Joel Rafael with Nick Justice at The Lost Church

Sat, August 24, 2024, 7:30 pm

$20 General Admission

Doors at 7:30pm.

Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission

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Joel Rafael
The best writing comes from writing what you know – and based on Joel Rafael’s life experiences and over 50 years of making music, he has a deep well from which to draw. He has chronicled his life and the world around him with passionate songwriting rooted in the folk tradition; and no influence is more obvious in his work than that of Woody Guthrie. Rafael began performing in showcases and small clubs around Southern California in the early 70s. In 1981, he toured with Jesse Colin Young, and released his debut album, Dharma Bums. Rafael won Kerrville’s new folk award in 1995 and gained national airplay with the seminal Joel Rafael Band. He composed and performed all original music for the LA Theatre Works production of The Grapes of Wrath in 2002 and toured the southwest with Joan Baez in 2003. Rafael has been a featured performer at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival for all 25 years. “In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation… the essence of minstrel.” – John Trudell “Joel Rafael’s songs are filled with passion and compassion; passion for social justice and compassion for those among us who have to struggle for a place at the table of American prosperity. His voice is unmistakably his own, big, warm, and strong, and a conductor for the human emotions that connect us all.” -Jackson Browne.

Nick Justice

Nick Justice was born in New York and grew up on the North Shore of Long Island. Raised on pop music and AM radio as a child, he started to lean towards the sounds coming from California as a teenager. The Eagles, Jackson Browne, and Crosby, Stills and Nash prompted him to move to the Golden State. With guitar in hand, he landed in San Diego in the late 1980s where the “cowpunk “ movement in the form of The Blasters, X, and the Beat Farmers was beginning to form.
Recommended If You Like: Woody Guthrie , John Prine, Jackson Browne 

 

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The Lost Church Santa Rosa

576 Ross Street - Santa Rosa

Price: $20.00