Announcing a Wine Tour with Dave Nachmanoff in California! August 23-25, 2013!

photo by Marc Vayssieres

I am thrilled to announce that Avalon Wine Tours has set up a special Wine and Music Weekend for my fans. It will take place in the Wine Country near Santa Barbara, California from Fri, August 23 – Sun, August 25, 2013. This is a perfect opportunity if you enjoy my music and good food and wine, and if you would like to learn a bit more about songwriting and wine. To skip the text here and learn more/reserve seats on the bus, visit:
http://ocwineschool.com/Wine_Travel.html   


Above: Cottonwood Canyon Vineyards, where a lunchtime concert will be held.

Touring with Al Stewart (who is a noted oenophile) for some years, I have learned a little about wine, but am looking forward to learning more with Peter Smith. This adventure will take place in the region where the movie “Sideways” was shot (a beautiful part of the world) and Peter is a charming and knowledgeable guide to the world of wine. Please read what Avalon Wine Tours says below, or click on the link for full details. Don’t forget to make reservations by May 15 to get the Early Bird Discount prices listed below. See you in Santa Barbara!

“Ride along on the “band bus” for a weekend of music and wine with singer-songwriter Dave Nachmanoff! From Santa Barbara to the beautiful wine country of Santa Maria and Los Olivos, you’ll enjoy some of California’s top wines and no less than three concerts by Dave – each one uniquely different, covering the range of his wide musical talents. Plus, Dave will be holding a songwriting workshop along the way; if you haven’t yet experienced one of his fabulous classes, you won’t want to miss this!

You’ll also be in the company of one of the leading experts in wine travel, Peter Smith, who has been taking wine lovers to the world’s best vineyards for twenty years. A renowned consultant and wine writer, Peter has hosted collectors, movie stars and winemakers, with a trademark “anti-snob” approach that makes you the VIP wherever you go and lets you learn without pain as he “immerses” you in wine!

The concerts, workshops and VIP visits are all included in your tour price, along with two nights at the historic Santa Maria Inn, dinner included at one of Dave’s shows, and lunch included at two shows. All you’ll have to spend out of pocket is one dinner and some spending money for extra wine and souvenirs! In addition, you’ll go home with a special gift from Dave!” 

Above: Peter Smith of Avalon Wine Tours

See below for pricing options.
(Alternate hotel accommodations are available at the Santa Maria Holiday Inn Suites, 4 miles from Santa Maria Inn - rooms allocated on first-come basis).

 

Option #1 – Historic Santa Maria Inn Tower Room in new building http://www.santamariainn.com/ - "Early Bird" price $685 per person, sharing double or twin room, through May 15; after this date $755.00.

Option #2 – Historic Santa Maria Inn Standard Room in original historic building http://www.santamariainn.com/ - "Early Bird" price $645 per person, sharing double or twin room, through May 15; after this date, $710.00.

Option #3 – Santa Maria Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Queen Suite with kitchenette www.holidayinn.com/santamariaca - "Early Bird" price $595 per person, sharing double or twin room, through May 15; after this date, $655.00.

Getting there:
Amtrak calls at Santa Barbara, a great way to come if arriving from Bay Area, LA, Orange County etc.


Act now to get the Early Bird price! To learn more and to reserve seats on the bus, visit: http://ocwineschool.com/Wine_Travel.html or call: +1 888 499 WINE (9463)

Northern California singer-songwriters Celia Ramsay and Dave Nachmanoff have teamed up for two shows and will perform together in Berkeley and Davis, California in early May. These will be acoustic duo shows, with Dave and Celia accompanying each other on their songs. 

The first show will take place in Berkeley, CA on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM (music starts at 8:00 PM). $20 suggested donation, includes refreshments. Seating is limited, and reservations are required. For reservations and directions, please email celiaramsay@gmail.com .

On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Celia and Dave will perform together in Davis, CA. Arrive at 7 PM (music starts at 7:30 PM). Suggested donation $20 (includes refreshments). Seating is limited - advance reservations are strongly suggested. For reservations and directions, please email jared@jaredingersol.com .

Celia and her husband, winemaker Kent Rasmussen, started their winery in 1986, when they became famous for making terrific Pinot Noir.  One of their three labels sports Celia's last name.

Here is some information about Celia and Dave:

Celia Ramsay is fast becoming a popular name in the SF Bay Area music scene. She has performed at numerous house concerts, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, and The Palms Playhouse in Winters. Celia sings with a clear, clean style reminiscent of Keely Smith and has a taste for music that capture the perspective of what she sardonically calls a “woman of a certain age” – dark and honest, silly and bawdy, sultry and sublime.  Celia has been singing since she was a little girl and grew up with a passion for the traditional ballads of Scotland and for American pop and jazz of the 1930s and 40s. Both traditions, she says, lean heavily on songs about love and its trials, tribulations, and triumphs.  Please visit www.celiaramsay.com .

