It was a special summer for Convergence Zone. We’ve traveled a little and made new friends.   A highlight was opening for the Brothers Four in September - four great guys with voices that blend amazingly in songs like This Land Is Your Land and Green Fields.   Check them out and go see them if you get the chance.  

We’re settling into a more relaxed pace now and working on some new material – from hard-core bluegrass to some of the great music of our youth.
Have you ever noticed how a generation defines itself by the music of its teens?  We’re no different.  As much as we love bluegrass, we can’t help sneaking a little something extra in every now and again.  Jim’s tinkering with a lap steel and you’ll be sure to hear it in the future.  In the meantime, grab an instrument, learn to play and then go jammin’.  Don’t forget to check out our schedule and our 2011 CD.

Thank you for a wonderful summer.   Chuck, Don, Greg, Jim & Sue

 

 

 

 

 

Chuck has loved music from an early age, singing with the radio and imagining himself as a country star. Unfortunately, his lack of talent has held him back. But persistance has paid off. He is now a legend in his own mind. Growing up listening primarily to country and folk music, he has always been a redneck (he thinks you don't have to be born in the South to be a redneck.) After running over his first guitar with a truck, he finally got another 5 years later and took a series of lessons at age 30. Introduced to the Seattle Bluegrass community in 1995, he has been hooked ever since. CZ is a life-long dream come true. Hopefully he won't wake up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greg is excited to be a part of the performing band Convergence Zone, playing guitar, mandolin and singing. More focused now being in a band, Greg finds it very satisfying working out the different parts to a song or tune to get that tight sound we all love to hear. Convergence Zone is a great mix of friends, instruments, talent and personalities that, like a favorite song, sounds so good when it all comes together. It's the best.

Raised in a home filled with country and bluegrass, memories of harmony singing go back as far as memory. At 10, Sue performed on Seattle radio in a trio singing 3 part harmonies with her cousins. She left music shortly after that and didn't return until 2002 when she discovered the Maltby bluegrass jam. Hillbilly Highway came out of that association and for seven years they enjoyed performing locally. Summer of 2009 saw them on local television and radio stations promoting Emerald Downs "Break My Stride" campaign. Convergence Zone promises to be another happy association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don was born in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, but came to the Northwest early on and never left. His family wasn’t into music, but the gal he married and her family played bluegrass music, so he got a guitar and started pickin’ out some tunes. Then came the years of raisin’ a family and a career of snuffin’ out pyres and thumpin’ on gomers. After the nest emptied and finally making it to the Darrington Bluegrass festival and the Maltby jam, he found the instrument he should have been playing all those years, an upright bass he bought for his brother-in-law to play when he visited from out of state. For a change of pace, he also plays a bass ukulele.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim is the only true redneck in the group, having been born and raised in Georgia. His early music years were spent in rock 'n roll, only because the girls were cuter and his hillbilly cousins in North Carolina had already married their cousins, so there was no one in the family to date. He wasted most of his adult working life in a dead end job before realizing that music was his true calling and discovering that the South had more to offer than moonshine and 'skeeters and he wonders now where all that great bluegrass was playing when he was growing up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1, 2011 - Poggie Tavern, Seattle WA, 9PM - 12PM

January 15, 2011 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

January 29, 2011 - Eddie's Trackside Tavern, Monroe WA, 8PM - 12PM

February 2, 2011 - Wesley Terrace, Seattle WA, 7PM - 8 PM

February 18, 2011 - Hometown Hootenanny, Historic Everett Theater, Everett WA, 7:30 PM

February 19, 2011 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

May 7, 2011 - University Heights Plaza Days, University Way between 50th and 52nd, 11 AM - 1 PM

May 21, 2011 - University District Street Fair, 43rd Street Stage, University Way NE, Seattle WA, 11:30 - 12:30 AM

May 21, 2011 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

May 28, 2011 - Poggie Tavern, Seattle WA, 9PM - 12PM

May 30, 2011 - Folklife - Fisher Green Stage, Seattle Center, Seattle WA, 6 PM - 6:30 PM

June 10, 2011 - Gypsy Cafe, 3510 Stone Way N., Seattle WA, 8PM - 9 PM

June 12, 2011 - Seattle Peace Concert, North 45th and Woodland Ave., Seattle WA, time TBD

June 25, 2011 - Private Wedding Shower, Mercer Island WA

July 4, 2011 - Fourth of July Celebration, George WA - Time TBA

July 10, 2011 - Lavender Festival, Roy WA, 1:30 - 3:30

July 15, 2011 - The Comcast Bite of Seattle, Seattle Center, Exhall Beergarden Stage, Seattle WA, 12:30 - 1:30 PM

July 19, 2011 - Chateau Pacific private party, Lynnwood, WA, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

July 22, 2011 - Enumclaw Street Fair, Enumclaw WA, 11:30 AM - 1 PM and 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

July 28, 2011 - 27th District Republican Party Picnic, Covington, WA, 6 PM

July 30, 2011 - Bellevue Art Museum ArtsFair, Bellevue Square Mall, Bellevue WA, 3:15 PM - 4 PM

August 5, 2011 - Sweet Lou's, 820 NW 85th St., Seattle WA, 9 - 10:15 PM

August 6, 2011 - Index Arts Festival, Index WA, 6:30 PM

August 20, 2011 - University Heights Farmers Market - Corner NE 50th and University Way NE, Seattle WA, 12 AM - 2 PM

August 26, 2011 - Evergreen State Fair, Comcast Courtyard Stage, Monroe WA, 3:15 - 4:00 PM

September 4, 2011 - Mercer Island Farmers Market, Mercer Island, WA, 11 AM - 3 PM

September 9, 2011 - Open for Brothers Four, Auburn Performing Arts Center, Auburn WA, 7 PM

September 10, 2011 - Open for Brothers Four, Foster High School Performing Arts Center, 4242 S. 144th, Tukwilla WA, 7 PM

September 24, 2011 - Maple Valley Farmers Market, Maple Valley WA, 11:15 - 12:30 AM

September 24, 2011 - Private Party, Bow WA

October 15, 2011 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

December 17, 2011 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

River City Bluegrass Festival - Red Lion, Janzen Beach (Portland) OR - Showcase, Red Lion Bar, 3:30 PM

February 10, 2012 - Kenyon Hall, Seattle WA, 7:30 - 9:30

February 18, 2012 - Kent Senior Activity Center, Kent WA, 3PM - 4PM

April 14, 2012 - George Coffee House Concert, George WA, 7 - 9 PM

June 1, 2012 - Third Place Books, Bothell WA, 7 - 9 PM

June 23, 2012 - Kenyon Hall, Seattle WA, 7:30 - 9:30

July 29, 2012 - Mostly Music in the Park, Mercer Island WA, Mercerdale Field, 7 - 9 PM

September 1, 2012 - Harbor Days Festival 2012, Percival Landing and Port Plaza, Olympia, WA, time pending

 

 

For more information, or to book Convergence Zone Bluegrass Band for your event, please call or email:

Jim Blue, 206-683-3437

topop1@msn.com

Sue Thompson, 425-481-3490

dst72@comcast.net

 

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