Who's Coming!

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 the Evite web system to send invitations for the upcoming concert to everyone on our email list.

To be included on our Evite emailing list, send an email to Musica Del Rio with the word "please" in the subject line. Please 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. We invite you to explore these few pages to further understand what we are offering in the way of acoustic music in our home at Música Del Río. We hope you find our efforts to your liking. Without you and others like you, there is no concert. We hope to see you soon.

Future Concerts
The very next concert can always be found on the HOME page.

Friday, May 16, 2008 8:00 PM
Laura Love Duo

“Her music is exuberant. She conveyed the fervor of someone reaching out with an almost frenzied joy to seize the strands of a confusing life and weave them into a coherent, life-affirming vision.” An understatement, from Stephen Holden of The New York Times about Laura Love.

Laura Love in our living room? Yes, this is probably what living rooms were named for. If this isn’t living music, nothing ever will be. Since word got out Laura was coming to Música Del Río, those who have heard her at Live Oak or Strawberry have been ready to camp out to make sure they get to see her. And Laura is bringing her friend and long time collaborator Orville Johnson, a true master of country-blues guitar.

When we listen to Laura, we struggle to define her music. Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk, Gospel, Reggae and Country. Laura, however, has called her music “Folk-Funk,” “Afro-Celtic,” or “Hip-Alachian.” Regardless of how she is described, Love has an indisputable and uncanny knack for enthralling audiences from all walks of life.

Earlier this year, Laura’s bold collaboration NeGrass, was released offering a new yet familiar road for Laura. A warm acoustic collection of original and traditional Negro spirituals, bluegrass and folk songs, Laura explores her family’s history and touches upon a heritage that dates back to America’s Civil War and the slavery era.

When we heard that Orville was joining Laura on this tour, we were delighted. Orville is well known by discerning music lovers by virtue of his many performances and recordings and is a sought after side man, session player and record producer for anyone playing roots based music. Orville appears on several of Laura’s recordings and has performed with her onstage many times over the past decade.

Laura’s music is about all that life throws out and how you need to catch it. Laura brings laughs with her and tears. For those of us who have shared her music before, the evening always ends with more understanding of life, joy and pain that we started the day with. It is an honor and a blessing to invite Laura to sing and play with us at Música Del Río on May 16. Please come over if you can.

Friday, September 26, 2008 8:00 PM
The Refugees

We will welcome three women who are each well known as individual artists offering the finest songwriting and voices in folk music. Deborah Holland, Wendy Waldman and Cindy Bullens join forces last year, as The Refugees, to show us all about strength in numbers. Stay tuned for more information to come. But mark the date now!