Upcoming Living Room Concert Friday, February 10 @ HPPR's Garden City Studios Adam Gardino & Kelly Champlin HPPR is proud to present Adam Gardino and Kelly Champlin to our Garden City Studios on Friday, February 10! The doors will open at 7PM, and the show will start at 7:30. There is a suggested donation at the door. This will be Adam and Kelly's first visit to our studios. They performed for HPPR last year during our live broadcast from the 1907 Shirley Opera House in Atwood. Don't miss this evening of great music! About Adam & Kelly Adam Gardino and Kelly Champlin combine the musical styles of rock, jazz, country and folk into an acoustic whirlwind of energy and emotion. Playing guitar and fiddle respectively for over a decade, these two college students perform with the virtuosity and musicality of seasoned professionals. With their songwriting being likened to that of contemporary country artists Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift, they continue to push the boundaries of acoustic music. For Kelly Champlin, music has been a passion from a very early age. She has been all over Colorado performing with such bands as Interstate Cowboy, The Hillworms, Glentucky Funkdown and Dragonfly, as well as with the University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra. The flawless technique learned on violin transferred over and helped to inform her other musical passion, songwriting. Her songs seek to decipher the complicated emotions within the world around us; love, heartbreak and soul have been brilliantly captured on her debut album “Never Walk Away”. Hailing from Colorado Springs, CO Adam Gardino has been dazzling audiences across Colorado and Kansas since 2005. In 2010 he took 3rd Place at the International Fingerstyle Competition at the Walnut Valley Festival, where players from all over the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan come and compete every year for a chance to be named among the best in the world. Sharing the stage with such acts as Grammy winners Doug Smith, Pat Donohue and Al Petteway, he blends acoustic blues, jazz, folk and rock into a style reminiscent of Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke.

Upcoming Living Room Concert Saturday, February 17 @ Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall Putnam Smith High Plains Public Radio is proud to welcome Putnam Smith to Amarillo on Friday, February 17th! This show will be at the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, located at 4901 Cornell Dr. The doors will open at 7PM, and the show will start at 7:30. We will have the usual good coffee and great cookies- don't miss this extraordinary night of music! To make reservations for this show, call 806-367-9088 or e-mail music@hppr.org. About Putnam: Putnam Smith, who hails from Portland, Maine, could be an old-world troubadour fresh from the 19th Century. After all, he lives in a log cabin, plays his Grandfather's banjo, and prints up the jackets to his CDs on a 1901 Pearl Letterpress (hand set type, pedal powered!). Yet this rootsy multi-instrumentalist songwriter (he also writes and performs on guitar, mandolin, fretless banjo, and piano), steeped as he is in Appalachian traditions, is very much a storyteller for the modern age. Putnam first came to national attention with his 2009 release, "Goldrush," which went to #5 on the national Folk & Bluegrass DJ Charts (and made it on 6 "Favorite Albums of 2009" lists). His latest release, "We Could Be Beekeepers" shot right up to #2 the month it was released, charting 3 songs in the top ten (www.folkradio.org). Selected as an "Emerging Artist" at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (2011), and noted as "One To Watch" (Rob Reinhart, Acoustic Cafe), Putnam has begun to establish himself as an acoustic tour-de-force not only in his hometown of Portland, but as a nationally touring musician as well. Putnam has won over audiences from the coast of Maine to the coast of California; from Winnipeg, Canada to New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also shared the stage with such folk notables as: Amy Speace, Mark Erelli, Spuyten Duyvil, Madison Violet, Garnett Rogers, Richard Julian, and Bruce Molsky. Says Sarah Banks, of Spuyten Duyvil, after a house concert: "One of the most magical performances I've had the luck to attend!" Some favorite venues that Putnam has played, include: Club Passim (Boston), Johnny D's (Boston), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), Me and Thee Coffeehouse (Marblehead, MA), Caffe Lena (Saratoga Springs, NY), One Longfellow Square (Portland), Psalm Salon (Philadelphia), Trinity House Theatre (Livonia, MI), MAMA's coffeehouse (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Uncommon Ground (Chicago), Ginkgo's (St. Paul, MN), Flipnotics (Austin, TX), Chickie Wah Wah's (New Orleans), Studio Live (Sedona, AZ).

Upcoming Living Room Concerts Fri, 02/10/2012 Adam Gardino and Kelly Champlin Garden City, Kansas Fri, 02/17/2012 Putnam Smith Amarillo, Texas Fri, 03/02/2012 Kate & Bill Isles Amarillo, Texas Fri, 03/16/2012 Songwriters in the Round Amarillo, Texas Fri, 03/30/2012 Stew Moss Amarillo, Texas Wed, 04/25/2012 The Refugees Amarillo, Texas Fri, 5/18/2012 Hans York Amarillo, Texas Wed, 06/01/2012 Sweet Wednesday Amarillo, Texas Wed, 06/15/2012 Songwriters in the Round Amarillo, Texas

Past Living Room Concert Artists Hot Strings   Fran Snyder Route 3   Fistful of Nickels Jason Harwell   Wayne and Arthetta Long Rick Thum   Michael Chapdelaine Judy Coder and Pride Of the Prairie   Brazz Tree Ann Zimmerman   Emily Higgins Boulder Acoustic Society   Folk By Association Jeff Black   Jon Black Jamie Kindleyside   Lisa Sandell Michael Gulezian   D-Squared 5 Man Trio   Beth Wood Randy Elmore   Bill and Kate Isles Nathan Knowles & Deena Smith   Moreland & Arbuckle Kate MacLeod   Cosy Sheridan Sara Grey   Tia McGraff and Tommy Parham Nathan Granner and Beau Bledsoe   Danny Santos Vicky Emerson   Brave Combo Dan Vaillancourt   John Statz Chris Volpe   Buddy Mondlock Jubilant Bridge   Small Potatoes Michael Young   Sweet Wednesday Dana Cooper   Lisa Markley DONK!   Andy Chase Cundiff Jerry Barlow   Barb Ryman Sharon Bousquet    Tennessee Tuckness Mike Fuller   Eilen Jewell Nancy Cook   Dana Robinson THE MAG SEVEN   Chuck Pyle Yvonne Perea   Rebecca Loebe Birdsong At Morning   Seth Horan Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen   Hans York Teresa Storch   Stew Moss Michael Johnathon   Luke Holder Susan Gibson   Blues Boy Willie hONEyhoUSe   The Mild Manner Ken Gaines