Bright Moments at Cedar Gables

Bright Moments at Cedar Gables is a pilot event celebrating worthy independent artists in the surroundings of the beautiful Cedar Gables Inn mansion, because music and culture is very important to us.  It is our belief that life is enriched by fine songs and acoustic instrumental music, and we must do all we can to encourage the survival of fine independent songwriters and accomplished musicians.  Over the past 30 years or more, house concerts have arisen to meet the need we feel for an intimate experience of great independent talents, and are now a means of regular support to those talents.  For more info about house concerts in general, please check out www.houseconcerts.com.
 
All donations go to the performers: it is the privilege of Cedar Gables Inn to present such fine artists in the beautiful Shakespearean-themed elegance of the Cedar Gables Inn. 

Come and enjoy a Bright Moment with us.

RSVP (707) 224-7969  or  info@cedargablesinn.com
 
Friday, March 26, 2010   at 7:30pm  (doors open at 7)
 
David Zink at Cedar Gables
'…a songwriter with a keen sense for making songs work. Every tune sounds totally unique from the one before it. Creativity abounds here. It's slightly off-kilter, original, eccentric and wildly appealing. It's about time someone made music that was more experimental by nature. David Zink has done just that. This is definitely one for the collection.' --Independent Songwriter Web Magazine
 
RSVP 707-224-7969 or info@CedarGablesInn.com
 
 
 
 

 
With an eclectic blend of acoustic folk, rock, gospel and jazz music influences, David Zink often draws comparisons to Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson, Mark Cohn and David Byrne. Defying easy categories, he remains a distinctive voice.
 
Zink has been described as "…a songwriter with a keen sense for making songs work… slightly off-kilter, original, eccentric and wildly appealing...experimental…" (Independent Songwriter Web Magazine) Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, mandolin and harmonica "... he engages audiences with the untethered power of his voice, agile spirit and total artistic commitment. And when he's really riding the inspiration wave, there's a burning soulfulness about his music that's utterly compelling." (Bliss, Pasadena Weekly)
 
Zink has played to crowds throughout the United States, as well as in Netherlands, Belgium, France and Denmark, and has been a featured performer at the Sierra Songwriters Festival, ASCAP's Quiet on the Set, the National Academy of Songwriters' Acoustic Underground at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California, and Best of the Acoustic Underground showcases at the High Sierra Music Festival and Midem in Cannes, France.

David Zink was also a member of the folk-rock-pop music "supergroup" Everything Divine, which includes Brett Perkins, Mark Davis, Michael Glover and Robyn Rosenkrantz.
Inspired by the local support for small music venues discovered in northern Europe, David Zink has committed himself to support independent music in his own community in Pasadena, CA. Zink has hosted over 50 house concerts, and together with performing songwriter Brett Perkins presented the monthly Listening Room Series while at the Fremont Centre Theatre (5 years). Now at the historic Aztec Hotel's Mayan Room, the series is in its seventh season.
 
Zink's work also extends to the stage and screen. Over the past 14 years he has performed major roles in several new productions with L.A.'s Open Gate Theatre, including Noman's Return, Jacob, Agamemnon, The Oresteia, Manzanito's Revenge, Archetype's and Other Delights, Saul and David, Hecuba, Dionysus in the Underworld. On the big screen, Zink appeared in the film If I Had a Hammer (directed by Josh Becker) as the tortured folkie Bobbie Lee, a 5-minute part with monologue and song. His most recent film is an indie, written and directed by Michael Glover, titled "Sister Sarah's Sky" in which David plays Ergo Williams, eccentric artist. Zink is also the star of a Kinko's industrial film shot at USC, playing the role of the long-haired professor.