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Ben Bedford and Vanessa Lively In Concert   SPONSORED BY THE ARTERY When: Saturday, June 12th Time:  Doors open 6pm, for hors d'oeuvres potluck- show starts 7pm  Where:  4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127 Suggested Donation: $25 at the door and DOS.  $20 in advance through venmo or if using paypal there will be a $1.00 surcharge per ticket. For paypal, click button below, and for Venmo go to your APP and send money to Margee-Aycock. RSVP required.  Your venmo or paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you are paying at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com.   Donate Now Welcome back House Concert Patrons!  It feels like we are slowly coming out of a long desert period and the oasis is in sight.  House Concerts Unlimited would like to offer you a nice tall glass of ice water to get you on your way, in the form of this great double bill. We are excited to bring back live music in an intimate setting.   COVID PROTOCALS FOR CONCERT:  Based on recent CDC guidelines, seating will be limited to 50 people to make social distancing easier, if so desired, so first come, first served. If you have been vaccinated, a mask and social distancing is optional.  If you have not been vaccinated, please follow the CDC guidelines and wear a mask and social distance when not eating or drinking. You may BYOB and we ask that you bring some finger foods to contribute to the snack table.  If you are more comfortable bringing food for your own group, that is fine.  We want everyone to feel comfortable.   Ben Bedford Press:   "There is a deeper, more resonant sound to his guitar playing which, like the music per se, evokes thoughts of Bruce Cockburn." -Mike Davies, Folk Radio-UK "To me there's something special about a songwriter who in a few words paints pictures of unbelievable depth and clarity. Ben Bedford to me is something special!" -No Depression Vanessa Lively Press: “Recorded by Keith Gary in Austin, Vanessa Lively’s fourth album is a fine example of Spanish flecked Americana, the sort of thing that Texas’ great music city is renowned for. Relentlessly accessible thanks to a style which owes just as much to classic pop songwriters, she places her words amongst an evocative selection of roots instruments (charango, violin, mandolin, trumpet) and the results are languid Latin ballads, alt. country laments and upbeat folk rock. Impossible to truly pigeonhole, Lively’s a musical adventurer, and “Uncovering Stones” reflects her passions and tastes. “Digging Up Dirt” marks an ideal opening, with her voice cajoling whilst the subtlest of Caribbean rhythms play out. “Men In White Hats” is altogether gentler, and displays an uncanny talent for pitch-perfect song craft. That’s followed by “Honeybee”, a faultless roots-pop song, which in some parallel universe would become a staple of daytime radio.” – Rob F., Leicester Bangs (Leicester, England) Ben Bedford caught on camera performing a song for his record, "The Pilot and the Flying Machine." Vanessa Lively - Unleash the Words (Official Music Video)

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SHANNON MCNALLY AND GREG SPRADLIN IN CONCERT SUNDAY, MAY 23rd SPONSORED BY THE ARTERY When:  Sunday, May 23rd Time:  Doors open 6pm, for hors d'oeuvres potluck- show starts 6:30pm  Where:  4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127 Suggested Donation: $25 at the door and DOS.  $20 in advance through venmo or if using paypal there will be a $1.00 surcharge per ticket. For paypal, click button below, and for Venmo go to your APP and send money to Margee-Aycock. RSVP required.  Your venmo or paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you are paying at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com.   Donate Now Welcome back House Concert Patrons!  It feels like we are slowly coming out of a long desert period and the oasis is in sight.  House Concerts Unlimited would like to offer you a nice tall glass of ice water to get you on your way, in the form of this great double bill. We are excited to bring back live music in an intimate setting.   COVID PROTOCALS FOR CONCERT:  Based on recent CDC guidelines, seating will be limited to 50 people to make social distancing easier, if so desired, so first come, first served. If you have been vaccinated, a mask and social distancing is optional.  If you have not been vaccinated, please follow the CDC guidelines and wear a mask and social distance when not eating or drinking. You may BYOB and we ask that you bring some finger foods to contribute to the snack table.  If you are more comfortable bringing food for your own group, that is fine.  We want everyone to feel comfortable.     AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY  Because of Covid and church not meeting, the food pantry at my church which supplements Iron Gate Ministry is running low, so I am asking that, if you feel so inclined, please bring a bag of groceries to the concert and leave by the inside door. Items most needed are: -Powdered dry milk -Pasta, rice, and/or dried pinto beans -Breakfast Cereal -Peanut Butter (and Jelly if available) -2-4 cans of vegetables and beans -canned meat (such as tuna or chicken)      We have quite a treat to kick off the 2021 season; Shannon McNally is a grammy nominated singer/songwriter with a 20 year career writing, co-writing, touring and performing on stages, solo and with a band and she has shared stages with the likes of Robert Randolph and Derek Trucks.  Thom Jurek at All Music said it best, "Only Gram Parsons' term "Cosmic American Music" begins to touch her mercurial, changeling roots aesthetic, ... McNally is a Zen-like, post-Beat song poet”. The Reverend Greg Spradlin will be sharing the stage and the Reverand, as his name implies, is baptized in rock 'n roll and gospel.  Greg usually performs with his Band Of Imperials.  Here's a quote about his new record, "Hi-Watter, the debut LP from Rev. Greg Spradlin and the Band of Imperials, has been waiting for us all this time, like a 100-year flood, ready to swell over the banks and drown us in its torrents of noise-damaged funk and gospel-possessed blues rumble. Swampy yet sophisticated. Greasy yet refined. Baptized in Hammond organ and rippling rock & roll guitar. It’s a record that plays like a debauched Saturday-night second line before washing your tattered soul clean Sunday morning."     Shannon McNally - Full Session - 9/19/2017 - Paste Studios - New York, NY