Dave Nachmanoff grew up in the '60s and '70s surrounded by the active folk scene of Northern Virginia and Washington, DC, jamming with Elizabeth Cotten and Utah Phillips as a child. After completing his PHD at UC Davis, he released "Candy Shower" in 1997 and has been touring as a professional musician ever since. He's played at some of the top clubs in the U.S., Canada and Europe, both on his own and as the opening act, acoustic lead guitarist and verbal sparring partner for British folk artist Al Stewart. He has 9 CDs out, including a live CD, "Snapshots", which was recorded at The Palms when it was in Davis. His website is www.davenach.com . 

I will appear on KVMR in Nevada City, CA on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 5 PM to talk about the Sutter Creek Theatre gig on February 2nd. It will be streamed so anyone can tune in. www.kvmr.org

As some of you know, I grew up in Arlington, Virginia. Whenever I can find an excuse to get back to visit my family, I try to do so, so it’s been great that Al and I regularly play in the area at the Birchmere, the Barns at Wolf Trap, the Ram's Head, etc. However, it’s been awhile since I’ve done my own show in the area and I’m very excited about the show we’ve just scheduled at Jammin’ Java. For this show, my brother, Michael will play bass. You may have heard us together before at Al Stewart shows (he also played on “Carol” on “Uncorked”) or on the CD, “Threads of Time”. We'll also have Eric and Jace Greenman on drums and percussion, and harmony vocalist Liz Bligan.

We will be celebrating my latest release "Step Up". Jammin Java is ranked as one of the best venues in the USA by Pollstar, Paste Magazine, Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and more. Bring the family for this special Father's Day show! This is an ALL AGES, non-smoking show and venue, so everyone is welcome.

Tickets $10 advance, $13 day of. I strongly encourage you to buy tickets in advance, and I’d love it if you can bring some friends. My following is built one person at a time, and if each of you brings one person who has never heard my music before, it will double the crowd, and hopefully build my fanbase too!

Buy tickets at:
http://jamminjava.com/home/events/dave-nachmanoff-step-up-cd-release-party
Or call 703.255.1566 .
Jammin Java is located at:

227 Maple Ave. East

Vienna, VA 22180

Dave has been recognized in three recent songwriting contests.

He was recognized in the USA Songwriting Competition with the song "Fragile Thing".

He was recognized in the International Acoustic Music Awards songwriting contest, with "Descartes in Amsterdam".

Most recently, Dave was recognized in the Folk/Americana category of the Great American Song Contest, with "Fragile Thing":

 

There's a nice new article on Riveting Riffs.com. Check it out.

 

http://rivetingriffs.com/Dave%20Nachmanoff.html

"For the last couple of years I have worked with Dave over the net on an album of my songs. As a songwriter who enjoys working in a wide variety of genres it has been an amazing experience. It's a lot like having a world class folk ensemble, jazz band, rock group and symphony orchestra ready to respond to my every suggestion. Not to mention so many helpful ideas and great assistance with production. We've added a few other guest artists for a bit of variety here and there, but they have all been brought in by Dave.

Dave provides a friendly and creative environment in which to work ... and I know about the values of 'creative tension' but think they're a bit over-rated.

It's a veritable one-stop shop at Nachville, friends and neighbours!

I am sure there are some limits to Dave's versatility (Would a request for dubstep qwwali rap song with a rai influence in the middle eight confound him, perhaps?) ... I just haven't discovered them yet. Plus nearly all communication has been by email between the south coast of England and Northern California ... but I bet you won't be able to tell from the finished tracks."

Thanks to RecordingHacks.com for featuring me in their latest Mic News newsletter.
Check it out at:

http://recordinghacks.com/newsletter/2012-01-28/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=201201

"Step Up" is now available on CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davenachmanoff2
and iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/step-up/id449710219

If you pre-ordered or donated through Kickstarter, we're in the process of mailing any hard copies/other rewards you may have requested, and we've sent everyone a digital copy.

If you pre-ordered or donated through Kickstarter, we're in the process of mailing any hard copies/other rewards you may have requested, and we've sent everyone a digital copy.

I recently won the grand prize in the ACCESS Bags and Cases "Social Media Giveaway" contest. I use an ACCESS case. ACCESS' mission is to offer musicians the finest guitar bags and cases to satisfy their needs at every stage of their musical journey. For more information: www.accessbagsandcases.com  .

 

I played on my friend Lisa Levine's new CD, "Soulful Shabbat Ruach".  She just released it on CDBaby, so I encourage you to go check it  out:  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisalevine1    

I'm thrilled to announce two musicians on my next CD: Ian Sheridan (bass), who played with Jason Mraz from 2002 - 2008, and Victor Bisetti (drums/percussion), who played with Los Lobos from 1990 - 2005 and has also worked with John Lee Hooker. We're starting the recording process this week at my producer, Ronan Chris Murphy's, Veneto West studio.

