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2008 Event Sponsors
Children's Art Stage Sponsor Poster Sponsored By Electricity Work donated by Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission
Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold Printed Materials Provided By Premier Printing & Norman Falk The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank Deborah Anderson and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event! |
Heartifacts P.O. Box 850702 New Orleans, LA 70185-0702 (985) 429-8260 (Hammond, LA) davefeasley@hotmail.comTHE NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE SAYS: " In Easley’s hands, an instrument that is a staple of classic country music sounds like a piano, a saxophone, a sitar, steel drums---anything but what you’d expect. . . Easley tosses off jaw-dropping chromatic runs over songs that merge jazz, reggae, blues, folk. . ." "Bebop pedal steel? That’s David Easley’s specialty." Scott Aiges RELIX MAGAZINE SAYS: "One of the best, and most refreshing ‘unknown’ bands I’ve heard in a long, long time." (Heartifacts) Mick SkidmoreGAMBIT MAGAZINE, NEW ORLEANS, SAYS: ". . . One of the most intriguing figures to emerge on the New Orleans music scene in recent memory. . . Easley’s quivering, John-Coltrane-meets-Buddy-Emmons licks also have earned him guest slots on recent CDs from Mem Shannon, Brian Blade and Coco Robicheaux. . . His band, Heartifacts, . . . takes its cue from mid-70’s Grateful Dead." Scott Jordan AWARDS AND ACCOLADES: Offbeat Magazine 1998 Best Of The Beat Award: Dave Easley placed second for "Other Instrumentalist" and was nominated again in 1999. Offbeat Magazine 1997 Best Of The Beat Award: Dave Easley was Best "Other Instrumentalist". (2nd place winner was Pete Fountain). Offbeat Magazine 1997 Best Of The Beat Award: 3 Now 3 was named Best New Progressive Jazz Band. Gambit Big Easy Awards, 1997: 3 Now 3 was named Best Emerging Artist. MP3: #1 Song Sara De La Mer (Psychedelic) during June 1999. MP3: #5 Song Magic Ball (Reggae) during June 1999.
Dave Easley P.O. Box 850702 New Orleans, LA 70185-0702 (985) 429-8260 (Hammond, LA) davefeasley@hotmail.comHeartifacts Witch Doctors Of The Soul
Biographical information for Dave Easley:Bandleader: Heartifacts-Witch Doctors Of The Soul (roots rock)Current band member: Coco Robicheaux (swamp blues)
Gary Hirstius Duo (roots rock)
3 Now 4 (progressive jazz, with James Singleton, Tim Green, & Johnny Vidacovich) The Three Twins (former members of The Subdudes) Sarah Kramer (cool originals) Recent band member: Damien Youth (alternative)
Invisible Cowboy (alternative)
Nine Mile Skid (Grateful Dead cover band)
Brian Blade& Fellowship (progressive Jazz)
Ricky Costrillo & Dreamland (roots rock) Denise Mangiardi (progressive jazz) Dave Sharp & The Hard Travelers (rock w/ Dave Sharp of the Alarm) Discography: Heartifacts-Witch Doctors of the Soul– Boatmen Waiting On The Wind (Independent) Brian Blade & Fellowship – Brian Blade & Fellowship (Blue Note produced by Dan Lanois), Perceptual (w/Joni Mitchell on vocals, Blue Note ) (Street Date: April 11, 2000) Coco Robicheaux – Louisiana Medicine Man (Orleans Records) Royal Fingerbowl –Happy Birthday, Sabo! (TVT Records) Mem Shannon – Spend Some Time With Me (Shanachie Records) 3 Now 4 – 3 Now 4 (S.E.M. Records) Denise Mangiardi – River Of My Own (Crow Hill) Irene Sage – Irene Sage (Independent) Mike Reiner - Rhino (Independent) Paul Christian – Pan (Cannon Music)Frankie Nola – Frankie Nola (Independent) Lauren Pickford – Sutrees on the River (w/Rosie Carter Cash)
Dave Easley P.O. Box 850702 New Orleans, LA 70185-0702 (985) 429-8260 (Hammond, LA) davefeasley@hotmail.comHeartifacts Witch Doctors Of The Soul
Heartifacts is a band based in New Orleans, Louisiana fronted by writer, guitarist, singer and pedal steel player Dave Easley. The Heartifacts core band consists of Thomas MacDonald (from Anders Osborne, B-Goes, and Peabody) on bass and vocals; Karl Budo (from New World Funk Ensemble) on drums; Ethan Leaming on guitar and vocals; Michael Skinkas (from Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, New World Funk Ensemble, Dreamland, and Smilin’ Myron) on hand percussion; and Elisabeth Gill (B-Goes) on background vocals and auxiliary percussion. Other occasional members/guests include Maria Griener, and Irene Sage on background vocals, Jim Singleton (3 Now 4) on acoustic bass and Nancy Buchan (Coco Robicheaux, Mamou) on fiddle.
