Authentic acoustic music from this long time traveling musician from Niwot, Colorado. A songwriter with numerous CD's and compilation efforts in his career. He's played large venues and main stage's at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Telluride Blues Festival ,The Paonia Roots Fest and The Colorado Irish Festival.

He is a past winner of the Crossroads Acoustic Blues Award . Selected to play a prestigious "main showcase" at The SWRFA Conference in Austin,Texas. Closing the festivities on Friday night.

Kevin also plays intimate venues, coffee houses, house concerts. clubs and festivals all across the country.And many an Irish pub, as well.
As a "working musician" he has played just about every Colorado ski town.
His latest recordings are done in the comfort of his home studio.
Kevin Dooley may be compared with such contemporary artists as Van Morrison, JJ Cale,Richard Thompson, James Taylor, Keb Mo, Greg Brown and David Bromberg.

Kevin is performing regularly with "Parting Glass",a Celtic flavored Original and Traditional band .A"Live at The Bader House" CD is now available at shows!!

More info www.partingglassmusic.com

Photo by Robert Corwin

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 "Twilight Drive" and "Everyday Dreams" are available at:

www.milehighmusicstore.com     www.hapiscratch.com

What's happening...Nov 26 2006

  

What a fabulous evening at The Left Hand Grange Hall on

with Rebecca Folsom and Michael Lille. The room had a very nice feel and lot's of wonderful people came,it was a very fun evening. There will be more rounds taking place there over the Winter and I will be posting info on that in the next few weeks.Thanks

         

                                           Coming Up:

Nov29 Regular Wed nite gig at The Niwot Tavern 6-9  

Nov 30  Gordon Biersch Brewery  Flatirons Crossing Mall  6-9PM 

Trio with Steve Glotzer on electric guitar and Lionel Young on fiddle.

Dec. shows on the first at The Boulder Cork 8:30PM. A Friday night show at The Niwot Tavern on Dec 8th 7-10PM.I'm back at Folsom Street Coffee in Boulder

on the 14th at 8PM.Thanks to RedPenguin Records for facilitating this gig.

  My first visit to Cannon Mine Coffee ( with Beer, Wine and Bar as well thats my kind of coffeehouse),in Old Town Lafayette on Friday the 15th 8PM $5.00 cover.

Dec 20th a very fun night,my singing buddy Beth Leachman is back from England for the holidays and we will have a gathering of friends at The Niwot Tavern starting @6PM. For some Holiday Cheer. My friend Randall Dubis is playing that evening so we will be hanging out,eating drinking and being Merry. Some singing will take place somewhere along the line.We all really miss Beth and are looking forward to her return next fall and the resumption of Parting Glass gigs.

 At the end on the month,Friday Dec 29th from 5:30-8:30,I'll be in Denver at

BB's on Pearl  (1475 S. Pearl) 303-777-3463  The Indulger's will take the stage @9PM, so come on down for an evening of Irish fun to help send this OL Year of 2006

on it's way a lil early. I'll be in Boulder, as per usual, at The Boulder Cork on New Years Eve.

                                               Happy Trails

                   Kevin

                                    At the present time,CD's are available by mail order

Kevin Dooley Music

P.O. Box 2   Niwot,CO    80544

"Twilight Drive " & "Everyday Dreams" are available at

www.milehighmusicstore.com or www.hapiscratch.com

Mail Order Only:

"Home Cookin" & "How late'll ya play til?"$10 per.

Parting Glass Live at The Bader House $15

(13 songs)

Individual songs are available for download at CatchMusic.net .

scroll down for their link.

Thanks allot to Mark Steputis at Lightwave Studio's for setting

up this site and enabling me to update it on a regular basis. Contact mark@lightwavestudio.com

 

Quotes & Reviews

"...Kevin successfully marries the soul of acoustic with the range of rock."

- Tim O'Brien

"...he paints Lake Wobegon like pictures... vivid songs... his smile shows right through"

- Tom Prasado-Rao

Scott Arbough from KBCO has called him "one of his favorite Boulder performers".

"on the cutting edge of acoustic music, an exciting performer and masterful guitar player"

KUT Folkways, Austin Texas.

Jeff Stratton of The Boulder Weekly described the Everyday Dreams CD as "full of the ambience of a warm living room. Rhythmic guitar playing and direct singing bring to life these tales of old cars, roadhouses, crescent moons and night travels... and give them a sturdy weather beaten authenticity."

"second generation folk rocker...strong songs...one of The Best of Boulder'

John Lehndorff  Boulder Daily Camera

"..very talented song writer. My listeners are enjoying his songs very much"

Raymond Swennen,Radio Atlantis  Bree, Belgium

"we yearn to hear more of the acoustic Dooley"  Dirty Linen  Baltimore, Maryland

A sample of past performances:

Swallow Hill Music Association Denver.CO:  Memphis in May, Memphis.TN:

Boulder Theatre, Boulder,CO   Wisconsin Singer Songwriter Series, Cedarburg,WI:

Rocky Mountain Folks Festival,Lyons,CO :Java Joes, Des Moines,Iowa: 

Concerts under the Stars,St. George,Utah:

Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson,WI.  :Bluebird Cafe,Nashville,TN

Coal Creek Coffee Co. , Laramie ,WY: Cafe Tazza,Taos,NM

Telluride Blues Festival,Telluride ,CO:Common Grounds,Goshen,IN.:  Lloyd Center,Portland,OR .Chicago House, Austin,TX :The Boardwalk, Nashville,TN.

The Little Bear Evergreen,CO :SWRFA 2005 Main Showcase Austin,Texas

Bright Angel Lodge,Grand Canyon,AZ:  Downtown Grounds,Omaha,NE

The Garden, San Jose,CA, Acoustic Coffee,Nederland,CO, Poconos Blues Showcase

Hudson Garden's Concert Series & Red White and Blues Festivel..and lots more...

A sample of live radio, includes :KBCO's Live from Studio C: KUNI Studio One, Cedar Falls,IA; KTCL's Radio Free Colorado;KANU Lawrence ,KS "The Flint Hills Special";

Don Woods show on KUWR in Laramie,WY and ""Folkways" KUT in Austin ,TX.

KRFC Live@Lunch ,Northern Colorado.

Kevin was the "featured artist' on Whole Wheat Radio.org Talkeetna,Alaska for an entire day!

Also,locally, on our great public station KGNU on the "Cabaret"

live from the"blue velvet hallway"

Kevin is a member,past or present, of the following organizations:

The North American Folk Alliance.NSAI, BMI, Songwriters Guild of America,Colorado Blues Society,Colorado Music Association(COMA),TAXI and The Boulder Area Songwriters Alliance.

Kevin guitar's: Larivee C-10 and a National Steel ,Style O.



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