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EVENTS AT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY.
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Some event highlights:

ERIC TAYLOR, MAY 11!

MAY 21, JULIET JOHNSON

CLUSTER! MAY 23

JONATHAN RICHMAN, JUNE 15!

JUNE 28, ALISA FINEMAN AND KIMBALL HURD

JULY 18, CONSPIRACY OF BEARDS

JOHN DOE, JULY 20

CJ BOYD, JULY 25

BLAME SALLY, JULY 26

PETER CASE & CHUCK PROPHET, AUGUST 24

BILL FRISELL AND NELS CLINE, SEPTEMBER 21


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Sunday, May 11 @ 3PM
Eric Taylor in concert
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/

Tickets $ 15.00 here:
Or call 831-667-2574

Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.

I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it. Lyle Lovett

He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. Steve Earle

Music samples here:

http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Hollywood_SB.MP3

http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Carnival_SB.MP3

http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Highway_Kind_SB.MP3

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May 21 @ 8.30 PM
Slideshow from a Green Energy Tour of Europe presented by
Juliet Johnson

Esalen's own Sustainability Coordinator Juliet Johnson just returned from a 2 week green energy tour of Europe. Come learn about what the European Union has done with the power of community, cutting-edge design and technology and the world's most visionary energy policy. Come hear tales from the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark.

Juliet Snow Johnson is a member of the Board of Trustees of Esalen Institute. She has a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering and currently oversees Esalen's Long-Term Development Plan. She is actively involved in many aspects of life at Esalen, including supporting Esalen's efforts to increase ecological sustainability and land stewardship practices. She is passionate about water, the environment and social issues. Before coming to Esalen, Juliet worked as a Project Manager for a national environmental engineering firm specializing in water treatment, reuse and habitat restoration.

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May 22 @ 6.30 PM
Philip DeGruy
(His website here)
in "Happy Hour."
This is what "Vintage Guitar" magazine said about Phil.
Phil de Gruy is one of the most astounding talents to ever touch strings. He commands his instrument, the harp guitar, or guitarp, passionately, flawlessly and with a sense of artistry that only a few fall out of bed with. This medley of “Who Can I Turn To?” and “My Romance” will have you hitting the repeat button to be sure you just heard what you did. Other artists have used the harp guitar as a concert novelty, and in varying degrees of seriousness, but Phil de Gruy, like Earl Scruggs, George Van Eps, Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian has taken his instrument into new dimensions.

So show up for this - we'll have fun!



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Friday May 23 @ 7.30 PM (door at 6.30 PM)
(((folkYEAH!))) and DONUTS presents
CLUSTER and friends:
Wooden Shjips
ARP

Get dinner and drinks @ the show!
Please Note: You can not bring in any food or drinks to the event.

Food only by Big Sur Coast Foods.

Drinks (full bar @ HML) by Fernwood

also, see you at Fernwood Resort, afterparty.

Buy your tickets Now! $ 22.00,
all fees incl.
Or call 831-667-2574


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June 13 @ 7 PM
Gillen and Turk

Singer-songwriters Fred Gillen Jr. and Matt Turk are two of a kind. Genuinely multi-instrumental and song-infected, they are descendents of both cosmic cowboys and crusading poets. Plug them in for best effect.

Mainstays of the fertile Hudson Valley singer-songwriter scene, Matt Turk (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Fred Gillen Jr. (guitar, bass, harmonica, washboard, vocals) joined forces as Gillen & Turk (www.gillenandturk.com) a year ago and have quickly made a name for themselves as fearless folk-rockers who mean what they sing.
$ 10 - 20 donation

Full bio is here: gillenandturk.com



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June 15 @ 3 PM - Fathers day!
Jonathan Richman
(On Jonathan here)

Opening the show: Lysa Flores!

Tickets $ 15.00

Or call 831-667-2574

Touring with Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love, his first collection of new material in three years. The album features thirteen openhearted, lovingly crafted songs (fifteen if you count the two unlisted bonus tracks), delivered in spare but often imaginative arrangements built around Jonathan's distinctive voice and guitar. The resulting album captures much of the warmth of Jonathan's exuberant, spontaneous and often hilarious live performances. (from vaporrecords)

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June 22 NOTE!! POSTPONED PLEASE CHECK BACK.
Big Sur International Invitational
Ping Pong Championship!
$ 10.00 entry fee - winner takes all!