Heartifacts appears at: Snug Harbor, Margaritaville, the Dragon’s Den, the Circle Bar, DBA, the Howlin’ Wolf, Kerry’s Irish Pub, the Louisiana Music Factory, Zeitgeist Theater, Acadian Beer Garden, Silky O'Sullivan's, New Orleans, The Rivershack, Borders, Metairie, Augustine's Hammond Martyrs, Wooden Nickel, Chicago, Rock Island Brewing Co., Rock Island, Iron Post, Urbana, IL.
Heartifacts is available to play clubs, fairs, festivals, conventions, Mardi Gras parties, private events, "alternative" weddings, and various venues across the Gulf Coast and the Southeast. More Press Relix Magazine (cont.): There’s not much I can tell you about The Heartifacts-Witch Doctors of the Soul except that they are one of the best, and most refreshing "unknown" bands I’ve heard in a long, long time. This five-piece hails from New Orleans. Their sound is not overtly commercial, but it’s got musical integrity, vitality and melody. Strong jazz tones add to the band’s fluid and inventive improvisations. There’s plenty of substance to the songs which run the gamut of styles from folk-rock and jazz through psychedelia and funk. The band is led by pedal steel guitarist, Dave Easley, who manages to make the pedal steel guitar sound like anything but a country instrument. A well recorded 90-minute demo tape features some excellent original tunes by Easley as well as some innovative modern jazz workouts such as "Favorite Things" and "A Visit to the Zoo." According to Easley, Deadheads love the band’s music, and it is easy to see why, as it has that free-flowing air of spontaneity. In fact, in the segue of "The Water Came Up High/Gypsy Mother" there’s a slight spacey psychedelic phase before slipping into neo-African rhythms and back to jazz-rock-come-psychedelia. Mick Skidmore
Alternatives: …Easley belongs to the Orphic line of musical artists who report to society in music from the subterranean and sub-rational lode of the unconscious whose music is intuitive, ecstatic and oracular…Easley writes intuitively, from Surrealist-style cues: dreams, alpha-state visions, automatic drawing. His experiences and readings steep in the unconscious to soak up their language and meaning…Easley’s non-linear approach yields consistently potent, telling lyrics: "The water came up high but didn’t knock the lions from the sea wall. Deep into the night angry dogs gave their call For tender charges behind the gates, Or ancient times still resplendent in their skulls." …Shuttling into the unconscious also enables wordplay, free association and Lewis Carroll inversions. From the Native American viewpoint, "the West was lost if the West was won."… …Reggae, rock, salsa, blues, folk, Middle Eastern, country and more weave their way into The Heartifacts’ modern jazz/psychedelic core – not for novelty, but for their intrinsic, if sometimes oblique, pertinence to the material. The setting for each poem seems to choose itself in an intuitive process that Easley "can’t explain." Again, this non-conscious process has a multi-leveled effect… poignant in its beauty, truth and mystery … When genres are served straight, folklorically, they’re often coupled with decidedly non-traditional, even paradoxical, material… …What makes The Heartifacts "witch doctors of the soul"? From below consciousness, The Heartifacts bring unarguable visions that bond us; from before history, the pre-patriarchal imprint of social harmony; from around the world, regional and sub-cultural rhythms and sounds. Their medicine music shrieks, whispers, laments, caresses, warns, celebrates and reveals. And makes you feel good. Judy Beck |
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