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)



- Tuesday, June 17th, 2008, South Lake Tahoe

VALHALLA BOATHOUSE CONCERTS Summer Music Festival - 7:30PM Tahoe Tallac Historic Site South Lake Tahoe CA Price: $10-$15 Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & Russ Gauthier - vocals, fiddle, guitars, mandolin



- Sunday, June 22nd, 2008, Sonoma

MURPHY'S IRISH PUB 6-8PM on the Plaza Sonoma CA Price: FREE Solid Air Duo. Join us for a night of fun and music at this great town gathering place right on the Plaza.



- Sunday, June 29th, 2008, Cotati

COTATI PLAZA Oh Rapture, It's Scrapture - noon-4PM Cotati Plaza Cotati CA Price: Free Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & John Salz - guitar. Recycletown's Junk Art Fundraiser.



- Thursday, July 10th, 2008, Napa

NAPA TOWN PLAZA Chef's Market - 5:30PM 1st & Randolph Napa CA Price: FREE Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums and John Salz - guitar.



- Friday, July 11th, 2008, Berkeley

FREIGHT & SALVAGE Dale Miller CD Release Party - 8:30PM 1111 Addison St. Berkeley CA Price: $18.50 We will be playing several numbers with our pal Dale Miller, fingerstyle guitarist extraordinaire.



- Sat. July 19, 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.



- Tuesday, July 29th, 2008, Santa Rosa

SONOMA COUNTY FAIR Park Stage - 6-9PM Fairgrounds Santa Rosa CA Price: Free with Fair Admission Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & John Salz - guitar.



- Sunday, August 3rd, 2008, Corte Madera

CORTE MADERA TOWN PLAZA Town Plaza Concerts - 2-4PM Hwy. 101, Town Plaza Corte Madera CA Price: FREE Solid Air Trio. With Steve Barbieri - vocals, guitars. Near the Elephant Fountain.



- Wednesday, August 6th, 2008, Grass Valley

NEVADA COUNTY FAIR Pine Tree Stage - 2:30PM & 4PM Fairgrounds Grass Valley CA Price: Free with Fair Admission Solid Air Band. With Rick Cutler - drums & John Salz - guitar



- Saturday, August 9th, 2008, Sebastopol

GRAVENSTEIN APPLE FAIR All Apples All the Time! - 5-6PM Ragle Park Sebastopol CA Price: Free with Fair Admission Solid Air Band. With Vic Carberry - drums & John Salz - guitar.



- Friday, August 15th, 2008, Santa Rosa

AROMA ROASTERS COFFEEHOUSE 8:30PM 95 Fifth St. Santa Rosa CA Price: free 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.



- Monday, August 18, 8pm, MYSTIC Theater, 23 Petaluma Bl. N., Petaluma

Nellie McKay - 8pm Price: $20 SOLID AIR duo. We are playing the opening set for Nellie McKay from 8-8:30PM. Doors open at 7pm. Re: Nellie McKay: "Critics and audiences aren't the ones struggling to describe Nellie McKay's music. The accomplished singer, songwriter, actor and activist struggles with labels as well, calling her approach 'schizophrenic voodoo.' Schizophrenic because she jumps genres – from Tin Pan Alley pop and cabaret to reggae, rap and jazz - voodoo because these elements mysteriously gel with her evocative, playful, and bold lyrics."



- Sat. Aug. 23, noon-10pm, THIRD ANNUAL CUR-VILLE DOG DAYS FEST, Kenwood, CA

SOLID AIR TRIO. Price: By Donation Visit www.cur-ville.com <http://www.cur-ville.com/> for details “Good music, good dogs, good beer – good gracious.” 12n-1pm The Jackdaws (Dale & Cris) 1pm-2pm Dale Henry Geist 2pm-3pm Larry Potts 3pm-4pm Anderson-Gram 4pm-5pm Michael McNevin 5pm-6pm Doug Blumer (Duo) 6pm-7pm Johnny Harper & Mayne Smith 7m-8pm Adam Traum Trio 8pm-9pm Solid Air 9pm-10pm JL Stiles



- 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



- Quotes & Reviews....

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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