Modesto Unplugged Music Festival June 21-29
The hit acoustic/folk festival in downtown Modesto returns for its second year at the end of June! 50 acts will come together to jam, both national players and local favorites. You’ll enjoy the sounds of bluegrass, Americana, old-time country, swing, gypsy, folk, anti-folk, orchestral-folk, acoustic pop/rock, Irish/traditional, roots, blues, vintage ukulele tunes, and more. FRIDAY 6/21 @ Deva Café (1202 J St.), 6 PM – $10 THE THOUGHTS (orchestral folk from Seattle, WA) Award-winning NZ singer/songwriter JACKIE BRISTOW D. Henry Fenton Fox & Woman Boscoe’s Brood Alida McKeon |
SATURDAY 6/22 @ Theatre 417 (417 7th St.), 4 PM – $10
THE HOT DARK (formerly Descendants Of Prospectors)
Of Us Giants
Indian Runner
Mondo Mariscal
She Killed Kurt
Evan Middlesworth (from Eau Claire, WI)
SUNDAY 6/23 @ Theatre 417 (417 7th St.), 2 PM – $10
DEAR INDUGU
The Dustbowl Children
Deborah Crooks
Lino Alibani
Brandon Sutton w/ Victoria Sutton Krippner
WEDNESDAY 6/26 @ Peer Recovery Art Project (1222 J St.), 5pm
Free songwriting workshop led by Alan Williams, doctor of ethnomusicology, master folk songwriter, and lead man of Birdsong At Morning.WEDNESDAY 6/26 @ Barkin’ Dog Grill (940 11th St.), 7:30 PM – $5
MARIA QUILES & RORY CLOUD (bay area Americana duo)
Birdsong At Morning (master folk songwriter from Lowell, MA)
Rusty String Express
THURSDAY 6/27 @ Kane Studio (1010 Tully Rd.), 7 PM – $5
THE BREAKING YARD (indie folk from Portland, OR)
National hammered-dulcimer champion DAVID MAHLER (Nashville)
Rose Droll
Benjamin Phelps
FRIDAY JUNE 28 @ Deva Café (1202 J St.), 6-10 PM – $10
PROFESOR BURNS & THE LILAC FIELD
KATIE HELL
The Goat And The Feather
Ryan David Orr (from Lakeside, AZ)
Lila Nelson
SATURDAY 6/29 @ Center Stage Conservatory (948 11th St.), 2 PM – $15 advance/$20 at door.
Bay area gypsy string ensemble DIRTY CELLO
Award-winning songwriter JEN HAJJ
Jeremy Penick
Mark Lemaire & Twilight
Jill Cohn
King Harobed
Al Medina
Rainy Escobar
Savant
The Airlings
SUNDAY 6/30 @ Center Stage Conservatory (948 11th St.), 2 PM $15 advance/$20 at door.
PATTY CASTILLO DAVIS
GHOST TOWN GOSPEL
The (Secret) Hitchers
Rob Larkin
Bourbon Legend (ukulele rock from Las Cruces, NM)
Colorado Road
Mali Gosney
William Morebeck
Patrice Webb (award winning songwriter from Sandpoint, ID)
The Dandelion Massacre
Deborah Crooks (www.DeborahCrooks.com) is a writer, performing songwriter and recording artist based in San Francisco whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Chrissie Hynde and Natalie Merchant.
Singing about faith, love and loss, her lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing and world travel while her music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues. She released her first EP “5 Acres” in 2003 produced by Roberta Donnay, which caught the attention of Rocker Girl Magazine, selecting it for the RockerGirl Discoveries Cd. In 2007, she teamed up with local producer Ben Bernstein to complete “Turn It All Red” Ep, followed by 2008’s “Adding Water to the Ashes” CD, and a second full-length CD “2010. She’s currently working on a third CD to be released in 2013.
Deborah’s many performance credits include an appearance at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the RockerGirl Magazine Music Convention, IndieGrrl, at several of the Annual Invasion of the GoGirls at SXSW in Austin, TX, the Harmony Festival and 2009’s California Music Fest, MacWorld 2010, Far West Fest and many other venues and events. She toured the Northwest as part “Indie Abundance Music, Money & Mindfulness” (2009) with two other Bay Area artists, and followed up with “The Great Idea Tour of the Southwest in March 2010 with Jean Mazzei.
