Welcome to

Updated 4.22

"Acoustic Singer/Songwriters doing something
completely original with an electric band."

John Conquest / Music City Texas
ThirdCM@aol.com

Abra Moore, Jimmy LaFave, Mark Shumate, Michael Fracasso

(Taken before we met Wyckham...)

"Bohemia Beat has a good chance
of becoming to intelligent singer/songwriters
what Sub-Pop became to grunge, and Windham Hill to New Age.

Michael Corcoran
Austin American-Statesman

We're glad that you found us. Our guess is that you're a Dylan, Van, Joni, and / or Jackson fan (these days maybe
Ryan Adams, Crows, Elliott Smith or Wilco fan ) ~ ~ ~ and are always on the lookout for artists with a similar muse.

And that all you ask of music is that it have something worth saying, that it says it well, and that it be fun to sing along
with what's being said.

Many of the pics here are taken off of video, and pretty much all the art is homemade. Expect frequent additions and
updates from us, and always fresh news and pics.

You'll have fun sinking into the four wonderful artists linked below.... Each artist has a number of pages devoted to
them.

Just CLICK on any of their pictures below to get started.

Mark Shumate / Bohemia Beat

Bohemia Beat Records
2300 South Cook Street
Denver, Colorado 80210
303 / 691-8218
303 / 782-5684 (Fax)

shubobeat@earthlink.net

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Jimmy LaFave

"LaFave is nothing if not a red-dirt
romantic.

Viewing the world from an open road and an open

 heart, with one eye on the girl and the other on the

 mythological lure of the highway.  First it was

 Woody Guthrie and then Jack Kerouac, now it's

 LaFave and his brand of dirty-boots folk-rock...

 Jimmy has the most expressive voice this side of

 Belfast.... it's the music of Jimmy LaFave that really 
defines this part of the land."



Greg Johnston ~ Oklahoma City Gazette

Michael Fracasso

"Wow! Michael Fracasso manages to sound Forbertian, Dylanish,and even Everlyesque without also sounding derivative or stale.

When I Lived In The Wild is so good, maybe one day we'll be calling someone Fracassoesque."

Eric Fidler / Associated Press

Abra Moore

1998 Grammy Nominee

Best Female Rock Vocal

"...an incredibly unique talent... she flutters around her songs like a butterfly, but isn't above throwing in a bee sting or two for emphasis. With tremendously strong backing musicians....

Sing is one of those records brimming with creative promise that leaps from your stack."

~ The Gavin Report

Our little list of links: Dylan, Woody, Texas Music, etc.