Critically-Acclaimed Singer Songwriter Joel Rafael To Perform in Berkeley, CA on September 28

Critically-Acclaimed Singer Songwriter Joel Rafael To Perform in Berkeley, CA on September 28

New album Baladista nominated for San Diego Music Awards "Best Americana Album"

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

People are talking about Baladista:

"Joel Rafael's songs are filled with passion and compassion. Passion for social justice, and compassion - for those among us who have to struggle for a place at the table of American prosperity. His voice is unmistakably his own, big, warm and strong, and a conductor for the human emotions that connect us all." - Jackson Browne

"Joel Rafael is a disappearing breed: a Guthrie-Dylan-Llewyn Davis-style folk singer and Vietnam draft-dodger armed with a harmonica rack and acoustic guitar, who sings tales of love and history flickering with ache and political outrage." - Rolling Stone

"A magnificent achievement, like a love-letter to the traditions of beautifully etched narrative songwriting. Like fine wine and few other things on this planet, the music of Joel Rafael seems to only grow richer over the years." - American Songwriter

"The must have Americana album of 2015" - Boomerocity.com

"It is an album overflowing with gentle, melodic grace." - No Depression

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.



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