Cafe Vaquera, Tuesdays, 9:00-11:00pm, on KMUN and KTCB.
Join the "granfalloon"!
Turn off that television Tuesday nights when your old friend Calamity Jane serves up FREE-RANGE RADIO on Cafe Vaquera.
Ms. Jane cooks up a delicious blend of cowgirl swing, singer/songwriter stuff, old western twang, jazz, blues, bluegrass, 60's & 70's folk/rock, jug band and New Orleans GUMBO! From time to time spicy live guests stop by the Café to chat-it-up and maybe even sing and strum a few tunes.
Café Vaquera’s wall of fame includes such notorious characters as:
Lisa and Her Kin (Formerly Lisa Miller and the Trailer Park Honeys) Bluesman Johnnie Ward Spud Siegel Kid Siegel Joey Patenaude Karl Nordquist Rachel Browning & John Twist Toni Land Jon Strider Folk Legend Michael Hurley "Freak Mt. Ramblers" bassist; Dave Reisch McGnarley’s Rant Boogieman Clay Cotton "Spigot’s" David Lipkind David Crabtree & Dick Weissman Accordionist Mike Danner (Velvita Underground & Trashcan Joe) Denise Drake HIPFISH’s Dinah Urell Cindy Pearson AKA LuLu LaFever Beth Basile of "Crackpots" fame Ryan Sharp (Cobalt Season) Crog from Outer Space Kornbread
Personal Station ID's by: Charlie Musselwhite, Sam Bush, Tim O'Brien, Hayseed Dixie, and more.
"Calamity" Jane gets out on the range and herds in the best of the summer festival music, bringing it home to y'all. She does her homework! Favorites include the Telluride, Colorado, Bluegrass Festival, Portland's Pickathon, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Batwater, & Last Chance Barn Dance.
Jane recently showed her "Goatbreath" collection of paintings at the Astoria Coffeehouse. Ms. Jane is an occasional (and former monthly) columnist for the North Oregon coast's arts and cultural monthly: HIPFISH.
Ms. Jane was selected to participate in the 2008 Fisher Poets Gathering, performing a set at the Columbian Theater in Astoria, OR. She is currently working on a colorful collection of essays about growing up in a multi-generation NW fisher- family. "Growing Up Fishy" has been selected for print in the New Bedford, Massachusetts, "Working Waterfront Festival" program, where she also will be performing.
She’s been a hairdresser, the world’s worst waitress, a professional theater costume & set designer, a graphic artist, a cowgirl, a comedian, a junk store junkie, a music collector, and a caregiver. She’s been there and done that! If you’re lucky you might even get a story or two while you’re sittin’ around the Ol’ Café Vaquera.
Saddle up the Laz-Y-Boy and see y'all there!
Tune in. Turn on. Drop out. Happy trailers to you!