The Old-Time Tiki Parlour presents the Grammy-nominated
Swamp-Pop Louisiana Super Group The Revelers !!
Live in Los Angeles on Friday February 12th at 8:00PM
The Revelers are in town for the 2016 Grammy Awards so Tiki Parlour Recordings jumped at the chance to host them for a very special show to celebrate their nomination for Best Regional Roots Album!
The event will be held at Timewarp Records
12204 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, 90066
Come join us on Saturday, December 5th for David Bragger’s CD release party at Timewarp Records in Los Angeles!
We’ll kick off the party at 6:00 with old-time music jamming, surrounded by vinyl records and lovers of old-time music! So bring your instruments and your ears!
At 8:00 the concert begins! We’re so pleased to announce that Tricia Spencer & Howard Rains will be flying out to perform for this special event!!
There will also be guest appearances from the Cajun Creole Joe Fontenot Trio and members of Sausage Grinder (Christopher Berry, Susan Platz and, of course, David Bragger!) Not to mention, a few others!
Reserve your spot through David Bragger directly OR through Brown Paper Tickets HERE.
On Sunday, October 18th, Tiki Parlour Recordings is hosting an old-time mini-fest at the Old-Time Tiki Parlour in Los Angeles! We’re celebrating our release of the Eric & Suzy Thompson DVD with a fiddle workshop by West Virginia’s fiddler extraordinaire/archivist Scott Prouty and a presentation by North Carolina’s flatfoot dancer/old-time musician Phil Jamison & Friends. We’ll be having a potluck and jam party between the fiddle workshop and afternoon house concert. If you’re interested in stopping by, let me know ASAP!
Fiddle Workshop with Scott Prouty–11:00AM
Potluck and Old-time Jam–1:00PM
Phil Jamison & Friends–3:30PM
Old-Time Musician Scott Prouty has an extensive and eclectic repertoire rooted in the old mountain style of fiddle playing, which includes dance music as well as beautiful solo fiddle tunes. His music has been shaped by time spent with older traditional players, contemporary musicians, as well as by rare field recordings. He has won fiddle contests around West Virginia, taught at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV and at the Berkeley Old-time Music Convention. He also has worked as a librarian and archivist to document and preserve traditional music.
Phil Jamison is nationally-known as a dance caller, old-time musician, and flatfoot dancer. He has called dances, performed, and taught at music festivals and dance events throughout the U.S. and overseas since the early 1970s, including more than thirty years as a member of the Green Grass Cloggers. His flatfoot dancing was featured in the film, Songcatcher, for which he also served as Traditional Dance consultant. From 1982 through 2004, he toured and played guitar with Ralph Blizard and the New Southern Ramblers, and he also plays fiddle and banjo. Over the last thirty years, Phil has done extensive research in the area of Appalachian dance, and his recently-published book Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance (University of Illinois Press, 2015) tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. Phil teaches mathematics as well as Appalachian music and dance at Warren Wilson College, in Asheville, North Carolina, where he also coordinates the Old-Time Music and Dance Week at the Swannanoa Gathering.
Old-time master Paul Brown is coming to the Tiki Parlour for a fiddle workshop and to play on Saturday, October 3rd! This is his first appearance at the Tiki Parlour.
A musician since childhood, Paul Brown spent years collecting and documenting traditional music in southwestern Virginia and northwest North Carolina, particularly the stunningly rich traditions around Mount Airy in the region known as Round Peak. As a performer, a record producer, and a radio host—formerly of Mount Airy’s famous hometown station, WPAQ, as well as a national audience as a newscaster and reporter for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition—Paul Brown has introduced millions to the special world of Round Peak music, and helped to ensure its preservation and vitality for future generations.
Paul started picking banjo on a new Sears Silvertone when he was ten. He developed his own two- and three-finger styles, and also learned the clawhammer style. His interest, and his discovery of the Clawhammer Banjoalbums, inspired him to make frequent trips to visit as many of the older players as he could. He has visited and played music with a number of the older artists in the Southern Appalachian region.
Paul spent years learning music directly from some of the last fiddle, banjo, and guitar players to emerge before the age of radio and recordings, including Tommy Jarrell, Gilmer Woodruff, Fields Ward, Robert Sykes, Luther Davis, Verlen Clifton, and Paul Sutphin. Paul studied banjo intensively with Tommy Jarrell, and he learned much from the playing of Wade Ward. He spent considerable time with Wade’s nephew, Fields, a fine guitarist, banjo player and singer. He also played in the Smokey Valley Boys with Benton Flippen, Verlen Clifton, and Paul Sutphin. When Paul Sutphin died, Paul Brown wrote about how Sutphin influenced the musicians: “More than anything else, he would infuse the performance with focused energy, intensity and happiness that drove the rest of us to play harder and better than we thought we could.”
