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Subject: Winter Village 2023 Winter Concert: An Evening of Bluegrass, Old Time and Original Music with Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff and Richie & Rosie

January 3rd Winter Village Music eNews

Happy New Year,

I hope you enjoyed the holidays. With just 10 days until showtime, here's the latest news about the Winter Village 2023 Winter Concert featuring Richie & Rosie and Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff. Check out the short promotional video below built on audio produced by WVBR's John Simon and Annie Keville. Here is the link https://youtu.be/LYzy1ClARxE if you want to share it. It promises to be a great show! Tickets are selling fast, so don't tarry!

Feel free to email or text me with your questions about the show or if you want to send a check in lieu of making an online purchase.

Rick Manning, WVM Director
rmannin4@twcny.rr.com; 607-592-4647

Winter Village Winter Concert: Friday, 1/13/23

Promotional Video for the Winter Village Winter Concert featuring Richie & Rosie and Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff.

Winter Village Music
presents
An Evening of Bluegrass, Old Time & Original Music
featuring
Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff and Richie & Rosie

WHEN: Friday, January 13 at 7:30pm
WHERE: La Tourelle, Ithaca New York
BUY TICKETS: www.wintervillageconcert2023.bpt.me
$30 Advance; $25 Seniors & Students
LEARN MORE: www.wintervillagemusic.org
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Winter Village is excited to present two amazing duos - Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff from New York City and Ithaca favorites Richie & Rosie. Michael and Jacob perform high energy traditional bluegrass vocals and instrumentals on guitar and mandolin. Richie & Rosie play soulful old time and original music on fiddle, banjo and guitars. Rumor has it they will join forces at the end of the show!

About the Evening: The evening will begin with a happy hour reception in La Tourelle's lobby bar at 6pm with an old time jam by the fireplace. Come early, save your seats and enjoy some local wine, beer, cider and tunes. The concert will begin at 7:30pm with a set by Richie & Rosie, followed by a bluegrass set by Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff.

Win Cool Stuff and Support the Auction: Before and during the show, tickets for the Winter Village auction will be for sale - 1 ticket for $2.00, 3 tix for $5.00, and 7 tix for $10.00. The grand prize is a one year subscription to ArtistWorks online bluegrass vocal lessons with Michael Daves. The drawing will be held towards the end of the second set.

Spend the night at La Tourelle: Concert goers can spend the night at a reduced rate - $109 for a Traditional King and $129 for Fireplace King.

Concert Sponsors: Special thanks to Artist Works Online Music School, La Tourelle, Ithaca Guitar Works and Bernunzio Uptown Music

About Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff

Here is Michael performing Muleskinner Blues live from the Frederick Law Olmsted designed hills of NYC's Central Park with mandolinist Jacob Jolliff, fiddler Alex Hargreaves, and bassist Erik Alvar.

www.michaeldaves.com
www.jacobjolliff.com

Heralded as "a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene" by the New York Times, Michael Daves has garnered attention for his work with Tony Trischka, Steve Martin, and Chris Thile, with whom he shares a Grammy nomination for their 2011 Nonesuch Records release "Sleep With One Eye Open."

Jacob Jolliff is one of the country's premier contemporary bluegrass mandolinists. His namesake solo project, The Jacob Jolliff Band, is the next generation of bluegrass supergroups, which features a rotating quartet of some of the most virtuosic and innovative young pickers in the country. Jolliff recently toured with Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart and has also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band and Joy Kills Sorrow.

As a duo, Daves and Jolliff use hard-core, traditional bluegrass songs as a jumping-off point for improvisation and spontaneous re-working of classic forms. Expect fiery picking and and high lonesome vocal harmonies.

Michael Daves and Jacob Jolliff performing True Life Blues live and outside.

About Richie & Rosie

Richie & Rosie perform Richie's original song, "Nowhere in Time".

www.richieandrosie.com

Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton grew up a 150 miles and few decades apart. While both were raised by professional cellists, Richie started playing banjo at 14 and Rosie began classical piano lessons at eight, eventually moving to classical viola as a teen. Both shared incredibly unique, musically-immersed childhoods: Richie's family founded the iconic GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance (which he is now President of) and by her junior year of high school, Rosie was playing fiddle and touring with folk rock band The Mammals. During that time, the two were introduced at Saratoga Springs' Flurry festival -- a meeting that would spark a fated friendship and unique musical bond.

"He left an impression on me because he was wearing Converse. I had never seen an adult wear Converse before," said Rosie, reflecting back on the first time she shared the stage with Richie. As a Woodstock native, she graduated high school and decided to move to Ithaca after being drawn to the thriving old-time scene -- which happened to also be Richie's stomping grounds. While studying viola at Ithaca College and playing fiddle on the side, Rosie started incorporating folk with her traditional Celtic and classical upbringing. Meanwhile, Richie was a well-established singer and banjo player in the community, having performed around the world with bands like Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, David Byrne, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Joan Baez. In addition to releasing two solo albums, Richie was adding to his endless discography, which includes three Natalie Merchant records, multiple collaborations with Jim Lauderdale and Donna The Buffalo, and Carrie Rodriguez.

During Rosie's freshman year at Ithaca College, the two finally began touring together regionally as part of the Evil City String Band, where they were joined by bass player Ben Gould, Steve Selin on Fiddle (in addition to Rosie), and guitarist Paddy Burke. Eventually, they decided to pursue a more intimate project as a duo and in 2013, released Tractor Beam, a 12-track mix of originals and classics, including Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You" and "Say Darlin' Say", a traditional lullaby. Being their first exclusive release as Richie and Rosie, the pair wanted to give fans a polished recording of the songs that they played live.

After three years of touring and writing, the duo returned to the studio to record their second full-length album, Nowhere in Time. The record finds itself at a junction of Americana, old-time, and folk, bringing a new sound to traditional music. Recorded with producer Alex Perialas at Pyramid Sound Studios, the album highlights the incredibly-refined skill of both musicians -- and while the majority of the album is a simple combination of fiddle, banjo, and captivating melodies, the duo manages to pack an incredibly full sound. "At the beginning, we were thinking it might be a project with lots of other people involved, more of a big production. As we went through it, we realized that the magic lies within the duo. We have an intimacy of music and we feel the power of two people playing. That's who we are," said Rosie.