Danny Gotham & Jon Shain at Caffe Lena - 08/13/2011

Danny Gotham & Jon Shain With Opener Granville Automatic

Danny Gotham is perhaps best known to Caffè Lena audiences as 1/3 of the ever-popular North Country band Raquette River Rounders. During his several decades of performing and teaching music, Danny has worked with top artists across the country playing rock, straight ahead jazz, folk, and world music. Now living in North Carolina, Danny is an active part of the burgeoning music scene down there. Tonight he comes with a new duo partner, a fellow North Carolinian who happens to be one of our favorite fingerstyle blues guitarists and songwriters, Mr. Jon Shain. During his years at Duke University, Jon had the good fortune to learn directly from a number of NC's older blues players, and became a member of Big Boy Henry's backing band. The mixture of the academic environment and real-world blues has made Jon a knowledgeable, articulate and fiery fingered entertainer. He can turn out fine versions of country blues classics, but especially shines when playing his own memorable songs. Opening act Granville Automatic is Vanessa Olivarez and Elizabeth Elkins of Nashville, TN. The duo write quiet and lyrical ballads pulled from a shared love of history, storms, horses, war and heartache.