Dave Alvin, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and self-described “barroom guitarist,” is widely considered to be one of the pivotal founders of the current Americana music scene.  Dave TOM WILK (Courier-Post) writes “After 30 years as a professional musician that has included stints with the Blasters, X, the Knitters and as a solo artist leading the Guilty Men, Dave Alvin knows change is a recurring part of a musician’s education.” This successful redefining brings Cindy Cashdollar and Christy McWilson! 

Since forming the highly influential roots rock/R+B band The Blasters, with his brother Phil in 1979, and throughout his long and critically acclaimed solo career, Dave Alvin has mixed his varied musical and literary influences into his own unique, updated version of traditional American music. Combining elements of blues, folk, R+B, rockabilly, Bakersfield country and garage rock and roll with lyrical inspiration from local writers and poets like Raymond Chandler, Gerald Locklin and Charles Bukowski, Alvin says that his songs are “just like California. A big, messy melting pot.”

Tickets $22 in advance, $27 at the door.

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