Solid Air Live Dates

Check out our newest album "Local Color" on Globe Records. This, our 7th album, with a stellar cast of S.F. Bay Area luminaries and special guests Norton Buffalo, Nina Gerber, Vince Welnick and members of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, John R. Burr (Maria Muldaur), Gary Vogensen (Angela Strehli Band).

Music/Nightclub Listings for Solid Air

- CDs available at all live shows, Globe Records website, CDBaby.com and at select stores:

HELLO SOLID AIR FANS, Please visit our Solid Air fan website, http://www.solidairmusic.com for song lyrics, photos, guestbook, and information on our newest CD (2007) on Jackalope Records, "Solid Air: Allegra Broughton & Sam Page". Please email us at: solidairmusic@sbcglobal.net Hip-Hip-Hooray: Happy to announce our nomination for the 3rd year in a row for the NORBAYS Music Awards (Folk/Acoustic). Thanks! We are also featured (along with Jackson Browne, Eliza Gilkyson, Greg Brown & many others) on Nina Gerber's new album, "Good Music with Good People", on Goatscape Records (2007).



- ALLEGRA HOSTS LIVE RADIO SHOW ON KRCB-FM 91.1

Allegra will be hosting the Connections radio show on Wednesdays, 8-10pm, on KRCB-FM 91.1 and streaming live at http://www.krcb.org/Connections.html Tune in, turn on, and stay up all night listening to eclectic, eccentric, homegrown radio.



- Quotes & Reviews... - more elsewhere on this website

Quote from Nashville Song Publisher Scott Haugen, Pitchfork Music: "With Solid Air, I don't need to critique their songs; I just try to find them homes." Four Star Review of "Local Color" by Canadian reviewer Don Grant on freighttrainboogie.com SOLID AIR **** Local Color... (Globe Recs. ) Apparently, Solid Air comes in two configurations. There's the original duet of Allegra Broughton on vocals and acoustic guitars, and Sam Page, who seems to be able to play anything that he can lay his hands on, and then there's the band version; Local Color is a product of the band version, and it's a winner. Stylistically, the disc ranges from the bluesy inflected “Troublemaker”, (very nice harp by Norton Buffalo), “Borderline” with a Mex-type accordian line, a straight-ahead country-rocker like “Rockaway My Cares”, (great fiddle), “Sticks and Stones”, a traditional ballad, for sure, to my favourite, “Pioneers”, life on the ‘Great New Western Frontier', an incisive bit of California social commentary. The only non-original materials herein are Steven Stills' “For What It's Worth”, and Lennon and McCartney's “Ticket To Ride”. While Stills' classic fares very well, as great songs can be interpreted in many diverse ways, I'm a bit ambivalent about “Ticket To Ride”. It's not a bad ditty by any stretch, but not the Lennon/McCartney apogee, either. It doesn't quite measure up to the quality of the rest of the CD. Next time use your own stuff; don't pretend that those guys write better than you do, Allegra, because they don't. Globe Records has ordering info. Released Jan. '05, reviewed by Don Grant. Review from DJ Massimo Ferro, San Michele, ITALY:"Local Color is superb album as it has the delightful flavour of the Californian folk-rock of the sixties but always expressed through a very catchy pop attitude: it could be not so casual therefore that the only covers of the albums come from such big influences like the Beatles and Buffalo Springfield. And Allegra is really a wonderful singer to listen to, whichever is the song or the style!"



- Friday, July 16th, 2010 Valhalla Boathouse Concerts Summer Music Festival - 7:30PM Tahoe Tallac Historic Site South Lake Tahoe, CA

Valhalla Boathouse Concerts Summer Music Festival - 7:30PM Tahoe Tallac Historic Site South Lake Tahoe CA Price: $15/12 Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & Russ Gauthier - vocals, fiddle, guitars, mandolin. Enjoy great music at this stellar destination. This has got to be one of the most spectacular settings to hear live music, nestled in Tahoe Tallac Historic Site in South Lake Tahoe, adjacent to Camp Richardson. A vintage boathouse converted into a theater with plush seats and a stage, with a backdrop of the sun setting on Lake Tahoe, while live music wafts through the mountain air. Purchase tickets online click the Buy Ticket buttons on website, or call 530-541-4975



- Friday, July 23rd, 2010 Rohnert Park Town Center Concerts Party on the Plaza! - 6-8PM

City Center Plaza at the Library Rohnert Park California 94928 USA Price: Free Solid Air Band. With Steve Barbieri - vocals & guitar and BIRTHDAY BOY Rick Cutler - drums. The farmer's market takes place every Friday night, June 4 through September 24th from 5-8pm and is located in the library parking lot and adjoining City Center Plaza. Lots of wonderful home-grown produce, Arts and Crafts, food vendors and entertainment too! (KRCB TV Channel 22/ Radio 91 FM will be bringing in some wonderful music during July and August!)



- Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Murphy's Irish Pub 7:30-9:30PM on the Plaza Sonoma CA

Solid Air Duo. Join us for a night of fun and music at this great town gathering place right on the Plaza.



- Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 Sonoma County Fair Park Stage - 6-9PM Fairgrounds Santa Rosa CA

Solid Air Band. WIth John Salz - guitar & Rick Cutler - drums. Eat fair food, bet on the horses, carnival rides, and the fantastic Hall of Flowers.



- Saturday, August 7th, 2010 Mill Valley Plaza Summer Concerts Summer Concerts - 3-4PM downtown plaza Mill Valley California 94941

SOLID AIR BAND live in the Mill Valley Plaza, next to the Mill Valley book depot. WIth Vic Carberry - drums and Steve Barbieri - vocals & guitars. We play from 3-4pm, and after us the Golden Gate Brass Band will play from 4-5pm.



- Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 Nevada County Fair Pine Tree Stage - 4PM & 6:30PM Fairgrounds Grass Valley CA

Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & John Salz - guitar



- Friday, August 13th, 2010, 3-6PM, St. Clement Vineyards, 2867 St. Helena Highway N., St. Helena, CA

SOLID AIR DUO. Join us for live music on the patio from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. Bring a picnic, and buy a bottle of your favorite St. Clement wine and relax on our Victorian patio. Music Series is open to the public. Wine Club members can reserve a picnic table in the special Wine Club member area. Complimentary but picnic tables are limited. To reserve a table please call (707) 265-5016



- Saturday, October 30th, 2010 The Birdhouse HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE BALL - TBA - evening 14629 Blackberry Road Forest Ranch California 95942

SOLID AIR DUO. Join us for live music on the patio from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. Bring a picnic, and buy a bottle of your favorite St. Clement wine and relax on our Victorian patio. Music Series is open to the public. Wine Club members can reserve a picnic table in the special Wine Club member area. Complimentary but picnic tables are limited. To reserve a table please call (707) 265-5016

...more dates tba, subject to change, etc - Folks can always email us for an update:

Solid Air "Tailgates and Substitutes" Globe Records #GLO-023 "In the Americana music scene it's, without any doubt, one of the best releases for this year. Solid Air's own songs are as good as the best writing of people such as Lucinda Williams, 10.000 Maniacs, Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris and Richard & Linda Thompson."

--RootsTown MUSIC MAGAZINE, Dec. 1999, Belgium.

Mail order $15 to:
Solid Air
P.O. Box 733, Penngrove, CA 94951
ph(707)778-1466
fax(707)778-3735
email: solidair@earthlink.net

also available at:

• Backdoor Disc, Cotati
• Last Record Store, Santa Rosa
• Incredible Records, Sebastopol
• Tower Records, S.F. Bay Area,
• Borders Books

AND here at globerecords.com

Also check out www.solidair.8m.com

HEY - New band listing at the Press Democrat Newspaper online, with band quotes, song samples, pictures, info, etc.

Solid Air is:

• Allegra Broughton - vocals/guitar/songwriter
• Sam Page - vocals/bass/songwriter

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Celebrating the re-release of "Stand Up For Love" First time ever on CD! Originally released in 1990 on cassette to critical acclaim and now re-mastered for CD release by George Horn, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley.

Hear our newest CD at the NCSA Listening Post, Borders Books, 400 Post, 4th Flr., San Francisco

We have a new song, "Broke Down in the Middle" on the new Connections CD released by Jackalope Records for the benefit of KRCB-FM 91.1 Public Radio, featuring numerous Sonoma County artists (Solid Air, Sarah Baker, The Sorentinos, Charlie Musselwhite, John Allair, Terra Nova, the Ruminators, Loser Friendly, eat fiction & more)

For more info check out the Solid Air home page or email us or call (707) 778-1466 or write: P O Box 733, Penngrove CA 94951

Sound files from both albums await in our Catalog where you can order as well. Or you can hear the new CD at the NCSA Listening Post at Borders Books, 400 Post St, San Francisco

Our CDs are available here at Globe Records and also locally at:

• Tower Records (order through City Hall Distr.)
• Village Music, Mill Valley
• Zone Music, Cotati
• Incredible Records, Sebastopol
• Last Record Store, Santa Rosa
• Backdoor Disc & Tape, Cotati
• Music Coop, Petaluma
• Borders Books & Music, San Francisco
• Borders Books & Music, Roseville
• Borders Books & Music, Sacramento
• Borders Books & Music, San Rafael
• Borders Books & Music, Palo Alto
• People's Music, Sebastopol
• Copperfield's Music, Sebastopol
• Down Home Music, El Cerrito
  
  
• also available through the "Frontiers" Catalog

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