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Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery
Monday
September 23, 2013
@ 7:30PM
Opening Piano Prelude by Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
Monday Night Songwriters' Showcase (now in its eighth year!) is held on Monday evenings in beautiful downtown Frederick, MD, except during December (when we are closed after the first Monday). The program starts at 7:30 pm with a piano prelude, followed by three or four songwriters doing three songs each (lots of variety) and the featured songwriter does a 45 -60 minute set. Come and support LIVE MUSIC!
(take the elevator on the right to the 2nd floor)
124 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874
http://www.brewers-alley.com/
Songwriters Showcase at Brewer's Alley
This Week's Piano Prelude
by Ray Jozwiak- Gonzo Piano
Monday
July 22, 2013
7:30PM
Monday Night Songwriters Showcase at Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery (take the elevator on the right to the 2nd floor) 124 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874 http://www.brewers-alley.com/
by Ray Jozwiak- Gonzo Piano
This Monday
June 17, 2013
7:30PM
At the Monday Night Songwriters Showcase at Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery (take the elevator on the right to the 2nd floor) 124 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 Telephone:
301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874 http://www.brewers-alley.com/
(from Rod Deacey, Frederick (MD)-area musician, songwriter, performer, impressario)
". . . At Brewer’s Alley Songwriters’ Showcase this Monday, Jan 14, we are delighted to welcome back JASON MYLES GOSS, who I first met when he played for me at the late, lamented WestSide café. Since those days, Jason has been busy touring around the U.S. and recording. He moved from Massachusetts to Brooklyn, NY, about six years ago and his latest CD, his fourth, called Radio Dial, has met with critical acclaim across the country…He’s really good – come and check him out!
“This one-man-show reminded everyone packed into the small venue what live acoustic performances are all about and why the up-and-coming deserve to be heard.”
– Dissolver Magazine
We are happy that COLETTE ROHAN has changed her working hours, so she is able to come and play some piano preludes for us this year! She starts this week – come out and hear her play! As per normal, come early to find good seats for the evening and to catch the entire prelude. You can come upstairs at 7:15 pm (maybe 5 minutes or so earlier than that if we’re ready; performers can come up when they arrive).
For three-song cameo performers this Monday, we are happy to see the return of RICARDO – THE DIVINING SAGE, plus BASSWOOD, and advertising his Feb 18 feature spot, BRETT BARRY! Brett is also helping me tweak the sound this week, so if you see him lurking behind the soundboard – that’s why! We will be also hearing from the regular crew; poet JOHN HOLLY, reciting his poems between other performers, and TODD C. WALKER, who also takes photos, helps emcee and helps run sound. TOMY WRIGHT is with us for the first time this new season, and will play some guitar and sing after the feature. . . "
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. . . by this Monday evening, October 22, 2012 at 7:30PM for the. . .
Monday Night Songwriters Showcase
at Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery
(take the elevator on the right to the 2nd floor)
124 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874
http://www.brewers-alley.com/
where you'll hear
Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
open the show This Week
with 30 minutes of solo, Gonzo, Fractured Jazz and Improvisational Terror Tactics at the Piano
If you missed his performance at the the Brewer's Alley Songwriter Showcase Monday evening, I suggest you see this artist in the near future - T. Edwin Doss.
(from http://www.tedwindoss.com/)
Born in a small town in Alabama, T. Edwin Doss grew up in a family that enjoyed music. By the time he was six years old, he was copying his sister’s piano lessons without taking formal lessons. He managed to acquire a right-handed guitar from a friend and learned chords “up-side down”. After three years, someone suggested that he switch the strings around, and after doing so T. Edwin began learning more, playing along with folk music, country, and blues. His early influences were Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Pat Boone, Perry Como and various Motown acts.
In high school, he wrote jingle-type advertisements for those running for class office, cheerleading, etc. The halls were filled with his rhymes on poster board. During those days and in college, he continued with poetry and prose, developing technique in meter and rhyming. He also began learning the Travis picking style and other finger picking styles, and incorporated these into his first original tunes.
He released a 45rpm record in 1975, receiving favorable reviews and substantial air-play. T. Edwin was booked in many venues including a few warm-ups for Hank, Jr., Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Paycheck and others. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area, he worked clubs in Georgetown, Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Rockville and many universities and colleges, warming up Livingston Taylor, The Roselyn Mountain Boys, and various blue grass acts. During this period T. Edwin penned more than one hundred songs transitioning into performing only tunes he had written.
T. Edwin’s guitar styles are perfectly matched for his performing, using finger picking and flat picking styles. He will surprise you with musical hooks to lure you further into the enchantment of his tunes, taking one into the warmth of a distant memory or perhaps the sadness of a lost love, returning one to the laughter of tunes from….a run-away bull to perhaps a parody of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried”, appropriately titled….”Mama Lied”. T. Edwin is absolutely “off-the-wall” with songs titled, “If I’d shot ‘ya long before I did, I’d be out of prison by now”…..”She’s a Real Good 4 ½!”….”Martian Manure” and “One Foot in the Grave”.
He is a treasure and a triumph to the singer-songwriter world. Check out house concerts on-line, find where he performing, and go enjoy one of America’s creative secrets, a genuine artist with wit, depth and sensitive introspect on life, love and libation. You will come away with a new twist to songwriting and dead-on lyrics that remain in your heart.
