BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Finger-picking Pyle takes stage at Cafe Paradiso Chuck Pyle plays Cafe Paradiso at 8 tonight. The songwriter has been recorded by a number of popular artists, including John Denver John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an American folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s. and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band For other uses, see Nitty (disambiguation). The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. . Pyle has also developed a finger-picking guitar style that he calls "Rocky Mountain Slam Picking," a technique that recreates the effect of a larger band. Pyle has spent most of the past 30 years traveling the country to play theaters, festivals, colleges and coffeehouses. The cafe is located at 115 W. Broadway. Tickets are $12; call 349-8711. Notre Dame-born band will jam at the WOW Hall Umphrey's McGee Umphrey's McGee is a progressive rock / jam band from South Bend, Indiana whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation." In July 2004 , the band was declared by Rolling Stone Magazine to "have become odds-on favorites in the next-Phish sweepstakes. plays the WOW Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday. A jam band that emerged from the Midwest in the 1990s, Umphrey's McGee edged toward the Frank Zappa side of the improv A multidimensional Windows spreadsheet from Lotus that allows for easy switching to different views of the data. Data are referenced by name as in a database, rather than the typical spreadsheet row and column coordinates. Improv was originally developed for the NeXt computer. rock scale, rather than the Grateful Dead or Allman Brothers. The members met at the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame in South Bend South Bend, city (1990 pop. 105,511), seat of St. Joseph co., N Ind., on the great south bend of the St. Joseph River, in a farming and mint-growing region; inc. as a city 1865. , Ind., joining forces in 1998 after playing individually in various campus bands. The jam band often includes songs by Phish, and they show a knack for humor - their first album was titled "Greatest Hits, Vol. 3." Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 day of show. The WOW Hall is located at 291 W. Eighth Ave. Tickets are available from TicketsWest at (800) 325-SEAT. Bern, Chandler will mix politics with their music Dan Bern and Chris Chandler Chris Chandler is a retired American football player, who played as a quarterback in the National Football League for nearly sixteen years. Early years Chris Chandler was born on October 12, 1965 in Everett, Washington. will play Cafe Paradiso at 8 p.m. Thursday. The two complement each other's knack for relevant words of wisdom, delivered in a comedic context. Bern, a folk-rocker known for scathing free-association, takes on pop, politics, sex and culture. Chandler has been called a performance poet and radically creative coffeehouse musician. Tickets are $15.50 in advance, available at Cafe Paradiso, 115 W. Broadway. Call 484-9933. |
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