Special Saturday Performance: Peter Spencer & Jonathan Green

If you're a fan of our concerts in general, and Peter Spencer in particular (and who isn't), we have a special summer treat for you:  Peter will be playing with Jonathan Green here at The Winslow on July 27th at 2:30 pm, for our first-ever Saturday show.  See more details below.


Peter Spencer

Expect a blues/R&B-driven afternoon with Peter's trademark growl and inimitable fingerpicking guitar style, the perfect foil to Jonathan's elegant, rocking bass.   Here's a little about them both:

Peter Spencer is a fingerpicking guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he grew up listening to the R&B and hillbilly music played on radio stations like WLAC in Nashville and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. He began his musical career in 1968 playing harmonica in a blues band in Pittsburgh, but soon switched to solo guitar. Peter spent the 1970s touring North America and Europe playing early blues, jazz and ragtime. Then, in the early 1980s, he began writing songs, co-founding the Fast Folk Musician's Cooperative in Greenwich Village, New York, where he worked with artists like Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplanski, Cliff Eberhardt, and Jack Hardy. These recordings are part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

After graduating from The Writing Program at Columbia University in 1989, Peter retired from performing and became a full-time music writer for magazines like Rolling Stone and Sing Out. His book "World Beat: A Listener's Guide to Contemporary World Music on CD" was published by the Chicago Review Press in 1992.

Peter has been called a "guitar wizard" by Seattle's Victory Music News and "a gifted lyricist with a sharp eye" by the New Jersey Star-Ledger. He tours regularly in the Northeast and throughout the Pacific Northwest and teaches guitar and voice at the Dusty Strings Music School in Seattle and the Island Music Center of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Jonathan Green enjoys wearing many musical hats. For the past 15 years, he has been a bassist for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Work in the orchestra world has included years with the San Diego Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony and the Tulsa Philharmonic, as well as summer gigs at the Colorado Music Festival, Spoletto Festival of Two Worlds, the Sedona Chamber Music Festival and the Icicle Creek Music Festival. He also performs and records regularly with Music of Remembrance.

Outside of the canon of western classical music, Jon performs with Johnny Bregar and the Country Dogs, Pete Spencer and Laura DeLuca’s klezmer band. He also plays electric bass for the Seattle Symphony Pops concerts.

Concert Details:

Date:  July 27, 2013

Place:  The Winslow, 400 Winslow Way E.,  Bainbridge Island, Washington

Outdoors on the Plaza

Time:  2:30 pm

Admission:  Free

Audience:  All ages

For More Information Contact:  The Island Gallery, 206.780.9500 or ssn@theislandgallery.net 

An Evening of Music

The Island Gallery is delighted to welcome back guitarist Peter Spencer for a special musical event, performing in the Gallery with bassist Jonathan Green during February's First Friday Artwalk.

An Evening of Music

 First Friday, February 1, 2013, 6-8 pm

The Island Gallery

400 Winslow Way E., #120

Bainbridge Island, Washington
(Underground Parking Available - Enter Off Ericksen Avenue) 

Peter Spencer is a fingerpicking guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he grew up listening to the R&B and hillbilly music played on radio stations like WLAC in Nashville and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. He began his musical career in 1968 playing harmonica in a blues band in Pittsburgh, but soon switched to solo guitar. Peter spent the 1970s touring North America and Europe playing early blues, jazz and ragtime. Then, in the early 1980s, he began writing songs, co-founding the Fast Folk Musician's Cooperative in Greenwich Village, New York, where he worked with artists like Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplanski, Cliff Eberhardt, and Jack Hardy. These recordings are part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

After graduating from The Writing Program at Columbia University in 1989, Peter retired from performing and became a full-time music writer for magazines like Rolling Stone and Sing Out. His book "World Beat: A Listener's Guide to Contemporary World Music on CD" was published by the Chicago Review Press in 1992.

Peter returned to performing with the 2000 release "New Hope and Wise Virgins," followed by a series of releases beginning with an album of original and classic blues called "Nobody's Daddy" in 2005. "Handsignal," another album of original songs, followed in 2006. Later that year came "Gathering Light," an album of Christmas music for solo guitar. In 2007 he released "The Blues Concert," recorded live on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and in 2009 "From the Island," another set of original songs.

His newest album, released in the Spring of 2011, is called "1896," recorded simply with his voice and an 1896 Washburn parlor guitar in a Bainbridge Island schoolhouse that was also built in 1896.

Peter has been called a "guitar wizard" by Seattle's Victory Music News and "a gifted lyricist with a sharp eye" by the New Jersey Star-Ledger. He tours regularly in the Northeast and throughout the Pacific Northwest and teaches guitar and voice at the Dusty Strings Music School in Seattle and the Island Music Center of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Jonathan Green is a distinguished bassist with the Seattle Symphony, active as well in chamber-music and new-music circles.

Admission is free.  For further information please contact the Gallery:

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