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March 15, 2007
St Patrick's Day in Aspen
Aspen Belly-up Line-up
Wednesday, 3/14-Tony Furtado--Tony Furtado is an award-winning banjo picker and slide guitar player. A winner of the Grand National Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas, he has released 13 albums and played with such notable musicians as Earl Scruggs, Béla Fleck, Alison Krauss, The String Cheese Incident and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. If you liked Tea Leaf Green, or if you caught Béla Fleck at The Belly Up on Feb 8th, Furtado is a musician you'll love.
Thursday-A Benefit for Shining Starts Featuring "Laugh Your Aspen Off"-- A Benefit supporting the Shining Stars Foundation with local stand-up comedy troop, Laugh Your Aspen Off. The mission of The Stars is to provide quality outreach programs and services for children with cancer and life threatening diseases at no cost to the child or their family. Laughter is one of the most important and healing expressions of care and love, so please join us for a night of comedy to benefit so many. $30 GA (Standing room only-no guarantee of seating) (per ticket), $55 Reserved Seat in our Reserved Section (per ticket), $250 Table for 4 on the Floor (per table).
Friday and Saturday-Rose Hill Drive--Rock hard at the Belly Up with Rose Hill Drive for our St. Paddy's Weekend Bash! Rose Hill Drive is a young rock trio from Boulder, Colorado. This band is a pure rock band with influences including Cream and Led Zeppelin, they bring so much raw power with hair flying and the volume turned up to 11, their live show is not to be missed. Drink Specials for those who are wearing GREEN including: $4 Irish Car Bombs, $4 Jameson Irish Whisky Shots, $3 Guinness and $4 16 Ounce Bud Light Green Irish Beers!
Sunday--2 SHOWS! Marcia Ball performs first at 7 PM. PBS—Porter, Stoltz and Batiste Late Show at 10 PM--The Chicago Tribune describes Ball as "Raucous, Piano-based Dixie R&B-classic Southern songcraft and passion." Don't miss the second show with PBS from the Funky Meters: Doors 9 PM/Showtime 10 PM. PBS are the all-star power/funk trio of Porter-Batiste-Stoltz, all natives of New Orleans and former Funkey Meters!
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Posted by Dina at March 15, 2007 12:29 PM
