MOE DIXON - ACOUSTIC GUITAR & VOCALS
Moe is one of the top solo artists in the country, specializing in fingerstyle and ragtime guitar. His magical performances are highlighted by masterful guitar playing, powerful vocals and ingenious song writing. By the age of twenty-five he had gained national recognition for those skills through his contributions to the children’s group Rosen, Shontz, and Dixon. Since then he’s written themes to Bob Hope specials and Warren Miller ski movies, and even performed with the Wheeling Symphony and the West Suburban Symphony of Chicago. He is a familiar name on the festival and club circuit across North America and Canada, as well as at Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado. Over his thirty plus years as a performer he has opened for and or performed with such familiar names as Phil Oches, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Tom Rush, Nicolette Larson, Doc Watson, Maria Muldaur, Rory Block, Odetta, Jonathon Edwards, John Denver, Bill Danoff, Michael Johnson, Little River Band, The Hellacasters, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Three Dog Night, Eric Johnson, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Buddy Guy, Sonny Landreth, and Robben Ford. Dixon's poetic song writing is filled with his optimistic vision of life and his audiences connect with his energy, turning each performance into a celebration.
JIMMY SFERES - ACOUSTIC & RESONATOR GUITARS AND VOCALS
Jimmy was born in Queens, played his first guitar at age seven, and had taken the stage by the time he was fourteen. When he moved to Colorado in the 70’s it was that “slide sound” he had perfected that people really wanted to hear. Through the 80’s he continued to stretch his musical tastes, playing in funk, jazz-fusion and R&B bands. During that time, he performed at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (1996) and the Oregon Summer Solstice Festival (2001). He has opened for such diverse luminaries as David Wilcox, Delbert McClinton, Blues Traveler, Larry Coryell, Richard Elliott, and America. Jimmy has released CD’s with his last four collaborative projects. The first was the five-piece southern rock flavored band “Borrowed Time.” After that, he took the acoustic direction as a duo, making the self-titled CD “Acoustic Food Chain” in the mid 90’s. His next CD, with “Dixon, Sferes, and Shreve” combines the talents of singer-songwriter Moe Dixon, and the extraordinary guitar playing of Tommy Shreve. Jimmy’s most recent production “The View From Here” was a collaboration with vocalist Jennifer White, and features their acoustic duo “Sferes & White.” "Sferes & White" recently appeared on Garrison Keillor's nationally syndicated NPR radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" which airs on 580 stations and draws over 4 million listeners each week.
TOMMY SHREVE - ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND VOCALS
As a Louisiana native Tommy's got deep roots in Cajun styles and has made a name for himself over the years as a fine blues soloist. In the late 70's and early 80's he performed with the Gulf coast regional group "Red Beans & Rice Revue" where they recorded "Wanna Dance?" which features five of Tommy's own songs. After that he recorded "Lil Queenie & Backtalk" with New Orleans R&B singer Leigh Harris and then "Boogie, Blues, and Zydeco" with Rockin' Sidney which featured the 1985 hit "My Toot Toot." In the late 80's he performed and recorded with Cajun artist Wayne Toups and then toured with Jimmy Buffet in the summer of 1990. For four years he toured and recorded with Cajun-rock artist Zachary Richard in the U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland. They recorded "Zach's Bon Ton" and "Mardi Gras Mambo" on Rounder Records, "Women In the Room" on A&M Records, and performed twice on NBC's "Tonight Show." In 1991-1992 he performed with musical theater productions "Labor of Love" and "Gumbo Ya Ya" co-produced by Tokyo-based "Furusato Caravan" and "One Reel" of Seattle where he traveled through Japan, the U.S., and Barcelona, Spain during the '92 Olympics. Since 1993 Tommy's been performing and touring through the U.S., Sweden, and Japan with the "Tommy Shreve Band" and they've released two CDs, "Blues River" in '95 and "Bon Ton Boogie" in '97. With "Dixon, Sferes & Shreve" he has turned his talents to acoustic playing and songwriting.
