Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Featuring Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and dozens of others, 2:30 p.m., Oct. 3, 11 a.m. Oct. 4-5, Speedway, Marx and Lindley meadows, Golden Gate Park, free, www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com.
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Joe Satriani
Friday, November 14, 2008
Silver Legacy Casino
Reno , NV
William Saroyan’s 100th Birthday Celebration
Thursday, August 28, 2008
William Saroyan Theatre Fresno Convention & Entertainment Center
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David Benoit Gala
Friday, October 3, 2008
Montalvo
Saratoga , CA
On Sale Friday, July 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Men of the 80′S
Sunday, [...]
(Here’s the skinny from the press reps:)
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just announced additional fall
dates for their wildly successful ‘Raising Sand’ tour. With an all-star
band led by producer T Bone Burnett, the Grammy winning duo has
crisscrossed North America and Europe performing songs from their
platinum selling ‘Raising Sand’ (Rounder Records) collaboration.
Confirmed ‘Raising Sand’ North American [...]
The current Robert Plant-Alison Krauss trek is the most heavily hyped Americana tour since the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” outing. Indeed, it might be the one and only hyped (to any degree) Americana tour since “O Brother.”
That’s part of the reason why a capacity crowd of 8,500 turned out to see Plant/Krauss on Friday [...]
Friday, June 27, 2008
UC Greek Theatre at Berkeley, CA
Rich Woman / Leave My Woman Alone / Black Dog / Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us / Through the Morning, Through the Night / Goodbye and So Long to You / Fortune Teller / In the Mood (into Matty Groves) / Black Country Woman / Primitives / [...]
Robert Plant, Alison Krauss
Friday, Juned 27
“Raising Sand” stands as one of the most unlikely collaborations in recent music history. The 2007 album pairs heavy metal titan Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame) and bluegrass queen Alison Krauss. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the album turned out to be one of the best reviewed discs in many a [...]
(In honor of the Plant/Krauss show, Shay Quillen of the Mercury News and I cooked up this cool feature on other odd couples in pop music history:)
While Englishman Robert Plant was finishing his reign with the biggest, baddest rock band on the planet, a preteen Alison Krauss was hitting fiddle contests in Illinois.
Who would have [...]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss confirm June 27 date at UC Greek in Berkeley.
Visit www.apeconcerts.com for more information about Berkeley date.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, whose critically-lauded, Gold album ‘Raising Sand’ continues to be a top-seller worldwide, have confirmed an additional 17 North American tour dates through July 1, it was announced today. Tickets for [...]
