Aug. (Sep.) schedule Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA
Rudi Schmid
The Freight & Salvage Coffee House (Berkeley Society for the Preservation of
Traditional Music) is located at 1111 Addison St., Berkeley, California
94702 (510/548-1761 program, 548-7603 business office).
LOCATION: To get there take the freeway (I-80) to Berkeley's University Ave.
exit. After several blocks turn right (south) on San Pablo Ave. The next
street (parallel to University Ave. and perpendicular to San Pablo) is
Addison. The Freight is located east just up the street. Street parking is
readily available in the area.
THE SETTING: Wheelchair access; no smoking; intimate ambiance (238 capacity,
small circular tables that are candle lit, large stage just before the
first-row seats); sporadic, movable chairs (some much more comfortable than
others!); superb acoustics (both for acoustic and electrical instruments);
non-alcoholic refreshments sold in the back of the room (actually the front
of the building).
ADVANCE TICKET SALES: During all shows plus 3:00-5:00 PM Tues.-Fri. and
1:00-3:00 Sat. For mail order send check and SASE at least 10 days before
show date. Also BASS ticket outlets.
TIMES: Music starts (occasionally promptly) 8:00 Sundays-Thursdays, 8:30
Fridays and Saturdays. Doors open half an hour earlier. Seating is on a
first-come basis. There is usually a 30-minute or so intermission.
MEMBERSHIPS:
$15.00 priority mailing of calendar
$30.00 priority mailing, $1.00/show discount
$60.00 priority mailing, $1.00/show discount, 2 tickets
$100.00 priority mailing, $1.00/show discount, 4 tickets
AUGUST SCHEDULE: Prices are advance/at the door!
1 Best of the hoots: Jack West Duo, Triage, Madhouse Minstrels, $4.50
[respectively, folk jazz, vocal trio, garage folk band]
3 Patchwork, $7.50/$8.50 [imaginative original duets]
4 Due West, $9.50/$10.50 [great Bay Area bluegrass]
5 Darryl Henriques, $9.50/$10.50 [human impersonator par excellence]
6 David "Honeyboy" Edwards & Fruteland Jackson, $9.50/$10.50 [Mississippi
Delta blues]
8 All-time best of the hoots, with Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Alvin
Youngblood Hart, Mike Stadler, Elman & Cope, Kaila Flexer, Mike
Marshall, etc., $9.50/$10.50
9 Final Girl and A Deeper Jade, $7.50/$8.50 [two great original trios]
10 Bob Copper & The Copper Family, $10.50/$11.50 [legendary English a
cappella group]
11 The James King Band, $9.50/$10.50 [fine traditional bluegrass]
12 The House Jacks, $10.50/$11.50 ["in your face a cappella"]
13 The Ed Kelly Quintet, $9.50/$10.50 [legendary Bay Area jazz keyboardist]
15 Loudon Wainwright III, $12.50/$13.50 ["The Woody Allen of folk!" "The
male Melanie!"]
17 The Cache Valley Drifters, $9.50/$10.50 [original and eclectic string
band]
18 Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, $11.50/$12.50 [bluegrass, old-time country,
and traditional duets]
19 Emmitt Powel & The Gospel Elites, $9.50/$10.50 [an evening of American
gospel]
20 Monica Pascual & Planet Ranch, Paul Durham, $7.50/$8.50 [new acoustic
double bill]
21 Northern California songwriters Association's open mic, $4.50
22 Open mic, with Jim Carter MC, $2.50
23 The Westerleys, $8.50/$9.50 [original country trio]
24 Alasdair Fraser's Fiddle Extravaganza with Carl MacKenzie, Catriona
MacDonald Chris Norman & Barbara Magone, $12.50/$13.50 [Scottish,
Cape Breton, and Shetland fiddle masters]
25 The Laurel Canyon Ramblers, $10.50/$11.50 [the best in SoCal bluegrass
featuring Herb Pedersen]
26 Rosalie Sorrels, with Barbara Highie, Nina Gerber, Mayne Smith, and
Mitch Greenhill, $10.50/$11.50 [album release show]
30 Murasaki Ensemble, $7.50/$8.50 [original and traditional Japanese music]
31 Gillian Welch, with David Rawlings, $8.50/$9.50 [outstanding new singing
and songwriting star]
SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE (tentative): Prices are advance/at the door!
1 Nine Days Old, $7.50/$8.50
3 Davka, $9.50/$10.50
6 Jason Ecklund, $7.50/$8.50
7 Box Set, $8.50/$9.50
8 The Edlos, $12.50/$13.50
13 Faith Petric's 80th/Piper Heisig's 40th birthday bash, fundraiser,
$9.50/$10.50
14 Candelia's Dad, $7.50/$8.50
15 Darol Anger & friends, $10.50/$11.50
16 High Country, $9.50/$10.50
17 Ray Wylie Hubbard, $9.50/$10.50
20 Judy Fjell, Alix Dobkin, $9.50/$10.50
21 Chuck Brodsky, $8.50/$9.50
22 Ad Vielle Que Pourra, $10.50/$11.50
23 & 24 Cheryl Wheeler, $13.50/$14.50
27 Martin Hayes, $9.50/$10.50
29 The Jo Miller/Laura Love Bluegrass "Thang", $9.50/$10.50
30 The Vicki Randle Trio, with Danny Heines, $10.50/$11.50
--Rudi Schmid, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (sch...@garnet.berkeley.edu)