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Special Guests
Saturday, May 10, 2003
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Robin and Linda Williams
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ROBIN AND LINDA WILLIAMS met in 1971 in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina where they were both visiting their parents who
lived there. At the time, Linda was a teacher and Robin was a full-time
musician performing on the coffeehouse circuit. In 1973, they began performing
together and two years later, they released their debut album. In the
following decade, Robin and Linda released a series of critically acclaimed
albums comprising of mostly original material with some traditional songs.
At this time their songwriting abilities drew the attention of fellow
performers like Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea,
who have all sung and recorded some of Robin and Linda's songs. In the
late '80s and early '90s, they began touring with their Fine Group. The
band was part of a cross-country tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1993.
Their "Sugar for Sugar" album (1993) spent 13 weeks on the Americana
Top Ten Chart and their next two albums did even better. This is Robin
and Linda's 30th anniversary year and tonight they will play with their
Fine Group, which includes Jim Watson on bass, mandolin and vocals and
Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin.
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Howard Levy
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HOWARD LEVY is universally acknowledged as
the world's most advanced diatonic harmonica player. He has developed
a fully chromatic style on the standard 10-hole diatonic harmonica and
has revolutionized the way the instrument is viewed and played. Levy is
also a talented piano, flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone and percussion
player and songwriter. He has played a wide variety of music including
anything from jazz and pop to folk and classical styles. Levy has appeared
on hundreds of albums and has performed with artists like Dolly Parton,
Styx, Bobby McFerrin and Astral Project, John Prine, Paquito D'Rivera
and many others. Levy has toured all over the world as a solo and supporting
artist and he has also taught music workshops, as well as given private
lessons. In 1997, he won a Grammy for playing "The Sinister Minister"
with the Flecktones, a group he founded with Bela Fleck. Levy also won
a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Original Music for a Play. Tonight he
will be playing with Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
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