Sunday January 15th: Sunday School For Sinners w/ Nikki Talley

Sunday School for Sinners: Monthly Open Bluegrass Jam w/ Featured Performer Nikki Talley. January 15th 2012Join your friends at the Independent Bar Tampa on January 15th for Sunday School For Sinners, our monthly Bluegrass Jam, starting at 4pm, bring your fiddle, doghouse bass, potatobug, guit-fiddle, washtub and anything else you know how to play to the jam session. Then sit back and enjoy the sounds of Nikki Talley, a hardworking mountain girl with a big voice and well played guitar.

Nikki’s latest release Beautiful Charmer is a good disc with well thought sounds and has a decidedly more country feel than her previous recordings. Featured on the disc is Grammy-winning alt-country icon Jim Lauderdale. It garnered the #7 spot in WNCW’s top 20 regional releases of 2010 and #23 in top 100 releases.

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Rebecca Zapen live at the Independent Bar Tampa Jan. 8th 2012

Multi-Instrumentalist Rebecca Zapen performs solo at the Independent Bar Tampa"A third-generation musician in a family tree including players of violin, piano, double bass, guitar, and accordion, it's not surprising that Rebecca Zapen has developed into a versatile performer: classically-trained violinist, jazz crooner, and award-winning multi-instrumentalist songwriter. " 

Rebecca Zapen's latest album Nest is as delicate as a newborn, not only in sound but in subject. The album is filled with varied instrumentation and genres where strings and horns (and the ukulele's South American cousin the Cavaquino) mix with finger-picked folk and cinematic vocal harmonies.