Get the jump on other music fans and hear a preview of the new CD about to be released by the duo of Dick Weissman and David Crabtree at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center, 16th Street and Franklin Avenue.

Full of humorous interplay, the CD features Weissman’s compositions “Soggy Mountain Breakdown” and “Wackademia,” along with Crabtree’s “The Brink,” “Xerxes’ Rag” and “Las Palmas.”

David CrabtreeEach of the performers will do a short solo set, followed by an intermission, and a long duo set, featuring Crabtree on classical guitar and Weissman on steel string guitar and banjo. Kid Siegel will open the show, which is presented by CCC’s Arts & Ideas Program.

The duo just got back from performing three showcases at the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance annual gathering in San Diego.

Weissman has composed more than 100 recorded instrumental pieces and songs, and has written more than 45 published instructional music manuals for Alfred Music, Mel Bay Publications, Cherry Lane Music, G. Schirmer, etc. In addition, he has produced records for Warner Brothers, Capitol, MCA and many smaller record labels. He has also played on hundreds of recording sessions in New York, Los Angeles, Austin and Denver, and has composed two feature film scores and a dozen scores for industrial films.

Crabtree began playing music professionally during his college years in Vermont. He plays classical guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin, and played electric guitar with the Pacific Dixieland Jazz Band. He studied classical guitar in Spain and lived in Barcelona and Morocco. He has lived on the Oregon Coast for more than 20 years, has been a professional fisherman and is currently a bamboo farmer.

Tickets for the CD preview concert are $10 for general admission, $6 for seniors and students and $4 for children. Advance tickets are available at Old Town Framing and the Clatsop Community College Library in Astoria and CCC’s South County Campus in Seaside.