The Kosher Red Hots open the rich treasury of Jewish music to bring you a night of wild enjoyment.  You will hear whirlwind Eastern European klezmer dance tunes, Yiddish musical theater, swing, cabaret, and Spanish flavored love songs. The band has inspired dancing in the aisles from Reno’s Artown Festival to Alaska’s Inside Passage.  They have been featured on “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor.      
The Kosher Red Hots bring you a spirited clarinet (Liz Dreisbach), a powerhouse accordion (Laurie Andres), a master bassist and guitarist (Eugene Jablonsky), and an adventurous vocalist (Sheila Fox), Together they play music that turns from rollicking to tender while they weave tales, humor, history, and just plain fun into each concert.  You will hear suprising and eclectic stories about the songs that only a history buff wouldn’t find suprising. As informative an evening as it will be, don’t expect it to feel academic. The Kosher Red Hots are all about passion, fun and celebration.

Grammy Award winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded, and toured together for over 24 years with 19 albums to their credit. They are friends who enjoy each other’s company and truly love making contemporary instrumental music. Tingstad & Rumbel’s Acoustic Garden won the GRAMMY Award in the New Age category during the 45th GRAMMY Awards in Madison Square Garden.
Their new CD, Leap of Faith, is the perfect blend of Americana fingerstyle guitar, oboe, English horn and ocarina. This is American home-style music at its finest with eclectic flavors and international spice. From the most often requested song in their career, Medicine Tree, to traditional Asian folk tunes, Tex-Mex stylings, Caribbean rhythms, American songbook covers and Americana roots, Leap of Faith captures the energy and excitement of their live performances. “It’s one of the most entertaining and refreshing gems to come along in a long while,” says Dave Butler of InnerVisions Syndicated Radio Show, (Feb 13, 2009).

“Retta Christie has a singular knack for that curious, vastly entertaining form of Americana that swings in the recesses between jazz and country.  Think Jimmie Rodgers, dustbowl prophets like Cowboy Bob Wills or Floyd Tillman, or the flatland plains poetry of Hoagy Carmichael, and you’re in the neighborhood.  Fans of Irving Berlin saloon songs will be swinging till the cows come home.  Secret weapons: Dave Evans on sax/clarinet and the hip avuncularity of Dave Frishberg at the keys.” - Tim Duroche, Willamette Week
Retta Christie draws comfortably on country music, with all its geographical and stylistic tributaries, as well as swing, pop, vintage jazz, novelty and the Great American Songbook. She loves bristling Western swing, good Dixieland, cowboy movie music and clever song–stories by composers such as Floyd Tillman and Dave Frishberg (Famous composer, performer, and past Seasons headliner). Retta has heartfelt reactions to a variety of songs and singers and she expresses those feelings by telling—singing—each story her own way. In 2008, The Portland Tribune said, “Christie’s calm, clear voice is a throwback to simpler times...”

Whether a rockin’ hoe-down or a tasty ballad, Deadwood Revival’s original tunes have been described as “old timey with smokin’ hooks”. Their songs are uplifting sometimes poignant, and often sound like they could have been written a hundred years ago. They breathe new life into a variety of old-time fiddle tunes, folk tunes, bluegrass tunes, and rock tunes. Whether it’s one of their own, a traditional or a cover...Deadwood Revival’s clever arrangements, beautiful harmonies and extended jam sessions have won praise in both old-time and bluegrass circles.  Frank Gutch of the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange says, ...”You can tell from the first note that they are crowd-pleasers. They’re fun, adventurous and yet true to their roots.”
Both of Deadwood Revival’s CD releases received rave reviews and radio airplay across the US and Canada and This Old World was nominated for Album of the Year in 2009 by the Independent Music Award organization, Just Plain Folks. As if the music itself weren’t enough, positive on-stage charisma is a large part of what draws listeners in and keeps them coming back again and again. Come enjoy Deadwood Revival for a foot stompin’, banjo pickin’, harmony singin’, spirit liftin’ spin on traditional oldtime bluegrass & jamrass.

Complete Series Pass: $45