So looking forward to sharing the evening with my good friend.

AMANDA WEST: If an inquisitive mind, an open heart, and a beautiful soul took a walk and discussed what it means to Be, their conversation might sound like the music of philosophical folk songstress, Amanda West. The California based songstress has played stages up & down the West coast and offers notable influences from Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, and Loreena McKennitt. Pete Solomon accompanies on world percussion, gentle keyboards & classically influenced jazz saxophone. West's all original songs explores topics from humanity’s impact on the planet, to musings on women’s role in society, intimate stories of love, and recipes for self empowerment and cultural evolution. www.amandawestmusic.com

For those of you who have not been yet, The Tar Pit Bar is a beautiful bar and restaurant owned by Chef Mark Peel, offering hand-crafted cocktails and exceptional cuisine.  I hope you can join us for this special evening.  Please reserve your table online at www.tarpitbar.com

Please join us on Saturday, December 10 when Avonova presents the Inga Swearingen/Anton Schwartz/Dan Feiszli Trio. The show starts at 8 PM and the donation is $15.

This adventurous trio will negotiate a risky musical landscape while re-imagining standards and original music. Strikingly pure and exposed. No chords, no drums, no hiding places. Spontaneous and disarming. Just vocals (Inga), sax (Anton) and bass (Dan)

Clear harmony with a strong melodic component, inspired by three distinct voices, gives this trio an original and formative sound.

Steynberg Gallery has been a cultural icon in San Luis Obispo and has played a significant role in supporting the artistic and music communities. Please come support them in giving back to this treasured San Luis Obispo jewell!

Tickets are limited, don't miss out..  Great wine from Sextant Winery and beautiful atmosphere of Old Edna Farms.

Doors open at 7pm, with half hour of BYO finger food and drink share time.

Contact Ernie Shelton concert@sonic.net or 707-829-6718  for ticket info and directions

Recording Arts Room (7160)

Conference Center (by the cafeteria)

For tickets, contact S’haila Bernard

47591492 or email shaila@kingcurly.com

Inga Swearingen will be joining Moira Smiley & VOCO as a member of VOCO.

Moira Smiley & VOCO, Inga Swearingen and Round Mountain come together from Santa Fe, California's Central Coast and Los Angeles to perform for you!  Expect an evening of gorgeous vocal harmony, a 2-man folk orchestra, rhythms to dance by and songs that make you cry.

Brother duo, Round Mountain travel widely and listen deeply in their unique songs that draw on East European, West African and Irish traditions.

Moira Smiley & VOCO brings effervescent life to the sweet harmony, grit & stomp of American and East European folksong, original music, music of Béla Bartók with the vaudevillian wonderment of voices, cello, banjo, accordion.

Inga Swearingen is well-known to NPR audiences for her frequent singing on A Prairie Home Companion.  A sparkling improviser and a presence of grounded sunshine on stage, Inga will sing a few songs of her own and also join Moira and cellist/vocalist, April Guthrie in harmony & stomp to kick off their Australian Tour!

Inga & Britta Swearingen, moira smiley & VOCO, and Round Mountain come together from California's Central Coast, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe to perform for you!  Expect an evening of gorgeous vocal harmony, a 2-man folk orchestra, rhythms to dance by and songs that make you cry.

moira smiley & VOCO brings effervescent life to the sweet harmony, grit & stomp of American and East European folksong, original music, music of Béla Bartók with the vaudevillian wonderment of voices, cello, banjo, accordion.

Brother duo, Round Mountain travel widely and listen deeply in their unique songs that draw on East European, West African and Irish traditions.

Inga and Britta Swearingen will perform a few of their own harmonious songs and also join Moira & VOCO and Round Mountain on stage.

Inga and Britta Swearingen join brother duo, Robby and Char
Rothschild of Round Mountain, to share music and song rooted
in family, nature and human spirit.  Listeners travel down a
dusty road of rugged beauty that combines jazz, American grit
and global traditional music.

Joining the Swearingen sisters is guitarist Jeff Miley.  And the
multi-multi instrumentalist band of brothers will sing and
play accordion, guitar, trumpet, highland bagpipes, djembe, cajon and kora...

"It was an entirely compatible and also interactive double-bill show... a naturally jazz-hued folk vein, stylistically, and a dusky glow, emotionally." - Joe Woodard, Concert Review, Santa Barbara News Press

Americana and jazz meet their neighbors when Inga Swearingen and Round Mountain bring their unique musical fusions to our stage for a boundary-hopping double bill.

