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Gram Parsons was a visionary musician who had a huge impact on
the country, rock, and folk music genres to this day.

On September 19th, 1973, Gram left this world at the young age of 26.
To honor his legacy, we are hosting a special event near
the 50th anniversary of his passing.

The celebration will take place here, at the Joshua Tree Inn,
the very same place where Gram Parsons spent his last moments.
We have invited some of the best musicians to perform some fine country-rock tunes.
There will be delicious food, refreshing Drinks, and live music Too.

In honor of Grams Love for Joshua Tree, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to
the Joshua Tree National Park Association.
Gram Parsons loved the desert for its beautiful landscape, its extremes, its vast emptiness and times of complete peace...
We believe supporting our beautiful national park is the best way to honor his memory.

So, come and join us on
September 17th, 2023,
From 3 PM to 9:30 PM
for a night of celebration, music, and goodwill.
Tickets are available below.
Let's celebrate the life and music of Gram Parsons in the best way possible!

Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime event to honor a true legend of music and support a beautiful national park at the same time.

Get your tickets now and join us on September 17th, 2023,
for a night that will be sure to leave a lasting impression on your heart and soul.
Let's keep Gram's memory alive and celebrate his wonderful contributions to music and the world.
See you there!

WHERE:
61259 Twentynine Palms Hwy
Joshua Tree, CA 92252

WHEN:
September 17, 2023

TIME:
Doors open at 2:30 PM and close at 9:30 PM

PARKING:
PARKING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE INN IS FOR REGISTERED GUESTS ONLY
Follow signs to the back parking lot; there will be a parking attendant available to assist you.

MEET SOME OF THE TALENT

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The Adobe Collective

The Adobe Collective effortlessly embody what has become known as the "high desert sound". Based in Joshua Tree, CA their surroundings reflect a kind of no-frills authenticity that is baked into their music - cosmic desert Americana with flashes of psychedelia, country, and indie rock. At times hard-hitting, at other times heartfelt and tender, rather than stick to a ready-made musical template, they let the rhythms of the California desert guide their creative path.

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Edge of the West

Edge of the West is a Rock n' Roots Honky Tonk Jamband. Their catchy, quirky originals and outlaw hippie sound strikes a chord with lovers of alt-country, Americana & the Grateful Dead. The live shows are a blast. The group writes original tunes and draws from from a deep well of eclectic covers, never playing the same show twice. A new record drops May 2016. This all-star band features members of Great American Taxi, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Todd Snider & more. When playing together in this configuration these guys have a ton of fun, as does the audience. Just try and sit still. Across the canyon we hear drums in the distance. Notes From the underground drift like smoke signals to a strange yet familiar place, where new friends and old come together for good times - The Edge of the West.

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Steve Lester-Shadow Mountain Band

The band began 13 years ago as a hillbilly music jam session in the garden behind Pappy and Harriet's Palace, an historic roadhouse in Pioneertown, CA. Crowds began to gather around to hear the mountain-style harmonies and old-time tunes. The management of Pappy and Harriet's began coming out to listen and soon asked the jammers to come in and play inside for the restaurant crowd. Within a few months, they were joined by Pioneertown resident Johnny Ray Martin on the mountain-style autoharp (an instrument you seldom hear outside of Appalachia), and premier fiddler Bobby Furgo (from the Leonard Cohen band). The group was rounded out when Steve and Darlene's son, Damian Lester, known around the farm as ‘Dooley', joined the band on acoustic bass, and brilliant, soft-spoken Charlie Joe Wallace added his talents on dobro and vocals, along with Banjo Bob Hamilton. Shadow Mountain also often features special guests, depending on which musical friends are in town at the time.

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Joe Garcia & Urban Desert Cabaret

Urban Desert Cabaret (UDC) is the musical project of Joe City Garcia. UDC emerged as a musical entity in 2014 when Joe returned to the Joshua Tree area and was uplifted by the generous and potent music and arts community. UDC released Sometimes the Angels in 2015, followed by Shadow of a Ghost in 2016, resulting in three European solo tours and hundreds of local gigs including a three-year weekly residency at the infamous Landers Brew. UDC Live @ Furstwurld was released in 2020. Give Me to the Wind was released digitally earlier this year. You can find it all at urbandesertcabaret.bandcamp.com and all streaming platforms. UDC will feature Janie Cowan (bass), Tim Chinnock (drums), Bobby Furgo (violin), Gar Robertson (guitar, pedal steel, mandolin), and Joe City Garcia (guitar & vocals).

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Chris Laterzo-Buffalo Robe

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and recording artist Chris Laterzo has managed to keep the muse alive with the release of his fifth and latest album West Coast Sound. Blending varying degrees of folk, rock, and alt-country, Laterzo is an artist who continues to create a unique style of song best described as American cowboy rock. The spirit of the open road, the imagery of boundless landscapes and weathered travelers, the loping rhythms- as with Laterzo's previous work, it's all there in West Coast Sound. Co-produced by Jeff LeGore and Chris Laterzo, West Coast Sound is a culmination of a seasoned artist dedicated to the craft of songwriting.

Laterzo spends a great deal of time supporting his indie albums on the DIY touring circuit both solo and with his band Buffalo Robe, covering various parts of the US, and across the Atlantic to Europe.

