{"id":20178836,"date":"2025-01-07T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/?p=20178836"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:15:20","slug":"jackopierce-in-menlo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrosiliconvalley.com\/jackopierce-in-menlo-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackopierce in Menlo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Save for a five-year hiatus, the guitar duo Jack O\u2019Neill and Cary Pierce has been making music as Jackopierce for three-plus decades. Their uncluttered and heartfelt folk styling employs acoustic guitar artistry and vocal harmonies. Jackopierce has amassed a substantial body of work, with nine studio albums, three live albums and a bounty of single releases. The duo has made occasional left turns toward a full band and flirted with electric sounds but inevitably returned to the unplugged, two-guitars-and-voices approach that won them a substantial and dedicated following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/guildtheatre\/events\/jackopierce-121864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jackopierce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thu, 7pm, $41-$70<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guild Theatre, Menlo Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"TRIALS (Live at the Kessler Theater) Performance\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ENJZcwtFVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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