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Show Loose Ties It's a Bluegrass Christmas concert December 18 Bluegrass music might not be what comes to mind at Christmas time, but Loose Ties may surprise you with its Christmas show-it's delightful and unlike anything you've heard before. The lAMA and ASUU present Loose Ties in concert Saturday, December 18, and 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $9 in advance; $10 at the door. As always, lAMA members get a $1 discount on admission. Ticket outlets include: Acoustic Music, Intermountain Guitar & Banjo, Local Music, Smokey's Records, All SoundOff locations, Great Salt Lake Guitar (Provo) and NuSound Music (Roy). The band's Bluegrass Christmas show is taken from the critically acclaimed Yule Ties album, about which Bluegrass Unlimited said, "every song is first rate ... they range from gospel quartets to new acoustic to traditional bluegrass, all handled with exceptional skill and wit." Formed by three bluegrass fugitives from Vermont who now make Jackson, Wyoming, their home, Loose Ties has made people sit up and take notice at festivals and concerts all over the country. Phil Round plays electric bass and is lead singer. Along with Wells and Winship, he was a member of the Homegrown Revue, a Vermont group that performed throughout New England from 1979 to 1981. Phil went on to study at Berklee School of Music and, since moving to Wyoming, has worked as a soloist and been a featured singer, guitarist and bassist with a number of the region's best acts. His rich and powerful singing, influenced by pop and rock as well as traditional country and bluegrass, is a trademark of the Loose Ties sound. Ted Wells began playing banjo professionally in 1979 with the Homegrown Re-continued next page Beth Mcintosh Dec. 4 From her impressive album, Fire and Sage, through ·a critically acclaimed follow-up, Grizzlies Walking Upright, Beth Mcintosh has shown a depth an innovative nature that has created great anticipation for her forthcoming recording, Songline. The lAMA and ASUU present Beth Mcintosh in concert Saturday, December 4, and 7:30p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $9 in advance; $10 at the door. As always, lAMA members get a $1 discount on admission. Ticket outlets include: Acoustic Music, Intermountain Guitar & Banjo, Local Music, Smokey's Records, All SoundOff locations, Great Salt Lake Guitar (Provo) and NuSound Music (Roy). Mcintosh belongs to that group of songwriters noted for an almost literary hand with song writing. Her academic studies are likely in no small measure responsible for this. In addition to a jazz scholarship to Berklee College of Music, Mcintosh is also grounded in extensive studies in psychology, education and anthropology. Not that academia offers special insight into song writing (ofttimes the reverse is just as true). Mcintosh, however, uses all her life experience- academic and practical-to examine the natural world, the people in it, and their connection to the land in which they live. The result is a continued next page 4 Intermountain Acoustic Musician, December 1993 |
