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From: Peter Feldmann
BlueGrass West!
Post Office Box 614
Los Olivos, California 93441
(805) 688 9894  *  688 0366 (Fax)
e-mail: peterf@silcom.com                                    website: www.bluegrasswest.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 16, 2007

What:  The Very Lonesome Boys Bluegrass Show
Where:  S.Y. Valley Grange Hall, 2374 Alamo Pintado Avenue, Los Olivos CA
When: Saturday, September 1st, 2007, 8:00 PM
Tickets: $12.00

Peter Feldmann & The Very Lonesome Boys begin a new concert series at the Santa Ynez  Valley Grange Hall in Los Olivos, CA with a full program of old and new bluegrass music.

The concert, which begins at 8:00 PM, will feature bluegrass standards, songs of the West, and a number of 1920s-30s country songs adapted to the bluegrass format.  Advance tickets, priced at $12.00, are available on-line at BlueGrassWest.com and at The Book Loft in Solvang, CA.  If available, tickets will be sold at the door, beginning at 7:30 PM.

A singer and multi-instrumentalist with many years' performing experience throughout California and the West, Peter has been presenting bluegrass, folk, string band, and related musics since the early 1960's, and is known as the founder of the Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddler's Convention,  and the original Bluebird Café in Santa Barbara, a music club highly influential on the Southern California Music scene. Peter's tribute CD to Uncle Dave Macon, "Grey Cat On The Tennessee Farm", was named to the nation's Top Ten Bluegrass albums of 2005 by the Chicago Tribune.

The five-piece Very Lonesome Boys band includes bassist Tom Lee, veteran of the Cache Valley Drifters and The Bluegrass Cardinals,   Mike Nadolson, head of  Tricopolis Records in Orange County  plays Martin flat-top guitar.  The banjo duties are ably handled by record producer David West (Play Ball Productions), known also for his song writing and engineering skills, while Tommy Marton, a leading exponent of Texas contest style fiddling as well as bluegrass music, will preside on fiddle.  The band has performed throughout Southern and Central California at festivals, clubs, and college concerts.  They were featured this summer at the annual fourth of July Santa Barbara Symphony concert at the sunken gardens of the SB County Courthouse.

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