Hot Buttered Rum July 7, 2012

Hot Buttered Rum headlines the first of five Saturday night outdoor family friendly concerts for the 2012 Summer Nights Festival at the Osher Marin JCC.

The first of five multi-cultural outdoor concerts brings a mixture of traditional Bluegrass with modern influences, from this Bay Area based American five-piece progressive bluegrass act. Hot Buttered Rum weaves together the traditions of folk and bluegrass with the modern influences of rock-n-roll, reggae and acoustic winger/songwriters. The group values creativity in both its instrumental work and its songwriting.

Internationally known five-string banjo life force Bill Evans opens the evening with special fun on the banjo. Bill is a performer, teacher, writer, scholar and composer, with a contagious passion to all things banjo and thousands of music fans and banjo students from all over the world.

"One of the best banjo pickers on the planet." -Mark Wittington, San Jose Mercury News

The Festival of Summer Nights is a series of five celebrations for all ages with live music, dance instruction, food, and family fun. Presented by The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, each celebration brings in hundreds of guests for an evening of culture and community under the summer skies.

"One of the most remarkable aspects of Summer Nights is the venue. The outdoor field and playground where the concerts take place are part of the larger campus serving the JCC and Brandeis Hillel Day School. Located uphill from the JCC, Swig field is surrounded on all sides by the Marin Hills and the JCC building, creating a self-contained, safe, outdoor park-like environment that is expansive and open, yet accessible only through the JCC and removed from the street."

Official Website: http://www.marinjcc.org/arts