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Dave Moore represents a rich seam in the unique tapestry of roots music coming out of Iowa in the twentieth century. A celebrated rack-harp and button accordion player, as a youngster Dave absorbed the blues recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter, learned to play country-blues guitar, and then disappeared on a series of extended pilgrimages to Texas and south of the border to study Tejano and Conjunto accordion with legends Fred Zimmerle, and Santiago Jimenez Sr. (father of Flaco and Santiago). 

Eventually Dave Moore brought what he’d learned back north, mixing it with country and blues, folk and  Gospel, Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley, and releasing three seminal albums on Red House Records, in addition to playing regularly with Greg Brown, and influencing the generation of Midwestern songwriters that includes Jeffrey Foucault, Pieta Brown, Erik Koskinen, The Pines, and others. 

On December 11th, for one night only, the Englert hosts an all-star tribute organized by Jeffrey Foucault and featuring Greg Brown, Iris Dement, Bo Ramsey, Pieta Brown, Joe and Vicki Price, Kris Delmhorst, Erik Koskinen, David Huckfelt, David Zollo, and Phil Heywood singing their favorite Dave Moore songs, backed up by Dave himself, and joined by Jeffrey Foucault and his band, featuring Eric Heywood (Pretenders) John Convertino (Calexico), and Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T).