[GP-Eldorado-n] Fw: Dave Mallett this Friday

[Diana Stauffer]

Event:            Q Note Concerts presents revered Maine folk singer/songwriter, David Mallett   www.davidmallett.com

 

Date:               Friday, October 14th   

                        8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:30)

 

Venue:            Cozmic Café upstairs listening room, 594 Main Street, Placerville, CA

                   

Tickets:          $17.00, available at the Cozmic Café & Four Sisters Café in Georgetown

(530) 333-1018 or (530) 642-8481  www.cozmiccafe.com 

 

Additional

Contact:         Bruce or Cindy Hayden, Q Note Productions

                        www.qnoteproductions.com

                        (530) 333-1018 office / (530) 333-4186 home

 

 

The Q Note Concert Series presents the return of revered folk singer/songwriter, David Mallett, to the Cozmic Café on Friday, October 14th at 8 p.m.  According to Popular Folk Music Today, "David Mallett may be the only artist working today whose portraits and stories, derived from the American heartland, can come close to being compared to the works of Stephen Foster." 

Life in an out of the way place carries universal import, and people everywhere seem to understand what David Mallett's songs are about. Although they are rooted in place, they speak to the essential things that move us all. If you grow up in a small rural town as Mallett did, you can't help but learn its stories. He knows about the people who shouldn't have stayed, but did, and those who shouldn't have left, but did.         

            He knows the factory work, the field work, the memories of summer dances, the loves and losses, and the stunning incidents of courage and despair.  Raised in a musical family, by the age of ten he was touring with his older brother Neil, singing at grange halls and  county fairs. In his early twenties he started his solo career, writing his own songs and eventually performing them across the US, Canada and Europe. His songs have received international acclaim, and one of them, "Garden Song", has been translated into several languages and is one of America's most popular folk songs. Other singers who have recorded Mallett's songs include Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Hal Ketchum, Pete Seeger and even the Muppets. The source of this well-traveled music is life in a small town in rural Maine, where there still is a main street, and you can still find old barns and tall trees. 

The songs Mallett writes and sings are filled with passion, evocative imagery, and a sense of the inevitable passage of time. The loss of American towns and rural landscapes is the subject of many of his songs, as are the issues of wilderness preservation and the struggle of the common man. When he is not touring, the place where he makes his songs is in his writing room in an old farmhouse with a view across the field and a tintype of his great-great grandfather on the wall. 

"I like to keep reaching out to touch the past," he says, "to connect it with what's going on now. To me music is one of the few things that is timeless ... human emotion is one continual chain." 

In the millenium edition of The Bangor Daily News, in his home state, he was named along with Marshall Dodge, Andrew Wyeth, E.B. White, Stephen King, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others, one of the most memorable "Mainers" of the twentieth century. 

"Artist In Me" is David Mallett's most recent work. Recorded in the spring of 2003, it contains a brand new collection of songs, such as "Strange Life", "Like Me Without You" and "Angel Standin' By". A subtle blending of guitars, bass, drums and violin creates an understated compliment to a mature voice of one of America's most unique and consistent singer songwriters. 

Mallett's most recent honor comes from the readers of FOLKWAX (www.folkwax.com), who voted him 2003 Artist of the Year, and "Artist in Me" 2003 Album of the Year. 

Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are $17 and available at the Cozmic Café, 594 Main Street in Placerville (530) 642-8481, and Four Sisters Coffee in Georgetown (530) 333-2305.  For further information: (530) 333-1018 www.qnoteproductions.com.

 

 

 

 



www.qnoteproductions.com

Bruce Hayden

Q-Note Productions

P O Box 462

Garden Valley, Ca. 95633



 

 

 

 
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