Hard Luck Cafe
Presented with the Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH)
PIEDMONT BLUES & MORE: JON
SHAIN (WITH BILL NEWTON) AND CASEY BARON
Wednesday, April 17th at 7 PM
$20 Public | $15 Members
Piedmont Blues & More: Durham, North Carolina based
singer-songwriter and guitarist Jon Shain shares the bill with Long Island’s
own Casey Baron during the monthly Hard Luck Café concert series co-presented
by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park
Avenue, Huntington) in the Cinema’s Sky Room on Wednesday, April 17, from 7-10
p.m. An open mic, for which sign-up starts at 6:30 p.m., precedes the concert.
Tickets are $20 ($15 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members) and can be purchased
online at cinemaartscentre.org or at the box office now through the evening of
the event.
Jon Shain (jonshain.com) is a Durham,
North Carolina-based singer-songwriter & guitarist and a 2019 International
Blues Challenge winner in the solo duo category. Shain had the good fortune to
learn directly from a number of NC's older blues players, has been turning
heads for years with his words, his fiery acoustic guitar work, and a musical
style that combines improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and
ragtime. Shain has released nine solo
albums to date, as well as two albums with duo partner FJ Ventre, a Jon Shain
Trio live album, and an album of co-writes with Joe Newberry. Shain’s newest
album, Restless Soul Syndrome, will
be released on April 9. Besides
performing and recording, he is the author of the music books Gettin’ Handy With the Blues – a Tribute to
the Legacy of W.C. Handy and Jon
Shain’s Fingerstyle Guitar Method, both published by Mel Bay Publications.
Shain, who has previously performed for the Hard Luck Café series both live and
online, also teaches Piedmont blues guitar and produces albums for other
artists. Joining him on harmonica will be Bill
Newton, a founding member of three notable musical groups in NC, who has
also recorded with the Indigo Girls and Big Mama E and the Cool, among others.
Casey Baron has been playing guitar since the age
of 8. He developed a passion to build his own custom guitars at the age of 10
after learning about the delta blues and cigar box guitars. Since then, he has
continued to build cigar box guitars, solid body guitars, and banjos while
playing piedmont blues and folk music influenced by the styles of Taj Mahal, Ry
Cooder, and Bukka White. In October 2013, Crossroads Music Store in Amagansett
agreed to sell Casey’s guitars. As it happened, it was the same day that local
blues musician, Kerry Kearney, was holding a workshop here. It was Baron’s good
fortune that Kearney was immediately taken with the young talent who he dubbed
“The Cigar Box Kid”. Since then, he has been a featured guest at some of
Kearney’s shows, as well as having performed at the York, Pennsylvania Cigar
Box Guitar Festival and at My Father’s Place here on LI.