Mark Growden & Eric McFadden are playing live tonight in a special performance at BellyTimber Tavern on Main Street. This duo has quite a career in the music industry. Check out the videos and links below. This is a performance you will not want to miss out on...
WHAT: Awesome Musical Duo At Bellytimber!
WHO: Mark Growden and Eric McFadden
WHERE: Bellytimber Tavern, 1501 W. Main St.
WHEN: Monday October 24, 9 PM
ADMISSION: FREE!
Read detailed biographies of both musicians after the jump...
Eric McFadden
Eric has toured Europe, Japan, Australia and the U.S. as mandolinist/guitarist with funk legend George Clinton & his Parliament/Funkadelic collective for over 3 years, and continues to collaborate with Clinton on outside projects. Eric also spent a year and a half touring the world with Eric Burdon & The Animals, and continues to tour with his primary band, The Eric McFadden Trio, featuring bass phenomenon James Whiton and a rotating cast of drummers, including the great Paulo Baldi. Eric has released several albums through the French label, Bad Reputation. His latest release, Bluebird on Fire, has received much acclaim, including a 5 star review in Crossroads Magazine.
Eric has also collaborated on stage and/or in the studio with the regal likes of Bo Diddley, blues troubadour Keb Mo’, prog-metalists Living Colour, Clash frontman Joe Strummer, avant-punk jazz great Nels Cline (Wilco), Primus mastermind Les Claypool, Metersguitarist Leo Nocentelli and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, experimental country punk pioneer Carla Bozulich, Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering of the Pixies, Widespread Panic, Jackson Browne, punk legend Mike Watt (Minutemen), The Reverend Horton Heat, and others.
"If San Francisco is home to anyone approaching the abilities of a modern Hendrix, it's Eric McFadden." (Jimmy Leslie / Guitar Player Magazine 2009)
"...McFadden is a six string virtuoso. His command of so many genres- is accentuated with meticulously crafted songs. There's the poppy twist on traditional psychadelia. Poetic yet sinisterly distorted punk. Rowdy rockabilly. Dark, foreboding grunge. His melodies hinge on seriously catchy choruses that resonate thanks to a crunchy baritone reminiscent of Tom Waits or the late Mark Sandman of Morphine..." (The Denver Post, December 2009 concert review)
Mark Growden
What makes Mark Growden unique is his approach to music-making. He doesn’t like to use a microphone, and he often doesn’t need one. He records his CDs in live studio takes, with little or no overdubbing. His ability to powerfully connect with his music and audiences has earned him a solid fan base in San Francisco’s Bay area, as well as across the country. Growden began his musical career scoring instrumental pieces for dance and theater companies, including Joe Goode Performance Group and The Crucible. His work with Alonzo King’s LINES Contemporary Ballet won the Isadora Duncan Award for Best Original Score for a New Dance Piece. “I am first and foremost trained as an avant garde saxophonist and as a composer,” explains Growden. “My job is to take traditions and turn them on their heads - to break the traditions and to innovate.” Growden’s musical influences are broad: Motown, church choir, school band, death rock and alternative music, in his early years; contemporary classical, jazz and Alan Lomax field recordings, currently. His primary instruments are accordion, banjo, voice, and bicycle handlebars he plays like a flute. Growden’s lyrics - inspired by Joni Mitchell, Townes van Zandt and Rumi and honed into well-crafted poetry – have been compared to Leonard Cohen and Kurt Weill. Growden has released several critically acclaimed albums and performed at venues such as the Fillmore and Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and Tonic and The Knitting Factory in New York. Musical ensembles in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tucson play with Growden in live concerts, as well as studio recordings.
"Growden's voice is bigger than a 10-story building, and when he clacks his cowboy boots on a hollow patch of floor along to some of his tunes, the sound seems to reverberate across the globe." - Laura Casey, Contra Costa Times
“Fiery, earthy and sublimely sensual.” – Comet Magazine
“A sight and sound you don’t want to miss.” – S.F. Bay Guardian
“Theatrical, dark and sexy.” – West Coast Performer
“Mark Growden has to be on of California’s most colorful and intriguing musicians…. Growden is a genius.” – Albuquerque Alibi
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