A regular performer on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, Inga applies her fresh, luminous voice to folk and jazz music creating an open, heartfelt spectrum of emotion. Inspired by everything from straight-ahead jazz and bossa nova to American and Swedish folk songs, Inga combines dead-on pitch and natural phrasing with an infectious, positive spirit. Tonight she takes us to the new musical territory she pioneered with her most recent CD, First Rain, which she's dubbed "Swedish farm jazz," mixing bluesy jazz and beautiful down-home folk.

This evening Inga is joined by her sister Britta and guitarist Jeff Miley.

Round MountainLending dusty American grit to a worldly amalgam of global influences, Santa Fe-based duo Round Mountain presents folk music that is both foreign and familiar. Sometimes raucous (imagine trumpet and accordion played simultaneously by one person), sometimes subtle (the harp-like sound of the West African kora), the multi-multi-instrumentalist brothers Char and Robby Rothschild connect to their listeners' hearts with great songs, emotional honesty, and an engaging live show. The pair have parlayed their global musical passions into opening for Toumani Diabate and Bela Fleck, accompanying traditional Irish music's great innovator Andy Irvine, and recording great albums like their recent Windward.

Inga and Britta Swearingen join brother duo Round Mountain and Amanda West to share music and song rooted in family, nature and human spirit. Listeners travel down a dusty road of rugged beauty that combines American grit and global traditional music.

Round Mountain: Blending American grit with a worldly amalgam of global influences, Santa Fe-based duo Round Mountain presents a take on folk music that is both foreign and familiar. The multi-multi-instrumentalist band of brothers has travelled the globe absorbing bits and pieces of musical cultures, returning to filter them through their own sepia-toned Americana framework. The multi-multi instrumentalist band of brothers will sing and play accordion, guitar, trumpet, highland bagpipes, djembe, cajon and kora.

Inga Swearingen: With her new release, First Rain , is a compelling mix of homegrown folk, and soulful, bluesy jazz, with acoustic layers of guitar, stand up bass, violin and cello that frame Inga's clear, translucent voice. Whether putting her personal stamp on a jazz standard or combining the understated grooves of bossa nova with Swedish folk melodies, Inga captivates her audience. Joining the Swearingen sisters is guitarist, Jeff Miley.

Amanda West: A performing songwriter for half her lifetime, Amanda West has played from Los Angeles to Seattle , including Yoshi's in San Francisco, the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley and a handful of exquisite West Coast festivals. Amanda West is accompanied by Pete Solomon on world percussion, keyboards.

Artist sites and sounds: http://roundmountainmusic.com and www.ingaswearingen.com and www.amandawestmusic.com

Two shows, 6pm and 8pm

Inga and Britta Swearingen, join brother duo, Robby and Char Rothschild of Round Mountain, to share music and song rooted in family, nature and human spirit. Listeners travel down a dusty road of rugged beauty that combines jazz, American grit and global traditional music.

Joining the Swearingen sisters is guitarist, Jeff Miley. And the multi-multi instrumentalist band of brothers will sing and play accordion, guitar, trumpet, highland bagpipes, djembe,
cajon and kora.

"The Rothschild brothers of New Mexico, Char and Robby, continue to brew a heady, homemade blend of musics of the world, with lyrics that are touchingly personal and
universally accessible." - Songlines Magazine

[Inga's] "...melodies unfold like Virgina Woolf’s best sentences, patiently building to an expected climax before transcending it like a sweet exhalation of air.” - American Songwriter’s March/April 2010

Inga and Britta Swearingen, join brother duo, Robby and Char Rothschild of Round Mountain, to share music and song rooted in family, nature and human spirit. Listeners travel down a dusty road of rugged beauty that combines jazz, American grit and global traditional music.

Joining the Swearingen sisters is guitarist, Jeff Miley. And the multi-multi instrumentalist band of brothers will sing and play accordion, guitar, trumpet, highland bagpipes, djembe,
cajon and kora.

"The Rothschild brothers of New Mexico, Char and Robby, continue to brew a heady, homemade blend of musics of the world, with lyrics that are touchingly personal and
universally accessible." - Songlines Magazine

[Inga's] "...melodies unfold like Virgina Woolf’s best sentences, patiently building to an expected climax before transcending it like a sweet exhalation of air.” - American Songwriter’s March/April 2010

Inga Swearingen and Round Mountain

We are celebrating Dave’s show on the air for 19 years! He has brought us “Hometown Radio” since January 1992 and is such an asset to our community!