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The Ash Grove: Overview & Vision

50th Anniversary Event at UCLA

The Film

History of  the Ash Grove

Press & Performers Comments

Bill Monroe

Doc Watson

Taj Mahal

Welcome To The Official Web Site for
Ash Grove Music


Announcing a new Ash Grove Music Project:
Beyond November - Party with a Purpose

Beyond November, bringing together an assortment of advocacy and social action organizations, will produce an ongoing series of events to entertain, to inform and to enthuse by tapping into the vast energy for positive change sparked by the Obama campaign. The culmination this year will be a large free two-day festival in Summer, 2009, that will have entertainment on stage (artists such as Ben Harper, Tom Morello, Michelle Shocked, Culture Clash, Laura Love, Paul Krassner, Robyn Tyler, plus community artists and speakers), and an area where health, housing and other service organizations will provide direct counseling, referrals and aid to people who need it, and visitors can learn about and join groups and/or actions around these critical issues.
     A series of community shows will lead up to and follow this main event, with our kickoff event, appropriately, happening this January 25th, 5 days after Barack Obama's inauguration.

Beyond November Kickoff event
Where: Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont, just south of Franklin Ave.
When: Sunday, Jan 25, 3-5:30 PM
Who: Culture Clash, Michelle Shocked, poets Imani Tolliver and Carmen Vega; Author Gary Phillips will MC.
Cost: Free
Please Join us!


Recent additions to Website

Early Flyers from the original Ash Grove

More flyers and photos to be added soon.
Check back again.

Reviews and Photos of the UCLA Anniversary Event


The Ash Grove celebrated its 50th anniversary
with a 3-day Event at UCLA, April 18-20, 2008.
A wonderful time was had by all!
Thank you to all the volunteers, artists, and UCLA staff and faculty who made it such a success.
Links to reviews, pictures from the event, and other items will be added to the website soon. Check back again.
 


Performers
included Ben Harper, the Freedom Singers, Taj Mahal, Dave Alvin, John Hammond, Holly Near, Mike Seeger, Barbara Dane, Ry Cooder, Laura Love, Roland White, Jack Elliott, Michele Shocked, Culture Clash, Guy and Candie Carawan, The Ellis Island band, The Watts Prophets, Cris Williamson, Ashley Maher, John Bilezikjian, Bernie Pearl, Dwight Trible, Huayucaltia, Jack Hirschman, and many more.

The week-end included Friday & Saturday night concerts as part of the UCLA Live series and numerous Free Concerts and Workshops, Friday-Sunday. See our Event Schedule for a full listing and link to information on the performers. To get emails about future events, send us your email address.

This event was made possible, in part, by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology.


 

Ash Grove frontMuddy Waters, Linda Ronstadt, Lenny Bruce, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Taj Mahal, Jerry Garcia, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and dozens of other stars all played at the Ash Grove. Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe and Doc Watson performed their first West Coast concerts here. Bluesmen Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt and Mance Lipscomb also frequented the legendary club.

[Complete list of original Ash Grove performers]

www.ashgrovemusic.com
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Current Web Site and (re)design
Irene Wolt (InkWellWeb)
Original Website by
Jeff Landau  ( Art Resource Technologies )

Copyright 2008 Ash Grove Music
Ash Grove Music is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

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"I'd seen posters of folk shows at the Ash Grove and used to dream about playing there..."
--Bob Dylan

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