We invite you to join us for a small gathering with friends to enjoy exceptional and well known singer/songwriters and musicians in our living room filled with Música Del Río, "music of the river" in Atascadero, our town in the upper Salinas River Valley of California.
Fred & Sharon Munroe
Please Join Us!
Música Del Río house concerts are a private party for invited guests who RSVP with plans to attend.
We use the Evite web system to send invitations for the upcoming concert to everyone on our email list.
To be included on our Evite emailing list, send an email to Musica Del Rio with the word "please" in the subject line. Please include your name, where you live and a contact phone number, so we can reach you if there should ever be any last minute change of plans for a concert you are planning to attend.
What is going on here?
Música Del Río is a gathering of friends to enjoy outstanding acoustic music in our living room.
With room for about 60 friends; musicans and singer-songwriters find our house concerts to be a joyous way to share the art of their craft.
100% of the donation you make to attend this gathering goes to the performers. We do this for the love of music, the love of friends to share it with and the love of opening our front door to make it happen.
We invite you to explore these few pages to further understand what we are offering in the way of acoustic music in our home at Música Del Río. We hope you find our efforts to your liking. Without you and others like you, there is no concert. We hope to see you soon.
Next Concert
Friday, May 15, 2009 8:00 PM
Joe Craven and Sam Bevan
Joe Craven and Sam Bevan have decided to make a CD together. And the universe is just enough in alignment to assure its delivery for their concert at Música Del Río in May. Many who know these two fine musicians will find it remarkable that anything is in “alignment” when it relates to them. The music is fine, but chaos theory is often the more familiar word.
We have known Joe Craven for many years and we still have very little understanding of how gravity can be used as an effective tool to keep him attached to the earth. It has been suggested this is somehow related to his anti-monochromatic wardrobe. If you find this discussion unrelated to Joe’s music, then it is imperative you attend this upcoming concert in our living room. Maybe, just maybe, you will understand.
We have arranged with our mutual friend, Sam Bevan, to help translate Joe’s performance here via string bass. While Sam is a fine, fine master of both the standup and electric bass (and we are delighted he is returning to Música Del Río), we are counting on him to lend an ever so slight hint of sanity to what is likely to otherwise be an evening on tilt.
Underneath the outrageous exterior of Joe Craven rests one of the most creative and innovative artists currently practicing the fine craft of folk music. Whether mandolin, fiddle or bundt pan, Joe knows how to make music with them. Over the last 20 years, Joe has formally played with the likes of David Grisman and Alison Brown. On a more spontaneous basis, we have witnessed Joe as a creative addition to The Stairwell Sisters and Blame Sally.
It has been hard to keep track of Sam Bevan. Wherever we turn, his bass (and keyboard) work has made he one of the most sought after sidemen in the west. Regular attendees of Música Del Río will remember his work here with Walter Strauss. Joe’s album Django Latino, a fine reflection of the styles of Django Reinhardt, features Sam in some of his finest work.
Together Joe and Sam will help us close out our season with a CD release party concert for their new release call Foakee. You will not want to miss this show.
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