Here at Roots & Rhythm it has always been about the music. We are very excited to announce our 2024 lineup. Take a moment to explore more about each artist/act below. As always it’s going to be a real memorable event folks! Bring a chair and your dancing feet! These are all headliners so don’t miss a minute.
Slam Allen – The internationally renowned Slam Allen is a messenger of love. This dynamic entertainer uses the genres of Blues, Soul, R&B, and a touch of Rock and Roll to deliver powerful soul stirring performances! Slam captures you with a voice that echoes Otis Redding, a guitar that immerses you in B. B. King and stage energy reminiscent of James Brown, all while captivating you with his own original music!
Deke Dickerson & the Whippersnappers – Deke Dickerson has devoted his long career to keeping America’s roots music alive while interjecting new creativity into genres of music that flourished in decades previous. Deke & the Whippersnappers will also be our featured act at the Late Night Ramble directly after the Main Stage closes @ Here & Now Brewing.
Steve Guyger – For over thirty years Steve Guyger has been honing his skills on the harmonica and delighting blues audiences worldwide. Steve was one of our main stage headliners at our first annual Roots & Rhythm in 2006.
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines – For 30 years Paul Rishell & Annie Raines have been hailed as one of the world’s best blues duos. They have recorded 6 albums together including the W.C. Handy Award-winning Moving to the Country (2000), and received numerous award nominations from the Blues Foundation. They have performed and recorded with John Sebastian, Susan Tedeschi, Pinetop Perkins and Rory Block. They have opened for Ray Charles, Dr. John, and Little Feat, and performed on international radio and TV shows including Late Night with Conan O’Brien and A Prairie Home Companion. They continue to perform American roots music and their own compositions at festivals, concert halls, and clubs all over the world.
Roberta Faceplant – Roberta Faceplant is a honky tonk hurricane with a voice that blends the raw, rock n’ roll grit of Janis Joplin and the whimsical, western smoothness of Patsy Cline.
Start making your plans, because we are already working hard to make ’24 the best year yet for Roots & Rhythm. Always free to the public and we guarantee you’ll be severely entertained!!
The ’23 Late Night Ramble was an absolute blast!!!! 40 Acre Mule tore the house down @ Here & Now Brewing!!!! An hour and a half set stretched into almost 2 1/2 hours of pure American Rock -N- Roll. All the way from Dallas, Tx. They said Honesdale blew away all the other stops on their tour. Be proud Honesdale!! Photographs copyright John Rocklin.
So many thanks from us at Roots & Rhythm to all who attended, and those who let us know all the positive thoughts about this years event. We literally work on it all year and appreciate hearing that you all thought it went well. Thanks as well to our many sponsors without whom we could not function. It’s nice to know that the business community supports this wonderful event. It’s nice to know that Honesdale Roots & Rhythm is a vital part of our community and part of Honesdale’s identity. Thanks to many of our business community who went above and beyond in their generosity (you know who you are, and so do we)
Congratulations to Stan Romanski of Hamlin, Pa. Our Grand Prize winner in ’23. This custom built Telecaster style guitar features artwork by Samuelle Green and is loaded with top shelf components. The guitar was played on the Main Stage by our ’23 headliners including Kid Andersen, Reggie King Sears & Mark DeRose. Guitar build by Tony Maddi & John Rocklin. Components from Gotoh, Seymour Duncan, Ampturco and USA Custom Guitar. Neck & body hand finished in Nitrocellulose Laquer by Bryan Fuentes.
10am Downtown bands start! Feel free to walk up and down main street to listen and shop!
Downtown bands are:
Robert Tellefsen Band
Pistachio Bathtub
Dead Man’s Hand
Dave Brown & the Dishonest Fiddlers
The Cellar Souls
Johnny Jules Band
Main stage activities start around 1pm! There will be vendors, food, and fun for all ages!
1:45pm- Mark DeRose & the Dreadnoughts
3:35pm -The 40 Acre Mule
5:25pm -Rick Estrin & the Night Cats
8:00- Reggie King Sears
The raffle will be at 7pm, you do not have to be present to win! There are SO SO many great prizes, including the custom guitar!! You can also get your raffle tickets below!
The 2023 Roots raffle guitar is just waiting for some artwork on the front and back of the headstock. It can be seen in person tonight (Saturday, February 25th,2023) @ our “Day at the Races fundraiser being held at Here & Now Brewing https://www.hereandnowbrewing.com/ in Honesdale. Tickets available as of tonight!!!
This years guitar is really special and here are the details:
Built by Tony Maddi & John Rocklin using the following components:
Pine body by Musikraft USA, Hand painted in Charcoal Frost Nitrocellulose Laquer by Brian Fuentes, Custom Artwork by Samuelle Green.
Hand wired electronics by Anthony @ AMPTURCO Guitar Werks
Seymour Duncan Broadcaster pickups
Customized, hand painted Nitrocellulose Allparts “Fat” neck with custom fretwork and hand made nut by Aurora Custom Shop
Gotoh BS-TC1S Bridge & Compensated Saddles
Other Parts sourced from: True Custom Shop, Gotoh, & Fender USA
In the Roots tradition that started with our beloved Peter Florance………. This years guitar is a totally functional (killer) instrument as well as collectible art. We are extremely proud to have had the artwork done by Samuelle Green this year, here is her bio:
SAMUELLE GREEN-
A native to Honesdale, PA, Samuelle Green’s early years were surrounded not only by nature, but also by a family of artisans and craftspeople that had a lasting impact on her current practices. She studied at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Parsons School of Design in New York earning a BFA. Green continued to live in Brooklyn and work there for nearly 20 years as an artist, prop stylist, designer and undertaking special art fabrication projects for multiple clients including the Guggenheim Museum, Allsaints, Chloe, PS1, and Insite Design and Architecture to name a few.
Once establishing her artistic practice in NYC she relocated her studio to her hometown. This is where she
continues to develop her paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations. She is continuing to show her work both nationally and internationally. Her large scale, immersive installations have been shown in museums in China; Shanghai and Beijing, in Venice, Italy, in Tamiku, Estonia as well as locations across the US including Honesdale, PA.
Samuelle Green’s body of multidisciplinary work all has a common thread. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations reference the interaction between human-made and non-human visual languages. At times the encounters are contentious and at other times symbiotic. Many of her works are stills that simultaneously reflect the processes of decay and those of luscious growth. Through mark making or the use of repurposing discarded materials, Samuelle seeks to highlight the forms and details of nature that are frequently overlooked and under-appreciated. She starts with rigid structures or self-imposed parameters representing metaphorical frameworks of natural laws. She then creates elements that repeat and propagate until they give way to organic forms free of both their literal and non-material scaffolds.
The custom painted guitar for Honesdale’s Roots and Rhythm is an extension of the “order and chaos” series of drawings that explores the power of arrangement. The reconizable and the abstract both consist of the exact same number of marks or brushstrokes to create very different outcomes. samuellegreen.com
