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7 March 2008:Austin, Texas
It's SXSW time in Central Texas and Danny is pleased to welcome New Zealand's own Katchafire to Austin. Katchafire will be playing:
Friday March 14 - Austin City Hall,
Corner of Cesar Chavez and Lavaca
"Live From The Plaza"
4:30-5:30 PM
Free and open to the public!
No wristband needed!
Katchafire can also be seen:
Saturday April 15, 9:00pm
Flamingo Cantina
515 E 6th St
This is a SXSW show,
so wristbands are required
The inimitable Guy Juke, Danny's long-time compadre at the Armadillo first, and later at Sheauxnough Studios, has drawn the artwork for Katchafire's Austin debut.
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"Katchafire represents the best of reggae today, and it's out of New Zealand."
Dermot Hussey, Jamaican musicologist/multi-media producer
"Contemporary international roots music at its best." Chuck Foster, Beat Magazine |
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11 May 2007: Auckland, New Zealand
Guy Forsyth's latest CD --
Unrepentant, Schizophrenic Americana
feature's Danny's classic rendition of Guy
Guy Forsyth has been a primal force in Austin music for nearly two decades. He is a powerful writer, composer, vocalist, guitarist and harpist -- not to mention an accomplished virtuoso of the musical saw. To fully appreciate the scope and depth of his musical talents however, one must see him in person. Recordings do little justice to his live performances. However, this two-CD set, is probably the best of his few forays into recorded live sessions.
It was my very great honor to do the cover(s) for these recordings. The image is a reproduction of the poster that I did in 1996 for his weekly performances at Antone's -- Sunday night gigs that carried the spiritual force of his music in the quietest corner of the weekend. He has been for many years, and remains, my favorite contemporary Austin musician.
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South Austin
Museum of Popular Culture
is pleased to present
Visual Flights of Fancy:
The artwork of Danny Garrett
June 17 - July 23, 2006
Click on the > button below to listen to a MP3 Public Service
Announcement recorded by Danny's long-time compadre,
Eddie Wilson of Threadgill's, at
KGSR's studio, courtesy of
morning DJ, Bryan Beck.
For all the morning, drive-time, KGSR listeners, hip to all
things funky & weird about Austin, you'd better listen up close at the
magical hour of 7:09 am, when
Bryan Beck offers daily tips into the mystery of 7/09.
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There are many events scheduled in conjunction with Danny visit
to Austin from Auckland and his show at the South Austin Museum of Popular
Culture, including:
Thursday, 22 June 2006 5:00 - 6:00 pm: At the Austin City Council
Chambers, Mayor Will Wynn will declare 7/09 officially Danny Garrett Day in
Austin, Texas.
Saturday, 24 June 2006 7:09 pm: At the
South Austin Museum of Popular Culture will
host the official opening party. Click here for a
printable copy of the Press
Release (Microsoft Word
Document).
Sunday, 9 July 2006 Threadgill's World Headquarters will be the scene
of a massive celebration of all the Austin Artists, including
Guy Juke, Bill Narum,
Micael Priest, Jaxon, and others. Please join us for this special art sale,
with music provided by the
Uranium Savages and Guy
Forsyth.
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Clifford Antone
1949 - 2006
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23 May 2006: Danny Garrett mourns the passing of one of blues music's
greatest promoters -- Clifford
Antone of Austin, Texas.
From his statement to the
Austin American-Statesman:
Clifford was an incredible force for the Blues, American popular culture, and
a personal and beloved friend. It was a pleasure and honor to have worked with
him. I will miss this incredible man. My condolences to his personal and
musical families. A genuine Austin treasure...
dg
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6 November 2005: Danny Garrett was honored to be asked by
Real Groovy Records of Auckland, New Zealand, to illustrate that Real
Groovy is Everything
Under the Sun.
Danny's poster has appeared in the
New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post and other major NZ newspapers on
Sunday, 6 November 2005 as a full page color advertisement. It has also sprung
up all over Auckland, in A3 and A0 sizes, plastered on prominent corners, along
with other bills for upcoming shows.
Danny was able to incorporate some of his favorite music into this poster. In
this image, he's pointing out a miniature of his portrait of
Guy Forsyth, a poster drawn in
1995 for Guy because Danny is enthralled by Guy's blues, harmonica, and
saw-playing-with-a-violin-bow talents.
If you haven't yet heard Guy's newest album
Love Songs: For & Against then, if you are in NZ, order your
copy from Real
Groovy. If you are in the US, you can order your copy of
Love Songs: For & Against from
Waterloo Records
, the Real Groovy Records of Texas.
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11 August 2005: Danny Garrett is a Vietnam combat veteran. He was
drafted in June, 1968 and released from service in March of 1970. He seved in
the Americal
Division in
Quang Ngai province, southern I Corps.
Called “Tears in the Rain”,
this drawing is a composite portrait of a Vietnam veteran after a photograph by
David Douglas Duncan, and attempts to depict a “generic” image of the
soldier that served there, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Given that America is once again at war,
Danny thought it proper to bring this portrait out of his portfolio, and
show it again.
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On 11 July 2005 Antone's: Home
of the Blues kicked off their 30th anniversary week with a special Blue
Monday show, hosted by the incomparable
Derek O'Brien. This photo of (from left to right)
Hubert Sumlin, Calvin “Fuzz” Jones, and
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and was taken at Antone’s on July 11, 2005:
30th Anniversary Blue Monday show.
Willie and Fuzz played bass and drums respectively for Muddy Waters; Hubert
was Howlin' Wolf's guitarist for years.
Who say's the blues ain't living?
It is in Austin, Texas.
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Photo by
Steve Gotesky
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More
Antone's 30th Anniversary photos by
Steve Gotesky
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Danny's Antone's 30th Anniversary poster honoring
Muddy Waters
Clifton Chenier
Albert Collins
Doug Sahm
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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First there were images of Jesus on toast....
On July 15, 2005 spotted in the bathroom of the Odéon Café, Auckland's answer
to the Cactus Cafe,
was a small sign that Austin hippies had preceded us.
This was the same night we met up with
Margaret Brown and Lee Daniel, Director and
Cinematographer respectively of
Be Here To Love Me, a film about the life & times of
Townes Van Zandt. Margaret and Lee have told Townes'
story -- and that of his family -- in a poignant, thoughtful collection of
film, dialog, and the singer songwriter's words and music. If you find it at a
film festival near you, make it a point to go. You won't be disappointed. |
On June 11, 2005 the South
Austin Museum of Popular Culture hosted a party for cowboy
chaméléon Guy Juke...
and Guy and the gang took this
opportunity to say Hi to their comrade-in-exile.
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Danny received this thank-you note from
60 Minutes correspondent
Ed Bradley earlier this year, for Danny's
1980 Antones poster of Ray Charles
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My name is Danny Garrett and I am an artist. The work represented here covers
nearly four decades, including endeavors both commercial and fine, through
media and venue both traditional and digital. Whether considered as a body or
individually, these pieces constitute a philosophy of art – articulated in the
vocabulary of image and structured by grammars of shape and form. The scope of
this philosophy will unfold in landscapes crafted through visual tectonics that
stretch as much behind the eye as before it. And within it are worlds
illuminated as much by thought as by light. Come in and see what you think…
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Both the Antone's 29th and 30th Anniversary posters wer drawn using a
Wacom Cintiq 18SX graphics tablet. If you are a fellow artist, seeking
great tools and you want to deal with great people, I endorse
Cool Graphics Stuff for your next Wacom or graphic software purchase. |
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