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:

Last Record Store, Santa Rosa; Backdoor Disc, Cotati; Copperfield’s Books, Petaluma; Village Music, Mill Valley. You can also order them from us and we’ll mail them to you with FREE SHIPPING & no sales tax. ($15.00 each, 2 for $25.00 to: Solid Air, P.O. Box 733, Penngrove, CA 94951)



- Thurs. April 10, 6pm, Station House Café, Hwy. 1, POINT REYES STATION

SOLID AIR DUO. 6-8pm. (415)663-1515 Price: no cover. Enjoy Dinner, Drinks and Live Music in Beautiful West Marin.



- Sat. April 12, 3:30-4pm, KWMR-FM Studios, 11431 Hwy. 1, POINT REYES STATION

SOLID AIR BAND. KWMR BBQ Spring Block Party. Live Music, BBQ Oysters, and KWMR Friends and Family. Music starts at Noon, We play 3:30-4pm



- Thurs. April 24, 7:30pm, Murphy's Irish Pub, on the Plaza, SONOMA

SOLID AIR DUO. (707)935-0660 Price: Free Join us for a night of fun and music at this great town gathering place right on the Plaza.



- Sun. April 27, 12:30-1:30PM, APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, Ives Park, SEBASTOPOL

Solid Air Band. We play on the POOL Stage from 12:30-1:30pm.



- Thurs. May 8, 6pm, Station House Café, Hwy. 1, POINT REYES STATION

SOLID AIR DUO. 6-8pm. (415)663-1515 Price: no cover. Enjoy Dinner, Drinks and Live Music in Beautiful West Marin.



- Sat. May 17, 8:30PM, AROMA ROASTERS, 95 Fifth St., SANTA ROSA

SOLID AIR DUO. All the caffeine & treats you can manage. Coffee, teas, sodas, ice cream, snacks and just plain makin’ the scene at this fun late night hangout. Plus, freshly roasted coffee beans to take home.



- NEW EMAIL & ARTIST WEBSITE and new 2007 Album

HEY FOLKS, WE'VE GOT A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: solidairmusic@sbcglobal.com AND a new Artist Website (in addition to the one here at GLOBE Records). Please visit us, sign the Guestbook, And check out our new 2007 album on JACKALOPE Records. http://www.solidairmusic.com and our MySpace Page: www.myspace.com/solidairsamallegra



- 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!"

...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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