Local advantage apply - all players need to live with that.
Tournament possibly followed by Beer-Pong, for those who want, at the Maiden Publick!
NOTE: The suggested pastime following the tournament does in no way mean
we're taking this lightly. Make no mistake this is a SERIOUS championship!

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Saturday, June 28TH @ 8:00 PM
"
To Kindness!" A special BIG SUR community event.
Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd w/ special guest
Author, musician and photographer
Don Usner.
(co-author of "The Natural History of Big Sur)
Music, poetry and the exceptional Usner photograhy on our big screen.
Food and drink served by Big Sur Coast foods...
We don't know what else might be happening this night in the woods!
If we find out more we'll announce it here.
Suggested donation $ 10 - 20.00


 
“I could listen to Alisa and Kimball sing all night.” – Jim Messina (Loggins & Messina)
 
"Fineman's sharp lyrics and soulful voice blend perfectly with Hurd's multi-instrumental talent,"
Santa Cruz Sentinel.
 
Named “Best Folk Musician” four years in a row by Monterey Bay’s Coast Weekly, singer-songwriter and Kerrville New –Folk Winner Alisa Fineman is renowned for her “Earthy voice, dusky overtones and depth of emotion” (Moab Times). Alisa is beautifully complimented by gifted multi-instrumentalist, Bammy Award winning singer-songwriter Kimball Hurd.

In addition to their own careers they have toured and performed with many nationally known musicians including Tom Paxton, John Gorka and Martin Simpson.
 
Their well-crafted songs speak of the joys and struggles that shape our lives and what it means to care well for each other and the places we live. Their repertoire includes world music as well with the release of Alisa’s new CD, Closing the Distance, produced by Alex de Grassi.
 
"Two of my favorite performers, Alisa and Kimball's music sends shivers through me with the rise and fall of sweetly paired voices and compelling lyrics.” (Betty Lenz, Good Times). 
 
About Don Usner:

Born in 1957 in Embudo, near Taos, New Mexico, Don spent his youth in Los Alamos and Chimayo. Growing up in these places fostered in him a love for the natural landscape and a deep appreciation of his cultural roots in the Rio Grande valley - subjects that have remained a focus of his work throughout his life.

Don completed an undergraduate degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to manage Big Creek reserve here in Big Sur. There he and co-author Paul Henson completed The Natural History of Big Sur, which includes dozens of Don's photographs. Don returned to New Mexico in 1988 to complete a Masters degree in cultural geography and soon after completed his second book, Sabino's Map: Life in Chimayo's Old Plaza, also illustrated with his photographs.




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Friday July 18 @ 8 PM
Conspiracy of Beards


Conspiracy of Beards are a 30 member acapella male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen. Their gritty, uplifting renditions of Cohen songs have been performed in front of enthusiastic audiences around the Bay Area including recently at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Café duNord and on West Coast Live radio program.

Last year the Conspiracy was one of the favorites here at the Henry MIller Library.

Show up for this, we'll have fun!

Tickets at $ 5.00 - 10.00, sliding scale, available by calling 831-667-2574

Conspiracy of Beards website




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Rizidence! July 20 - July 27
An "all-strings roots-music camp" @ HML


Several years back Riz stopped by the HM Library, I was playing guitar at the time. He listened and encouraged me to play more. I felt he paid attention. At that moment I thought to myself "This guy is a good teacher of music." He's since become a regular visitor and an inspiration for all of us here at the Library. Magnus

We're now able to bring him here for a week of RIZIDENCE!
Anyone will benefit from joining in this camp. Beginners as well as seasoned players.
You'll get private instructions and, most of all, you'll be learning how to play with others.
Ages 12 and up are welcome. Bring a lunch and a string instrument.

5 Day camp - $ 50.00 (includes 30 minute private instruction each day)
1 Day camp - $ 15.00
1 Day camp with 30 minutes private instructions - $ 20.00
Details on times etc. TBA. Limited availability. E-mail to reserve your spot now!

Riz plays guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo, hi-hat, bass drum simultaneously! He is a person who knows how to 'play' music - it is hard not to get inspired by him. His repertoire consists of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original compositions and improvisations. Read and listen to Riz here:
http://www.myspace.com/rizorkestra
http://www.youtube.com/rizorkestra

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Sunday, July 20 @ 3 PM
John Doe in concert, tickets available!
$ 15.00 advance
($ 18.00 at the door)

Opening act Lysa Flores!

