SOhO – November 13

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Sean & Michelle
Jon Lawton with Bill Flores
Roem Baur

SOhO

November 13 – Sunday – 6:00pm
1221 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 962-7776
$10 sohosb.com  •  map
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I’m excited to announce a rare collision of creative forces at SOhO.
Songwriter Jon Lawton is making a special trip down from the bay area to play acoustically with good friend and instrumentalist extraordinaire Bill Flores. There will also be a handful of songs which will be performed all together by Jon, Bill, Sean and Michelle. Roem Baur is on tour from the bay area as well and will usher in the evening.
Come for dinner. Make reservations.

We hope to see you there. We think it’s going to be a magical evening and a lot of fun.

Montecito Bluegrass Festival

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Come on down to Montecito Valley Ranch with your kids, picnic lunch, drinks, chairs and the whole family for the annual Montecito Bluegrass Festival. Come early and stay late as we plan to have music for the whole time: MHB Double-Wide, Haddon Cord and Connor Patrick, Sean McCue with Michelle Beauchesne and plus other special guests. KIDS WELCOME!

Montecito Valley Ranch is located just off Sheffield Drive, near Ortega Hill road. Parking will be near the entrance. Please carpool or ride a bike if you can.

Concert Review – Sean McCue with Michelle at SOhO

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Concert Review – Santa Barbara News Press

By JOSEF WOODARD — NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Mr. McCue has a long history in Santa Barbara music scenes, going back to his old band Old Man, and then Summercamp, which was signed to the Maverick label for a few years. At SOhO, the assured performer, with a strong, clear voice and sense of the heart of a given song, channeled his back story by calling up songs from both those old bands, while also playing a fetching new tune, “Brightest Memories,” and other originals.

He also moved effectively into the cover song realm, with a faithful take on Paul McCartney’s ”Blackbird,” and a more inventive, McCue-ized read on Tom Petty’s “Learning to Fly,” replete with looping and applying a bow to his acoustic guitar. Incidental note: Mr. McCue and Mr. Petty have in common the fact that both have been victims of devastating fires, between Mr. Petty’s 1986 house fire and Mr. McCue’s studio having burned down in the Tea Fire.

Speaking of bowing, cellist Ms. Beauchesne played the ideal foil to Mr. McCue’s standard guitar-voice singer-songwriter context, serving as surrogate bass presence, melodic interloper and all-around expanded musical color factor. That was just one more pleasurable, unusual element in the mix on this SOhO Tuesday song night.