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SUMMARY:Rupert Wates in Concert! Gareth Rockliffe Opens
DESCRIPTION:“This is one gifted s.o.b. If you are not hip to this guy you are missing a lot”. – Mark S. Tucker\, FAME\nWe\, at the ACMA\, agree and are excited to have Rupert Wates back on our stage.\nRead more:\nRupert Wates was born in London and studied at Oxford University. He has been a full time songwriter since the late 1990s\, when he signed a publishing contract with Eaton Music Limited. In London he worked with some of the best performers in the city. Moving in 2001 to Paris\, Wates formed his own quartet and began playing live regularly. In fall 2006 he came to the US. He is now based in New York City and Colorado. Since coming to the US\, he has won more than 50 songwriting and performing awards (www.rupertwatesmusic.com/awards).\nHis music is an eclectic mix of acoustic\, melodic art/folk\, with flavors of jazz\, vaudeville and cabaret. He has released twelve solo CDs. They have received outstanding reviews in the international online press and tracks from them have been played on radio all over the world. In addition\, Wates’ songs have been covered by other artists in the UK\, Canada and the US.\n\nRupert Wates averages 120 live shows every year\, in front of audiences totaling more than 3\,500\, in acoustic venues in every state in America\, in Canada and in Europe. He performs sometimes alone\, sometimes with his trio or his quartet. He prefers smaller listening rooms where the audience is up close and the emphasis is on the music. Audiences everywhere respond to Wates’ brand of melodic art/folk—haunting songs that ring true.\nrupertwatesmusic.com\n\nThe opener for Rupert Wates is ACMA member and singer/songwriter\, Gareth Rockliffe. Gareth Rockliffe\, a native of the UK\, is a professional photographer who has enjoyed writing songs for the past thirty years. His songs are often deeply personal\, but with a universal heartfelt appeal. Gareth’s songs have in the past only been shared with small groups of friends or fellow songwriters…that’s about to change.\nTickets available at the door!\nDoor donations:\n$12 – Members\n$18 – General Public\nDoors open at 6:30 PM. See you there!
URL:https://www.americanacma.org/event/rupert-wates-in-concert-gareth-rockliffe-opens/
LOCATION:ACMA. at All Faiths Unitarian\, 2756 McGregor Blvd.\, Fort Myers\, FL\, 33901
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SUMMARY:Patchouli in concert At The Alliance For the Arts. Carlene Thissen opens
DESCRIPTION:Advance tickets are recommended. 134 are available. If weather threatens the advance ticket holders will have seats indoors. Walkups on the day of the show are welcome if the show stays out doors.\nwww.artinlee.org\nACMA/Alliance $15/General public $16\nWe’re super excited to be kicking off another season at The Alliance for the Arts…and the icing on the cake is that our founding members Bruce Hecksel and Julie Patchouli will be playing for us on the Green Market Stage.\nBetter known as “Patchouli”….the duo brings magical music to the stage.\nHere’s a bit more:\nPatchouli & Terra Guitarra\nPatchouli and Terra Guitarra is master guitarist Bruce Hecksel and singer-songwriter\, guitarist Julie Patchouli.\nZMR calls Terra Guitarra “one of the top nuevo-flamenco groups in the world”\, with a #1 and two top 5 internationally charting albums and multiple “Album of the Year” nominations. Patchouli is a folk festival headliner and Public Radio favorite with pure\, haunting lead vocals and beautiful harmonies. Their sound\, depth and virtuosity is described as “Simon and Garfunkel meets the Gipsy Kings” and “taking a yoga class in a field of running mustangs.”\nTheir soulful fusion of blazing Spanish and world guitar instrumentals\, spine tingling vocal harmonies\, and epic folk rock anthems are infused with a visible onstage chemistry. An extraordinary bond is immediately apparent as two guitars merge into one acoustic wall of sound and their innovative\, percussive flat-picking and hybrid fingerstyle techniques leave even astute listeners wondering where the drummer is.\nPatchouli & Terra Guitarra have performed over 4\,000 shows\, toured a million miles on the road supporting 20 CD releases\, won songwriting awards\, industry awards\, performed on TV\, film and are played on Radio programs around the world.\nThe duo’s instrumental guitar project Terra Guitarra – “Dragonfly” debuted at #4 on the ZMR World Music Radio Charts and was Nominated ZMR Best Instrumental Acoustic Album of the Year 2013. Their 6th instrumental album “Firelight” is nominated ZMR Best Instrumental Acoustic Album of the Year 2015 was #5 on the ZMR Charts and #1 on the OneWorldMusicRadioUK charts. The duo was honored to perform for the Awards show May 7th 2016 in New Orleans at the Joy Theatre.\nThe overwhelming demand by their fans to have a live recording of the Terra Guitarra songs lead the duo to release a 12 song recording of Terra Guitarra in concert “Live at the Big River Theatre” November 2015. In January of 2017 they released their 8th album of all instrumental music “Of Sea & Stars” fusing their Spanish guitar style groove with other world music influences and is a huge success in just it’s first couple of months available. “Of Sea & Stars”has already charted at #1 for 2 months on both One WorldMuiscRadioUK and Phase Global Radio (Austrailia) and #2 on the International ZMR new age /ambient/ world music radio charts.\nA new Patchouli album (with lyrics/vocals) is in the works and may be out by end of this year. The duo is touring hard this Spring in the USA with a couple of weeks in Europe in May. Their summer tour takes them all over the Midwestern & Eastern states for festivals\, and outdoor concerts as well as they will be debuting their new animated concert experience\, The Landscape of Guitar in several theatres.\nPatchouli & Terra Guitarra represents the very top echelon of today’s acoustic performers\, bringing the highest level of skill together with the passion\, experience and joy that are a rare combination indeed.