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Note from the host: Just want to thank everyone who came out for the Watermelon Slim concert.  It was a great success, and I so appreciated everyone's patience and cooperation in making live music safe and fun in this brave new world.  Music is a shining light, but you are all stars. Be safe and be well.

Songwriters In The Round Featuring Jared Tyler, Jesse Aycock, and Cassie Latshaw

Where:  Patio 201, 201 E. 2nd street, Tulsa, 74103 When:  Friday, November 6th (Rain Date- November 13th) Time: 6:30pm Click for more Details and Tickets:   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/house-concerts-at-patio-201-tickets-126573257019    Sponsored By The Tulsa Artery and Patio 201  House Concerts Unlimited Supported By The Artery, together with Scott Aycock (House Concerts Unlimited and NPR Tulsa- Folk Salad), Red Dirt Relief Fund and a select group of artists and musicians, will be organizing an ongoing event, which would address the current COVID concerns by turning the Blue Dome Market Parking lot into an outdoor food court. And the new Artery Courtyard, which faces the Blue Dome Market Parking lot into a performance stage 3-4 evenings a week. Tables that can seat groups of up to 6, 4 & 2 & will be safely distanced and partitioned. A web address will be provided for all guests in attendance, which will provide guests direct links to order “curb side from a number of participating Blue Dome Restaurants. Guests are welcome to mask up and retrieve their food, or let the patio 201 staff bring it to your table. Parking will be provided in the parking lot at 2nd and Detroit. Masks are required to enter, and must be worn when standing or walking away from your table. Please no outside food or drinks.

 

Imagine an evening out, surrounded by friends and fellow music lovers, sharing good conversation, and a passion for music in a smoke-free environment.   View this email in your browser  Presenting Watermelon Slim In All His Bluesness   House Concerts Unlimited, The Artery and Red Dirt Relief Fund are pleased to announce that we will begin offering live music in as Covid safe an environment as we can possibly create. Our first show will be outdoors at Patio 201 (please click below for details) and features the always entertaining and authentic bluesman Watermelon Slim. Date And Time Sat, October 17, 2020 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT ** This is a ticketed event, and parking will be provided with a printable parking pass(es) (up to 2),which will be emailed to you after you purchase your tickets. Parking will be located in the American parking lot at 2nd and Detroit.  Food will be available to order from a number of local participating restaurants. Please no outside food or drinks!   Masks are required to enter. Masks must be worn at all times when you are away from your table.   Masks may be removed when sitting at your table while eating and drinking.  Distanced and partitioned Tables will be provided for groups of 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2.  We have taken a lot of precautions to make this event as safe and as enjoyable as possible for our attendees, and will continue to do our upmost to ensure that everyone has a good experience.    Heaters will be provided for cooler evenings. Every Patio 201 performance will be assigned a "rain out date(s)”, typically these shows will be reassigned on the following (but are not limited to) Sunday afternoons or evenings.  If this Saturday event gets rained out, Watermelon has agreed to perform the next day, Sunday, October 18th.   This will be our maiden launch of this new concert space from which we hope to bring you many more shows, most of which will showcase our local Oklahoma talent, and as you know, we have plenty. One could make the case that Watermelon Slim is local. Although he presently hails from Mississippi, he spent many years living a rural life in Oklahoma, raising watermelons. Yep, that's right. Thus his name, "Watermelon Slim." Click Link Below For Details and Tickets!  TICKETS AND DETAILS   Sponsored by  The Artery, House Concerts Unlimited and supported by AHHA        WATERMELON SLIM - ARTIST BIOGRAPHY “The most exciting and authentic blues performer I’ve heard in years.” A.W., Paste Magazine 2x Winner: 2008 Blues Music Award Band of the Year and Album of the Year 2x Winner: 2006 & 2007 MOJO Magazine’s #1 Blues Album of the Year Winner: 6th Annual Independent Music Awards Blues Album of the Year ARTIST BIO: An ever-expanding career of ramshackle grandeur.  Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. HARP Magazine wrote “From sizzling slide guitar…to nitty-gritty harp blowing…to a gruff, resonating Okie twang, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life, a bottle of hooch in his pocket, and the Bible on the passenger seat.” Paste Magazine writes “He’s one hell of a bottleneck guitarist, and he’s got that cry in his voice that only the greatest singers in the genre have had before him.” Slim was born in Boston, his father was a progressive attorney and freedom rider and his brother is a classical musician. He was raised in North Carolina listening to the housekeeper sing John Lee Hooker songs. Slim attended Middlebury on a fencing scholarship but left early to enlist for Vietnam. While laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed he taught himself upside-down left-handed slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army issued Zippo. lighter as the slide. Slim first appeared on the music scene with the release of the only known protest record by a veteran during the Vietnam War. The project was Merry Airbrakes, a 1973 protest tinged LP with tracks Country Joe McDonald later covered. In the following 30 plus years Slim has been a truck driver, forklift operator, sawmiller (where he lost a partial finger), firewood salesman, collection agent, funeral officiator and at times a small time criminal. Due to aforementioned criminality, Slim was forced to flee Boston where he had played peace rallies, sit-ins and rabbleroused musically with the likes of Bonnie Raitt. Recently Raitt singled out Slim to her audience as a living blues legend during a summer 2009 performance. From Boston Slim landed in his current home state of Oklahoma farming watermelons – hence his stage name. Somewhere in those decades since Vietnam Slim completed two undergrad and a master’s degree, started a family, painted art and joined Mensa, the social networking group reserved for members with certified genius IQs. When he’s not on tour Slim loves to fish and garden.

