SUNDAY MUSIC: FINGERED ‘N PICKED
By the book: Kim Yarson presents a Tribute to Moms for Mother’s Day, Sunday afternoon at the Middletown Library, with Susan Lia also appearing.
Tribute to Moms at Middletown Public Library. Kim Yarson loves moms; is a mom herself, and has a whole set of songs for and about moms. The singer and songwriter, who has “accepted her gift” and whose debut CD Satisfied is filled with songs that “come from a very real place…on her journey to healing,” has performed for Moms Clubs around the state; her upcoming release A Tribute to Moms will be previewed with an intimate acoustic concerts this Mother’s Day, May 10 with a 2:30pm performance inside the community room of the MTPL main branch. Bring your mom — she’ll love you for it, and it beats a gift card from Cost Cutters any old day.
Listen to the mandolin reign: Richard Morris of the M Shanghai String Band leads the jam at Asbury’s Twisted Tree Cafe on Sunday afternoon.
M Shanghai String Band at Twisted Tree Cafe. In an interview that appeared in oRBit last week, mandolin master (and Highlands resident) Richard Morris described for us the BOTMA bluegrass jam that goes down each month at the Embury United Methodist Church in Little Silver. As a member of the Brooklyn-based M Shanghai String Band (who played a showcase concert in Atlantic Highlands last weekend), Morris has a little monthly happening of his very own — a Sunday afternoon set at Asbury Park’s local-organic Twisted Tree Cafe, where he’ll be parking it for a spell this second Sunday in May. Although it’s billed under the M Shanghai name, Morris took pains to point out that it’s not a full-lineup appearance of that 11-member roots-country powerhouse, but a “sittin’ in” kind of solo endeavor in which the bluegrass traditionalist and songwriter is joined by a rotating cast of bandmates and friends. It happens between the hours of 4 and 5:30pm Sunday, with Cliff Bloodgood taking it home from there to 7pm.
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British singer and toaster Pato Banton assembles the best of Shore reggae players, Sunday night at The Saint in Asbury.
Pato Banton at The Saint. A figure who since the 1980s has been working the corner where pop-reggae crossed Brit new wave, Pato Banton’s been known for his collaborations with and covers of performers ranging from The Police and The English Beat to UB40 and Eddy Grant. The spiritually minded veteran is in the middle of a rare US tour — and that makes it a sufficiently special occasion so that when he visits The Saint in Asbury Park he’ll be sharing the stage with the Shore’s finest reggae talents, Random Test and the Predator Dub Assassins — as well as “the Red Stripe sound system, spinning the sounds.” Doors at 7:30pm; tickets are $18 advance here or $22 at the door.
Dave Crowton manages the madness, as Danny Murphy’s landmark restaurant presents another installment in its new series of Sunday night open mic events.
Open Mic with Dave Crowton at Danny’s. Just a couple of days ago here in oRBit, we looked in on what has to be the gold standard of Open Mic events on the Jersey Shore — the Sunday night sessions hosted by Rob Dye (and featuring an astounding cross-section of talent from the regional music scene) at Jamian’s Food and Drink in Red Bank.
It may not have achieved the hard-earned cachet of Dye’s long-running event, but the recently established Open Mic Sundays at west side landmark Danny’s Steakhouse are poised to build their own momentum, with the help of a master and mistress of ceremonies who should be familiar to frequenters of Shore area taverns and restaurants — Dave Crowton, the seriously skilled finger-style guitarist who’s done emcee duty at places like Red Bank’s Dublin House and the Blue Bay Inn in Atlantic Highlands, paired here with Carol Barbieri. It happens again Sunday night, May 10, between the hours of 8 and 11pm (sign-in for participants if 7pm), with performers urged to “bring your guitars, bring your friends, and bring your appetites.”
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