Yeppers, Pasadena is still there

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Come share a great evening of bluegrass/old time music as Mother's Boys performs an evening of Carter Family songs, along with some of the band members' great original and favorite classic songs in 9 days,  Saturday AUGUST 4 in Beckman Institute Auditorium ("Little Beckman") at 8:00 PM.  We first heard this group on the radio with a few songs from their recording, Home Among the Hills: a Musical Tribute to the Carter Family  and we were delighted to hear this gathering of extremely talented musicians and singers playing familiar and lesser-known songs of the Carters.   It was a chance to hear the seldom-seen, but very fine singer and guitarist, Rick Cunha, who spends most of his time in the studio recording other performers these days, joined by our friend, Peter Feldmann, singer, yodeler, and masterful mandolin and guitar player.  These guys sing some great harmonies and then you have David Jackson, playing upright bass, as well as singing bass, and David Dawson playing autoharp and singing.  Once we got a copy of the album, which incidentally includes talented friends, Laurie Lewis, Moira Smiley, Fred Sokolow, Susie Glaze, and Aubrey Richmond, we knew we wanted to present them in our series.   As we mentioned last week, the group doesn't have a video trail, but we can lead you to a few audio clips, Rick singing lead on I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes and Peter Feldmann's lead on Oh Take Me Back, plus the previously mentioned You've Been a Friend to Me.

We got a chance to hear Mother's Boys as a trio at the Coffee Gallery a few weeks ago, and they were all we hoped they would be live.  They clearly love the old Carter songs, and the members step up one at a time to lead their favorite songs, with superb instrumental backing from the others.  Rick Cunha pulled out his Weissenborn steel guitar for a song or two, and we found David Jackson to be a pretty funny guy.  Peter passes on a bit of information about the Carter Family, but the focus is on the songs.    We look forward to hearing David Dawson, coming in special from Colorado just for this show.   If you want to know more about the Carter Family, you can read about them in Wikipedia or watch a great video about them narrated by Robert DuVall, The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (careful, it is 90 minutes long!), but you don't need to do this.  This show is really about the songs. The group gets together sparingly, so don't miss this opportunity to hear them.  The hot weather is expected to continue, but Beckman Institute Auditorium is air conditioned!
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