Paul has recorded with many of his friends including Bruce Molsky, Mike Seeger, and Tara Nevins. His most recent recordings are Way Down In North Carolina with Mike Seeger, Benton Flippen: Old Time, New Times, and Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday: The Breaking Up Christmas Story. His most recent recording, Red Clay County, features Paul’s banjo playing, fiddling, and singing, and it has received a rave review from The Old-Time Heraldmagazine.
On Father’s Day, June 21st, the Tiki Parlour will be hosting 2 fiddle workshops with Cajun Super Master Joel Savoy and Foghorn Stringband’s Sammy Lind!!
1:30–Old-Time Fiddle Workshop with Sammy Lind
3:30–Cajun Fiddle Workshop with Joel Savoy
Contact David Bragger for details.
Son of Cajun music royalty Marc and Ann, Joel Savoy is best described as an instigator. He has been at the forefront of the Louisiana music revival of the last 20 years and as a result he has become a highly visible figure in the American roots music community, helping to unite musicians and music fans around the world to solidify the future of traditional American music. The founder of the Louisiana-based label Valcour Records, Joel is a GRAMMY winner for his production work with The Band Courtbouillon and a nine-time GRAMMY nominee, as well as a two-time winner of the Cajun French Music Association’s Fiddler of the Year Award. Having grown up literally at the feet of the Cajun great he represents his culture with an authority that few people his age can and his playing leaves no doubt that Cajun music is still very much alive.
Born in Minnesota, Stephen “Sammy” Lind has established himself as one of the most critically acclaimed old time fiddle players in the country. Co-founder of the Oregon based Foghorn Stringband, Stephen has traveled the world playing and teaching a vast repertoire of tunes from Appalachia and the Midwest. His playing reflects tremendous respect and passion for all the fiddle players and old recordings he spent countless hours learning from.
–Cajun and Old-Time Fiddle Workshops and Jam Party on Father’s Day-Sunday, June 21st!
It’s gonna be a Cajun/Old-Time explosion with Jesse Lege, Joel Savoy and members of the Foghorn Stringband teaching two fiddle workshops (old-time and Cajun) and a jam party! We’ll even do a potluck!
Contact David Bragger for details
Son of Cajun music royalty Marc and Ann, Joel Savoy is best described as an instigator. He has been at the forefront of the Louisiana music revival of the last 20 years and as a result he has become a highly visible figure in the American roots music community, helping to unite musicians and music fans around the world to solidify the future of traditional American music. The founder of the Louisiana-based label Valcour Records, Joel is a GRAMMY winner for his production work with The Band Courtbouillon and a nine-time GRAMMY nominee, as well as a two-time winner of the Cajun French Music Association’s Fiddler of the Year Award. Having grown up literally at the feet of the Cajun great he represents his culture with an authority that few people his age can and his playing leaves no doubt that Cajun music is still very much alive. He has worked and played with the best of the best in south Louisiana as well as folks like John Fogerty, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Earle, and T-Bone Burnett. Sharing the stage with Joel for the last 15 years is the legendary Cajun powerhouse, Jesse Lége. Growing up in a rural pre-electricity home in Gueydan, LA, Jesse spoke Cajun French and learned music from relatives, neighbors, and the family’s much-loved battery-powered radio. Today he is one of the most admired Cajun accordionists and vocalists in the world, known especially for his high, clear, “crying” vocals. Jesse has been playing traditional Cajun music and singing Cajun French songs for over 35 years performing with a variety of well-known musicians in various Louisiana and southeast Texas dancehalls. He is a winner of numerous CFMA awards: Traditional Band of the Year, Accordion Player of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Band of the Year, and Song of the Year. In 1998 he was inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame. Joining Joel and Jesse are two members of the old time powerhouse, The Foghorn Stringband, Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry. Their solid rhythm on the guitar and upright bass provide the perfect foundation for a rocking time on the dance floor and together they present a music that seems to embody all of the things that make life wonderful.
Just added! Bruce Molsky will be around for another jam party at the most intimate and funky of old-time music hangouts!
Contact [email protected] for info.
