American Songwriter describes Eilen Jewell as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative and idiosyncratic voices.”

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM Tuesday, August 13, 2019

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With a voice of soulful clarity, Eilen Jewell delivers treasures of roots music well-embedded in her crown as the “Queen of the Minor Key”. Her success as a songwriter and performer draws from her deep appreciation and knowledge of Americana music and her style covers a range from folk, country, gospel, and blues; with occasional rockabilly and surf sounds. Her 8th album is expected out this month. This new album of originals, Gypsy, is claimed to be her favorite album yet. “New sounds. Old sounds. Electric guitar driven rockers. Classic country. Tender ballads. A Pinto Bennett cover. A protest song.” Other items in her discography include several albums of original material, one of Loretta Lynn covers, as well as her recent collection of blues, Downhearted Blues.

Eilen has returned to her home state of Idaho after years of being a vital part of the roots music scene of Boston. Audiences do not want to miss her first show in Winnemucca, which is part of a world tour with her first-class band. The group has shared stages with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Blind Boys of Alabama.

A jewel from the Gem state-don’t miss this precious music experience. Buy your tickets NOW!

Mike performs his show “The Ponies”
a celebration of the horse in song and stories
Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM Friday, July 19, 2019

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In Mike’s own words:

My life has been wrapped up in horses and music, so it’s only natural that I have combined both my passions together in one show, The Ponies. The Ponies is a complete evening of songs I’ve written and a few others I love, plus stories of my life’s work in the pursuit of coming together with the horse through a harmonious approach to bring out the best in both horse and human.

Drawing on a life spent with amazing teachers, such as Bill Dorrance, Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and many others, and a life as a working cowboy where I used the horse to do a job on ranches in the Western United States. Also, all my adventures and experiences conducting Horsemanship Clinics in over 20 states and 6 foreign countries for over 20 years has lead to songs and stories both heartfelt and humorious.

This is in no way just a cowboy show, rather a celebration of the ancient draw and connection between Man and Horse, through song and story.
“Working with the Horse…. Well, it’s really just L.I.F.E. , Mike”
Words Tom Dorrance said to me…..

I love doing this show…. It means a lot to me.
Best
Mike Beck

 

Pipp plays traditional cowboy music on guitar, banjo, harmonica & bones

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM Friday, June 7, 2019

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We are very happy to welcome Mr. Pipp Gillette back to our stage in Winnemucca. Pipp has appeared numerous times at the Martin; these had always been shows with his brother Guy, the Gillette Brothers. This will be the first time we have hosted Pipp since the untimely death of his brother in 2013.

Pipp has a deep and very interesting life story. Pipp and Guy grew up in Yonkers, New York, with a father who was an accomplished photographer and a mother who was an aspiring fashion designer. As young boys they would leave this urban environment with their little family to spend the summers on their mother’s family ranch near Lovelady, Texas, where their grandparents started raising cattle and cotton in 1912. It’s not hard to imagine the impact these summers spent as cowboys had on these two young men.

The brothers continued their education in New York, including attending drama school at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in Manhattan. In their teens they formed a band called the Roadrunners that featured a young Diane Keaton as the lead singer. The brothers became musicians accomplished enough that from 1968 until 1983 they traveled up and down the east coast playing the coffee house circuits and touring in the Midwest. During this period they produced two record albums, mostly of their own original tunes.

In the early 80’s their lives took a dramatic turn when they inherited their grandparent’s ranch in Texas. The two decided to move to the ranch, refurbish the family homestead, and bring the land back into productive use. Now with their roots fully planted in this small East Texas community they began to more fully appreciate the culture and rich musical heritage that surrounded them. The brothers began to study the history of the black country blues, cowboy ballads, chuck wagon songs, and old time country music with roots in the Appalachian Highlands. They converted an old pool hall and barber shop their grandfather had owned into the Camp Street Cafe and Store, a music performance and listening room not unlike our space at the Martin Hotel. Over the next several decades they became among the region’s most recognized and celebrated purveyors of the early roots of cowboy music, and preservationists of the traditional cowboy lifestyle.

Pipp and his late brother Guy received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Album of 2011, and the 2013 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition for their performance of the Waddie Mitchell song “Trade Off.”

Drawing on his lifelong interest in Western history and music, Pipp continues to play traditional cowboy music on guitar, banjo, harmonica and bones. Pipp’s first solo CD, Singing Songs by Waddie and Pipp received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Album of 2016. His newest CD, Pipp Gillette with Lloyd Wright was released fall 2018.

We hope you will join us for night of storytelling and traditional cowboy music.

a soulful howl from the mountains

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM Friday, May 17, 2019

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Northern California’s Rita Hosking sings of forest fires, culture clash, dishes, black holes and hope. An award-winning and prolific songwriter characterized as “here and now” by The Observer, she’s recently released her seventh album, For Real. Her stories, songs and soul-stirring, country-folk voice are partnered with longtime collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Sean Feder on dobro, banjo and guitar. Together, they deliver what Acoustic Magazine calls “timeless, unhurried elegance.”

neo-traditional kinetic roots trio

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM, Saturday, April 13, 2019

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We’re sure going to have fun when Bay Area clawhammer banjo player Evie Ladin brings her trio to town. Evie, a native of New Jersey, grew up immersed in old time and folk music as she accompanied her mom and dad to stringband and folk dance festivals up and down the east coast. She is an amazing talent on the banjo and is now embedded in the old-time music and dance scene in the Bay Area. Her world traveling band is completed by two outstanding multi-instrumentalists, Erik Pearson who we have seen many times with the Crooked Jades, and Keith Terry who keeps the beat with bass, bells, box, and body music.

