RTP-area local music and culture

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The Broad Street Cafe -- 1116 Broad Street in Durham -- www.TheBroadStreetC=
afe.com

As always, you can go to the "Events" page on our site to click on
links for any of the performers to get more information and to hear
music samples:
http://www.thebroadstreetcafe.com/events.html

Tuesday, March 30
=95 8P Public Nudity Songwriters Night #6

Wednesday, March 31
=95 8P  Continuum Blues Jam

Thursday, April 1
=95 6P Magic Hat Spring Vinyl Pint Glass Night
=95 8P  Daniel Shawn (acoustic/rock/funk)
=95 10pm Delta Rae (folk rock/pop/soul)

Friday, April 2
=95 8P  Amelia's Mechanics
=95 10pm Catie Yerkes - $7 Cover
River City Ransom (rock/concrete/indie)
Last Year's Men (garage/rock/pop)
Red Collar (rock/indie/alt)

Saturday, April 3
=95 8P  Gilbert Neal (pop/soul/funk/acoustic)
=95 10pm - $5 Cover
Tartufi (indie/prog/experimental)
Bronzed Chorus
Maple Stave (rock/progressive/funk)

Sunday, April 4
=95 4:30P BSC Kids! Big Bang Boom (band)
=95 7:30P Aaron Mills Project - Sunday Night Jazz

---DETAILS---
Tuesday, March 30
=95 8P Public Nudity Songwriters Night #6
A new series featuring great area songwriters. Hosted by Greg
Humphreys (Dillon Fence, Hobex).

This months guest artists are:
Jay Kutchma (Red Collar)
Reese McHenry (Dirty Little Heaters)
Sol (you all know Sol)

Wednesday, March 31
=95 8P  Continuum Blues Jam- Come out to the Blues Jam every other
Wednesday sponsored by Continuum Consulting Services.  Butch Haas will
be facilitating this free-to-the-public jam. So bring your gear, sign
up for a time, and jam with some of Durham=92s finest! Drums, keyboard,
bass, guitar and harp amps provided.

Thursday, April 1
=95 6P Magic Hat Spring Vinyl Pint Glass Night
Magic Hat's Spring Vinyl Buy a $4 pint, keep the glass (while supplies
last)... plus other free stuff and giveaways!

=95 8P  Daniel Shawn (acoustic/rock/funk)
Daniel Sean has been writing music over the past decade. He is excited
to finally bring these songs of life, love, hope, and happiness to
you. The songs were written from a personal point of view either
consciously or unconsciously. For the record, he never set out to be a
singer/songwriter. To Daniel, songwriting is an art form for composing
life as you live it.

=95 10pm Delta Rae (folk rock/pop/soul)
>From a simple, white house in the woods of North Carolina, Delta Rae
brings together four unique voices to harmonize over songs born out of
the rhythms and scenery of the coasts and country of America. Siblings
Ian, Eric, and Brittany Holljes, along with their childhood friend,
Elizabeth Hopkins, sing with a grit and soul older than their early
twenty years would suggest. Harkening back to bands like Fleetwood
Mac, the Mamas and the Papas, and Peter, Paul, and Mary, Delta Rae
brings its own fresh sound and distinctive songwriting to a genre
pioneered by such legends.
          The songs, which would sound alternately at home in the
catalogues of James Taylor, Ray LaMontagne, or the Dixie Chicks
benefit from four lead singers, each with their own character: Liz has
the rasp and emotion of a pop Bonnie Raitt; Brittany the high, pure
tone of Natalie Maines; Eric, the range and soul of Billy Joel; and
Ian, the strength and clear falsetto of Glen Hansard. But the true
brilliance of Delta Rae reveals itself when the four singers combine.
Their harmony and blend reflect their blood relations and the decade
they=92ve sung together.
          In these four voices, joined by multi-instrumentalist, James
Goldberg, the hope and beautiful melancholy of common scenes
throughout the American landscape are elevated to new heights.

