`AMAZING GRACE' WILL BRING BLUEGRASS-GOSPEL FUSION TO PALMDALE.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, bluegrass musicians This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass musicians. See also: Bluegrass music, Country music, and List of country music performers. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
The three-hour show is the fourth of a series called the ``Amazing Grace'' gospel concerts, hosted around Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, offering traditional and some contemporary tunes done the distinctive bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. way. ``It's gospel music played in bluegrass style: lots of three-part harmony and the instrumentation, banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. , fiddle, mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. , acoustic bass The term acoustic bass could refer either to;
The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Tickets are $14 for adults, $13 for people 65 and over, and $4 for children under 12. For tickets, call the theater box office at (805) 267-5685. The title for the concerts is ``Amazing Grace,'' because that is the song that begins and ends them. ``We start off with `Amazing Grace,' '' said concert organizer Dale Carpenter. ``We usually have some eclectic instrumentation: fiddle and mandolin, or Dobro and guitar, and then we finish the evening with a big finale, everybody in the place sings.'' Opening the concert will be Howard Yearwood and Crossroads, a Canoga Park-based band whose members have played with or opened for Bill Monroe, Mel Tillis, Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs, among others. Yearwood's roots can be traced back to his parents' Arkansas heritage, but he also holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Witcher, a Granada Hills resident, started his band in 1985 with a few friends and his fiddler son, then age 6 and now 18. Despite the name, there are no brothers in Witcher Brothers. They play at bluegrass festivals around California and Arizona, and Witcher produces and directs a bluegrass cable television show in Los Angeles. Playing at festivals led the Witcher Brothers to apply the bluegrass style to religious music. ``As you're playing bluegrass, you start picking up a lot of these tunes,'' Witcher said. ``Lots of festivals you go to, on Sunday mornings they have a gospel program. If you're playing these festivals, ultimately you end up playing on Sundays.'' The series has also performed in Simi Valley and Granada Hills. The organizers plan a weekend bluegrass gospel festival promising 11 hours of music Oct. 11-13 at Follows Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. above Azusa. Besides Crossroads and the Witcher Brothers, the festival will feature the groups Copperline, New Heart and Gloryland Boys. For information, call (800) 642-7500. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) Howard Yearwood and Crossroads, a Cano ga Park-based band that has played with the likes of Bill Monroe, will open Saturday's show. (2) The Witcher Brothers began with a few of Dennis Witcher's friends and his son Gabe. The ``brothers'' are Tony Recupido, left, Dennis Witcher, Kevin Gore, Gabe Witcher and Andrew Paddock. |
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