Blame Sally
With a recent Kate Wolf festival performance under their belt the San Francisco all-female folk-rock sensation Blame Sally will bring their five piece band to the Arcata Playhouse on Tuesday, April 16 at 8 p.m.
Blame Sally’s vital, original sound will inspire so many disparate comparisons - they’ve been likened to everyone from the Indigo Girls to the Dixie Chicks, and from the Wailin’ Jennys to Radiohead! - that the uninitiated will have no choice but to check them out and hear it for themselves.
Blame Sally has always been impossible to pin down with clichés and conventional wisdom. Each of the four women put her individual career aside to start Blame Sally when they were in their late thirties and forties - the age at which bands are traditionally supposed to break up and begin solo careers. And, obviously, this is an all-female band, albeit not a “girl group” in the traditional sense, those usually being the novel province of youthful upstarts, not mature singer/songwriters.
Formed in 2000, Blame Sally - Pam Delgado (percussion and vocals), Renee Harcourt (guitar, bass and vocals), Jeri Jones (guitar, bass and vocals} and Monica Pasqual (piano, accordion and vocals). Within a year of their formation, they were already receiving radio airplay on KFOG, the popular Bay Area radio station, then on XM Radio. Before long they were playing larger venues and attracting increasingly more sizable audiences, including a co-bill with the legendary Joan Baez in June 2009 at Stern Grove in San Francisco, where they played for 13,000 people. Their first two self-released albums, Live No. 1 (2001) and the self-titled Blame Sally (2004), increased their audience and by 2007’s Severland (Dig), they were regularly receiving ecstatic reviews.
Blame Sally’s return to the Arcata Playhouse has they performing at 8 p.m. with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. The Playhouse is located at 1251 9th Street in the Creamery building. Tickets are $15 general and $13 students and members and are available at Wildwood Music and Wildberries Market Place or reserve by calling 822-1575.
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