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Charlie Phillips & Fontaine Cooley

Presented by Kennett Flash at Kennett Flash

June 19, 2010

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Acoustic Blues/Jazz Show Fontaine Cooley started as a casual conversation between two old musical friends, grew into the rekindling of their passion for playing music together. Then after a steady diet of once a week one on one meetings for musical experimentation and tea, it morphed into a four piece, cross generational combo of veteran musicians, with countless years of bands, gigs, touring and recording between them. With each member contributing his own style and experience to the project, the result is original acoutic instumental music, featuring guitar, mandolin, bass and drums, fusing jazz, funk, blues, country, and an occassional latin groove into a unique style of their own. Backwoods pyrotechnics. Charlie Phillips is a songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist whose melodic songs are crafted in pop, rock, folk, and blues stylings. Charlie's love of performing stems from the interplay that develops between his audience and him. He has played in a variety of bands, most recently gigging around the Philadelphia suburbs as one of the 2Cats. Now, as Charlie offers his own songs to the public during solo gigs, he finds that the audience is responding to his music as they do to old favorites. Charlie continues to explore many avenues. Paths that may appear divergent, whether come upon intentionally or otherwise, always seem to bring him closer to authenticity. Hence, the title of his debut album... "All Roads Lead To