Name: David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach – Sharp Slide Guitar Meets Masterful Harmonica to Bring Blues, Ballads, and Roots Music
Start: 2026-03-12T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-12T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 7 E 4th St, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

$David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach \u2013 Sharp Slide Guitar Meets Masterful Harmonica to Bring Blues, Ballads, and Roots Music$

David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach return with a live set built on sharp slide guitar, masterful harmonica, and songs that move easily from playful blues to reflective ballads and back again. Performing side by side, the duo brings years of shared road experience and a deep connection to roots music traditions, while always sounding unmistakably their own. It’s the kind of performance that rewards close listening—perfectly suited to Godfrey Daniels’ Live Music Listening Room, where every note, lyric, and turn of phrase lands with intention.
David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach
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“David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach blew me away last summer at Swannanoa. As we say at home, they knocked my hat in the creek. I can’t envision the audience that could fail to take to them from the first chord and to the last. Hear them yourself as soon as you can”. -Tom Paxton
David Jacobs-Strain is a fierce slide guitar player, and a song poet from Oregon. He is known for both his virtuosity and spirit of emotional abandon. David displays a range that ties him to his own generation and to guitar-slinger troubadours like Robert Johnson and Jackson Browne. “I try to make art that you can dance to, but I love that darker place, where in my mind, Skip James, Nick Drake, and maybe Elliot Smith blur together.”
David tours with Bob Beach on Harmonica. Their live show moves from humorous, subversive blues, to delicate balladry, and then swings back to swampy rock and roll. David & Bob have performed many times at music festivals and taught at camps around the country to include: Philadelphia Folk Festival, Juan de Fuca, Strawberry Festival, Redding Roots, Bear Creek (Ca), Falcon Ridge and Kate Wolf.
Shared stages: Eric Gale, Boz Scaggs, Shawn Mullins, David Bromberg, Tom Rush, Wood Brothers, Levon Helm, Larry Campbell
Direct Support: Shawn Mullins, Boz Skaggs, Eric Gale, Tom Rush, David Bromberg, John Craigie, Levon Helm