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JoeSel
Joe SELLY
Joe Selly has appeared with Phoebe Snow, Vassar Clements, Barbara Eden, Melissa Manchester, Tex Logan and toured nationally with the Lombardo Orchestra. He is featured on countless recordings and is in demand as both performer and instructor in bluegrass, jazz and swing.
Hear Joe at: www.kenparkerarchtops.com/kenparkerarchtok.html
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Ralph GORDON
Ralph Gordon is a uniquely versatile musician, bringing more than 35 years of musical experience to the bass and cello. He is equally at home in folk, old time, swing, jazz, blues, bluegrass, klezmer, chamber group settings and all styles of music for dancers.
Ralph, classically trained, studied music at West Virginia University and the Manhattan School of Music. He left Manhattan to perform with the New Jersey Symphony, then toured with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. He eventually returned to West Virginia where he joined the ground breaking folk ensemble, Trapezoid. Nine years and four recordings later he left the group in 1986 to become a free lance musician. Since then he has performed with many individuals and groups in a multitude of musical styles and settings He is a sought after freelance artist and session musician in the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area. Ralph can be heard on more than 100 recordings, arranging and producing on many.
"His playing is more sophisticated and technically accomplished than the next 10 string players of any sort and he uses his instruments to subtly ground, stabilize, and inspire the rest of the ensemble as they pursue their experimentations."
~ Charleston Post Courier
www.ralphgordonmusic.com
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E V E N T S
Saturday, January 23rd
@ The Allegany Arts Council
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JANUARY 23, 2010
TIM PORTER, JOE SELLY
and RALPH GORDON
Mandolin, Guitar, and Contrabass
~ a magical evening of acoustic jazz ~
8:00 PM @ Allegany Arts Council
Tim PORTER
Tim Porter is a mandolinist whose musical interests are deeply rooted in the blues, jazz, Celtic, and worship genres, all of which connect with his heritage. He performs with The Contemporary Ensemble in New York, and with other groups in venues around New York City, including an ensemble of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Tim has performed in Europe, most notably at the first annual Festi Jazz Festival in Saint Cezaire, France in 2008. Tim has performed with acclaimed mandolin virtuoso, Barry Mitterhoff, and many other musicians including Jazz greats, Roni Ben-Hur, Santi Dibriano, Bill Wurtzel, and Steve Williams, blues and folk musicians, Mike Baytop, Guy Davis, Earl White, Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, and Celtic vocalist, Kerrin Kennedy Perkins. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of WBGO Newark Public Radio, the jazz station serving the New York metropolitan area, is a member of the Board of Governors of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, and the Board of Directors of the Old Town School of Folk Music In Chicago. Not one to give up his day job, Tim is also an attorney focusing on international law matters.
Playlist for Jan 23 Concert
featuring Tim Porter and Joe Selly:
(subject to change)
1. In A Sentimental Mood ~Duke Ellington
2. Blue Bossa ~ Kenny Dorham
3. Monk's Dream !~ Thelonius Monk
4. Black Orpheus~ Luis Bonfa
5. Florida Blues Fiddler ~ Arthur Smith
6. Boplicity ~ Miles Davis
7. Blue Monk ~ Thelonius Monk
8. Yesterdays ~ Jerome Kern
9. Nuage ~ Django Reinhardt
10. How High The Moon ~ Morgan Lewis
11. Body And Soul ~ Heyman/Sour and Eyton, John Green
12. Skylark ~ Hoagy Carmichael
13. A Foggy Day ~ Gershwin
14. Carolan's Concerto ~ Turlough O'Carolan
15 Carinhoso~ Pixinguinha
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Special Thanks to: Shirley & Nick Giarritta, John & Amy Shuman, Einar Johnson,
Grant Van Pelt, John Haylor, Eve Blackwater, Chris Blum
OneTree's January 2010 event is sponsored in part by
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Holiday Inn Cumberland
Walking distance from the Concert.
100 S. George Street
Cumberland, MD 21502
301-724-8800
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Allegany Arts Council
9 N. Centre Street
Cumberland, MD 21502
301-777-ARTS (2787)
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