Live Review: Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt (of Leftover Salmon) @ City Winery — 2/11/20

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Mark Engleson in Live Review and tagged bluegrass, Boulder, City Winery, Colorado, Drew Emmitt, jam band, Leftover Salmon, Vince Herman, zydeco.

Vince Herman of Leftover Salman performs at MerleFest 2017 on April 28, 2017. (Photo by cp_thornton)

Before Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt took the stage at City Winery, they were preceded by a brief reading from Tim Newby’s book, Leftover Salmon: 30 Years of Festival. The reading detailed the earliest origins of America’s premier “polyethnic Cajun slamgrass band,” (a term which, Vince joked, “has really pigeonholed us”), when Vince and Drew met in 1985. Over the next few years, Vince would play guitar in the Left Hand String Band, and Drew played several instruments, especially the mandolin, in the Salmon Heads.

Interview: Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon (@ City Winery, 2/11/20)

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Mark Engleson in Preview and tagged bluegrass, Boulder, City Winery, Colorado, Interview, jam band, Leftover Salmon, Vince Herman, zydeco.

Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt (Photo by Bob Charmichael)

Vince Herman is one of the founding members of the Colorado “jamgrass” (bluegrass jamband) group Leftover Salmon. A guitarist and songwriter, Vince has, with mandolinist Drew Emmitt, formed the core of Leftover Salmon for 30 years.

In this conversation, Vince and Parklife DC’s Mark Engleson discuss the band, his influences, the band’s forays into Colorado’s marijuana industry, and his upcoming show with Drew at the City Winery in DC on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

Live Review: Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar @ City Winery — 11/7/19

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Mark Engleson in Live Review and tagged Americana, blues, Cindy Cashdollar, City Winery, Louisiana, Sonny Landreth, zydeco.

Sonny Landreth (Photo by Robley Dupleix)

Americana is often looked at as a singer-songwriters’ genre, but any number of fantastic instrumentalists have contributed to the field. Two of the best guitarists in Americana, Sonny Landreth and Cyndi Cashdollar, brought the audience at City Winery to a hushed reverie recently with a set of electric/acoustic duets. Sonny paired his electric guitar, as well as his vocals, with Cyndi’s dobro (a form of resonator) and lap steel guitars, for a performance that was, as Cyndi said, “just like in your living room.”