Bill Toms & Tom Breiding

Saturday, March 22, 8pm

The Pittsburgh Calliope Folk Music Society presents
Three Penny Opry featuring
Bill Toms & Tom Breiding at
The Starlite Lounge
364 Freeport Rd. Blawnox PA 15238
Suggested Donation: $5

For more info: 412.818.3817

Twas the night before Easter, and all through the town
All the candy was nestled in shredded green down
The slackers were drooling from gluttonous dreams
Of gorging on eggs till they burst at the seams
Then loudly Pete Cottontail started to spring
"What's any of that got to do Spring?!?"
So, shake off the stupor of cold hibernation
And come cure your soul of it's Winter starvation
With heartfelt and thoughtful love offerings of song
And leave fit for life again, hopeful and strong!

I've had the honor of co-billing with Bill Toms several times, and with Tom Breiding at least once - though I've heard them both on many other occasions.
And every time I've heard them, I've become an exponentially greater fan. How many people's songs can you say that about. Most of them catch you with a hook, hook you with a catch, and get you tricked into indiscriminately listening over and over again till you say, "Wait, there's no substance! Wait, I've just wasted a chunk of life. I want my money back."
This music is the diametric opposite. You'll like it at first. We like to see great gardens as we drive by. After a while though, the great gardens of song pull us in, and we get to feel the depth of the roots, the variety of the crops, the nourishment of the harvest. There's a bounty to be had in this music. And you get it by repeatedly hearing the songs.

Those of you who haven't been introduced to their bodies of work, you're in for a treat, an introduction to a great adventure.

Check them out:

Bill Toms
Tom Breiding

And then, Check them out with me!

Your Servant in Song,

Jack Erdie
www.myspace.com/3pennyopry

Dennis McCurdy & The Lonesome No More Band | Plus Jeff Wiley

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 @ 8PM
The Calliope Folk Music Society Presents
Three Penny Opry [LISTENING ROOM] featuring:

I've had both of these performers play for me at various other venues and, no matter how jaded or unmotivated the audiences, they got great and varied reactions, for great and varied reasons. It's been too long since I've heard them, and I can't wait to hear them again, and to share them with you.

About Dennis & Lonesome No More:

"The sound is pure Americana with pedal steel, dobro, fiddle, mandolin and lush harmony vocals, wrapped around the acoustic guitar, bass and drums." Jim Hoehn, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

About Jeff:

Jeff is a vetran songwriter, entertaining in and around the Pittsburgh ares for over twenty years. Bringing to the stage melodies of haunting beauty and lyrics welcoming slices of inspiration, loneliness, and relationship. Together forming delicately crafted pop folk music of the highest order.

See you there,

Jack Erdie

Dennis McCurdy & The Lonesome No More Band