LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Adele won the coveted Grammy for best new artist on Sunday.
The other nominees were singer Duffy, teen heartthrobs the Jonas Brothers, country group Lady Antebellum, and R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan.
The 51st annual Grammy Awards, the music industry’s top honours, were handed out at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles.
(Reporting by Mary Milliken; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

World Cafe Live would like to congratulate Adele for her Grammy successes last night in Los Angeles. Here is a video of Adele performing her hit song “Chasing Pavements” in our Downstairs venue on June 15th!

From Dublin Ireland, the music of The Guggenheim Grotto blends classical instruments such as the viola, the glockenspiel, the Wurlitzer and the Hammond organ with the more conventional guitar, bass and piano for a haunting and melodic sound that often evokes tragic love stories.

Originally a duo between Kevin May and Mick Lynch, producer/percussionist Shane Power joined in on their debut album ‘…Waltzing Alone,’ which was released in Ireland in 2005 and in the US in 2006. Shane went his separate ways before the release of the new album ‘Happy The Man.’

The critics say:

“In a musical tavern of light beers and sugary cordials, this stuff is pure stout” – Boston Globe
“With debts to both Radiohead and The Beatles, this is modern, intelligent, lyrically potent pop” – Boston Herald
“Waltzing Alone is worth revisiting again and again” – Play Philly
“…one of the past year’s most promising new acts” – Washington Post
“…emotionally rich songs performed without irony or jaded modernism” – Nashville Scene
“…a spine tingling effect that I haven’t experienced since I heard Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends album for the first time” – Irish Voice
“…what the first Crosby, Stills & Nash album might have sounded like if all its members were from Dublin.” – San Diego Union Tribune
“…exquisite folk pop” – Charleston Daily Mail

Born and raised in Bergen, a small West Coast Norwegian city, Sondre fell under the spell of the records his older brother and two sisters played - Norwegian pop sensations A-Ha, the Beach Boys, Elvis Costello and Prefab Sprout all made an indelible mark on Lerche’s musical consciousness. Learning those harmonies and chord voicings, blending Brazilian folk and cool jazz, really opened my eyes.” In fact, so much that Brazilian pop influences the music Lerche writes to this day.

Check out Sondre Lerche performing “Modern Nature” in Hollywood…

Here is a link to the first video…

http://twoguysonbeer.com/2008/11/11/were-back-2/

And the second video containing an interview with one of our managers Ryan Starr…

http://twoguysonbeer.com/2008/11/13/interview-with-ryan-starr-from-world-cafe-live/

Pennsylvania native and Boston transplant Madi Diaz may be best known for her prominent role in “Rock School,” but she’s now poised to breakthrough with her solo career. Skin and Bone, Diaz’s début solo album, is filled with songs rich in precocious wisdom, unassuming poetry, and melodic sophistication. Without paying direct homage to a particular time or place, the record evokes the locations of Diaz’s youth: the wide-open spaces of the Amish countryside, the unsettling thrills and daunting possibilities of Philly’s urban jungle - and the longing and loneliness common to both. Diaz’s powerful voice, both uniquely engaging and steeped in rock tradition, calls to mind such icons of Americana as Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, and Patty Griffin.

Check out Madi Diaz playing at the 2008 XPN Festival.