Crooners & Songbirds Night of Early Cowboy Songs

Thu, Jan 12
8 pm
FREE / NO COVER

*Crooners & Songbirds Night of Early Cowboy Songs*
Toshio Hirano: A Tribute To Jimmie Rodgers
Megan Lynch & Kelly McCubbin

Crooners & Songbirds is a monthly cabaret focusing on vocal jazz,
blues and popular music from the '20s and '30s. This second
installment will feature early cowboy songs with some ace-high
yodeling and more!

TOSHIO HIRANO was born in Tokyo in the 1950's. Postwar Japan. He
embraced everything American, including American popular music. As a
teenager he became interested in bluegrass and country music . One of
his first loves was the great John Duffy and The Country Gentleman.
He later became inspired by the Mississippi legend, Jimmie Rodgers.
Toshio learned to play banjo, guitar and mandolin and started a
family band with his brother and cousin, called The Sunny Bluegrass
Boys. He continued playing music through college and then emigrated
to the USA to pursue his love of this music. He has lived in Atlanta,
Nashville, Minneapolis and Austin, Texas. San Francisco has been his
home since 1986 and he plays regularly in cafes and bars around town.
The deep romantic nature of country music, its' tales of trains and
cowboys and broken hearts continues to sustain Toshio's imagination
and art.

His faithful, respectful renditions of heartbreaking country tunes,
with substantial nods to legends like Jimmie Rodgers, is something
to behold.
-Beth Lisick/SF Gate

His voice has that perfect old-timey waver, and his yodel could bring
tears to your eyes. His faithful, respectful renditions of
heartbreaking country tunes is something to behold.
-SF Gate

A yodeling cowboy from way out east. It's cute as hell.
-Squidlist.com

MEGAN LYNCH is a dazzling urbanite who found herself appointed by
Hedley Lamarr to be the new sheriff of Rock Ridge. Concerned with
fitting in, she learned how to add eggs to her coffee and yodel along
with the natives. Her pardner Kelly McCubbin plays a mean uke and
holds down the basso continuo.

Venue:

Wilde Oscar's
1900 Folsom @ 15th St.
san francisco
415-621-7145


Wilde Oscar's is in the Mission District on the corner of 15th Street
& Folsom Street.

Additional Info:

415 255-8545
http://crooners.tribe.net/