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Gettin' What They Deserve: An Evening of Outlaw Ballads
Authorities warn that English Dave, the Most Feared [singing] Outlaw of the West, will lead his his miscreant Gang to St Mark's Preservation Square on November 8th. Dave is believed to be the English folk singer David Nigel Lloyd. He and his gang will promote their lawless ways with a concert of outlaw ballads from three continents and three centuries.
The public is cordially invited.
SMPQ, the historic St. Mark's Episcopal Church, is at 300 Lane Street in Yreka. Ticket's are $12.00. $10.00 in advance. Doors open for the November 8th concert at 6:30. The show starts at 7:00
Members of the Highly Paid Professionals are known to be deadly on such instruments as fiddle, banjo, bull fiddle, ukulele, the frame drum known as the deafener, guitars, geetars and English Dave's octar.
"English Dave has the inside dirt on Billy the Kid," said one of Dave's gang, speaking under conditions of anonymity. "We know the Secret of Billy! Where else are you going to hear that?" They will also sing of Jack Dolan, AKA The Wild Colonial Boy, Billy's equivalent from Down Under, the continent of Australia. England's Robin Hood, the so-called outlaw's outlaw, clearly completes the continental trifecta with Europe itself. Though it is not known in which of three medieval centuries Hood actually lived, other songs of English Dave's repertoire can be clearly dated to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Addressing the accusation that their music is not only unoriginal but traditional, the informant boasted that English Dave "uses traditional tunes and themes where it suits his purposes." This is word for word what the British journal Folk Roots wrote about the music of David Nigel Lloyd, a Yreka resident who has performed in England, Ireland, Canada and throughout the United States.
With his "spirited singing and full-bodied playing," (Dirty Linen) "Lloyd is as much American influenced as British" (Steve Hochman, The LA Times). He accompanies himself on guitar and the 8-stringed octar. In performance, he often introduces his songs with an ornate joke, a true tale or to keep things honest an outrageous lie. As the LA Weekly once wrote, "Lloyd is some serious traditional fun."
Lloyd's predecessors were innovative singer/guitarists like Martin Carthy, Robin Williamson and the late Bert Jansch. In mid-60s London, they saw the ballads, the blues, beat poetry, ragas, Zen teaching tales etc. as aspects of the same thing: a new popular song. Often as not they were fine song poets, too. Lloyd is firmly in their non-tradition.
Though he sometimes sings traditional songs as he finds them, DNL often overlays them with new but related lyrics. In them, the olde Anglo-Celtic pantheon of demon knights, faerie queens and divine drunkards are often found wandering the deserts, mountains and boom towns of Southern California where DNL lived for 35 years. "A strongly individual musical and poetic mind is at work here." (beGlad, UK)
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LocationSt. Mark's Preservation Square (View)
300 Lane Street
Yreka, CA 96097
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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