08:00 PM : Artis the spoonman @ red & black cafe

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8:00 pm - Monday, December 20th, 2004,

Artis the Spoonman is coming to the Red and Black!

"You haven't got a commercial bone in your body." - Frank Zappa

Artis the Spoonman is a living myth. Since 1972 he has created a state-of-the-art cultural legend. From the sidewalks and bars of Seattle, San Francisco, Manhattan, Sidney, London, Dublin, Munich and Singapore, to the theatres of Broadway, the stages of International and National television and the recording studios of Frank Zappa and Soundgarden, his spellbinding, faster-than-the-eye-can-track spoonplaying has been a passionate rhythm enhancement for Rock, Fusion, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass, Classical and Uncatagorizable music, virtually everywhere. His avant garde percussion, coupled with his contagious spirit, will change your life--or at least your ideas on cutlery...

"... best spoonplayer in the whole damn universe." - Pete Seeger
"What did he eat for breakfast, gunpowder?" - Lacy J. Dalton
"Finally, some real music." - Mickey Hart

Artis has shared the stage with the likes of:
Jim Page, Frank Zappa, Aerosmith, Steve Goodman, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, David Sanborn, Lacy J. Dalton, Peter Rowan, Jethro Burns, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, k.d.lang, Bob Weir, Avner the Eccentric, Soundgarden, Itzhak Perlman, The Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Zakir Hussein, Queen Ida, Ani DiFranco, Phish, Leftover Salmon, The Radiators, String Cheese Incident, Pele Juju and Alice DiMicele, just to name a few.

Artis has performed on:

"Spoonman," a Grammy Award-winning song and MTV video by Soundgarden

Late Night with
David Letterman, USA TV

Night Music with David Sanborn, USA TV

Further Festival Tour 1996, USA

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, USA RADIO

The Paul Daniels Show, BBC TV

Blue Peter, BBC TV

Livewire, Nickelodian Children's TV, USA

Chikyu Dombori, FUJI TV, JAPAN

Broadway with Avner The Eccentric, NYC

Broadway with Itzhak Perlman, NYC

Radio Västernorrland, SWEDEN

And he's performed at at many events and festivals around the world.