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Adam Gardino, Phil Volan & Joleen
Bell and The Sister Brothers
December 14
(Pictured above: International Finger Style Guitar Champion, Adam Gardino)
In celebration of the holidays we decided to continue the
Black Rose tradition of a holiday potluck and music. For this particular event
we invited Black Rose favorites and champion players Adam Gardino (1st
place winner International Fingerstyle Competition at the Walnut Valley
Festival 2012), Phil Volan (2nd
place winner International Fingerstyle Competition at the Walnut Valley
Festival 2002), Joleen Bell & of course, the Sister Brothers (Charlie Hall,
Dick Carlson and Marianne Danehy).
This evening will start out with a holiday potluck, so bring
your best Christmas goodies to share –appetizers, crockpots, cookies, cake-
whatever you enjoy during the holidays followed by a Christmas open stage.
We’ll put on the coffee, have some punch and enjoy an evening of great music
and food in the nostalgic atmosphere of the Black Forest Community Center.
About the performers:
Adam
Gardino has been dazzling audiences across Colorado and Kansas since 2005. Sharing the stage with such acts as Grammy
winners Doug Smith, Pat Donohue and Al Petteway, he blends a wide mix of music
from acoustic blues, to jazz, classical, country and rock. In 2012 he took 1st Place at the International Fingerstyle
Competition at the Walnut Valley Festival , where players from all over the
U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan come and compete every year for a chance to be
named among the best in the world. His sound
has been likened to that of Leo Kottke, Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins and James
Taylor.
Performing
since the age of 15, his stage craft has been constantly shaped and reshaped
for every show and concert. His solo
acoustic compositions and arrangements show intense musical insight and
depth. Doug Smith, International
Fingerstyle Guitar Champion praised Adam "I was blown away when Adam played my
arrangement of Cole Porter's ‘Anything Goes’ - better than I do!"
Phil Volan and
Joleen Bell is a husband and wife team known for their skilled
fingerstyle guitar technique and beautiful tight harmony. Phil earned 2nd place
at the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship in Winfield, Kansas in 2002.
Joleen also competed several years later as one of only two women, to very
enthusiastic listeners.
Along with her angelic voice, Joleen plays several
instruments including banjo and lap dulcimer. She has a B.A. in music from
Naropa University, Boulder, CO. In addition to four CDs with Phil, she has two
solo discs and one with Tom Simms. Several of her instrumentals, co-written
with Phil, have been used internationally on various media.
Readers of the Colorado Springs Gazette and Independent
newspapers voted Phil Best Male Singer and Best Folksinger for two years
running. And in 2002, Phil won the Peak Area Performance and Artists Award
(PAPA) in the Popular Music category. Several of his songs have been featured
on N.P.R. broadcasts and have been used in film and commercials internationally.
He has nine CD releases, and session work on many others.
See more about Phil and Joleen by visiting their web site: http://www.philvolan.com/index.htm
Dick Carlson, Marianne Danehy and Charlie Hall are the
Sister Brothers.
Dick played with Black Rose (the band) for all ten years of
its existence, with Palmer Divide for five years. Between the two bands, he played a hundreds
of gigs and released five albums. His
rock-steady bass playing has been compared to “the heartbeat of a blue whale”;
we’re not sure whether that’s good or bad.
His ankles are still recovering from his days as an all-Nebraska
basketball star; his coach was quoted as saying “Dick almost never shoots when
he doesn’t have the ball.”
Marianne teaches Suzuki violin and fiddle in Colorado Springs. In a prior life, she worked as an engineer
for Hewlett-Packard. She grew up playing
classical violin and more recently “found her people,” namely those who stay up
late playing folk, Celtic, country and bluegrass music. She performed with the all female trio, Blue
Sage, prior to playing with Charlie and Dick.
Charlie and Marianne founded the Colorado Roots Music Camp, and she
teaches fiddle there every year.
Charlie is a co-founder and past president of the Black Rose
Acoustic Society, and co-founder and director of the Colorado Roots Music
Camp. He was a finalist in the 2000
National Finger Style Guitar championship, and was nominated Bluegrass
Guitarist of the Year in 1996 by the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. He played with Black Rose for ten years and
has played with Joe Uveges, Phil Volan and the nearly-famed Trio Reynoso.
The Sister Brothers celebrate good country songs served
without artificial ingredients. They
play a swing tune or two, fiddle tunes, some bluegrass, some folk. They sing
songs that review the salient characteristics of Iowa, orphanhood,
old-fashioned love, lost love, found love, misplaced love, love that crushes
you like a monochromatic Kansas farmhouse dropped by a tornado, loneliness,
bandits, the South, the South again, birthdays and their concomitant rehashing
of the prior twelve months’ personal failures, small towns, big towns,
ginormous towns and the Wrong Side of the Tracks. And the South.
So come on out to Black Forest and join us on December 14
for excellent musicianship and great goodies!
Joanna Springer
Holiday Potluck begins at 6:00 p.m.
Show starts: 7:00 p.m.
Tickets at the door: $4.00 for Black Rose Members, $7.00 General Public, $5.00 for students.
