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 Música Del Río
 House Concerts

We invite you to join us for a small gathering with friends to enjoy exceptional and well known singer/songwriters and musicians
 in our living room filled with Música Del Río, "music of  the river"
 in Atascadero,  our town in the upper Salinas River Valley of California.


                                                                                     Fred & Sharon Munroe




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

  Please Join Us!

Música Del Río house concerts are a private party for invited guests who RSVP with plans to attend.

We use a web based list management system to send invitations for the upcoming concert to everyone on our email list.

To be included on our the  email invitation list, send an email to Musica Del Rio with the word "please" in the subject line. You must  include your name, where you live and a contact phone number, so we can reach you if there should ever be any last minute change of plans for a concert you are planning to attend.

 
What is going on here?
 


Música Del Río is a gathering of friends to enjoy outstanding acoustic music in our living room.

With room for about 60 friends; musicans and singer-songwriters find our  house concerts to be a joyous way to share the art of their craft.
 
100% of the donation you make to attend this gathering goes to the performers. We do this for the love of music, the love of friends to share it with and the love of opening our front door to make it happen.
 


 
Next Concert

Saturday May 8, 2010             7:30 PM

    

Gilles Apap

and

The Transylvanian

Mountain Boys


Some fiddle players may never see themselves as violinist.  Some violinist will never consider themselves a fiddler.   It does not matter what you call the instrument; Gilles Apap is a modern master, who has blurred the lines between classical, bluegrass, gypsy, jazz and swing music.  Like a mad scientist, Gilles can blend a musical potion that will astounds classical audiences one minute and dazzle a bluegrass gathering the next.  He joins us at Música Del Río with a reunion of his original band The Transylvanian Mountain Boys.

Chris Judge on guitar and Brendan Statom on double bass – both consummate artists in their own rights – join Gilles for a return visit to roads seldom traveled by anyone except The Transylvanian Mountain Boys.  These roads will lead us to traditional gypsy tunes from Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, along with the ’30s Swing sound of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt – with touches of bluegrass and whatever else these wizards put together.

Hailed as a true violinist of the 21st Century by no less than Yehudi Menuhin, Gilles Apap is a classical violinist who is in great demand as a soloist with orchestras around the world.  He has become widely known for his extraordinary ability to integrate a variety of musical genres, crossing boundaries between styles as diverse as American old-time, Irish, and Gypsy fiddling, with the standards of the classical repertoire.  With his first ensemble, The Transylvanian Mountain Boys’ release of Who? (on Sony Classical) in 1994, Gilles shook the classical music scene with his unparalleled interpretations of classical works arranged for violin, viola, guitar and double bass, interspersed with traditional folk tunes.

We are astounded that we have been given the pleasure of closing our 2009-2010 season with Gilles, Chris and Brendan.  Please join us for this historical evening at Música Del Río.