Advance Tickets - $35
Walkup Tickets (DOORS) - $40
For our friend Papa Mali’s birthday last year, we presented a tribute to one of our favorite musicians, David Lindley,after we lost Mr. Dave in March of 2023. We feel doubly blessed and honored to celebrate the birthday of our dear friend and collaborator Papa Mali once more, and because last year was such a blast, we will once again pay tribute to the great singer, songwriter, and master of all things with strings, David Lindley, along with Lindley’s longtime bandmate Wally Ingram and many other incredible artists.
Lindley was perhaps the greatest sideman in the history of popular music. He helped define the sounds associated with a host of legends including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton.
Lindley is most renowned for signature lap-steel slide as heard on “Running on Empty,” and was an expert in Hawaiian-style slide guitar blues. But he was far more than a one-trick pony—more like a 100-trick pony! He mastered such a wide variety of instruments from violin to banjo, mandolin, dobro, bouzouki and myriad others that Acoustic Guitar magazine referred to him not as a “maxi-instrumentalist.”
Mr. Dave founded El Rayo-X, highly regarded as one of the first world music bands. El Rayo-X fused rock with, reggae, blues, zydeco, Cajun, R&B, and Middle Eastern music. The reggae influence in El Rayo-X made a huge impression on a young Papa Mali, who carried it forward with the Killer Bees and in his solo work.
For this special engagement Papa Mali and Wally will play songs from Mr. Dave’s extensive catalog along with an incredible collection of musicians including Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Iguanas, Ed Williams of the Revivalists, Marc Stone, Liza Aratow, Dave Easley, Cass Faulconer, Jeff Plankenhorn, Carolyn Wonderland, Roddie Romero, Layla Musselwhite, Lindley disciples Lorenzo Piccone and Kona Kato, plus Jimmy Leslie and more.
Leslie is Frets Editor and Presents Events Coordinator at Guitar Player magazine. In his forthcoming June issuefeature interview with Ben Harper at his family’s historic Folk Music Center, Harper says:
“David Lindley would come in here all the time and play the Weissenborns (Hawaiian-style lap slide). That was my inspiration. I’d heard everybody come in here and play everything, but when I heard Lindley play that I went, “That’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life. There’s no way I’m not going try to do that.”
Inspiration will be thick in the air as we honor one of the great musical spirits of the past half century. A portion of proceeds goes directly to the Lindley family. A Guitar Player Presents promotion will be in effect with free copies of the magazine as well as Martin guitar strings for the first batch of players in the door, so make sure to arrive early.
On stage, Lindley was known for wearing garishly colored polyester shirts with clashing pants, gaining the nickname the Prince of Polyester. So, wear your best polyester and let’s let Le Bon Temps Roulez!
This show will certainly sell out. Get your tickets now.
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