Acoustic Duo National touring guitarists Patchouli perform folk meets flamenco Saturday night at 7:30 indie-folk duo Patchouli will be bringing their original folk meets flamenco style of music to the Stage at the Iron Horse Concert Hall in El Dorado.
This is a case of boy meets girl, boy plays guitar for girl, girl writes poems for boy, boy and girl join a gypsy caravan across the folk world music expanse and play show after show happily ever after.
Bruce Hecksel and Julie Patchouli studied at The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and together are a songwriting powerhouse duo with 13 CDs released, more than 1,800 performances and more than half a million miles touring under their belts. Performing blazing nuevomenco style pieces on steel string guitars to inspiring power folk mantras, their energy and chemistry leaves the audience uniquely uplifted and transformed.
Patchouli’s latest CD, “Terra Guitarra/ The Mother Night,” is an all instrumental guitar project, in the genre of nuevomenco guitar. It has been reviewed as music that “calms the mind, lifts the spirit, and makes you dance.”
The name of the duo, Patchouli, comes from an exotic herb that promotes confidence and positive feelings while alleviating stress, something that their music really expresses. Famous for that smiling voice that instantly turns a bad day into a good one, Julie’s down-to-earth, honest, hopeful and vibrant songwriting is new American folk music, inspired by worldwide folk styles. Using elements of folk, flamenco, jazz and world beat rhythms Patchouli’s sound has been described as “Joni Mitchell meets the Acoustic Santana.”
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. The Iron Horse is located at 315 S. Main, enter through Circle Gallery. For more information, call 32-6348.