Friday, April 2
=95 8P  Amelia's Mechanics
Amelia=92s Mechanics is an all-female, American rock trio whose
instrumentation and vocal harmonies traverse classical, country, and
jazz genres resulting in a sound best described as vintage country
with a moonshine concerto.
   The band, whose name, album title, and lyrics are inspired by the
accomplishments of early aviatrix and aviators, explorers and
pioneers, writes and sings about the mechanics underlying life=92s
triumphs and tragedies.
   Amelia=92s Mechanics debut album, =93North-South=94 was produced by Jim
Avett and released February 2010.

=95 10pm Catie Yerkes - $7 Cover

River City Ransom (rock/concrete/indie)
River City Ransom Is NOT from Oklahoma, California or the UK. River
City Ransom is a five-piece rock and roll band from Raleigh, NC who
play aggressive indie rock with loud post-punk choruses. In fact, I=92m
sure there are seven or eight more subgenres you could tag onto this
band- but let's be honest; subgenres are fucking stupid. River City
Ransom plays rock music, and its good.

Last Year's Men (garage/rock/pop)

Red Collar (rock/indie/alt)
=93There=92s a feeling in the room when Red Collar is playing that is hard
to describe. It is as though the club or room has been lifted from its
foundations and pulled straight up=96that we=92ve been taken out of time,
and transported to a time before ironic posturing became the norm. A
time before we used terms like post-anything. I=92m not talking about
false nostalgia for a better time. Just a different time. When this
band plays it is ALRIGHT to yell along and to clap your hands.=94 -Evan
Rowe, Maple Stave, Des_Ark

Saturday, April 3
=95 8P  Gilbert Neal (pop/soul/funk/acoustic)
Gilbert Neal is one of the more revered musicians among musicians in
the Chapel Hill/Raleigh DIY pantheon. Adept at bass, guitar,
keyboards, able to improvise Queen-esque vocal interplay on the fly,
an arranger and singer par excellence, it is easy to forget that on
Neal's two solo outings, he has, among other things, crafted some of
the most likable, DANCEABLE grooves to come out of that hotbed of indy
music.
   Born in Buffalo, NY, Neal's first guitar was a Hait, which his
mother bought at Brand Names, a catalog store on Union Road. "My first
year or so with my guitar was an exercise in tuning all the strings to
the same tone with maybe a 5th or two thrown in. My early raga-like
drones were a perfect, almost undetectable forgery of those early
Beatles hits. Kidding."
   After cutting his teeth in bands like Man Against Mauve, East of
Idaho, and The Murk, Neal moved to Raleigh, NC. He formed Vibraspank
with a group of guys who, like him, had a love of the dry funk of
bands like The Meters and Sly Stone.
  Neal played bass more often than not, and this became his primary
instrument. He has a college degree in Musical Performance, primarily
in Voice. In his career, he has sung in a 40's revival group, a comedy
music group that parodied TV commercials, a country band, played
guitar and sang lead in a Raleigh funk band (Cabarrus Street
Allstars), played bass for very large productions of well-known
Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, been a Musical Director for a
Buffalo dinner theater, played bass guitar for radio commercials,
written copy for same, acted in productions in college (Neal was Doc
Gibbs in =93Our Town=94 at Buffalo State).
   But it isn't until you listen to Neal's two solo outings that you
truly grasp the humor, the pathos, the anxiety and sadness, the hope
and redemption, and the seemingly endless rhythmic inventiveness of
this young soul, this funk-loving renaissance man singing about Van
Gogh, inappropriate tumescence, George Bush, and his own evil twin
ruining parties.

