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Jenny Scheinman & Robbie Fulks
Jenny Scheinman celebrates new CD with a double bill evening featuring Chicago singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks at the Playhouse
Jenny Scheinman will celebrate the recent release of her newest recording, The Littlest Prisoner, with a double bill evening of performances featuring Chicago singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks. Scheinman is on a short tour with Fulks on the west coast and wanted to use the opportunity to have an official hometown CD release event at the Arcata Playhouse on Thursday, October 2. The evening will open with Scheinman performing selections from her Sony Masterworks release with Robbie Fulks on guitar and vocals as well as Robbie Gjersoe on national guitar. The second part of the evening's double bill will feature Fulks with Scheinman and Gjersoe doing selections from his repertoire and his newest release, Gone Away Backwards.
Scheinman is a singer, fiddle player, and song-writer who has been on numerous Grammy-winning recordings, just made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a leader, and has been one of the top violinists in the Downbeat Critics poll for over a decade. She grew up on a homestead in Northern California in a family of folk musicians. She moved from the west coast to Brooklyn in 1998 and is considered a leader in the Brooklyn arts renaissance. In 2011 The Village Voice named her "the best fiddler in New York." She has played with the likes of Norah Jones, Bruce Colburn, Lucinda Williams, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline and Lou Reed to name a few. Scheinman has since move back to Humboldt County and continues to tour national and internationally.
Robbie Fulks has the soul of a country singer and the mind of a vaudevillian. Still, for Robbie, it's about the songs. "There are many good living songwriters," says the Chicago Reader, "But then you hear a new Robbie Fulks record, and you can't remember who they are." His live performances feature improvised rearrangements of his original songs, off-the-cuff musical humor, and covers of songs by Michael Jackson and Cher, among others.
His new album, Gone Away Backward, is a sparse, acoustic-only effort that echoes the sounds he heard as a child, growing up in rural Appalachia and features the fiddle playing of Jenny Scheinman along with Robbie Gjersoe on national guitar. Robbie said recently about his new release, "It seemed like the songs were veering toward a certain placeacoustic, bluegrass and pre-bluegrass acoustic country with a Southern gothic tinge to it." For all that, his lyrics keep the whole thing from sounding old-fashioned. "Live it up while you can," he sings, "but when you get to the bottom, don't reach for my hand."
You never know exactly what you'll get with Robbie. It may be something along the lines of swing or rockabilly, or it may be a full album of Michael Jackson covers like his last release Happy. Born in Pennsylvania but a main stay in the Chicago music scene since the mid-80s, Fulks is known as a unique, clever, and heartfelt writer and one of the best guitarists around. The chameleon-like tall guy can whip it out in honky-tonk, country, bluegrass, power pop, or whatever strikes his ample whimsy at the time. If you're confused already, that is right where Robbie wants you; intrigued, guessing, and on your toes about what's coming next, but his long-time fans know that whatever it is, it is going to be good.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for this special double bill evening with show time at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $18 general and $15 members and are available at Wildwood Music, Wildberries Marketplace or reserve at (707) 822-1575.
For additional information visit www.arcataplayhouse.org.
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LocationArcata Playhouse (View)
1251 9th Street
Arcata, CA 95521
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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