Eddie Owen Presents: Grace Pettis with George from 100 Watt Horse
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
General Admission: $18 advanced; $20 day of show
*Can't make it to the show? Streaming live ($8): https://www.stellartickets.com/o/eddie-owen-presents/events/eddie-owen-presents-grace-pettis
Grace is the winner of many of the nation’s most prestigious songwriting contests, including NPR’s Mountain Stage New Song Contest, and has received grants from the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Grace’s songs have been recorded by other esteemed artists, including Sara Hickman and Ruthie Foster. Her highly acclaimed independently released records, Grace Pettis (2009), Two Birds (2012), and the acoustic EP, Blue Star in a Red Sky (2018), have garnered praise from top-notch magazines, newspapers, and radio. She also holds down duties as a member (along with Rebecca Loebe and BettySoo) of the Americana/folk-pop trio Nobody’s Girl.
From an early age, Grace was encouraged to speak her mind and to express herself musically. Words and music were the family heirlooms she inherited from her parents, a traveling songwriter (Pierce Pettis) and poetry scholar (Dr. Margaret Mills Harper), who were divorced by the time she was a small child. As a result of that separation, she was raised in two very different parts of the "Deep South": the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, and the backwoods of Mentone, Alabama.
An award-winning singer-songwriter from Austin via Alabama, this isn't Pettis' first rodeo. For Grace, who has been characterized as “a little bit folk, a little bit country/Americana, and a whole lot of soul,” 2020 had many silver linings. She signed with MPress Records, released three critically acclaimed singles – “Landon”, White Noise”, and “Drop Another Pin” (with “Landon” landing at #10 on The Bluegrass Situation’s year-end “The Women Who Wrote Our 2020 Soundtrack”), and recorded a new record in Nashville (forthcoming on MPress Records, May 2021).
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDn0BG6_brQ
George Pettis from 100 Watt Horse
100 Watt Horse is a folk and country infused garage-pop outfit currently based in sunny Tallahassee, FL. Founded in 2012 in Atlanta, GA by writer and multi-instrumentalist George Pettis, the project has taken many forms since: duo, trio, full band, etc. Together with producer Graham Tavel, George has released two LPs and three EPs while touring extensively all around the U.S and in Ireland. At the moment, George is performing as a solo act and is busy in the studio recording a follow-up to 2020’s “Dog is Good” full length (released via Philly-based Sleeper Records). With influences ranging from Elliot Smith to Arthur Russell to Brandi Carlile, Pettis writes emotionally charged melody-driven songs that are equally at home in a living room and a smoky dive bar.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gDbgM7FjIWk