Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Dancing Oak Nursery
Summer Festival -
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
17900 Priem Rd.
Monmouth Oregon 97361
USA (503) 838-6058
Price: Free
John returns to Dancing Oak Nursery to perform among the beautiful observation gardens that owners Fred and Leonard have created among the rolling coast range hillside in the mid-Willamette Valley. Here, John's music is not so much a concert but is more like an accompaniment to the call of birds and the lazy summer breezes that drift through the trees this time of year.
This is a very informal event so come and walk about the gardens or sit with a piece of homemade pie and slowly take in a bit of a Dancing Oak Nursery tradition in the making.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
St. Michael's By-The-Sea
A Celtic Pilgrimage With John Doan -
7:30PM
2775 Carlsbad Boulevard
Carlsbad California 92008
USA 760-729-8901
Price: $15
Master harp guitarist, storyteller, and historian John Doan takes his audiences on a Celtic pilgrimage to the sites made famous by St. Patrick and others during the Golden Age of Ireland. A millennium ago these sites were imaginatively called "Thin Places" where it was believed the space between heaven and earth, and past and future, were thinly divided. The audience is transported back to the very sites where the music was composed enhanced by storytelling and a multi-media show.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
A Celtic Pilgrimage With John Doan -
8PM
285 East 5th Street
Chico California 95928
US (530) 343-1497
Price: $15 at the door.
Master harp guitarist, storyteller, and historian John Doan takes his audiences on a Celtic pilgrimage to the sites made famous by St. Patrick and others during the Golden Age of Ireland. A millennium ago these sites were imaginatively called "Thin Places" where it was believed the space between heaven and earth, and past and future, were thinly divided. The audience is transported back to the very sites where the music was composed enhanced by storytelling and a multi-media show.
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
A Celtic Pilgrimage With John Doan -
7:30PM
430 Main Street
Etna California 96027
USA (530) 467-5815
Price: $10 advance, $12 at door
John through his harp guitar playing, storytelling, and multimedia program will take audiences on a Celtic pilgrimage to the sites made famous by St. Patrick and others during the Golden Age of Ireland. A millennium ago these sites were imaginatively called "Thin Places" where it was believed the space between heaven and earth, and past and future, were thinly divided.
This is John's first visit to Etna and by all descriptions it is a "Thin Place" all its own as it is nestled in the quiet pine covered mountains just south of the Oregon border.
Advanced Ticket sales for $10 begin August 2nd at the Yreka, Etna and Ft. Jones branches of Scott Valley Bank; at Beaver Valley Trading Co. in Etna or by contacting Che'usa at (530) 467-5815. (Checks payable to: Scott Valley Theatre Co.) At the door admission is $12. The doors will open at 7:00 pm.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Hilton Hotel & Conference Center
New Christy Minstrels In Concert -
TBA
301 W., Sixth St.
Vancouver Washington USA
Price: TBA
John has been asked to join in this historic concert by one of the most famous music groups of the early 1960's. The New Christy Minstrels were central to the Urban Folk Revival and the history they made then is continuing with it's early original members. Randy Sparks created the group and has debuted and showcased amazing talent over the past 50 years to include John Denver, Steve Martin, Barry Macquire, Kenny Rogers, the Carpenters, the Moma's and the Papas, Mike Nesmith of the Monkees, and literally scores of others.
Randy Sparks says:
"John Doan is one of my best discoveries and an undiscovered treasure, and he has an outside chance at becoming a superstar in the same category as the Danish classical musician-turned comedian, Victor Borge.~~What's the logic in that statement, you ask?~~When Borge was getting started, no classical musician had ever crossed the line to become a household name in showbiz.~~Jack Benny may be seen as a near-exception to that rule, but he wasn't really the virtuoso that Victor was, and that John also happens to be. I believe in John, by his intellect and the endearing way he has with people, audiences, and simply everybody. I honestly believe we need more quality class-acts in our business of show, and John is exactly that."
What also will makes this a special concert is that tonight's venue is just two short blocks from the site of the old Frontier Room, where Randy invented the group, came up with the name, and recruited its first four members! With a history of some three hundred former members over the years John's former performances with the group place him at #287!
Don't miss this date to experience wonderful music and an historical moment!