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Mary Flower returns to Artichoke Music for an intimate evening of masterful guitar, rich vocals, and spellbinding music, $23.36 advance/ $28.60 at the door (all prices include service fee).

Mary Flower’s immense finger-picking guitar and lap-slide prowess is soulful and meter-perfect, a deft blend of the inventive, the dexterous, and the mesmerizing. Her supple honey-and-whiskey voice provides the perfect melodic accompaniment to each song’s story.

Flower embodies a luscious and lusty mix of rootsy, acoustic-blues guitar and vocal styles that span a number of idioms – from Piedmont to the Mississippi Delta, with stops in ragtime, swing, folk and hot jazz.

Leon Cotter:
Clarinet player Leon Cotter has spent much of the last decade touring the country with soul/blues band The California Honeydrops, while maintaining a reputation as a sought-after sideman and bandleader in Portland, Oregon. He draws from a deep well of inspiration as an improvisor and soloist, with influences ranging from 20s clarinet virtuoso Sidney Bechet, to South African piano legend Abdullah Ibrahim, to folk and bluegrass masters like Tony Rice and Tim O’Brien. When he’s not out with the Honeydrops, Leon performs regularly with Portland based bands Social Music (led by drummer Alan Jones) and Reb & the Good News, and leads his own quartet.