SONiA
Sun July 11, 2010
 4pm
$15 suggested minimum donation

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2010 Schedule
Jan 10  Cosy Sheridan
Feb 14  Lucie Blue Tremblay
Mar 14  Lynne Hanson
April 25  Tret Fure
May 23 Susan Gibson
July 11 SONiA
Sept 26 Melissa Greener



Please email me for info and/or directions or go to  Phone # is 972-234-5755.


Don't forget to bring some extra money to buy some CDs.  
So come and bring along some friends.  Or this is a great place to make new friends.

SONiA "Blood, Bones and Baltimore" is a return to her Baltimore roots and features all new songs with the exceptions of a longtime fan favorite "Biggest Baddest Heart" that SONiA has only previously played or recorded live and a Woody Guthrie tune "Worried Man Blues".  The album which is Blues Americana is a vast departure from the Award Winning and Grammy nominated World Album "Tango" which featured songs in Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish as well as English.   SONiA and disappear fear have gained a devoted fan base in countries around the world with songs ranging from Reggae to Folk Rock.  They have sold over 500,000 albums and continue to gain new fans every year as they perform at Festivals, Venues, and Colleges around the World.  Their powerful honesty touches the hearts and minds of people of all social and ethnic backgrounds, underpinned as they are by the simple belief that people are people and love is love.    SONiA and disappear fear Sisters  SONiA and Cindy began a musical partnership they called disappear fear, an acoustic folk-pop duo that then grew into a band in 1988.  When fans began requesting their Albums in stores in towns across America they formed their own label disappear records and began distributing thru Best Buy, Tower Records, and Mom and Pop stores everywhere.  The sisters signed a publishing deal with Carlin Music and released three of their own CDs before signing with Philo/ Rounder Records in 1994, and with Warner-Chappell Music, Nashville.  After releasing two more albums with Rounder, Cindy chose full time motherhood  and  SONiA began to experiment with an expanded palette of musical influences including blues and country music which led to three solo albums "Almost Chocolate",  "Me,Too" and "No Bomb Is Smart".  Cindy joined  SONiA in the studio again for "No Bomb Is Smart" and SONiA began once again performing with her band disappear fear.  After a tour in the Middle East in 2006, in which  SONiA performed in Bomb Shelters and Palestinian Villages,  SONiA was inspired to write songs in the languages of her newest fans which led to the World Beats of "Tango".  It also led to the formation of a non-profit foundation called Guitars for Peace which delivers instruments into the hands of children in impoverished or war torn countries.  The first Guitar went to a Palestinian Village School for Girls.   SONiA and disappear fear's touring takes them from Jerusalem to Lawrence Kansas, Woodford Folk Festival in Australia, Montana Jazz and Blues Festival in Fiji and Waihiki Island, Blues to Bop Festival in Lugano Switzerland to Kerrville in Texas. They have performed at major events for 20 years including the March on Washington for Woman and the Concert for Peace at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC with Peter, Paul and Mary (March 2003).  She ended her Australia tour in 2008 at the Sydney Opera House.   SONiA has won numerous awards including the GLAMA for Best Female Artist of the Year (Almost Chocolate, 1999; Rounder) and Best Acoustic Album( Me, Too, 2001; disappear records), and the GLAAD Media Award for BEST ALBUM ( disappear fear, 1994; Rounder).  Her songs are featured in the teen movie, Frog and Wombat and in the independent film, Wave Babes. She has also scored films including the entire sound track for the documentary "Autumns Harvest" by Dave Marshall.   SONiA's first live solo album,  SONiA: LiVE at the Down Home, received a glowing review in Billboard Magazine upon its release in 2001. In 2002, the Santa Cruz Guitar Company created the SONiA model Guitar in her honor.   SONiA's ninth CD, 'No bomb is smart' was released in Australia on January 1st 2004 and released in North America in April , 2004.  Produced by the Grammy award winning team of Craig Krampf and engineered by Bill Cuomo along with members of the Dixie Chicks band and Mark Knopfler's band and the fiddler from O' Brother Where Art Thou. When she is not touring,  SONiA paints and produces.  She has murals in Holland, France, Massachusetts and Texas and has done commissioned pieces since 1998.  She has a Gallery Show in March in Ashland, VA.  SONiA recently produced a young Violin Player Sam Weiser and then signed him to disappear records.  Recorded when he was 15, his CD called "Sam I Am" is also garnering rave reviews by the Boston Globe and NPR where it was featured on "Here and Now" on February 16, 2010.  As the producer  SONiA brought in several friends to work on the project, including Dennis Chambers from Santana and Lulo Reinhardt from Germany (great nephew of Django Reinhardt).  The CD includes arrangements of songs by Carlos Santana, Mark O'Connor, Sonia Rutstein, Eddie Vedder and others. The Blood, Bones and Baltimore release tour will begin in March with a two week tour in the US followed by 3 weeks in Germany and Holland and then picking back up in the US and Canada thru the spring.  Summer will include performances at festivals from Oklahoma to Toronto and end the year 2010   in Australia at the Woodford Folk Festival.

June 25	Emily Elbert / Anthony daCosta	Uncle Calvin's
June 26	North Texas Performing Songwriter Showcase	Poor David's Pub
June 26	North Texas Performing Songwriter Showcase	Opening Bell Coffeehouse
July 9	Jimmy LaFave / Audrey Auld / Susan Herndon	Uncle Calivns
July 23	Denice Franke / Geoff Bartley	Uncle Calvins
July 30	Bill Nash / Ian Dickson	Uncle Calvins
July 30	Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines	Sons of Hermann Hall
July 31	Sara Hickman	Uncle Calvins
Aug 6	Amy Speace	Uncle Calvins
Aug 13	Buddy Mondlock	Uncle Calvins
Aug 20	Lu Mitchell	Uncle Calvins
Aug 27	Karen Mal / Will Taylor & Strings Attached	Uncle Calvins