\nhttps://www.carlenethissen.com/about\nwww.patchouli.net\nOpening for Patchouli is ACMA member Carlene Thissen!\nCarlene Thissen is an American singer-songwriter\, and author\, born on June 28\, 1950\, in Andover \, northwest New Jersey. Carlene Thissen is now in Naples\, Florida\, where she dedicates herself to performing\, speaking and songwriting\, singing and playing piano and guitar at house concerts\, clubs\, restaurants\, festivals and charity events. She also serves the community as part-time Instructor and content developer for a Farm Labor Supervisor Training program at the University of Florida’s Research & Education Center in Immokalee.\nCarlene Thissen performed in the 1960s and 70s as a young guitar-playing folk singer in northwest New Jersey\, doing songs by Bob Dylan\, Joan Baez\, Judy Collins\, Joni Mitchell and Melanie. She says the best three days of her life were spent at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969 and she presents a multi-media program today about that experience.\nAs she explains in her autobiographical song\, Back There Again\, this Woodstock hippie girl\, “…cut her hair and got a career\, and lost herself for 30 odd years.” Forgetting her dreams of being a doctor working in ghettos\, she became a successful business woman\, well known for speeches\, articles and books about marketing technology. She ended her corporate career as Vice President for a large market research company in Chicago\, started her own independent international consulting company and then moved to Naples\, Florida.\nCarlene Thissen says a series of God-driven events led her back to her true self through the agricultural community of Immokalee\, Florida\, where she volunteered as a music teacher for pre-school children and sang in the choir at Our Lady of Guadalupe church. Her love of the farm workers inspired two books: Immokalee’s Fields of Hope and Called From Silence: The Father Sanders Novel.\nShe also has written several songs that were inspired by her work and friendships there (see MUSIC on this website and listen to “Take These Hands\,” “Mama in Your Heart\,” “When Papa Goes North\,” “Our Lady of Guadalupe\,” and “On the Road Home.”).\nCarlene still works part-time at the University of Florida in Immokalee\, teaching and developing courses to educate the supervisors of farm workers on the laws that keep farm workers safe and in a fair work environment.\nShe has three more books in progress about Immokalee and music that will no doubt accompany them. The one that is closest to publication will be called Harvest of Dreams\, stories of the children of the farm workers who have gotten educations and advanced degrees so they no longer have to work in the fields. The other two are Black Immokalee\, the stories of American Black people who lived on the south side on segregated Immokalee; and The Haitian Kids\, about 10 young people she has loved and mentored for 21 years.\nShe graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul\, Minnesota in 1982\, and an M.A. in Latin American History from Florida International University in Miami in 2005.\nCarlene Thissen lives in Naples\, Florida.\nShe is a member of Nashville’s Global Songwriter’s Connection\, Women of Substance’ Female Musician Academy\, and the Americana Community Member Association.
URL:https://www.americanacma.org/event/patchouli-in-concert-at-the-alliance-for-the-arts-carlene-thissen-opens/
LOCATION:Alliance for the Arts\, 10091 McGregor Blvd\, Fort Myers\, FL\, 33919\, United States
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SUMMARY:Grant Peeples in Concert! David Hintz Opens
DESCRIPTION:One of the ACMA favorites….welcome back songwriter and poet extraordinaire\, Grant Peeples!!\nGrant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes\, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.\n\nHe is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence\, which cited the “humor\, compassion and wisdom of his songs\,” and their “unflinching social insight and cultural acuity.” Grant tours coast to coast and is a regular performer at The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival\, the 30A Songwriters Festival\, and The Florida\, Folk Festival\, along with the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival.\n\nHe has been a keen observer of the American condition for five decades\, ever since a friend introduced him to the music of Bob Dylan. Through many years on the road\, running a night club/music venue in Tallahassee\, and after a ten-year stint on an isolated island off the coast of Nicaragua\, Peeples turned to writing with a vengeance. He wrote poetry and songs that turned a critical eye on American culture and identity\, the very definition of contemporary folk music.\n\nJanuary 2019 marked a second tour in The Netherlands\, where FolkForum.nl described him “…a pure storyteller\, in the best American folk tradition…” and his show “…one of those gems that you will remember for a long time…”\nGrant released a new record in February 2023… A Murder of Songs. Congratulations!!\ngrantpeeples.com\nOpening the show is David Hintz. David is a founding ACMA member and singer/songwriter. He has been actively writing and performing his own music and covers since high school. He and Grant Peeples in one show create a perfect pairing! Hintz describes his lyrics as being a reflection of real life experiences with everything from love won and lost\, online dating\, satire\, religion\, and politics. The ACMA is fortunate to have this calibre of musician in our own back yard. Take a look at his SW Florida schedule and go take a listen. You will be glad you did.\nhttps://www.reverbnation.com/DavidHintzMusician\nTickets for the show are available at the door!\nDoor donations:\n$12 – Members\n$18 – General Public
URL:https://www.americanacma.org/event/grant-peeples-in-concert-david-hintz-opens-2/
LOCATION:ACMA. at All Faiths Unitarian\, 2756 McGregor Blvd.\, Fort Myers\, FL\, 33901
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