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An Intimate evening with Watermelon Slim with John Long opening, Saturday, March 28th

Where:  The Stone Church 4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127 Time:  Doors open at 7pm, show starts 7:30pm Suggested Donation: $20 at the door and (DOS) DAY OF SHOW and $15 in advance and through PayPal.  Click button below to make donation through paypal. RSVP required, as seating is limited.  Your paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you plan to pay at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com Food:  We will provide some finger food and beverages for this event, but any food contribution from you would be much appreciated.    Also, feel free to BYOB     Sponsored by The Artery, House Concerts Unlimited and supported by AHHA

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WATERMELON SLIM - ARTIST BIOGRAPHY “The most exciting and authentic blues performer I’ve heard in years.” A.W., Paste Magazine 2x Winner: 2008 Blues Music Award Band of the Year and Album of the Year 2x Winner: 2006 & 2007 MOJO Magazine’s #1 Blues Album of the Year Winner: 6th Annual Independent Music Awards Blues Album of the Year ARTIST BIO: An ever-expanding career of ramshackle grandeur.  Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. HARP Magazine wrote “From sizzling slide guitar…to nitty-gritty harp blowing…to a gruff, resonating Okie twang, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of life, a bottle of hooch in his pocket, and the Bible on the passenger seat.” Paste Magazine writes “He’s one hell of a bottleneck guitarist, and he’s got that cry in his voice that only the greatest singers in the genre have had before him.” Slim was born in Boston, his father was a progressive attorney and freedom rider and his brother is a classical musician. He was raised in North Carolina listening to the housekeeper sing John Lee Hooker songs. Slim attended Middlebury on a fencing scholarship but left early to enlist for Vietnam. While laid up in a Vietnam hospital bed he taught himself upside-down left-handed slide guitar on a $5 balsawood model using a triangle pick cut from a rusty coffee can top and his Army issued Zippo. lighter as the slide. Slim first appeared on the music scene with the release of the only known protest record by a veteran during the Vietnam War. The project was Merry Airbrakes, a 1973 protest tinged LP with tracks Country Joe McDonald later covered. In the following 30 plus years Slim has been a truck driver, forklift operator, sawmiller (where he lost a partial finger), firewood salesman, collection agent, funeral officiator and at times a small time criminal. Due to aforementioned criminality, Slim was forced to flee Boston where he had played peace rallies, sit-ins and rabbleroused musically with the likes of Bonnie Raitt. Recently Raitt singled out Slim to her audience as a living blues legend during a summer 2009 performance. From Boston Slim landed in his current home state of Oklahoma farming watermelons – hence his stage name. Somewhere in those decades since Vietnam Slim completed two undergrad and a master’s degree, started a family, painted art and joined Mensa, the social networking group reserved for members with certified genius IQs. When he’s not on tour Slim loves to fish and garden.

