Joel Rafael To Perform in Berkeley, 9/28

Critically acclaimed California songwriter and seminal folk artist Joel Rafael will be performing on Monday, September 28 at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, CA. The show, which will also feature Lance Canales & The Flood, is set to begin at 8:00pm with doors opening at 7:00pm. For tickets and more information, please visit www.joelrafael.com.

Rafael's 9th studio album, Baladista, was released on April 14 on Jackson Browne's label, Inside Recordings, and was recently nominated for San Diego Music Awards "Best Americana Album." The album landed on three separate Billboard charts: #18 on the Top New Artist Albums Chart, #21 on the Folk Albums Chart, and #70 on the Independent Current Albums Chart. Rolling Stone France recently gave the album a 4 star review, with the U.S. Rolling Stone giving a respectable 3 stars.

Joel Rafael has been writing and performing since 1974, and over the past decades has released a stunning collection of nine Americana albums, including a 2CD Woody Guthrie collection with five Guthrie/Rafael co-writes. As a solo performer and with his band, he opened shows throughout the southwestern United States for artists including Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jackson Browne, Sheryl Crow, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Odetta, Laura Nyro, Joan Baez, Taj Mahal, Emmylou Harris, and John Lee Hooker.