BERT JANSCH / PEGI YOUNG BAND

THURSDAY 6/17            update: Tickets Still Available at the door (((folkYEAH!))) Presents in Oakland!
		BERT JANSCH  with PEGI YOUNG BAND  DOORS at 8 PM / $23 ADV / $25 Door / 18+

Herbert Jansch known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. . He is best known as an innovative and accomplished acoustic guitarist but is also a singer and songwriter.

He has recorded at least 25 albums and has toured extensively starting in the 1960s and continuing into the 21st century. His work has influenced such artists as Paul Simon, Johnny Marr, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Donovan and Neil Young. He has received two Lifetime Achievement Awards at the BBC Folk Awards: one, in 2001, for his solo achievents and the other, in 2007, as a member of Pentangle.

Most singer-songwriters don’t wait a lifetime to release their debut album. But for Pegi Young, whose self-titled collection of country-rockin’ heartache tunes comes out June 12th on Warner Bros. Records, life kept getting in the way. “I’ve been writing songs and poetry since high school,” she says. “It was something I’d always wanted to do but could never make time for. There were other things that took priority.” Young’s greatest priority was co-founding The Bridge School for special needs children like her son Ben, born with cerebral palsy. She also raised a daughter, Amber, and toured the world as a backup singer with Neil Young, her husband of nearly three decades. “I’ve been living five minutes from a state-of-the-art recording studio for 25 years,” Young says of the Northern California ranch she shares with her family. “But the timing had to align.” With The Bridge School running well (Young is still president of the Board) and her kids grown, Pegi finally had time to get into the studio. On Pegi Young, she turns out a set of gorgeous, twangy songs that ponder the tug-of-war between love and independence.