Expect a highly entertaining show featuring traditional Appalachian tunes and many original songs built on that tradition but now taken to some innovative and quirky places by these rhythm aces. Likely to be some tapping, snapping, dancing, and slapping, some thumping, clicking, and popping, and all other manner of percussion going on at times. Oh yeah, expect some beautiful and interesting singing and voice harmonizing.

neo-traditional kinetic roots trio

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM, Saturday, April 13, 2019

The $15.00 tickets are on sale now at the Martin Hotel, Nature’s Corner, and Global Coffee. You can also buy them online just below.

 

We’re sure going to have fun when Bay Area clawhammer banjo player Evie Ladin brings her trio to town. Evie, a native of New Jersey, grew up immersed in old time and folk music as she accompanied her mom and dad to stringband and folk dance festivals up and down the east coast. She is an amazing talent on the banjo and is now embedded in the old-time music and dance scene in the Bay Area. Her world traveling band is completed by two outstanding multi-instrumentalists, Erik Pearson who we have seen many times with the Crooked Jades, and Keith Terry who keeps the beat with bass, bells, box, and body music.

Expect a highly entertaining show featuring traditional Appalachian tunes and many original songs built on that tradition but now taken to some innovative and quirky places by these rhythm aces. Likely to be some tapping, snapping, dancing, and slapping, some thumping, clicking, and popping, and all other manner of percussion going on at times. Oh yeah, expect some beautiful and interesting singing and voice harmonizing.

unique sounds from the earth, otherworldly, strange, and beautiful

Music at the Martin Hotel – Winnemucca
7:00 PM, Tuesday, March 12, 2019

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Track from their new record “Achai” : “Let’s Fatten the Livestock”

Alash is a trio of master throat singers (xöömeizhi) from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Central Asia. The ancient art of throat singing (xöömei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time, developed among the nomadic herdsmen of this region. Alash remains grounded in this tradition while expanding its musical vocabulary with the subtle infusion of modern influences into their music.

Trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood, the Alash musicians studied at Kyzyl Arts College just as Tuva was beginning to open up to the West. They formed a traditional ensemble and won multiple awards for traditional throat singing in international xöömei competitions, both as an ensemble and as individuals. At the same time, they paid close attention to new trends coming out of the West. They have borrowed new ideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional Tuvan music, but they have never sacrificed the integrity of their own heritage in an effort to make their music more hip.

Alash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the Open World Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then they have returned many times, to the delight of American audiences. The Washington Post described their music as “utterly stunning,” quipping that after the performance “audience members picked their jaws up off the floor.”

Alash enjoys collaborating with musicians of all stripes. They appear as guest artists on Béla Fleck & the Flecktones’ holiday CD Jingle All the Way (2008), which won a Grammy. The Denver Post remarked, “As electrifying as the Flecktones’ performance was, the band were nearly upstaged by Alash Ensemble.” Since Alash’s first partnership with the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, they have collaborated with musicians across the spectrum, from country to classical to jazz to beatboxing. Most recently, the jazz CD The Viridian Trio (2017) features Alash in a musical remembrance of the late Kongar-ool Ondar­­.

Beyond performing, Alash has a passion for teaching and promoting understanding between cultures. Their tours often include workshops where they introduce Tuvan music to students from primary, middle and high schools, colleges, universities, and music conservatories. Children as young as 8 and 9 have learned to throat-sing. As one student exclaimed, “Alash opened my eyes to a whole new world!”

Alash has released four CDs of its own: Alash Live at the Enchanted Garden (2006), Alash (2007), Buura (2011), and Achai (2015, re-released on Smithsonian Folkways in 2017).

 

Singer, Songwriter, Storytelling Bluesman
7:00 PM, Friday, August 31, 2018

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The great Roy Book Binder is set to play a concert at the Martin Hotel on Friday, August 31. 2018. Something of a national treasure, Book Binder plays blues in the Piedmont style, a very old East Coast tradition based on ragtime and multi-part gospel guitar techniques.

Besides being a musical giant with unexceeded technique, Book Binder is known as a crowd-pleasing entertainer with deft comic timing, an encyclopedic knowledge of American roots music history, and an inexhaustible supply of tales collected over a lifetime of traveling and performing with greats like Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Rock Bottom, Fats Kaplin, Doc Watson, Bonnie Raitt, and Ray Charles.

Book Binder emerged alongside pal Dave van Ronk in the New York City coffeehouse scene of the mid-60s, the beginning of the so-called “folk revival.” And, his repertoire includes “Bookaroo” songs, played in a folk style reminiscent of Rambling Jack Elliot, and Don Edwards.

