Special Guests

Special Guests
Saturday, April 12, 2003


	Del Rey

DEL REY began playing classical guitar when she was only four years old. As a teen she met bluesman Sam Chatman who inspired her to become a blues queen. Her guitar playing today incorporates a mixture of country blues, classical jazz, stride piano and hillbilly boogie. Del Rey performs worldwide, plays ukulele with The Yes Yes Boys and writes about music for various publications. Del Rey's most recent album, entitled Twins, was released in 2002 and is a collaboration with guitarist Steve James, whom she often performs with. Del Rey has also released three solo albums called X-Rey Guitar, Hot Sauce and Boogie Mysterioso.


	Steve James

STEVE JAMES began playing guitar when he was twelve and remembers growing up listening to artists like Leadbelly, Josh White and Meade Lux Lewis. As a teen James was drawn in by the New York folk/blues revival, but later moved to Tennessee where he received guitar guidance from and played with master musicians Sam McGee and Furry Lewis. In 1977 James moved to San Antonio to play everything from R & B with sax legend Clifford Scott to rock 'n' roll with Bo Diddley. In the late '80s James produced a solo album call Two Track Mind, which led to touring, playing at festivals, club dates and guitar clinics. Since then James has produced American Primitive, Art and Grit and his most recent album, Boom Chang. James has spent the last several years touring the US, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia and Hong Kong and currently resides in Texas.


	Cindy Cashdollar

CINDY CASHDOLLAR grew up in Woodstock, NY and was captivated by Delta blues music at a young age; she began playing guitar when she was eleven. She now plays steel guitar and dobro and has won five Grammy Awards through her recording with leading country, roots, jazz and folk artists. She spent eight years touring, playing and recording with the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel and her talents can be heard on Bob Dylan's Grammy-winning Album of the Year Time Out of Mind, as well as on recordings by Manhattan Transfer, The Dixie Chicks, Reba McEntire and Willie Nelson. Cashdollar has also made three instructional videos for steel guitar and dobro and conducts workshops across the nation. Her latest CD, which will be released in the fall of this year, is Slide Show.

Del Rey, Steve James and Cindy Cashdollar will also be appearing at
The 2003 Minnesota Resophonic Guitar Festival on April 11-12. The Festival is held at the Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue in Mineapolis. For more information call 612 338 2674 or visit the Web site: www.iresonation.com.

DAN NEWTON, a.k.a. "Daddy Squeeze," has been a Twin Cities resident since 1987. After studying folklore and music at the University of Nebraska he traveled extensively in the British Isles and across the U.S., learning whatever he could about regional music and food. Dan now resides in St. Paul where he maintains his life-long fascination with all things spicy, pungent food, French Roast coffee, dark beer, Jug-band, Cajun Gypsy, and Cumbia music, and unbelievable stories. He collects hot sauce, enjoys playing baseball, and watching Betty Boop cartoons with his son, Walker. Dan spends most his time playing accordion with his group, the "Café Accordion Orchestra," performing the repertoire of the popular Parisian dance bands of the 1920s and 30s, Musette orchestras. He also performs regularly with country blues singer and guitarist Dr. John Walker as "Daddy Squeeze and the Doctor," and with the bands Jumbo Ya Ya, Guys Can Talk, dotCombo, and Art Carnage. He has appeared on recordings by Prudence Johnson, the Proclaimers, Peter Ostroushko, Son Volt, and Neal & Leandra. Dan released his 7th CD, La Vie Musette, in 2002.

TORMOD BORGEN ROGNE, is known as "The Norwegian Whistler" and as been delighting audiences in Norway for several years. From solo appearances before small groups to performing with an orchestra before a crowd of 5,000, Rogne is among the few people left in the world who have mastered the art of melodic whistling.