Biography John Long was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1950 and was first exposed to the music he’d make his life’s work not long after.  His mother played several stringed instruments and supplemented the household income by teaching local guitarists.  By the late 1950s John was absorbing the sounds of Jimmy Reed, Buster Brown, Muddy Waters, Lightnin ’ Hopkins, Junior Parker, and all the rest of the R&B and jump blues of the day, and working on recreating those sounds with his own guitar.  By the early 1960s he was playing professionally in local bands, and digging deeper into the blues, through Muddy, Wolf, and Elmore, to Tampa Red, Peetie Wheatstraw , Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, Lonnie Johnson and others.  As Long immersed himself in the pre-war, acoustic blues era, he began to find a home stylistically, and started writing his own original music, inspired in large part by his brother Claude, whom he still credits as his biggest influence.

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An Intimate evening with Luke Bulla and Jared Tyler in concert. Saturday, January 18th.

Where:  The Stone Church 4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127 Time:  Doors open at 7pm, show starts 7:30pm Suggested Donation: $20 at the door and (DOS) DAY OF SHOW and $18 in advance and through PayPal.  Click button below to make donation through paypal. RSVP required, as seating is limited.  Your paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you plan to pay at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com Food:  We will provide some finger food and beverages for this event, but any food contribution from you would be much appreciated.    Also, feel free to BYOB     Sponsored by The Artery, House Concerts Unlimited and supported by AHHA

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Just a note from the host:  Luke Bulla and Jared Tyler are friends and have played together, so there's a strong possibility that they may join one another at some point during each other's perspective sets.

Hey, new Folk Salad Tee shirts and mugs are available for sale at the show, but even if you are not attending the show, and want a tee or mug or both, you can contact me to purchase. Shirts are $20 and mugs are $8.00 and there will be a small fee if I have to ship it to you.

Luke Bulla "The Valley"

Biography Luke Bulla has been singing and playing music most of his life. Touring and singing with his family band from the tender age of four, Luke took up the fiddle at seven. Over the course of the next few years, he won the National Fiddle Contest six times in his respective age categories. His seventh win came in the Grand Champion division at age sixteen, making him the youngest to have earned the title at the time. Entering Nashville’s Grand Masters fiddle contest at age ten, Luke distinguished himself by being the youngest person to have made the Top Ten. As a full-time Nashville resident since 1999, Luke has enjoyed playing fiddle with Ricky Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, as well as other wonderful musicians including Earl Scruggs, Lee Ann Womack, Brandi Carlile, Jim Lauderdale, Darrell Scott, Kevin Costner, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush. It was on a Cayamo Cruise that Luke and Lyle Lovett crossed paths leading to his invitation for Luke to join Lyle's touring band(s), including the world famous Large Band featuring many of America’s best-loved musicians. Luke’s feels very fortunate to have completed his seventh season with Lyle Lovett in 2016. As a solo artist, Luke's debut on the Pure Music Nashville label, 'Who Loves You Better’, was released in 2016. The album features Luke's warm and engaging lead vocals and his artful fiddle playing on his co-writes and fresh arrangements of songs composed by Lyle Lovett, Buddy Miller, Guy Clark, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Cole Porter and J.R. Stewart. Recorded at Zac Brown's awesome Southern Ground Nashville, the LP was produced by Grammy winner and guitar ace Bryan Sutton. Featured vocalists include: Sharon & Cheryl White, Maura O’Connell, Lee Ann Womack and Sara Jarosz, complemented by a veritable A-List of Americana's finest musicians including: Jerry Douglas, Noam Pikelny, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Sam Grisman, Bryan Sutton and many more!

Jared Tyler - "Gwendolyn" - Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK - 11/11/17

Written by Duane Verh June 13, 2017 - 12:00am EDT      Jared Tyler’s reflections and recollections, whether familial or romantic, are all served up in a warm-hearted, inviting manner by way of the Tulsa-based singer/songwriter’s soul-grounded, slightly urgent vocals.  The infectiousness of the spirited title track should garner airplay.  Other attention-worthy tracks include “Waltzing Around With My Shadow”, “Fort Gibson Lake” and “A Little Tonight”.   “Dirt On Your Hands” …  a work of rare finesse that intrigues from the first to the last note.  -Remo Ricaldone (Lonestar Time – Italy) Jared Tyler has put together a beauty of an album and needs to be heard.  Here is the title track from the album, titled Dirt On Your Hands.  Consider this only a taste.  The album is packed with outstanding songs.- Bob Segarini  “Tyler’s rich, soulful voice and confident delivery (and subject matter) put it in a category beyond the fare one normally finds on the country radio dial.”—Red Dirt Report “I freakin love this album…I recommend everyone check this one out.”—Sister Dorothy Blog “Pushing the envelop of roots/Americana, Tyler yummily mixes old timey, folk, country blues and the rest of the magilla into a roux that can be rolled out in a mix or individually to great effect.”—Midwest Record  “The new 12-song release begins with the country/folk/Americana sound of “Death Of Me” as you get a care-free style of music that makes you just pause and take notice.”—JP’s Music Blog