Free Range Fridays: Honky Tonk Live Music Night | Richmond Dist.

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Free Range Fridays: Honky Tonk Live Music Night | Richmond Dist.

Free Range Fridays features live, acoustic music by some of the Bay Area’s finest Americana performers. The series is hosted by Jeanie and Chuck Poling, longtime contributors to the local folk/country/bluegrass scene. Free Range Fridays attracts many great artists who play for the sheer joy of sharing their music with a crowd that really appreciates it. Plus, they’ve had some awesome special guests show up – no promises, but rumor has it that past cameos include Jimmie Dale Gilmore (true) and Robert Plant (false, but we love how rumors we started get back to us as fact).

It’s not just a show, it’s a pocket festival that will pull heartstrings, induce belly laughter, and get that brain thinkin’ mighty powerful thoughts. All FRF shows are free and are part of their continuing effort to keep alive San Francisco’s tradition of coffeehouse entertainment. Shows are presented roughly every three months.

Friday, March 21, 2014
The Dim Lights | Free Range Fridays: Honky Tonk Live Music Night | Richmond Dist.

The Dim Lights join Jeanie and Chuck for Free Range Fridays, with  special guests, The Powell Sisters from Colorado.

They’ll be aided and abetted by good ole reliable, rockin’ Pat Campbell on bass, along with Nate Levine, friend and neighbor who’ll be pickin’ a couple numbers on his guitar.

The Powell Sisters come with an enthusiastic recommendation from our friend Heidi Clare (Reeltime Travelers, The Wronglers), which was all we needed to hear. But we went ahead and checked out some YouTubes of the sisters and we were really impressed. It’s a fortuitous turn of events that their visit to San Francisco aligns with the Free Range Fridays cosmos.

The Dim Lights are a fine example of a family band that doesn’t hail from any particular hill or holler (they’re from Pacifica, not Paducah) but has enthusiastically embraced playing bluegrass music together as an exercise in togetherness. Vicki and Avram Frankel, along with daughter Dana are joined by master banjo ninja Larry Cohea. We’ve known the Frankels for years and have jammed with them on many occasions, here in the Bay Area and at various festivals around California. They have a regular gig at the Moose Lodge in Pacifica – we’ve been, and the experience is a big meaty slice of Americana covered in a hearty bluegrass sauce.

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