Jeff and Vida Band
with special guests
Coyote Moon
Rogers Hall
4th and High Street, Lyons,
CO
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
Over the years of touring in the Rocky Mountain West, Jeff & Vida encountered a wellspring of stringband musicians living in Colorado. These chance encounters, jam sessions, and impromptu collaborations became the new Jeff & Vida Band, and the result is their latest recording, Selma Chalk, featuring 13 new and original songs played by Jeff & Vida and some of their favorite musicians.
Inspired by the 50’s bluegrass and rockabilly sound the music is both old and new. The members of The Jeff & Vida Band have incredible fluency on their instruments, and their exciting approach to stringband music helped achieve Jeff & Vida's vision for this project. With original timeless ballads, raucous bluegrass barn-burners, and driving acoustic honky-tonk, the material is striking, the arrangements are electrifying, and the result is music that is real, true, and unforgettable.
Vida's powerful vocals and driving 1942 Gibson J-45 guitar with Jeff's rock-n-roll approach to mandolin and guitar gets crowds feet stomping, and "is about as perfect a combination as you're likely to find." Their band mates are no strangers to the stage here at High Street Concerts.
Jake Schepps is a banjo renaissance man and is renowned for his intelligent touch on the banjo and imaginative variation on stringband music. Jake has released two solo recordings, and was featured on the cover of Banjo Newsletter in July 2008. Jake is a founding member of the Expedition Quartet and when not playing music, he teaches emergency wilderness medicine around the world.
At 21 years old, fiddler Justin Hoffenberg has accomplished more in his musical career than many people three times his age. At the age of 14, Justin began playing professionally and quickly became one of the premiere fiddlers in the Rocky Mountain West. He has studied under Jason Carter (Del McCoury Band) and performs in Long Road Home (with Pete Wernick of Hot Rize and Gene Libbea of Nashville Bluegrass Band).
Greg Schochet is an integral part of Colorado's music community, in demand as a performer, producer, and educator. Equally adept on guitar and mandolin, Greg is fluent in bluegrass, swing, country, folk, and blues. He can be seen performing with the Expedition Quartet, Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams, and many other ensembles.
One of Colorado's premier bassists, Will Downes has been playing both upright and electric bass for over 15 years. He has studied with jazz legend Dale Bruning, and has toured extensively with Great American Taxi, Single Malt Band, and TAARKA.
Lyons duo Coyote Moon will open this fabulous night of music. Our little stage is gonna have some big sound on Feb 13th!
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