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At Brewer’s Alley Songwriters’ Showcase this Monday, August 20, we are pleased to bring back as the featured singer-songwriter T. EDWIN DOSS! T helped out Jeff Talmadge last week on a couple of songs, but this week he gets to sing a bunch of his own country-tinged Americana creations, including a couple of new ones that will knock your socks off! T often plays with a hot trio, but I prefer to hear him solo – just his warm, lived-in voice, excellent guitar and terrific songs! Of course, he does play the guitar the wrong way round, so it’s hard to tell which chords he’s playing – but he sounds great anyway…
For the prelude this week, ROCKIN’ RAY JOZWIAK is back with his gonzo piano, boldly taking us to places no-one has gone before, not even him! As usual, come early to find good seats for the evening and to catch the entire prelude. You can come upstairs at 7:15 pm (maybe 5 minutes or so earlier than that if Rob is ready; performers can come up when they arrive).
For three-song cameo performers this week, we have a slightly extended line-up –TOM McBRIDE, a Boston native who now lives in DC, MARY GORDON HALL, who recently moved to Hyattsville from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, MARY SUE TWOHY, best known recently for her radio program and her job as program director for Sirius XM Radio, and Todd’s Pick – MIKE HOLLAND (Todd says we’ll love him!). As time permits, we will be also hearing from the usual crew; poet JOHN HOLLY reciting his poems between other performers, and TODD C. WALKER himself, who also takes photos, helps emcee and helps run sound. TOMY WRIGHT is away this week.
MISTER RON GOAD will be flying solo on percussive things this week, fresh from backing the wonderful Dulcie Taylor at the Kennedy Center today… Incidentally, we are losing Dulcie shortly, as she is going back to California in September… We hope she will sneak into Brewer’s for a three-song set before she leaves the area. I'll continue the Goad Chronicles next week, so you can learn what our hero has been up to...
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Photo by Todd C. Walker
(from Rod Deacey)
"At Brewer’s Alley Songwriters’ Showcase this Monday, August 13, we are delighted to welcome back, all the way from Atlanta GA, international touring singer-songwriter JEFF TALMADGE! Jeff has been playing at my shows in Frederick since WestSide café days, and never ceases to amaze me with new songs that sound as if they have been around forever, as comfortable as an old shirt, and filled with experience, revelations, joy and sorrow… His voice is warm and friendly, like sitting around a woodstove on a winter’s night, and his guitar-playing is impeccable -- Blissville! As an extra treat, T.Edwin Doss will be joining Jeff for a couple of songs (I think T’s car drives itself to Frederick now, as many times as he makes the journey!).
For the Dog Days piano prelude this week, JIMBOW will be tickling the ivories, or in this case, the plastics, and utilizing a short length of Bunsen burner tubing to add his Melodica to the mix … As usual, come early to find good seats for the evening and to catch the entire prelude. You can come upstairs at 7:15 pm (maybe 5 minutes or so earlier than that if Rob is ready; performers can come up when they arrive).
For three-song cameo performers this week, we have some blues from the fabulous McTELL BROTHERS, J. KOLB from Annapolis, and Todd’s Pick this week is DAN KENNY. As time permits, we will be also hearing from the usual crew; poet JOHN HOLLY reciting his poems between other performers, and TODD C. WALKER himself, who also takes photos, helps emcee and helps run sound. TOMY WRIGHT is here this Monday, too, so we can expect some Tomy songs towards the end of the evening….
MISTER RON GOAD has come down from the mountain, so he and Tomy will be creating the wall of percussion that we have come to love and expect… Singing in front of these two gentlemen is like sliding down the laundry chute at the Ritz-Carlton, from the penthouse to the basement, and landing in one of those large, padded wicker baskets they have… It’s an exciting ride!
Ron is relieved to be back in civilization and circulation again; he managed to deal with two problems at once. He invited his overly-aggressive bookie to a weekend camping and fishing in the woods to make peace with him, and presented him with the cash that was owed together with a large bag of Snickers bars… There was a bit of a ruckus in the night, and in the morning neither the bookie nor the Snickers bars could be found… Ron drove home.
If you feel like some acoustic music this afternoon, to fill the void where synchronized swimming, etc. used to be, why not drop by Todd C. Walker’s Sunday Songwriters Songfest at Frederick Coffee Company around 4 pm? Today’s songwriters are the terrific Russ Haire, the ubiquitous T. Edwin Doss and the wonderful Woody Lissauer (who creates many musical multiples of himself – you’ll think you are listening to the Beach Boys and the Beatles at the same time…)! This coming Thursday, also at FCC, our own John Holly hosts another poetry evening, 7 pm – 9 pm – all are welcome to listen or to read!
Ex-Frederick singer-songwriter, raconteur and all-round cheerful person David Morreale is hosting a new event at Mick’s American Bistro – The Hardcore Troubador’s Tuesday Night Social Club and Open Mic, 7 pm – 10 pm. I’m playing there this week – come and check it out! David had a song challenge – to write a song about nothing – which I’ve done, so I’ll be singing that, among other sparkling gems from my back catalogue… Should be fun!
Please come out and join us at Brewer’s Alley this Monday to hear JEFF TALMADGE, plus our terrific line-up of cameo performers! We’ll have another great evening of music in Frederick’s best listening room!. . . )"
I'll be there next week.
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