The “Kickstarter” campaign was a huge success, with the goal surpassed and funding reached within several days. At the end of the 30 day campaign, we had put together over $17,000 towards the new CD! Needless to say, I was staggered by the wonderful support and I am very grateful to all who jumped in with such generosity. There will be updates and info on the Kickstarter page (some of which will be just for “backers”) and I’ll probably put some stuff on Facebook as the project unfolds. All the “rewards” will be set up to go out when the CD is released, since most involve a copy of the CD, and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to ship stuff separately.

A number of people have contacted me to ask if they can still support the project and get the Rewards, even though they missed the deadline for the campaign – and the answer is YES! If you email me individually we can work it out in most cases. For more info on the possible Rewards see the Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davenach/crowdfunding-for-dave-nachmanoffs-new-cd

 I am very happy to report that great progress has already been made on the new CD! This past November I attended a great conference in Los Angeles called the TAXI Road Rally http://www.taxi.com/transmitter/1012/2010-taxi-road-rally-photos.html, and heard a producer/engineer named Ronan Chris Murphy speak about recording. I’d read his articles before, but was really impressed by the talks that he gave, and in chatting with him later found out that he actually grew up in my hometown in Virginia. I asked him to send me some samples of his work and was impressed with the power, clarity and organic feel of recordings that he sent.

In late March Ronan came up to Davis and we spent a few intense days talking, listening to music and discussing a direction and plan for a CD that will represent me really strongly. Our first round of sessions are scheduled for the third week in April, in Los Angeles at Ronan’s studio (www.venetowest.com) and I’m really excited to be moving forward on this! Keep an eye on my main site (www.davenach.com) and Facebook for more news in the coming weeks.

 

Last weekend I posted about the campaign to fund my next CD, using a cool site called "Kickstarter." You can check out the campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davenach/crowdfunding-for-dave-nachmanoffs-new-cd I was staggered that within three days of beginning the campaign I had already reached my $10,000 goal! Thank you SO much for your support! Almost 200 of you have backed the project and now I can say that this CD will become a reality. However, we are not at the finish line yet, with less than three weeks left to go. The way that Kickstarter works, if you don't reach your goal by the deadline (in this case 30 days), you get nothing. So it is best to ask for the lower-end of what you think you will need, and hope that after you hit your goal, people will continue to back your project. To really make this CD as amazing as I hope to do, it will probably require somewhere between $15,000 and $25,000 (manufacturing, artwork, promotion all have to be considered as well as the recording process). So, if you haven't become a backer already, please consider joining the campaign, at whatever level is comfortable for you. I appreciate every donation, whether it's a dollar, or several thousand dollars. You can still be part of the amazing team that is putting this CD together. There have been several rewards that have been up since last weekend, but I also just added a few new rewards, and there will be more coming soon. Here are the latest additions: $50 – You will get a copy of the Sgt. Al poster signed by Al Stewart and myself, plus a physical copy of the CD. (Only one remaining as of this writing - act quick!) $1200 - You will get everything in the "Nach Pak" plus you will get a guitar workshop for you and 9 friends (10 total people, contiguous 48 states only) and you will be listed in the CD credits as an Executive Producer. If you would like to be notified of future rewards, please follow my Facebook pages or the Kickstarter website. Thanks again to all the 'backers' so far, and thanks in advance to all you future backers! I won't let you down. - Dave

BIG NEWS for 2011! Many friends and fans have been asking when I will release another CD (my last real solo CD was 2006, Time Before the Fall). Between family commitments, touring, and projects for others, my own songs have had to wait a bit. However, with Kickstarter I see a way to move forward. Just as I like to get people involved in the music through singing along, clapping along, or co-writing songs in my workshop, Kickstarter will allow my community (friends/family/fans) to be involved in this project! A Kickstarter campaign works something like a public radio and TV fund drive. There are various levels of sponsorship and special "Thank You" rewards that are available when you contribute. I will also be able to send updates and video/audio clips of the project as we go along. Some of the rewards include more direct involvement - such as a visit to the studio during one of the recording sessions. Read more and DONATE! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davenach/crowdfunding-for-dave-nachmanoffs-new-cd

UNCORKED - AL STEWART LIVE WITH DAVE NACHMANOFF

2009 - Wallaby Trails Recordings - WAL-1001 - 884501202541

"With the release of Uncorked, Al and musical partner Dave Nachmanoff take a trip through Stewart's musical back pages, both in terms of the musical catalogue (they did have nearly twenty albums' worth of songs to pick from), and in terms of performance style."

1) Last Days of the Century/Constantinople/Last Days

2) Coldest Winter

3) Warren Harding

4) News From Spain

5) Bedsitter Images

6) Midas Shadow

7) Running Man

8) Palace of Versailles

9) Auctioning Dave (story)

10) Princess Olivia

11) Life In Dark Water

12) Carol

13) Old Admirals


Produced by Dave Nachmanoff

Executive Producer Paul Stangas

You can now purchase a DaveNach T-shirt, with the slogan suggestion from Peter Linlor ("Nach, nach") on the back! See http://www.zazzle.com/davenach . Thanks to David Clements for allowing me to use his photo!
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