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Carolyn Wonderland
The Crown Uptown Theater
Wichita, KS
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Carolyn Wonderland
Doors @ 7 Show @ 8 pm

"One of the most impressively powerful voices recently heard anywhere, regardless of sex. Able to boon, cajole, promise and growl with equal power, she plays guitar with much the same forcefulness!"  Matt Weitz, Dallas Observer

A musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis and the guitar slinging skills of Stevie Ray, Carolyn Wonderland reaches into the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. She hits the stage with unmatched presence, a true legend in her time. "She grew up the child of a singer in a band and began playing her mother's vintage Martin guitar when other girls were dressing dolls. She'd gone from being the teenage toast of her hometown Houston to sleeping in her van in Austin amid heaps of critical acclaim for fine recordings Alcohol & Salvation, Bloodless Revolution, and most recently, Miss Understood.

Along with the guitar and the multitude of other instruments she learned to play  trumpet, accordion, piano, mandolin, lap steel  Wonderland's ability to whistle remains most unusual. Whistling is a uniquely vocal art seldom invoked in modern music, yet it's among the most spectacular talents the human voice possesses. That vocal proficiency was well-established in the singer's mid-teens, landing her gigs at Fitzgerald's by age 15. She absorbed Houston influences like Little Screamin' Kenny and soaked up the Mad Hatter of Texas music, Doug Sahm. The Lone Star State was as credible and fertile a proving ground for blues in the 1980's as existed, especially in Austin with Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Angela Strehli, Omar & the Howlers, and Lou Ann Barton who were all in their prime. By the following decade, Austin's blues luster thinned, but Houston, always a bastion of soul and R&B, boasted the Imperial Monkeys with the effervescent Carolyn Wonderland as ruler of the jungle.

In the early 1990's Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys were invited to the Guadalupe Street Antone's in Austin. There, they were treated like royalty with the singer as the queen of hearts in the club's post-Stevie Ray Vaughan stable, which included Toni Price, Johnny and Jay Moeller, Sue Foley, Mike and Corey Keller, and the Ugly Americans. It was a good bar for the Monkeys to hang, and Austin felt so comfortable that when the band called it quits a few years later, she set her sights on Austin at the start of the millennium.

Her circle of musician friends and admirers broadened to include not only Ray [Benson, who produced Miss Understood] but also the late Eddy Shaver, Shelley King, and yes, Bob Dylan, who likened her composition "Bloodless Revolution" to "a mystery movie theme." She began co-writing with locals Sarah Brown, Ruthie Foster, Cindy Cashdollar, and Guy Forsyth. She sat in with Los Lobos, Robert Earl Keen, and Ray Wylie Hubbard; recorded with Jerry Lightfoot; and toured with Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter. She also claims membership in the all-girl Sis Deville, the gospel-infused Imperial Crown Golden Harmonizers, and takes aw-shucks credit for inspiring Amsterdam's annual WonderJam.
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"General Admission Tickets are $20 + ticket fee/taxes.

Reserved Seating: There are 24 half round booths available to seat up to 6 people on tiers 2-4.  You MUST buy the minimum Reserved Table of 4 tickets + ticket fee/taxes.  

Example: If you want to add up to 2 more people for your reserved table of 6 people, you will need to buy 2 extra GA Tickets.  Tables are assigned in the order reservations are made.

Reserved and General Admission seating is limited to 225 and room capacity is 325. In other words, unless you have a reserved table, you are on a first come, first serve basis for General Admission Seating.  After that, STANDING ROOM ONLY!!

There will be no seating on the dance floor

Advance tickets available at http://badbeanproductions.brownpapertickets.com/

Food and beverages will be on a self serve basis.

Day of Show $20 CASH ONLY!

Location

The Crown Uptown Theater
3207 E. Douglas
Wichita, KS 67218
United States

Categories

Music > Blues
Music > R&B

Minimum Age: 21
Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: Bad Bean Productions
On BPT Since: May 31, 2014
 
Bad Bean Productions
carolynwonderland.com/

Attendees

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United States
Jan 23, 2015 4:33 PM
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Jan 23, 2015 4:33 PM
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United States
Jan 23, 2015 4:33 PM
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United States
Jan 23, 2015 4:33 PM
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Jan 23, 2015 1:03 PM

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