Tenth Show

SOLD OUT!!!

FRIDAY, JULY 27TH

8:00 PM

AL PETTEWAY & AMY WHITE

This husband and wife have more than just a marriage between them! The Takoma Park husband and wife duo mix their own compositions and  traditional Celtic pieces in a melodic clarity and rhythmic rigor that is sensational! They are winners of more than three dozen "WAMMIES" from the Washington Area Music Association, including: Artist of the Year, Musician of the Year, Best Duo/Group (Celtic, Contemporary Folk & New Age), Best Recording (Celtic, Contemporary Folk & New Age), Best Instrumentalist (Celtic, Folk, & New Age)----but Amy SINGS! Also, winners of three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards.

Al's compositions for acoustic fingerstyle guitar are strongly influence by his love of Celtic music and his own roots in folk, rock, and blues. His five recordings on Maggie's Music have won him international acclaim and appearances on CBS SUNDAY MORNING,  and NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED  and PERFORMANCE TODAY. He has performed in the White House and was an original member of the popular national touring show, A SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS. He is the Guitar Week coordinator for the Swannanoa Gathering at Warren Wilson College in Asheville each summer and has five books published by Mel Bay and two instructional videos on Homespun Tapes.

Dirty Linen says, "Al Petteway is quickly building a catalogue of some of the most beautiful instrumental guitar work ever recorded." NAPRA Trade Journal says, "His articulate flawless fingering and lyrical phrasing do not just engage the heart, but they invite the consciousness to open."

Amy was born to professional classical musicians and was nurtured and surrounded by several genres of music. As a result, she has a unique approach to composition and her work reflects this serendipitous combination of classical, jazz, folk and world influences. She plays piano, mandolin, guitar, fiddle and percussion (and sings)! Amy won her first award for music composition at the age of eleven.  Her debut release, PIANO DIARIES (Fairewood Records) garnered the 1996 WAMMIE for Best New Age Recording and two separate Maryland State Arts Council grants for solo instrument performance on piano (1996) and mandolin (1998).Her most recent solo recording, BITTERSWEET, AN AMERICAN ROMANCE is a collection of piano instrumentals featuring Al on guitar and her father, retired national Symphony Orchestra oboist and principal English horn soloist Richard White. The three of them participated in a special 1998 Thanksgiving Day broadcast of the NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

Dirty Linen says, "Outstanding...worth repeated listening. White has a touch on the piano which is at once inviting and compelling." Women Today says, "White guides the listener from the profound to the whimsical and back again with all the ease of a brilliant conversationalist."

Their latest, GRATITUDE very recently won the 2001 INDIE AWARD for Acoustic Music from the Association of Independent Music!

Reservations for this show can be made beginning July 6th at (919) 787-6378 or bett_padgett@mindspring.com Donations of $10 will be collected at the door. (Children 12 & under  are $5) As you know, the artists get the entire gate minus a few expenses. Those fortunate enough to get seats are asked to honor their reservation.