Book Binder’s real bailiwick, though, is blues in the East Coast or “Piedmont” style, named for the plateau that stretches from Richmond, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia. The style evolved in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, when ragtime, parlor, and gospel guitar players like Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and Reverend Gary Davis began applying polyphonic finger-picking technique to the blues. Book Binder perfected his Piedmont technique as Davis’s protégé, working as the blind virtuoso’s driver and side-man during the late 1960s.

Book Binder has recorded eight albums, most in a “hillbilly” blues style that includes plenty of colorful banter between the tracks. Often, the stories and jokes stretch back to Book Binder’s formative years on the road with the Reverend Davis. Though based on old-time techniques, his songs sound fresh and relevant, often featuring original lyrics re-spun to reflect contemporary themes.

Book Binder continues to perform solo shows around the world, the last time we saw him he was about to leave for the Blues Festival in Hell Norway where he appeared along with Ramblin’ Jack and many other greats. He also teaches at MerleFest and the Fur Peace School, and keeps an entertaining travel “blog” on his website, RoyBookBinder.com.

So, if you’re in town over the weekend, don’t miss the chance to see one of the great bluesmen of all time, up close and personal, right here in Winnemucca. The show starts at 7 PM on Friday, August 31, at the Martin Hotel on Railroad Street.

Stylish Contemporary Bluegrass
7:00 PM, Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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Like the powerful mandolinist and composer at its helm, John Reischman and the Jaybirds fashion a stylish take on bluegrass that seamlessly blends original songs and instrumentals with Appalachian old-time music for a truly unique band sound. Now in their 20th year, with seven acclaimed albums and two Juno nominations, the Jaybirds are simultaneously innovative and unadorned, sophisticated and stripped-down, happily old-fashioned and 21st-century contemporary.

Bluegrass Unlimited calls John Reischman “one of the world’s undisputed masters” of the mandolin, famed for outstanding tone and taste. Many of his dozens of original instrumentals have become popular favourites for sessions and covers, such as the jam standard Saltspring. He has three critically-acclaimed solo instrumental albums and has recorded on many other projects, including the Grammy-winning True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe. John also plays Latin-based jazz and choro music with highly regarded finger-style acoustic guitarist/composer John Miller; the duo has released three superb albums.

John began his career in the San Francisco Bay area in the early ’80s with the eclectic Good Ol’ Persons bluegrass band. He was an original member of the legendary “new acoustic” quartet, the jazz-influenced Tony Rice Unit, renowned for highly skilled instrumentals. John moved to Vancouver in the early ’90s and in 1999 formed the Jaybirds. Of their latest album, Folk Radio UK said “On That Other Green Shore showcases an accomplished, experienced band at the peak of their powers, with musicianship of the very highest order.” Peghead Nation called it “one of the most beguiling bluegrass-rooted recordings of 2017.”

Los Angeles, CA-based guitarist Patrick Sauber joined the Jaybirds in 2017. The veteran performer has played with, among others, Doc Watson, Richard Greene, John Jorgensen, Peter Rowan, Tim O’Brien and John Fogerty. He played on the 2016 Grammy-nominated album The Hazel and Alice Sessions by Laurie Lewis, and appeared in the film A Mighty Wind with Christopher Guest. Bluegrass Unlimited describes Patrick’s playing on John’s tune Daylighting the Creek as “a glorious flatpicking solo that hews back to the glory days of early bluegrass guitar.”

Chilliwack, BC-based Trisha Gagnon is portrayed by Sing Out! as “one of the most versatile” and “irresistible” lead vocalists in bluegrass, her strong and distinctive style ranging from “mournful and plaintive” to “hopeful and yearning.” Trisha anchors what Dirty Linen magazine calls “gorgeous three-part harmonies.” She’s also known for songwriting, dating back to her early days with the award-winning B.C. bluegrass band Tumbleweed. Her solo album includes guests Vince Gill and Peter Rowan.

Nanaimo, BC-based Nick Hornbuckle has developed his own voice on the five-string banjo – a two-finger roll unlike other contemporary banjo players. “Nick Hornbuckle’s banjo can be downright spine-tingling,” said the L.A Daily News. His solo album 12×2 (+/-1), was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2015, and Nick is a composer who also digs for rare old-time gems. His sprightly instrumental Wellesley Station on the new Jaybird album “showcases Nick’s sharp picking and sense of melody,” said Green Man Review.

Spokane, WA-based Greg Spatz is hailed as a “world-class bluegrass fiddler” by Fiddler Magazine. Audiophile Audition says Greg’s “virtuosic playing is flawlessly delivered time after time,” while Bluegrass Unlimited says he “lays down some seriously fine bluegrass fiddle” on the latest Jaybirds release. His strong chops have made him a popular fixture down through the years on the West Coast, where he’s played with iconic mandolinist Frank Wakefield, resophonic guitar master Rob Ickes, and many others including Laurie Lewis, Bryan Bowers, and Eli West and Cahalen Morrison. Greg also plays and records with Mighty Squirrel, has a solo album called Fiddler’s Dream and a duo recording with his wife called All Along the Sea, and is an award-winning novelist.