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An Evening with Anela Lauren and David Gans
Join us for an amazing evening of beautiful acoustic music featuring the harp and guitar. Harpist Anela Lauren ("Harpin' on the Dead") and "solo electric" performer David Gans will perform separately and together.
Anela Lauren is not your average harpist. She is a classically trained pianist from a very young age, but soon discovered the joys of improvisation. Anela has adapted a wide range of music to the harp; particularly contemporary folk and rock ballads, with a nod to classical, traditional, Celtic and Hawaiian tunes.
Anela is a confessed natural beauty junkie. She spent 20 years in the Hawaiian Islands, 2 years in Taos, New Mexico, and is excited to call Boulder, Colorado her newest home. While in Hawai'i, she developed her distinctive style fluid and graceful improv with kaleidoscopic overtones.
Along the way, Anela has played at many festivals and events with folks such as renowned harpist Sylvia Woods, slack-key greats Makana, Stephen Inglis and Cindy Combs as well as folk hero Michael Franti for a 300-person yoga class during New Year's of 2006.
Lately, she has been promoting her newest CD "Harpin' on the Dead" and playing with Grateful Dead Hour's David Gans and tribute bands Half Step, Let it Grow and currently Denver's own Juba Juba.
David Gans is known far and wide as the light behind the widely syndicated Grateful Dead Hour radio program, several books on the Dead and a number of intriguing CDs relating to the band and its music. David has in recent years developed a solid following nationwide for his compelling songs and music.
But "skilled solo performer" fills only one page of David's artistic resumé. Besides playing in all sorts of bands through the yearsfrom the fondly remembered Reptiles to the Honky Tonk Hippies, to his recent forays jamming on Beatles songs with Chris and Lorin Rowan (and friends) in a group called Rubber Souldiershe's also sat in with an amazing range of fine musicians, such as Phil Lesh, Donna the Buffalo, Henry Kaiser, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Ollabelle, the late great Vassar Clements, Jim Lauderdale, The String Cheese Incident, Peter Rowan, and moe., to name just a few. He has also written songs with a host of others, including Jim Page, Lorin Rowan, and Robert Hunter.
A David Gans "solo electric" performance is likely to consist of several elements: country-blues-style fingerpicking; loop-based improvisations created live in the moment; sweetly-sung ballads, original or borrowed; Grateful Dead songs reinterpreted to suit his voice and guitar; wry observations of the music-festival subculture and the larger world; soulful and passionate political commentary; favorites from the folk-rock canon of the last 50 years. Mix and match it's never the same show twice, but it's always worth a listen.
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LocationSecond Act Marketplace & Events (View)
1727 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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