Second Saturday Songwalk - Artists
Brandon Argires was in the band
The Shoes which performed
frequently at Applesauce Tea House. He is influenced by
Modest Mouse, the Beatles and Tom Waits. His performances
sometimes include improvised lyrics.
Jonathan
Boulay has lived in Flagstaff for 3 years. His indie-folk
music is emotive and inspired by life. He records his music and
others' in a home studio. He has hosted house shows including
performances by
French Quarter,
Foot Ox,
T. W. Donovan and The Weirding,
Brook Pridemore,
Mark McMahon, and
Lindsay Dragan.
He is vegan and purports to be punk. He used to perform as
Work In Progress; his newest band,
The
Illegals The Street Alcoholics,
features Tony Ballz and Bobby Carlson.
David Bryant-Smith
performs original acoustic music at various venues across town,
including the Rendezvous and most benches at Heritage Square.
Giovanina Bucci performs 6pm every other
Saturday at Cafe Olé. She is a self-taught musician
who has been writing and performing for 10 years. Her style
is a fusion of jazz, blues and folk, and has been compared
with that of Norah Jones and Susan Tedeschi.
Courtney Jean Chappell
began playing guitar at seventeen, and has been performing
around Flagstaff since 2006. She writes songs that tell
stories about the quirks of life. She belives that a dialouge
between guitar and voice are key; one day she will figure out
how to get that conversation started. She hosted 8pm Tuesday
Open Mic at
Charly's, for 3
years, and graduated from NAU in 2009 with a degree in
classical guitar performance.
- Stephen Collins
grew up near Birmingham, Alabama and lives in Flagstaff, AZ for nice
stretches of time. He likes songs in the form of hymn and lament
concerning war, murder, betrayal, Hell, and redemption. He believes
that when people close their eyes and play music they are, for that
moment, holy.
- Brian Demarco
- Demian
- Shawn Dennehy studies music theory.
- Corrinne Diggins
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Travis Walter Donovan lived in Flagstaff for four years
while employed as a social worker. He currently lives in
Brooklyn, NY, and writes for The
Huffington Post, Look
Listen Play and Little.fm.
He used to perform with Not Quite
Bernadette. Other resources: MySpace and Twitter.
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Lindsay Dragan lived in Flagstaff while a graduate student
at Northern Arizona University. She rides a Surly
Crosscheck, and held a CD release party at Mia's before
leaving for New York, the city.
- Natalie Eickmeyer
- Dom Flemmons
- Chris Fox
Adam Fry’s
eclectic repertoire includes folk, rock, country, and alternative
genres. His original songs speak to both desires and dreams.
Iron Steve Sokola is a gritty, heavy musician who
grew up in post-industrial Flint, Michigan. It was there that he
began exploring the mysticism of southern culture and alternate
tunings.
Avtar Khalsa
writes and performs songs of love and desperation, punctuated with
twisted tales of highways and heartbreak. He is also known for his
political commentary in Flag Live.
Tad Klein’s music speaks to the soul;
he writes about the human condition and daily struggles. His
authenticity and honesty invite listeners to truly connect.
Mark McMahan’s music defies description;
he is constantly inventive and often startling. He says: “Been
playing guitar a long time, I try not to bore myself.”
Jay Meyer
writes songs whose subtlety and simplicity
bely
the complexity of the message they contain. His style is engaging and
honest. He performs with Matt Miller and CJ Constantopoulos in
Annie Jump Cannon.
Matt Miller
writes songs whose meaning can elude him until years later.
His primary instrument is a baritone guitar, which compliments
his deep voice. He also plays the flute. In the past, he
hosted Open Mics at Mia's and the Green Room. He currently
performs Thursday 6-9pm at Cafe Olé.
Paul Miller
was born and raised in Bristol, England. Breastfed on the Beatles and
Big Band Swing, he’s been in Flagstaff since 1996, playing with
local bands such as
Glass Onion and the
Skanksters.
Paul Perrault is songwriter and singer for
the local rock unit
Planet Sandwich. His
philosophical lyrics are backed by singular music and rhythms.
Jacob Pesqueira’s
music include simultaneous performance of the guitar and didjeridoo.
He says: “I love to interweave my heart with every moment, and
am thankful to be here sharing music and breath with all of
creation.”
- Justin Pilla
- Chris Porter
- Hannah Pralle
is a singer/songwriter local to Flagstaff, although she grew up near
Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo reservation. Hannah teaches English
and Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University, and also works at
Arizona Music Pro. Her background is in Classical Guitar, but she's
currently learning to play the fiddle, and very much enjoys singing
country music with local band Wade Lashley and the Rounders.
Hannah writes music reviews for local arts and entertainment magazine
(and hopes that someone will review her someday). Hannah writes songs
because art bridges that pesky gap between what you feel and what
you're allowed to say.
She performs alternating Saturdays at Cafe Olé.
- Drew Purcell is frequently recognized as the
least ambitious songwriter in Flagstaff. His repertoire consists of
songs about girls, which he also performs with his comrades in The Last Taboo.
- Faith Purvis
Clair Anna Rose is a poet, a painter, a
dreamer, a sometimes student, and a humdinger folk-singer by night.
Music is her passion, and every experience in life becomes a song.
Nate Stone’s
songs are gentle and introspective. He says he is
“absolutely fascinated by the power of music.” Nate's
music has been compared to
Simon and
Garfunkel,
Ryan Adams, and
James Taylor.
Bryant “Kale Jones” Vasquez
has a fetish for song titles, and an attraction to unique chord
progressions. His influences include
Dylan,
Drake, and
Smith.
Ryan Wade has his feet firmly set in
traditional rock and country. Direct and frank, his songs recall
John Prine,
Townes Van
Zandt, and
Johnny Cash.
Brian White has a pathological fear of
hammocks. He has overcome this obstacle to write songs of the human
experience with a metaphorical cast.
- John Whipple is a throwback to the vaudeville
acts of the early 20th Century. He combines witty banter, thoughtful
original songwriting, and a unique mix of styles ranging from country
to blues to jazz to gypsy. He performs either acoustically or as a
one-man-band on a variety of instruments including accordion, banjo,
steel guitar and ukulele. He lives on the road, traveling from town
to town, preaching his vagabond roots and selling his musical snake
oil.
- Charlie Williams
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