Harris Center: Spring 2019
In addition to program notes for today’s show, inside this program guide you’ll find information about the many arts education programs offered by Folsom Lake College (page 7) as well as the college’s Innovation Center makerspace (page 12). There’s also a spotlight on some dance academies, one of the many local arts organizations that perform in the Center (page 14). Visit page 11 to learn about Center Gift Cards, Discount Ticket programs, Group Sales and the Center’s Perks Card program. To help you plan ahead, a listing of this season’s events is available on pages 60 and 61. Also within are acknowledgements of some of the cast that help make this all possible, including our members anddonors (pages 54-55) and sponsors (page 57) whose support of the Center is critical to its success, since ticket revenues alone simply do not cover all the costs of providing a world-class arts center. As you learn more about the Center and its programs, we hope you’ll also consider contributing to help us further expand the reach and impact of the Harris Center in this community. Again, thank you for attending today’s performance. We hope you’ll enjoy this great show, up close, and return for many more in the years ahead. Dave Pier Executive Director Harris Center for the Arts
In addition to program notes for today’s show, inside this program guide you’ll find information about the many arts education programs offered by Folsom Lake College (page 7) as well as the college’s Innovation Center makerspace (page 12). There’s also a spotlight on some dance academies, one of the many local arts organizations that perform in the Center (page 14). Visit page 11 to learn about Center Gift Cards, Discount Ticket programs, Group Sales and the Center’s Perks Card program. To help you plan ahead, a listing of this season’s events is available on pages 60 and 61. Also within are acknowledgements of some of the cast that help make this all possible, including our members anddonors (pages 54-55) and sponsors (page 57) whose support of the Center is critical to its success, since ticket revenues alone simply do not cover all the costs of providing a world-class arts center. As you learn more about the Center and its programs, we hope you’ll also consider contributing to help us further expand the reach and impact of the Harris Center in this community.
Again, thank you for attending today’s performance. We hope you’ll enjoy this great show, up close, and return for many more in the years ahead.
Dave Pier
Executive Director
Harris Center for the Arts
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MARK HUMMEL'S <strong>2019</strong> SOUTHERN HARP BLOWOUT<br />
continued<br />
ANSON FUNDERBURGH<br />
Long time Golden State/Lonestar Blues<br />
Revue guitarist Anson Funderburgh was<br />
born in 1954 in Plano, Texas where the<br />
youngster first picked up the guitar in<br />
high school and was hit by the blues bug<br />
through Jimmy Reed Lightnin' Hopkins.<br />
By 1978 he had started Anson and<br />
the Rockets with vocalist/harmonica<br />
player Darrell Nulisch with the group being signed to Black Top<br />
Records a couple of years later. In 1986 Nulisch was replaced<br />
by Blind Sam Myers who stayed with the group until his death<br />
in 2006. The Rockets went on to win ten Blues Music Awards<br />
(formerly known as the W.C. Handy Blues Awards). It was widely<br />
regarded as the highest honor for blues artists in the United<br />
States. Funderburgh has played with Delbert McClinton (and<br />
joins his Sandy Beaches Cruise every year), Boz Scaggs, Snooks<br />
Eaglin, Earl King and Jimmy Buffet. Funderburgh is also the<br />
inspiration for Beavis of Beavis and Butthead as Mike Judge, the<br />
creator of those characters, worked as a Rocket for three years.<br />
MIKE KELLER<br />
Mike grew up in a musical family, his<br />
parents were musicians and his father<br />
played jazz, soul and rock in local bands<br />
around the Fargo area. Growing up he<br />
was influenced by Hendrix and Stevie<br />
Ray Vaughan and through them learned<br />
about the masters of the blues. Some of<br />
Mike's influences include Kenny Burrell,<br />
Freddie, Albert and B.B. King, Otis Rush and Jimmy Reed and<br />
later the slide techniques of Elmore James, Earl Hooker and<br />
Robert Nighthawk. These influences are apparent in his guitar<br />
playing which is pretty amazing! After getting an offer to play<br />
with Double Trouble (and becoming the first guitaist since Stevie<br />
Ray Vaughn), he moved back to Texas. "I did the Double Trouble<br />
gig for about two and half years, then played with Doyle Bramhall<br />
for four years, Marcia Ball for a year and a half, and then got the<br />
call to join the Fabulous Thunderbirds.<br />
Rounding out the GOLDEN STATE-LONE STAR BLUES REVUE<br />
are RW GRIGSBY on bass & famed Austin, Texas drummer WES<br />
STARR. Between these two old Rome, GA natives, they've played<br />
with a who's who of famed musicians - Omar & the Howlers,<br />
Junior Brown, Jimmy Vaughan, Asleep At The Wheel, Gary<br />
Primich, Kim Wilson, Mike Morgan, Carlene Carter, Hal Ketchum,<br />
Earl King, James Cotton and many more!<br />
20 2018-<strong>2019</strong> SEASON PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net
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