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Sin City Allstars with Tom Freund

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Pat Kearns

Pat Kearns is a singer-songwriter, recording engineer, and radio personality hailing from Portland, Oregon. He relocated near Joshua Tree, California, in 2017 when gentrification closed in on his studio, PermaPress Recording. Formerly the leader of the power pop ensemble Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Kearns' interests turned toward roots music with his move to the desert. His three solo records reflect this shift with more spartan arrangements, mostly acoustic instruments, and a hint of country twang beginning with his goodbye to Portland, "So Long City." His second album, "Down in the Wash," was recorded in his off-grid homestead cabin in the desert. Kearns latest album, "Getting Lost" is the first to be recorded at his solar-powered recording studio, Goat Mountain.

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Shane Alexander

Known for his intimate tenor, signature guitar style and moody melodies, Los Angeles-based solo artist Shane Alexander has shaped a distinctive career for himself with his evocative indie folk and soaring full-band acoustic rock.
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Having extensively toured the US, Europe and Canada since 2005 (both as a headliner and supporting acts like Bon Iver, Lucinda Williams, Seal, Jewel, John Hiatt, Suzanne Vega, Styx and Yes), the fiercely independent artist has developed a loyal international fanbase and performed on many fabled stages, including Red Rocks, The Ryman Auditorium, The Greek Theatre in LA, Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas and Paradiso in Amsterdam. His music has appeared in dozens of television shows and films and earned over 25 million streams. The song "Everything as One" from Alexander's 2019 album A Life Like Ours was recently featured in a national commercial for Chevrolet's 'Drive Safe' campaign. His (yet untitled) 8th solo album is set to be released this fall.

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Paul Inman's Delivery

Paul Inman's Delivery is comprised of singer-songwriter-guitarist/keyboard player/harmonica player and renegade avid poet/artist Paul Inman and a rotating cast of supporting musical compatriots. Raised near Detroit Michigan, Inman digested much from that locale's sonic landscape before emigrating to Los Angeles where he absorbed the Americana/folk stylings of California's most compelling artists (The Band, Tom Waits, The Heartbreakers, The Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Blood on The Tracks/Desire era Dylan, Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway), blending them into a compelling Gothic-tinged folk/pop/rock delivery. Touring both as a trio and as a solo acoustic guitar and piano act, Paul Inman's Delivery have released 4 full-length CD's of deftly performed gothic-tinged Americana infused with folk and pop.

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Robert Garson

Robert Garson was born in Arkansas and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, where his folks danced to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens performing at the Big Fresno Barn. He now resides in the high desert of Southern California near Joshua Tree. Steeped in the traditions of country, bluegrass, and rhythm and blues, he marries ancient and new lyric sensibility to the deep grooves heard in roadhouses from Bakersfield to Memphis.

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Tom Fruend

TO BE ANNOOver the course of his career, singer/songwriter Tom Freund has released more than a dozen records, collaborated with legends such as Elvis Costello and Jackson Browne, and his long time collaborator Ben Harper with whom he's made numerous albums and toured the world. Tom has also recorded and toured with rock legend Graham Parker as well as appearing with him in Judd Apatow's "This Is 40". Tom has spent much of his career traversing genres, melding whatever sounds that have happened to catch his whimsy. His songs have been featured on tv shows including Better Things, Parenthood and One Tree Hill. For his latest television project, the Amazon show Pete The Cat, Freund has co-written, sung and played songs with Elvis Costello, KT Tunstall, Dave Matthews and Diana Krall. Tom is also well known as a multi-instrumentalist, performing on guitar, upright bass, mandolin, ukulele, piano or whatever else is in the room!

Fans of roots-oriented artists such as Tom Petty, Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams will find much to explore on East of Lincoln
LA TIMES
Every year the mounting landfill of new releases that threatens to bury the working music journalists yields a few unexpected gems, and Tom Freund is one of them.
NEW YORK TIMES
Freund clearly delights in enigma. His vocals could go from laconic to impassioned without such obvious trickery as cranking up the volume. His lyrics are full of curve balls.
WASHINGTON POST
California-based troubadour Tom Freund sings of skate-boarding kids, impending doom and Happy Days lunch boxes on his new album, Two Moons.
NPR WEEKEND EDITION
If you want to hear what California feels like, Tom Freunds new album is a good place to start.
ACOUSTIC GUITAR
I get shivers down my spine on almost every tune. Along with Lucinda Williams, Freund is the best singer/songwriter operating today.
GRAHAM PARKER

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Bobby Woodruff

Bob Woodruff is a critically acclaimed songwriter and recording artist from Greenwich Village, NYC. Mentored by Brill Building songwriting great, Doc Pomus (Save The Last Dance For Me, This Magic Moment, Little Sister), who was instrumental in helping Bob land a record deal on a major label. Bob has recorded for various labels including, Restless/Enigma, Elektra/Asylum, Imprint and Interscope Records.

More than a few top critics have stated that his albums are among the finest country-rock records ever released. His songs, which meld R&B, Country and Rock, have attracted some of the most talented players in the world to his recording sessions and are graced by many Rock ‘n' Roll and Country Music Hall of Famers including: Emmylou Harris, Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Gary Tallent (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band), Bernie Leadon (The Eagles), James Burton (Elvis), Glen D Hardin (Elvis), Marc Ford (Black Crowes), Lucinda Williams, Sam Bush (New Grass Revival) and Pig Robbins to name only a few.

Bob's music has been placed in dozens of TV shows and a number of films, including the soon to be released 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning film,CLEMENCY, starring Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Alfre Woodard. He and John Bird are currently in the studio putting finishing touches on Bob's new album - the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2016 release, "The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain," which debuted at #1 on the EuroAmericana Chart - and eventually topped several other Roots and Americana charts in the U.S.

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