The Pasadena Folk Music Society presents Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands in 8 days, on Saturday, October 18 in Beckman Institute Auditorium (Little Beckman) on the Caltech campus in Pasadena.  Laurie’s picture is on the cover of the August issue of the venerable nationally distributed Bluegrass Unlimited magazine and she has two outstanding new CDs out.  She recently returned from a 3 week Sierra Nevada backpack trip from Yosemite to Mount Whitney, so life is good and the music is great.  One Evening in May, a live album recorded last year, contains many new original songs, many composed on a retreat she took in Wyoming.  She continues to be an amazing singer, fiddler, guitarist, songwriter, and interpretor of some of the classic music of bluegrass.

The newly released CD, Laurie & Kathy Sing The Songs of Vern & Ray joins her with former bandmate in the Good Old Persons, Kathy Kallick, and it is destined to be a classic.  Her musical partnership with Tom Rozum has spanned some 28 years and they sing and perform so well together.  He is wonderful mandolin and guitar player, an excellent lead and harmony singer, and his droll humor always adds to the show.  Southern California’s Patrick Sauber is well proven as a hightly in-damand player, and his backing vocals add depth to the sound.  We’ve just gotten word that John Mailander will play fiddle and Simon Chrisman will play bass for this show.

Hear what Laurie does with Kate Long’s song, Who Will Watch the Home Place at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaEjoD0cqM to get an idea of how well Laurie and Tom’s voices blend.  There’s some mighty fine fiddling, as well.  You can hear Laurie and the Right Hands (with Nina Gerber sitting in) play The Crooked Miles, one of Laurie’s new songs on the live album, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6pLXnwhFgU.  And to get a taste of the new recording with Kathy Kallick, try Little Birdie at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBdvJdRPCJo and note the fine banjo playing of Patrick Sauber.  Don’t miss this show!  Laurie’s web site is http://laurielewis.com.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $5 for Caltech students and children.  Call the Caltech Ticket Office at (626) 395-4652 to purchase them in advance or for more information.  At this point there are plenty available.  You will likely be able to buy tickets at the door, but don’t come late!  We’ll apprise you of ticket status next week.  We have lots of new shows to list on our web site, so look for that update next week.

KPFK, 90.7 FM, is fundraising this week and next, and we invite you to support Roz Larman’s Folk Scene this Sunday night between 6PM and 8PM to ensure that the station keeps the show on the air.  Folk Scene has been and continues to be very important and influential to us over the years.  You still have a couple of days to go to the KPFK Audio Archives and listen to Howard Larman’s interview with Jean Redpath from the 1970’s, along with her singing.  The second hour features the much lamented Scottish group, Ossian from a show in the 1980’s.  We want to keep this show on the radio!

Art Night Pasadena is here- tonight from 6PM to 10PM.  See http://www.artnightpasadena.org.