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AAFFM Presents: The Cunningham/Henson Duo and Rick Diamond
November 19, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST
$8 – $10
THE CUNNINGHAM/HENSON DUO
Guitarist Steve Cunningham and bassist Rob Henson formed a “duo of musical gumbo” to express an artistry separate from their careers as in-demand sidemen and session musicians. The Cunningham / Henson duo offers a unique instrumental approach where they present familiar melodies and songs of all styles in a way that sounds fresh, exciting and at the same time understated.
Steve Cunningham
One of the most in-demand guitarists on the Atlanta scene, Steve has played with Grammy winner Susan Tedeschi, long-time members of the James Brown band, and Grammy Award winner William Bell, as well as opening for Jeff Beck, Barenaked Ladies, Kool and the Gang, Dream Theatre, The Four Tops, Chuck Mangione, and Blondie. Steve is a first-call session player, playing on hundreds of local and national CD releases, TV and radio commercials, and movie soundtracks. He has recorded for Coca-Cola, Ford, IBM, Cartoon Network, Microsoft, CNN, NASCAR and others, as well as recording with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Rob Henson
Equally fluent in the musical styles of rock, jazz, bluegrass and classical, bassist Rob Henson has performed with an incredible diversity of artists such as The Who, Vince Gill, Shawn Mullins, the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, David Ryan Harris, The Atlanta Ballet, The Drifters, and Broadway tours of Wicked and Phantom of the Opera. From 2006 – 2012 Rob recorded and toured the United States with singer/songwriter Corey Smith and played over 150 shows a year. He has recorded 5 CDs, and opened for acts including ZZ Top, Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick, Snoop Dog, and Merle Haggard. Currently Robert manages and leads the very popular Atlanta trio Lilac Wine, delighting audiences with three voices in harmony performing uniquely arranged songs of all genres and elegantly backed by a driving acoustic guitar and a punchy upright bass.
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Rick Diamond
Rick Diamond has always been a writer: short stories in third grade, co-writing his first structurally sound song, “Follow Me,” in eighth grade with band mate Steve Hagler. (Imagine two kids urging the world to follow them… Where to, the playground?) In his late teens and early 20s, Rick wrote a few songs for his Illinois rock band. In his 30s he wrote his first novel — long before he had anything worth saying. In his early 40s he wrote his second novel; and then five years later when he got the nerve up to submit it to a New York literary agent he met at a writers’ conference, he landed a deal and lost a deal all within three weeks. Not one to try harder, he turned his hand to screenwriting and knocked out a couple of movie scripts and then a TV pilot. Then wanting to know what happened to those characters, he wrote nine more episodes. During all those years, Rick managed to write more than a hundred songs about love, life, politics, and whatever else at that moment was bothering him.
Rick Diamond has played in venues from Illinois to New York, from Florida to Tennessee, from one Carolina to the next, from Texas to Alabama, and here in Georgia for more than a few years. His songs can be sampled and downloaded at Rick Diamond Reverbnation and listened to in better fidelity at writersroomcafe.com — but only if you have great big studio monitors for speakers on your computer (seriously, don’t do the phone thing).