Room With A View Concerts
-House Concerts In Salt Lake City, Utah
Welcome to RWAV! We hope you join us for great music in our home.
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Small Potatoes
Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:30 pm
We are so thrilled to welcome back Small Potatoes to our home. Rich and Jacquie are amazing singer/songwriters and musicians. Their talent for weaving beautiful and touching stories is unsurpassed. After a night listening to Rich and Jacquie, you'll feel like you just attended the best Broadway musical ever! Come ready to laugh, cry, and dance! (We'll provide the tissues for the songs that make you cry).
“Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso combine cleverly witty with powerfully poignant songs, along with well chosen covers to present an unusually entertaining and involving repertoire engagingly delivered. Prezioso's song "1000 Candles, 1000 Cranes" is one of the most outstanding songs of the past 50 years.”
Rich Warren, The Midnight Special - WFMT Radio, Chicago, IL
"They don't sound like anybody else. I like that. They lay out a blanket and every song is a picnic."
Warren Nelson, Big Top Chautauqua/WI Public Radio, Bayfield, WI
"They'll never open for me again."
Cliff Eberhardt, Singer/Songwriter
Nineteen years ago, Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso, the Chicago-area duo known as Small Potatoes, decided to hit the road. “In one year, we quit our jobs, bought a house, bought a car, and became full-time folk singers--not exactly the greatest combination, financially speaking, or what most people would call a sound business model. We didn’t throw darts at a map, but we might as well have.”
They might not have had the best plan, but what they did have were great songs and musicianship, and the ability to put on a show. Eighteen years, more than a million miles, 3000 shows, and five Dodge Caravans later, they are listed as a “favorite act” by many coffeehouses, clubs and house concerts across the U.S. They have made repeat appearances at major folk festivals, including the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Walnut Valley Festival, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
From the start, they’ve called themselves eclecto-maniacs and described their music as “Celtic to Cowboy”. They say it has taken them “years of careful indecision” to come up with a mix of music that ranges from country, blues, and swing to Irish, with songwriting that touches on all of those styles and more. Their four recordings, Alive!, Waltz of the Wallflowers, Time Flies and Raw demonstrate that “indecision” can be wonderfully entertaining . They both sing, they both play guitars and an array of other instruments. They even yodel.
Suggested donation is $20, all of which goes to the artist.
Bring munchies and adult beverages to share, if you wish.
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See you here!
Michael and Laurie
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