Winter Village Music
Presents
A Evening of Bluegrass, Old Time
and Original Music
featuring
Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff
and
Richie & Rosie
Friday, January 13 @ 7:30 - 9:45pm
La Tourelle, Ithaca NY
Tickets Now Available at Brown Paper Tickets
$30 Adult Advance; $35 Door
Seniors and Students $25; $30 Door
https://wintervillageconcert2023.bpt.me
About the Concert
Winter Village is excited to present two amazing duos - Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff from New York City and Ithaca favorites Richie & Rosie. Michael and Jacob perform high energy traditional bluegrass vocals and instrumentals on guitar and mandolin. Richie & Rosie play soulful old time and original music on fiddle, banjo and guitars. Rumor has it they will join forces at the end of the show!
About the Evening: The evening will begin with a happy hour reception in La Tourelle’s lobby bar at 6pm with an old time jam by the fireplace. Come early, save your seats and enjoy some local wine, beer, cider and tunes. The concert will begin at 7:30pm with a set of old time and original music by Richie & Rosie, followed by a bluegrass set by Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff, and possibly a few tunes together at the end of the show.
Raffle - Win Cool Stuff and Support the Event: Tickets for the Winter Village Raffle will be for sale throughout the evening - 1 ticket for $2.00, 3 tix for $5.00, and 7 tix for $10.00. Prizes include a one year subscription to ArtistWorks online bluegrass vocal lessons with Michael Daves; One Weekend Pass to Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 2023; and La Tourelle Overnight Stay with Morning Breakfast (Sunday - Thursday). The drawing will be held towards the end of the second set.
Spend the night at La Tourelle: Concert goers can spend the night at a reduced rate - $109 for a Traditional King and $129 for Fireplace King. Call La Tourelle to make your reservation at (607) 273-2734
Concert Sponsors: Special thanks to ArtistWorks Online Music School, La Tourelle, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Ithaca Guitar Works and Bernunzio Uptown Music.
About Michael Daves & Jacob Jolliff
Heralded as “a leading light of the New York bluegrass scene” by the New York Times, Michael Daves has garnered attention for his work with Tony Trischka, Steve Martin, and Chris Thile, with whom he shares a Grammy nomination for their 2011 Nonesuch Records release "Sleep With One Eye Open."
Jacob Jolliff is one of the country’s premier contemporary bluegrass mandolinists. His namesake solo project, The Jacob Jolliff Band, is the next generation of bluegrass supergroups, which features a rotating quartet of some of the most virtuosic and innovative young pickers in the country. Jolliff is currently touring with Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart and has also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band and Joy Kills Sorrow.
As a duo, Daves and Jolliff use hard-core, traditional bluegrass songs as a jumping-off point for improvisation and spontaneous re-working of classic forms. Expect fiery picking and and high lonesome vocal harmonies.
About Richie & Rosie
www.richieandrosie.com
Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton grew up a 150 miles and few decades apart. While both were raised by professional cellist, Richie started playing banjo at 14 and Rosie began classical piano lessons at eight, eventually moving to classical viola as a teen. Both shared incredibly unique, musically-immersed childhoods: Richie’s family founded the iconic GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance and by her junior year of high school, Rosie was playing fiddle and touring with folk rock band The Mammals. During that time, the two were introduced at Saratoga Springs’ Flurry festival -- a meeting that would spark a fated friendship and unique musical bond.
“He left an impression on me because he was wearing Converse. I had never seen an adult wear Converse before,” said Rosie, reflecting back on the first time she shared the stage with Richie. As a Woodstock native, she graduated high school and decided to move to Ithaca after being drawn to the thriving old-time scene -- which happened to also be Richie’s stomping grounds. While studying viola at Ithaca College and playing fiddle on the side, Rosie started incorporating folk with her traditional Celtic and classical upbringing. Meanwhile, Richie was a well-established singer and banjo player in the community, having performed around the world with bands like Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, David Byrne, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Joan Baez. In addition to releasing two solo albums, Richie was adding to his endless discography, which includes three Natalie Merchant records, multiple collaborations with Jim Lauderdale and Donna The Buffalo, and Carrie Rodriguez.
During Rosie’s freshman year, the two finally began touring together regionally as part of the Evil City String Band, where they were joined by bass player Ben Gould, Steve Selin on Fiddle, and guitarist Paddy Burke. Eventually, they decided to pursue a more intimate project as a duo and in 2013, released Tractor Beam, a 12-track mix of originals and classics, including Townes Van Zandt’s “If I Needed You” and “Say Darlin’ Say”, a traditional lullaby. Being their first exclusive release as Richie and Rosie, the pair wanted to give fans a polished recording of the songs that they played live.
After three years of touring and writing, the duo returned to the studio last December to record their second full-length album, Nowhere in Time. The record finds itself at a junction of Americana, old-time, and folk, bringing a new sound to traditional music. Recorded with producer Alex Perialas at Pyramid Sound Studios, the album highlights the incredibly-refined skill of both musicians -- and while the majority of the album is a simple combination of fiddle, banjo, and captivating melodies, the duo manages to pack an incredibly full sound. “At the beginning, we were thinking it might be a project with lots of other people involved, more of a big production. As we went through it, we realized that the magic lies within the duo. We have an intimacy of music and we feel the power of two people playing. That’s who we are,” said Rosie.
Nowhere in Time gives fans a look inside the band’s personal lives, with a variety of introspective lyrics. While some songs are more light-hearted, like “Honey Bee”, which Richie wrote to “lure” his girlfriend back to the East Coast, others face more serious topics. Rosie stepped out of her comfort zone for one of the few lyrical co-writes between the two, “No Longer Lonely”, to write about a close friend passing away. “I actually began writing it a couple of years ago -- I would give it to Richie, he would tweak it, and we ended up going back and forth maybe six times. It was a different way for both of us to work and humbling to have our creativity challenged by each other. In the end, we came up with something really beautiful that reflects both of our musicality. I needed to see something beautiful come out of that dark moment.”
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