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Returning to Oxted, for the final Session of 2019, it is a true pleasure and honour to be able to welcome back the marvellous Chris Cacavas!
Chris blew the audience away at the Folk & Blues Festival back in February, and made plenty of friends, and so it only seemed right to ask him to come back and close the year out, in a very special, very intimate show at The Ginistry (a new venue for the Sessions!)
Chris Cacavas secured his position in the annals of alt-rock many years back as a founding member of the legendary Green On Red from Arizona / California. Alongside Dan Stuart's and Chuck Prophet's driving, jangling guitars, Cacavas' characteristic frenetic, quivering organ sound - often drawing comparisons to The Doors' Ray Manzarek - provided one of the defining features of the seminal first GOR albums.
It was during this era that Cacavas advanced to one of the most in-demand studio musicians for countless "desert rock" sessions between Tucson and Los Angeles. Deserving of special mention are his close collaborations with Howe Gelb / Giant Sand and Steve Wynn / The Dream Syndicate, who have recruited him as keyboardist while touring... he has just finished a European tour with TDS.
Chris has also had a highly productive and acclaimed solo career, either on his own or with his backing band Junkyard Love, producing a string of superb albums, including 'Pale Blonde Hell', 'Self Taut' and 'Love's Been Discontinued'. His folk-tinged rock songs, delivered with naked emotion and honesty, have garnered favourable comparisons to Neil Young (and indeed he appeared on a Neil Young tribute album in the late '90s).
Support for the evening comes from two of Oxted's finest. Hammo, a singer-songwriter of great rhythym, melody and poetry, who played a storming opening set for William McCarthy back in April; and Matt Hayes (of Idol Hands, Randy & The Rockets, Mad Dog & Moonshine etc) whose excellent original material is aired far too infrequently, something that will be put right on the night!
90 Station Rd East,
Oxted,
Surrey,
England,
RH8 0QA.
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