Kerry Grombacher to play the Pearl
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October 5, 2012 |
 Kerry
Grombacher will appear in concert at the Pearl
Theater in Bonners Ferry at 7 p.m Saturday
October 6. In the spirit of the troubadours of
old, Grombacher’s contemporary folk and western
songs paint vivid portraits and tell fascinating
stories that are set in the landscape he’s
traveled and worked in, from the bayous of
Louisiana, through the desert Southwest, to the
Hi-Line of Montana and the forests of Oregon,
where he fought fires for the U.S. Forest
Service.
Tickets are $10 at the door. The Cafe at the
Pearl will open at 6:30 p.m. with snacks,
desserts, wine, beer, and other beverages. Show
starts at 7 p.m.
Kerry Grombacher, who is sponsored by Elixir
Guitar & Mandolin Strings, is making his second
appearance in Bonners Ferry.
A former Oregon wildland firefighter, Grombacher
performed at a Fire District's Fund Raiser in
Gladys May Park near the close of the fire
season in September 2003.
“I was given a Pulaski to commemorate the
concert, and I’ve got it displayed prominently
in my office. There could not have been a more
appropriate gift, nor a more potent symbol of my
connection with wildland firefighters, whose
tireless work keeps us all safe,” Grombacher
said recently. “I’m very happy to return to
Bonners Ferry and I’m looking forward to seeing
my friends and to making new acquaintances.”
In the course of his nationwide tours, Kerry has
sung his songs on stages as varied as the
Newport Folk Festival (Newport, Rhode Island)
and Cowboy Songs & Range Ballads (Cody,
Wyoming), the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival and the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering
(Durango, Colorado).
In addition to appearances at folk festivals and
cowboy gatherings, he performs regularly at
coffeehouses, house concerts and other folk
music venues and he has been featured on “River
City Folk,” the folk music interview program
that is heard across the country on public radio
stations.
Kerry Grombacher’s most recent album of western
songs is “It Sings in the Hi-Line.” His earlier
recordings are “Sands Motel,” “Riding for the
Brand,” “Dreams of New Orleans,” and “Home to
the West.”
Kerry’s songs have been recorded by other
artists, including Ed Stabler, Lorrie Keating,
The Texas Trailhands, Duke Davis, Gary Prescott,
Trails & Rails, and Earl Gleason, and he has a
song on the new children’s album, “Cowboy
Playground,” released in the United States and
sixty foreign countries this year by the
Putumayo World Music/Putumayo Kids record label.
Nalini Jones, of the Newport Folk Festival, says
“Kerry Grombacher is the best kind of
songwriter, with lyrics that take us on journeys
to places we’ve never visited before, and
melodies so pure and true that they seem to rise
up from the plains...”
Cowboys & Indians Magazine said songwriter Kerry
Grombacher “…is one of the West’s new breed, who
builds on, embellishes, expands, and updates
traditional Western themes.”
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