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Teen Lounge
We've opened a Teen Lounge in our Main Building. It's available every afternoon, Monday through Friday, from 1pm to 5pm. Foosball, wifi, games, art supplies, music, bean-bag chairs, and snacks. It's a fun, funky place to hang out for our local teens. For info, contact our Teen Lounge Coordinator, Cynthia Sumner, at teenlounge@seb.org.
Coming Up
Roland White & Band
Friday, February 24
Bluegrass hero: Roland White & his band (Laurie Lewis, Keith Little, Pat Sauber, Bill Amatneek)
Roland White & Band
Bluegrass hero: Roland White & his band (Laurie Lewis, Keith Little, Pat Sauber, Bill Amatneek)
Friday February 24th @ 7:30
Tickets: $22 in advance general, $20 an advance for CBA or SoCoFo members, $25 at the door
At the Sebastopol Community Center Annex
425 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA
This show is co-sponsored by The Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
Roland White is known as one of the few unique stylists on the mandolin, with his own unmistakable sound and touch. In his distinguished career in bluegrass music, Roland has played in some of the most influential and popular groups in the music's history, and has played a large part in creating that history.
His gifts as a musician have delighted audiences everywhere: his vitality, soul, and infectious rhythm enable him to dance through his instrument. Add to this his mastery of ensemble playing, harmonic sophistication, and warm voice guided by a swinging sense of phrasing, and you have the legend of bluegrass that Roland has become.
The Roland White Band features a diverse repertoire of songs and tunes consisting of old and new bluegrass classics, traditional country songs, original instrumentals, traditional instrumentals with a special fondness for Monroe, and a few favorites from Roland's years with the Kentucky Colonels and Country Gazette.
Springing from a large family of musicians, Roland, along with brothers Eric and Clarence, first played together as youngsters in their native Maine. Moving to southern California in 1955, The Country Boys (later to become The Kentucky Colonels) won talent contests and appeared on local television shows and even landed appearances on The Andy Griffith Show. The Kentucky Colonels influence has far exceeded the band's short tenure as an active band. Their Appalachian Swing album remains one of the most influential albums of that era, a landmark in the history of bluegrass. During the years the Kentucky Colonels were together, they featured such great musicians as Roger Bush, Billy Ray Lathum, Leroy Mack, Bobby Slone, and the legendary fiddler Scott Stoneman.
Moving from The Kentucky Colonels into a position as guitarist for Bill Monroe in the late 60's, Roland absorbed the traditional feel and repertoire from the Father Of Bluegrass that remains a strong element in his music today. He also took part in several landmark recording sessions while a Bluegrass Boy, among them The Gold Rush, Is The Blue Moon Still Shining, Crossing The Cumberlands, Sally Goodin, Kentucky Mandolin, and The Walls Of Time. From Monroe's band, Roland moved on to that of another bluegrass plays in Sebastopol with his West Coast bluegrass band!
pioneer, Lester Flatt, playing mandolin and recording several albums as a member of The Nashville Grass from 1969-1973. In 1973 a short-lived reunion of The White Brothers was brought to an untimely end due to Clarence White's tragic death. Roland then began a thirteen-year tenure with the progressive west coast group Country Gazette, first playing guitar and then mandolin, with such bluegrass luminaries as Byron Berline, Alan Munde, Joe Carr, and Roger Bush. Roland's most recent musical affiliation, with the highly decorated Nashville Bluegrass Band, began in 1989 and ended when he left that group at the end of 2000. The Nashville Bluegrass Band distinguished themselves as the premier bluegrass band of their generation, winning two Grammies and Grammy nominations on all of their albums.
Roland has put together a band for his west coast shows that consists of many of the top players in California bluegrass. For these shows he will be joined by fiddler extrodinaire Laurie Lewis, banjo ace Patrick Sauber, bassist Bill Amatneek and Keith Little on guitar and vocals.
