June Brought some great performances to The Coffee Gallery Backstage

For example, on June 29th, The Swinging Armani Brothers really swang.

Here is a video of some of the fun. Pay attention to the dancing at the end. And you probably missed it.




And then, there was Joe Craven, who performed a historic candle light show, since the power went out just a little before the show began.



And just think - there was a show almost EVERY NIGHT all month long.

May Brought a number of A Capella Acts to The Coffee Gallery Backstage

Well, as you might expect, The Coffee Gallery Backstage is more than any one kind of music, but this May brought a number of great A Capella Groups to the stage.

On 5/23/10, Down 4 The Count performed the theme from the Pink Panther like the following:



And They shared the bill with Pitch Please, seen here



And of course, later in the month. Grace garced us with their presence as follows:



Now just imagine what other fun things you missed.

The Pirates of the Black Swan were here on 4/30/10 and left behind their hostages

Yet another great night you might have missed at The Coffee Gallery Backstage. Captain Jack and his deadly crew came and went, but left behind this video record so you can enjoy the foolishness served up in April. There may be additional episodes.



If you can't see the above window, simply click on this LINK OF PIRATES

To Visit Their Website, you can Click THIS

I Am So Behind In Posts, I Otta DO Something, So Here Is Montana Skies

Recorded in April, Montana Skies is a great duo of guitar and cello, and this is the most animated cello playing I have ever heard. Just a taste here:


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If you can't see the video above, you can click on this LINK

To go to their website, click HERE

Vicky Genfan came and conquered us on 3/5/10

If you want to see a hint of her artistry - just take a look. She arrived, she played, she left us behind.

March 2nd, Riders of The Purple Sage did Chili dinner show

This is an early example of The Coffee Gallery's new concept of dinner and a show. Select shows will come with dinner and an opening act. For this Tuesday, the dinner was Julie's fabulous chili, cornbread and salad. Opening act was Thorin, then Relaxin' Jackson did some mandolin magic before the Riders came and we were really swingin' then.

Here are some video clips of The Riders of the Purple Sage:



And here is their WEBSITE

Gordie Tentrees Band did a Yukon set with Thorin Opening 2/25/10

Gordie Tentrees Band came all the way from the frozen North to entertain us with real style. Their video is here:



And their website is http://www.tentrees.ca/

Thorin entertained to open, and his video is here:



Website/myspace will happen soon

Several Weeks of Video Starting with Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon

I must confess that I have been remiss in posting video of The Coffee Gallery Backstage, because I have just been overloaded with other things, and am posting several shows together right now, not necessarily in the order when they occurred.

First of all, Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon came and opened for Stephanie Bettman, and did some great self-penned, thoughtful tunes. Since I already have some of Stephanie's work posted, I decided to just put up one of Bev and Greg's songs.



Their website is at http://www.truewindmusic.com/

The Swingin' Armani Brothers did Dinner and a Show that Pulled Out All the Stops

Last Thursday, the 4th of February was the beginning of a new Era as The Coffee Gallery Backstage hosted the beginning of The Swingin' Armani Brothers' 2010 Pasta Tour. They will be coming back every month in 2010 to do wonderful Italian/European inspired music complete with Italian Dinner. We dressed up The Backstage. No longer is it a tropical Coffee Storehouse, it has been transformed into an Italian Bistro, complete with a seductive piano serenading the diners.

To top it off, the show began with Roksana treating us to a few Italian arias, and Evan J. Marshall the celebrated mandolin virtuoso showed us more than a few tricks he knew. Then The Swingin' Armani Brothers did a great set, and they were joined by Duanio Thorini for one song, who I think is a relative of some sort.

Here are some tastes of what happened, but you really had to be there!



And here are some pictures of how we gussied up the place!

Okay, finally an update - Riders of The Purple Sage did a great show

The Riders of The Purple Sage came by again and wowed us with their great performance on February 1st and 2nd. It is hard to describe how they manage to charm us every time they stop by between roundups, rodeos and all those other western cowboy-type stuff they do here there and everywhere. Great musicianship, great songs, great harmonies, and did I mention great musicianship? Oh yeah, that needs to be underlined. Here are some tastes of the show on the 2nd:



And to find out more about The Riders of the Purple Sage, just click HERE