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Poplar Playhouse, Berkeley House Concerts
Galen Kipar
Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 8 p.m.

We decided to squeeze in one last show before the end of the year! If you’re around at the end of the year, you’re invited to attend our house concert with Galen Kipar at our home in Berkeley on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 8 p.m. $10-15 sliding scale suggested donation. Feel free to BYOB/snacks. RSVP at our website, berkeleyhouseconcerts.org, or by calling Tom at 510-697-4097

Linda Oliver & Tom Montgomery

Effortlessly crafting a fusion of folk, classical, jazz, and blues, the Galen Kipar Project has been hailed as “complex yet accessible” and “cohesive and poignant” with “experimental folk masterpieces.” Based in Asheville, GKP released their fourth album The Scenic Route in 2010 which was listed in WNCW’s Top 100 albums of 2010.

Galen’s other endeavor keeps him on the water as he serves as a fly fishing guide with in Western North Carolina. He gets much of his inspiration for songwriting while standing waist deep in a river. Galen states in an interview with the WVGazette, “Water, particularly rivers, have many different currents. Music is the same way,” he says. “Music has many different currents, and they all work together. It’s something that’s always fascinated me.”

GKP’s music was featured on WNCW’s 2010 Crowd Around the Mic Compilation CD with artists such as Darrell Scott, Jeff Sipe and Ike Stubblefield, Muddy Waters Reunion Band, Drivin & Cryin’, and Jim Lauderdale. Their hit “October Snow” was used in a commercial promoting the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) and the WNC Farmers Market Association, and was also a finalist in the Google TV for All Contest.

Happy holy daze, everybody! I’m writing to tell you about my upcoming gigs AND one show that I’m not playing in but I really want you to see.

On Saturday, December 29, GALEN KIPAR will play a solo show at the Poplar Playhouse in Berkeley. Galen is a brilliant singer-songwriter from Asheville. I have been a huge fan of his music since my friend Erin Scholze gave me a CD of his a few years ago. Galen has a sister in the Bay Area, and he’s coming out out for a visit so I hooked him up with this gig so I (and all of you) can hear him play. You can hear Galen’s music online at galenkipar.com – and if you like what you hear, you can find out more about the Berkeley show at berkeleyhouseconcerts.org or this Facebook event.

I hope all my Bay Area friends will come to Galen’s show. He’s a wonderful songwriter and performer.

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And now, here’s my schedule as it stands today. I’ve been off the road for a couple of months, finishing a book project and playing hometown shows. I have some more hometown shows this weekend and beyond, and I’ll be back on the road (heading for my beloved desert southwest!) in February. Plans for the rest of 2013 are beginning to take shape.

And at the bottom of this message, you’ll find info about all the music I have for sale.

Friday, December 21, 4:20 pm: Sycamore Slough String Band at the Collective Conscious Apothecary, 13325 S Hwy 101, Hopland CA. 707-744-1565. I don’t think they’re charging to get in but you need a card.

Saturday, December 22, 9pm: DG and Andre De Channes at the Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati, CA 94931. $5. 707-795-7868

Sunday, January 13: DG and Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman: dinner and a show in Oakland. Details TBA.

Thursday, January 17, 9pm: Strawberry Field Trip – Beatles jam band! – at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA. David Gans and Stu Allen, guitar; J Raoul Brody, keyboards; Robin Sylvester, bass; Peter Lavezzoli, drums

Friday, February 8: XTra Ticket, Top Dead Center, and DG at the Sail Inn, 26 South Farmer Avenue, Tempe AZ
Saturday, February 9: XTra Ticket, Top Dead Center, and DG at the Boondocks in Tucson AZ
Sunday, February 10: house concert in Flagstaff, Arizona. Contact me for more info.
Friday, February 15: House concert in Placitas NM. Contact me for more info.
Saturday, February 16: Albuquerque NM (tentative)

Saturday, February 23, 9 am to 1am PST: The annual KPFA Grateful Dead marathon! Webcast around the globe! Details coming soon.

Sunday, February 24: A tribute to George Harrison and benefit for the club at the Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA. James Nash, Robin Sylvester, Chris and Lorin Rowan, Maddy Streicek, Kathy Kallick, Dedicated Maniacs, and many more TBA.

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My performance schedule is posted at dgans.com/gigs.html – new gigs are being added all the time.

As always, I’m in the market for house concert opportunities. If you see an open spot on my schedule in your general vicinity, let’s try to make something happen! And remember: word of mouth is a gigantic part of musicians’ promotion and publicity these days, so if you like my music, please spread the word about my gigs and recordings.

My recordings are available at dgans.com/discography/

Great thanks to Jim Dunlop for providing me with first-rate strings for all my guitars! https://www.jimdunlop.com/

If you want to be removed from this list, please send email to david@trufun.com and I’ll take care of it ASAP.

SYCAMORE SLOUGH STRING BAND:
Sycamore Slough String Band is an acoustic quartet focusing on the music of the Grateful Dead, with other fine songs popping up occasionally as well. With me are mandolinist/guitarist David Thom, “Fiddle Dave” Muhlethaler, and bassist Roger Sideman. Everybody sings!

We held our first rehearsals at Megasonic Studio in Oakland in January, confident that magic would be made, and we did indeed wind up with releasable music. “First Rehearsals” is available in FLAC, MP3, and CD on demand from festivalink.net – https://flink.livedownloads.com/show.asp?show=7293 and in audiophile (96/24) from HDTracks – https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD063944412117

Here are two videos from “First Rehearsals”:
Jackaroe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY8tyO-_7Ik
New Speedway Boogie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZfxawvKeQ

DAVID GANS AND ERIC RAWLINS:
I’m also hawking “Desert Wind, Rollin’ River,” a studio recording of Americana type songs (including several originals) with my dear friend Eric Rawlins. We’ve been singing together, mostly at private gatherings, for more than 20 years. The recording was done in my living room by the great Stephen Barncard, who recorded “American Beauty” and David Crosby’s “If I Could Only Remember My Name…”) It’s available in FLAC, MP3, and CD on demand from Festivalink and in audiophile (96/24) from HDTracks

More info on these and other releases at dgans.com/discography/

David Gans – david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730