FEATURED THIS WEEK:

Monday 11/21/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH JEFF PEARCE
Jeff Pearce is an avatar of ambient guitar. For the last twelve years he's been releasing dreamscapes awash in reverb, loops and delays, attaining an orchestral expanse from just his guitar. Now Pearce has become enamored with the Chapman Stick, an instrument that's like a double-wide guitar fretboard with ten strings and no body. Tapping the strings with both hands gives a guitarist a pianistic range. Pearce's new CD, LINGERING LIGHT (Jeff Pearce Music) explores this instrument. Pearce comes into the Echoes Living Room where he plays solo Chapman Stick live.

Wednesday 11/23/05
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH AINE MINOGUE
Irish harpist Aine Minogue is joined by cellist Eugene Friesen and pianist Tim Ray in an intimate performance of Celtic meditations and laments, live on Echoes. A scholar of fairytales, myths and legends from the Emerald Isle, Minogue spins music and tales, including songs from her latest albums, CELTIC MEDITATIONS and CELTIC LAMENTATIONS(Sounds True).

Thursday 11/24/05
THANKSGIVING ECHOES
Thanksgiving Echoes is an all acoustic program of live, intimate performances featuring Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz Trio, Will Ackerman, Eugene Friesen, and Al Petteway & Amy White, all tapping into a unique, chamber strain of Americana. Mark O'Connor is an award-winning violinist fusing folk and classical music with his Appalachia Waltz Trio. Grammy award winning guitarist Will Ackerman founded Windham Hill records 30 years ago. Eugene Friesen is a cellist's cellist, known for his work with the Paul Winter Consort. Al Petteway & Amy White mix guitars, mandolin and Celtic harp in their chamber folk music drawn from Appalachia and Ireland.

Friday 11/25
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH SUMNER MCKANE
Sumner McKane is a guitarist from Portland, Maine. During the night, he plays in a country and western band, but during the day, he retires to his basement studio where he orchestrates an atmospheric brand of ambient Americana, over-dubbing and looping multiple guitar lines into tone poems that evoke the great western skies more than the Maine coast or certainly, his basement. His latest album is NORTH (Don't Hit Your Sister Records). Sumner McKane gets his trio together in that basement for a living room concert of ambient guitar excursions and finger-style acoustic ruminations.

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