=95 10pm - $5 Cover
Tartufi (indie/prog/experimental)
Tartufi is Brian Gorman and Lynne Angel. They are friends. They are
Koko and kitten. They are tar and feather. They are thunder and
lightning. They are Salt N Pepa (sans Spinderella).
  =93This is huge. Tartufi are just two but sound like twelve. Drummer
Brian Gorman must have arms like continents, while the way Lynne Angel
loops her vocals makes it seem like three personalities are battling
it our for possession of her throat, Hold on to your brains.=94 =96 Kev
Kharas, NME
   =93A dizzying construct of lunatic prettiness that exists at some
extra-dimensional intersection between noise, pop, folk, post-rock and
who knows what else, =91Nests of Waves and Wire=92 is a mighty strange
beast=85it all flows together, like a fantastic alien river." =96 Andrzej
Lukowski, Rock Sound (UK)
   4 Stars! =94An expansive lattice of twinkling loops, math-rock crunch
and none-more-giddy harmonies.=94 =96 Mojo Magazine
  "Part aggressive, experimental-noise rock, part delicate and lovely
melody and completely awesome, Tartufi's live show is a marvel." -
Sarah Wengert, The Reader (Omaha, NE)
  "Nine out of 10 buzz bands don't deserve it; Tartufi does."-A.
Schacht, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)
  "Tartufi write songs like they're folding towels fresh from the
dryer. Traveling the seam between coo and caw, the duo churn out lush
and layered soundscapes that billow with cerebral grace, prog-perfect
texture, and a deliciously abstract abrasion that our readers adore."
-
TARTUFI Voted Best Indie Band 2007 -SF Bay Guardian

Bronzed Chorus
We are a two piece band from Greensboro, N.C.. BRENNAN OBRIEN plays
drums and keys. ADAM JOYCE plays guitar. We have played together since
we were both in middle school(a long time ago), but didn't start an
actual band together until mid-2006. This is it.

Maple Stave (rock/progressive/funk)
Maple Stave is from Durham, North Carolina. We try to employ subtlety
where brute strength might be the norm, and bring loudness to bear
where one would not expect it. We favor a shift in tone over a catchy
chorus. We enjoy the occasional change in meter rather than a guitar
solo. Three instruments played by three friends to achieve a
remarkable fullness of sound. Using music to communicate feeling lost,
feeling triumphant, creating space, and closing it again. The band has
released two well-received EPs, each in handmade packaging designed
and printed by Williams=92 Plastic Flame Press, and assembled at home,
in motel bathrooms, and in the minivan. Their third is set for a
Spring 2008 release.
  Their explosive live shows are experiments in dynamic range=97roaring
one moment, and pulling up short the next. They=92ve been honored to
share the stage with the likes of Shipping News, Deerhoof, and Hella,
and to have been a part of North Carolina=92s Troika Music Festival,
Louisville Kentucky=92s Daydream Festival, and many, many tiny shows in
houses,basements, and rec centers.

Sunday, April 4
=95 4:30P BSC Kids! It's FUN and it's FREE! (tip jar passed)
Big Bang Boom (band)
Big Bang Boom is a power pop trio that writes and performs parent-
friendly children=92s music.  The live show is high-energy, and gets the
crowd involved.  From getting the kids on stage for the =93Spongebob
Chorus=94 to the parents vs. kids hokey pokey challenge =96 there is no
sitting down!
  What happens when professional musicians become parents? They play
and write children's music. This is the path taken by Big Bang Boom, a
children's music group from Greensboro. After 20 years touring clubs
and playing parties, Chuck Folds (younger brother of piano rocker Ben
Folds) and Steve Williard decided to expand their horizons and play
for kids. Together with drummer Eddie Walker they have become the
parent friendly kid's rock band alternative.
  Big Bang Boom is designed to give parents something else to listen
to besides Disney music and the Wiggles. There is some good quality
children's music being recorded these days. You can catch it on any
kid-friendly TV station, and now you can hear it live too.
Big Bang Boom plays some children's favorites as well as their own
original songs for kids.

=95 7:30P Aaron Mills Project - Sunday Night Jazz
Starting at 7:30, Open Jam at 9
If you are in any way a fan of jazz, this is not to be missed !!!
Aaron Mills, best known as the audacious bassist of classic funk act
Cameo,  has inspired a generation of groovy musicians, but his long
time love affair with jazz has inspired The Aaron Mills Project.
Aaron has been playing at the Cafe for a few months now, along with
Wayne Kee, Bobby Hinton, Warren Fraizer and others. Aaron has brought
Sunday night jazz back to the Cafe in a format that includes a cast of
regulars as well as featured guest musicians every week. Towards the
end of the evening, the night becomes an open jam, so, if anyone wants
to come blow their horn....

The Broad Street Cafe -- 1116 Broad Street in Durham -- www.TheBroadStreetC=
afe.com