Bay Area multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer and 2009 Arts Devo Award winner for best live performance, Mark Growden, in a benefit concert for Southwest CARE Center
Saturday, August 28, 8:00 pm
at Mike's Music Exchange $10
Dinner is available before the show at La Plancha, specializing in unique Salvadoran fare, right next door to Mike's. Hand-crafted micro-brewed beer will be available at Mike's via the Santa Fe Brewing Company.
To purchase tickets or for more information please go to www.mikesmusicexchange.com
As a composer and performer, Growden has released several critically acclaimed albums and performed at venues such as the Fillmore and Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and Tonic and The Knitting Factory in New York. He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of musicians and artists including members of The San Francisco Opera, Bob Weir, Hamza el Din, Kid Congo Powers, and John Santos.
Growden's eclectic body of work is a challenge to categorize, though, as a musician, he is often compared to songwriting icons Nick Cave and Tom Waits. Additionally, Growden has been described as a wordsmith on par with the legendary Leonard Cohen - who he fittingly covers on his latest CD, St. Judas, with a reworked version of "I'm Your Man."