Sea Tones Series presents:  Kenny Blackwell and Dorian Michael
Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
$12
 

Put your hands together for a pickinâ good time as Gualala Arts Sea Tones presents musicians Kenny Blackwell and Dorian Michael on Saturday, April 16^th.   The music starts at 7:30 p.m.  Pick up your tickets at Gualala Arts Center or the Dolphin Gallery for $12 and a smile.

Kenny Blackwell and Dorian Michael play eclectic acoustic music that touches on many genres. If they enjoy it, they play it.  Original, traditional, country or Celtic, bluegrass or blues.

After a chance meeting in a music store in San Luis Obispo, then at a backyard jam session, and again at a music convention in Los Angeles, Kenny Blackwell and Dorian Michael figured they ought to try playing some music together. Kenny, one of California's foremost mandolinists, wanted a chance to play outside of the bluegrass genre in which he is constantly in demand. Guitarist Dorian Michael was looking for a skillful musician who understood a wide variety of roots music. Six months later the CD was released and they were touring as a duo.

Mandolinist Kenny Blackwell studied with Jethro Burns before moving to California where he joined fiddler Richard Green's band in '93.  His mandolin and guitar work have been heard in TV and movie scores and since'94 he has been a constant member of the famed Laurel Canyon Ramblers.

Guitarist Dorian Michael has played in about every style and in every type of work situation a blue collar musician could hope for. After years of honky-tonk electric guitar followed by concentrating on solo finger style guitar, this new project is a whole new challenge- just what he needs. 

See you on the dance floor April 16^th!

View images from their great performance.