Or call 831-667-2574

John Doe. As a founding member of punk monoliths X, he seized his rightful place as one of the most influential musicians in American alternative music in the 1980 s, clearing a path for the revolution in that genre that would take place a decade later. Since launching his solo career in 1990 with the dusty road-poetry of Meet John Doe, John has produced six stunning roots rock albums of frightening honesty and vision. A Year in the Wilderness is no exception. Now with musicians and singers at Dave Way’s Way Station in the hills of Los Angeles he sings and plays, with hardly any “fixes,” over-dubs or auto-tune, everything is given to the moment of the song and its players.



















John Doe and Magnus Toren,
August 2007 at the HML

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July 25 @ 8 PM
CJ Boyd
Cello master.
CJ's Myspace

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Saturday July 26 @ 8 PM
A late night party under the redwoods with
Blame Sally
Tickets available now! $ 15.00 Advance, $ 18.00 at the door.

Or call 831-667-2574
“Blame Sally's artful, intelligent songwriting, strong harmonies and skilled musicianship shone brightly from our stage, drawing a crowd that danced, sang along and leaped to their feet to demand an encore.” ~ Marisa Waddell, Entertainment Coordinator ~ Live Oak Music Festival

Check it out! Blame Sally video “If You Tell A Lie” on Neil Young’s Living With War Website
 
“An amazing collection of talented local musicians has banded together and released a stunning new CD.  "Severland," the latest from San Francisco's Blame Sally, should bring this female foursome universal acclaim ... "Severland" carves out a strong identity on the indie-pop edges of Americana.", Paul Freeman, Palo Alto Daily News

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Sunday, August 24 @ 3 PM
Peter Case and Chuck Prophet
Tickets available now! $ 15.00 Advance, $ 18.00 at the door. Or call 831-667-2574


Peter Case,
Photo: Greg Allen
Are you tired of being billed as ex-plimsoul Peter Case?
Yes. I've been solo for seventeen years now, have played a couple thousand solo gigs, I've been Grammy nominated as a solo artist, had a solo record named album of the year in The New York Times, put out eight solo cds to the Plimsouls three, won over audiences all around the world in places where the Plimsouls have never heard of...been played on the radio, had songs covered...etc.......whatever...I'm proud of the band, but I've done a lot more & a lot better since then.

Check out Chuck Prophet on David Letterman here.

Chuck Prophet's genius lies in assimilating a wide variety of genres into his essentially Stonesy architecture ahead of the standard curve. From the seminal '80s alt-country shimmer of Green on Red to his incredibly diverse solo sonic quilt - early Americana rocker/mid-period electronic folkie/latter-day style hybridist - Prophet has engagingly exemplified his surname. On Soap and Water, his Yep Roc debut, Prophet continues to defy easy categorization, seamlessly weaving together his myriad roles: chunky rocker ("Freckle Song"), sensitive pop balladeer ("Would You Love Me"), sonic dabbler ("Doubter Out of Jesus (All Over You)"). For his considerable talents as performer/arranger/stylist, the ribbon that neatly ties the package is Prophet's lyrical gift, as his beat story-songs pulse with novelistic detail, noirish humor and poetic ambiguity and bristle with pure, guileless rock abandon. Originality is not easy in the derivative rock world but Chuck Prophet has blazed genre trails for over two decades with no signs of running out of inspiration or desire.
--Fred Mills

The Village Voice - October 2nd, 2007

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Sunday, September 21 @ 3 PM
Bill Frisell and Nels Cline
Tickets available now! $ 27.50 Advance, $ 30.00 at the door.
Or call 831-667-2574
This event will sell out so get your tickets early!
About Frisell
About Cline


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Neil Young was here backing up his wife Pegi on June 22, 2007
Coming back soon?

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Stanimals????...waiting...waiting...

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Pictures of Big Sur and the Library here.

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Open Mic at the Henry Miller Library
Open Mic - 8-11PM
every Wednesday night

Sing a song, speak your mind, juggle your balls - @ 8 PM
We have a good sound system, three mic's, two direct boxes, 12 channel mixer, one good guitar you can borrow, the Publick House features over 95 different fine brews from across the globe! Sign up when you get here or by e-mailing now.

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