with TBA
Show Date: 07/10/09
Show time: 7:30pm.
Admission: $12.00
Craig Bickhardt: A dusty six-string in an attic corner marked the beginning of Craig Bickhardt’s long road to success as a musician and song writer. The year was 1968, a time when the guitar was coming into its own in the hands of Eric Clapton, John Fahey, Jimi Hendrix, and Muddy Waters. Craig studied the styles of these and other pioneers and then turned to the streets of his hometown to find other young musicians who were drawn to the same sounds. These included guitarist and songwriter Michael Sembello (“Maniac”).
The Philadelphia music scene was lively and diverse in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Clubs like the Electric Factory and the Main Point brought the best talents in the music world to the neighborhoods where Craig and his friends spent their after school hours.
His mind made up to pursue music, Craig passed on college and instead formed a band with two talented young singer-songwriters, F. C. Collins and Rick Bell, who were performing as a duo on the east coast club circuit. With the addition of a rhythm section the new band, calling themselves “Wire and Wood”, began performing original material and immediately gained a strong local following opening for artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Stills.
Fontaine Cooley: What started as a casual conversation between two old musical friends, grew into the rekindling of their passion for playing music together. Then after a steady diet of once a week one on one meetings for musical experimentation and tea, it morphed into a four piece, cross generational combo of veteran musicians, with countless years of bands, gigs, touring and recording between them. With each member contributing his own style and experience to the project, the result is original acoutic instumental music, featuring guitar, mandolin, bass and drums, fusing jazz, funk, blues, country, and an occassional latin groove into a unique style of their own. Backwoods pyrotechnics.
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