Ranchers for Peace are Charles & Ray Duncan, a father/daughter duo from the Central Coast of CA with a fresh take on acoustic folk-rock they’ve termed “neo-hippie protest music.” Thoughtful songwriting, heartfelt harmonies, and jangly guitar/harmonica unite for a re-birth of that change-the-world attitude heard blowing in the wind during the Summer of Love.
Neil Havlik is the retired SLO city, Green Belt father.
Round Mountain www.roundmountainmusic.com Blending dusty American grit with a worldly amalgam of pan-global influences, Santa Fe-based duo Round Mountain presents a singular take on folk music that is both foreign and familiar. The multi-multi-instrumentalist band of brothers has traveled the globe absorbing bits and pieces of musical cultures, returning to filter them through their own sepia-toned Americana framework. A lively mixture of ceremony and irreverence, exuberance and reflection. In a time when most music has become so brightly polished that no one can see inside, Round Mountain is a rare authentic gem of music that glows from within. Shared the stage with Andy Irvine, the Mammals, Bela Fleck, recorded with Anais Mitchell and Michael Chorney. Played Live Oak. Touring in support of their third CD due out in May 2013.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGoN8_rkFvg&feature=plcp
*3LT album Animals & Cannibals voted Album of the Year by Portland
**Music
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*''Astonishing musicianship, timeless yet wholly original song craft.
3 Leg Torso is a unique American treasure''*
*Steve Berlin, Los Lobos*
"I love 3 Leg Torso, it blows the top off my head!" *
*Teller, of Penn & Teller*
"3 Leg Torso makes the greatest music you could ever put in a movie"*
*Morgan Spurlock, Director, SuperSize Me*
"They have one foot in Eastern Europe and one foot in the Pacific Northwest. Then there's that third foot..*
*Victoria Frey, executive director, Portland Institute for Contemporary
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*"A band of great whimsey, wonderful to watch."*
*Joan Gratz, Academy Award winning filmmaker*
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Guy Rathbun
Recently termed, ‘a prominent guitarist,’ by the New York Times, David Rogers fuses classical, jazz, early, and world music elements into powerful, moving and virtuosic performances based on both original compositions and traditional repertoire.
The Washington Post has praised his ‘astonishingly florid’ solo improvisational passage work. He has been called a 'modern master of the classical guitar' by 20th Century Guitar. Classics today.com has praised his ‘first rate instrumental artistry,’ and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique ‘formidable.’