Features and reviews ran in The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, and in many other national and regional publications. And he backed it all up performing hundreds of nights per year. Rolling Stone declared\, “Feral blues guitar…non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor’s edge…his eloquence dazzles…he achieves pyrotechnics that rival Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.” \nIn the early 2000s\, Ellis released albums on Capricorn Records and on Telarc\, returning to Alligator in 2005 with Live–Highwayman\, which captured the fifth-gear energy of his roof-raising live show. He followed it with two more incendiary studio albums\, 2007’s Moment Of Truth and 2009’s Speak No Evil. He self-released four successful albums on his own Heartfixer label before coming back home to Alligator in 2018. That year\, he released the fan favorite Winning Hand\, followed by 2020’s Ice Cream In Hell just before the pandemic sidelined all touring. With 2022’s Devil May Care\, Ellis embarked on another relentless\, coast-to-coast tour\, further cementing his reputation as one of the most prolific and exciting blues rockers on the scene. \nTinsley Ellis has brought his music to fans live in person to all 50 United States\, as well as in Canada\, across Europe\, Australia and South America. He’s earned the love and respect of many of his fellow musicians\, having shared stages with Christone “Kingfish” Ingram\, The Allman Brothers\, Warren Haynes\, Oliver Wood\, Buddy Guy\, the Tedeschi Trucks Band\, Gov’t Mule\, Widespread Panic\, and more. Over the years\, legends including Otis Rush\, James Cotton\, Gregg Allman\, Jimmy Buffett\, Son Seals\, Koko Taylor and Albert Collins invited Ellis to join them on stage. Mega-star guitarist Joe Bonamassa calls Ellis “a national treasure.” \nNow\, with Naked Truth\, Ellis will bring his music directly to his fans. “Two guitars and a car\,” he says of the simplicity of his North American touring situation. “When folks come to see me\, I’ll have the guitars I used on the record with me\, so what fans hear on the album is what they’ll get live. It’s not easy. Now I’m the whole band and there’s nowhere to hide. It’s scary every single time I go up on stage alone. But nothing could be more honest.” \nNaked Truth is a revelation. Stripped of the electric fervor that defined his previous works\, Ellis’ acoustic music carries a rawness that speaks directly from his soul. The songs unveil another side of Tinsley Ellis\, but one that is totally recognizable to his fans. His gruff\, full-throated vocals intertwine seamlessly with the bare\, acoustic arrangements\, creating an album that is both timeless and immediate. No Depression says\, “Ellis shines. When the tempo slows\, the intensity doesn’t waver.” Blues Music Magazine states\, “Tinsley Ellis is a powerful and commanding presence. His music is impossible not to enjoy.” \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSave 10% with membership! Use unique member number at checkout. Household members receive two tickets at a discount and individual members receive one. To learn more about membership and how to find your discount code\, visit: https://www.coconinoarts.org/member-discount
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LOCATION:Coconino Center for the Arts\, 2300 North Fort Valley Road\, Flagstaff\, AZ\, 86001\, United States
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