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Cafe Accordion Orchestra w/Pat Donohue: Summertime Blues
Aug 15 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Variety Show
Cafe Accordion Orchestra welcomes Pat Donohue to the stage for Summertime Blues, a celebration of summer in blues and swing with an Olympic nod.
Dan Newton accordion
Pat Donohue guitar
Brian Barnes guitar
Eric Mohring fiddle and mandolin
Erik Lillestol bass
Joe Steinger percussion
Elizabeth Rowan percussion
CAO is led by DAN NEWTON on accordion and vocals, with ERIC MOHRING on mandolin, violin and vocals, ERIK LILLESTOL on bass and vocals, BRIAN BARNES on guitar and vocals and JOE STEINGER on percussion. CAO has been delighting audiences and dancers alike since 1995. They have appeared in New York at the Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing series, the International Akkordeon Festival in Vienna, Austria, the Minnesota State Fair, as well as festivals, theaters and dance halls across the United States.
Grammy winning fingerpicker Pat Donohue’s devotion to acoustic guitar has made him an American standard, as he echoes the tones of Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Merle Travis or Muddy Waters. Chet Atkins called Pat one of the greatest fingerpickers in the world today; Leo Kottke called his playing “haunting.”