Java Notes is a concert series of professional folk musicians from around the country. Concerts will be performed in a coffeehouse atmosphere. Funds raised from each concert are used to help people in need through local nonprofit agencies. All proceeds from this Concert is dedicated to The Outreach LGBT Community Center.
Performances will be held at 8:00 p.m. at the Brink Lounge. Grab your tickets, a cup of wine or coffee, and enjoy wonderful music while helping others.
 CATIE CURTIS - CONCERT AT THE BRINK LOUNGE IN MADISON |
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We are honored to present Catie Curtis in concert with her newly released CD Stretch Limousine.
When the singer/songwriter movement boomed in the mid-90s, Catie Curtis was at its forefront. Now a veteran artist with a 15 year career, Curtis has recorded ten critically acclaimed solo albums and has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including Dawson’s Creek, Felicity, Grey’s Anatomy and Alias, as well as in films such as 500 Miles to Graceland and A Slipping Down Life.
Curtis’ new CD, STRETCH LIMOUSINE ON FIRE, is a bold statement of beauty yet simultaneously grittier—a bit more raw—than her past work. Produced by Lorne Entress (Lori McKenna, Ronnie Earl, Mark Erelli, Mighty Sam McLain) and recorded and mixed primarily in Los Angeles by noted engineer Ryan Freeland (Ray LaMontangue, Ingrid Michaelson, The Weepies), the album features guest vocalistsLisa Loeb and Mary Chapin Carpenter along with musicians Jay Bellerose(Drums), Jennifer Condos and Jesse Williams (Bass), Thomas Juliano (electric guitar), Duke Levine (Lap Steel and guitar), David Limina (Organ) and Glenn Patscha and Julie Wolf (keyboards). Standout tracks include the title cut, “Shadowbird”, “Highway del Sol” and “River Wide”. Matthew Curry, a Grammy nominated artist/designer best known for his work with Thievery Corporation, illustrated the cover and designed the CD artwork.
In 2009 she was honored to be selected to perform at the inauguration of President Barrack Obama in Washington D.C.
On the new album, Curtis, a Lilith Fair alum who's been dubbed a "folk-rock goddess" by The New Yorker, delivers some of the finest material of her career: ten original songs that push at her own musical boundaries and explore "the difficult edges of passing events" in life, harsh realities that are tempered with moments of fleeting beauty. This temporary nature of life is a theme that pervades the album from the first notes. Opening song "Let It Last, which features folk powerhouse and former tour mate Mary Chapin Carpenter singing harmony, finds Curtis pleading "I know it can't last/And all I ask is let it last a little longer."
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