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Third Annual DIVAfest Roars Into San Francisco's EXIT Theatre May 20 - 29
Musical biography of Jack "Applejack" Walroth, appearing in Boxcar Bertha in DIVAfest 2004
A veteran freelance San Francisco singer, musician, songwriter, and music
publisher, whose career has remained somewhat below the radar, even though
it has included longstanding associations with many better known musicians
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Recent credits: Co-authored lyrics on two songs on Boz Scaggs CD, "Dig".
Played harmonica on "Quicksand: Songs of Kermit Lynch" CD, featuring
Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jon Cleary, plus several stints with the Boz
Scaggs Rhythm and Blues tour.
Within the past two years, has developed an expandable solo /duo / trio
ensemble to play local venues in an acoustic or semi-acoustic format, featuring
a diverse repertory of originals, jazz, eclectic, and alternative sounds.
Spent formative years in Chicago, came of age during an exciting era and
plunged deeply into the amazing blues world existing there due to the ongoing
mass migration of talented southern blues musicians to Chicago, especially
after World War II. This milieu provided a rich and irreplaceable firsthand
experience.
Is a founding member of the Blues Power band, heard weekly at the Saloon
in San Francisco. Has shared stage and / or recording studio with Bonnie
Raitt, Earl King, Annie Samson, Zigaboo Modeliste, Jules Broussard, Ned
Boynton, Merle Saunders, Sam Lay, Luther Tucker, Michael Bloomfield, Elvin
Bishop, B.B. King, Barry Goldberg, Nick Gravenites, Steve Freund, and Harvey
Mandel, among others.
Theatrical Biography:
As an avid fiction, film and theater buff, has been drawn ever closer to
the realm of creating musical support and soundscapes for stage and screen
- 'has ears' for everyone from Kurt Weil and Eubie Blake to Ry Cooder, Brian
Eno, Moby, and Moricone. Has ventured into soundtracks using home recording
studio (with an eye towards the current flowering of low budget digital
independent films). And although theatrical music is a new endeavor for
him, has always felt the over-arching kinship between all of the performing
arts.
On attending an early reading Boxcar Bertha, became enthused with the concept
of shaping a simpatico musical backdrop to resonate with Bertha's alternate
universe of boxcars, soapboxes, and bordellos, and successfully auditioned
for the role of supporting guitarist (Hope that you enjoy the results!).
