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CHASTITY BROWN Gospel and blues, melodic sensibility, and honest emotion​“A work of brooding soul eloquence, alt-rock wiriness, atmospheric pop sweetening and folk-infected naturalness.” - NPR Music"Classy Country-Soul with a hefty dash of the Blues to send a shiver down your spine."- NO DEPRESSION
As the daughter of a blues musician, Chastity Brown was born with an innate ability to channel wrenching circumstances into beautiful, uplifting songs. But after surviving the isolation of the early pandemic and a global racial reckoning that was set off mere blocks from her South Minneapolis home, even she was surprised to hear the way her latest album was taking shape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dcQd_iBT7ELILLI LEWISProgressive, provocative, glorious powerhouse performer with a focus on social justice“A powerhouse performer adding her unique voice and talent to the national discussion of the state of social justice in America.”– The Kennedy Center "The self-professed Folk Rock Diva Lili Lewis returns to recording with a rootsy, country soul album that really hits the spot with its melancholy meditations and narratives." - Americana UKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72skNXbaXk
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Born in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, Anya’s music is steeped in the tones of folk and bluegrass and seasoned by travels across the world with her vivid storytelling, vibrant musicianship, and arresting honesty.She began her recording career in 2007 with an album called Old Time Duets for the Virginia Heritage label The Crooked Road before moving to Asheville, NC, where she founded the bands Dehlia Low (Rebel Records) and Tellico (Organic Records). Anya released the first full-length album under her own name, Eden And Her Borderlands, in July 2021 on Organic Records. She won the MerleFest Chris Austin Song Contest and was a finalist in the Hazel Dickens Songwriting Competition in 2019 for her song “Ballad of Zona Abston” and was runner-up in the International Acoustic Music Awards in 2022 for her song “Hills of Swannanoa.”Anya tours regionally and nationally all over the US as well as extensively in Japan and Europe. She has played stages at MerleFest, Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, La Roche Bluegrass Festival (France), Bristol Rhythm & Roots, and has supported/performed with Mipso, John Doyle, Malcolm Holcombe, The Steel Wheels and many others. She has recorded some 10 albums in various collaborations both in the US and Japan, and is currently working on her second studio album under her name, slated for release in 2023.Career Highlights:-2022 International Acoustic Music Awards Runner-Up-2021 release (Organic Records) Eden and Her Borderlands - bubblin’ up for 3 weeks on the Americana Music Association's Top 50 Americana Album Charts, inclusion on “Indigo,” “Grass Roots” and “Emerging Americana” Spotify Playlists, Top 10 Best of 2021 albums at KALW (San Francisco CA), WNCW (Spindale, NC), and WTJU (Charlottesville VA)-2019 MerleFest Chris Austin Song Contest Winner, Hazel Dickens Songwriting Competition-2018 #1 song, #2 album on Folk Radio (11/2018)"...one of roots music's gems so far this year…"—No Depression“…a burgeoning force behind the Appalachian roots revival…"—Pop Matters"Hinkle is a magnificent song-writer...a storyteller and a poet…"—Folk Connection"...everything one could look for in bluegrass-tinged Americana”—Americana UK“Once you hear Anya Hinkle sing you will want to hear her again. If you get a chance to see her perform, take it!”—Bluegrass Today“A rising Star of Appalachian string music…”—For Folk’s Sake
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O51hxFFeBI
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Standards and Classics is the newest version of the cherished 1960s variety shows from the greatest era in show business with singers that really sing, dancers that really dance, entertainers who capture the heart of the audience in timeless renditions of the greatest songs ever written! Now you're getting a flavor of Eddie Owen Presents: Standards and Classics which is written, arranged and featuring Duluth vocalist, Allan Wiltshire II.
The third installment in the Standards and Classics franchise celebrates Independence Day with all the elegance and class of yesteryear along with a swinging band and an array of amazing local talent. Come and relive the greatest patriotic songs of the 40's, 50's, 60's, & beyond.
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Advanced tickets: $20Day of show: $25BEN STRAWNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgf4iimZjxoANDREW JAMES
They say that timing is everything, and roots rock singer-songwriter Andrew James ought to know. A Texas native who got his start as a guitar-slinging sideman, James broke out as a solo artist in 2016, when his Shoreline EP arrived to unexpected streaming success. Appearing at the dawn of a boom in curated playlists, it stood precariously on the edge of an emotional canyon, with soft-spoken confessionals capturing a sense of melancholy beauty to rack up more than 12 million plays on Spotify and counting. But now, the time has come to move forward. With What Am I Running From? – James’ long-awaited full-length album debut – the thought provoking Nashville tunesmith turns to face his inner turmoil, and move toward a new musical chapter. Over the course of 10 tracks co-produced by Rocko Wheeler and engineered by Andrija Tokic at East Nashville’s Bomb Shelter studio, James blends roots-rocking drive with folk curiosity and indie-pop whimsy, as the grayscale themes of self reflection find a technicolor sonic contrast.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeyyi9q15n0&feature=youtu.bePAUL WHITACREPaul is a singer-songwriter based in Atlanta, Ga. His homepage is www.paulwhitacremusic.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRh--RzRaCg&t=317s
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This show was originally January 16, 2021 - all tickets will be honored at the new date (JULY 15, 2022)General Admission: $20 advance ($25 day of show)Kristopher JamesAt a young age, Kristopher James had music inside of him. Sitting in the doorway of his room, with a radio and tape deck, Kristopher spent hours making mixtape after mixtape of songs that began to mold his young, musical mind.
With eyes set high, on the proverbial prize, Kristopher started 2020 on a support tour, with Marc Broussard, when suddenly everything shut down - and collective, we set out to social distance. But in the wake of that tumult, Kristopher rallied with musical compatriots and contemporaries, to work together, apart! Through the dichotomous months, Kristopher was able to capture the vision of 2 critically acclaimed singles ("Never Had To Find" & "Feelings") as well as work with a roster of powerful and talented musicians!VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGO3GEbFbM&feature=emb_imp_woytBrian Sutherland“The guy is a musical Swiss army knife.” - Stefan Scheuermann — Song Divers
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Jim Hurst's unique picking style and mastery of bluegrass guitar wows audiences and is revered by both novice guitar players and his musical peers. His eclectic career has made him a remarkable performer, an experienced instructor and a highly sought after session musician. His affability and gregariousness make him one of the most approachable musicians of his caliber.
Garnering numerous nominations, Jim received IBMA's prestigious "Guitar Player of the Year" awards for 2001 and 2002. This award is voted on by IBMA members including his peers and contemporaries revealing their appreciation of Jim's abilities.
After recording and touring with several Country and Bluegrass artists, Jim decided in 2010 to embark on a solo career to focus mostly on his own musical expression and art. As a musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and producer, Jim has recorded 7 CDs including: Open Window, Second Son, A Box of Chocolates, Intrepid, Looking Glass, JHT-1, and Atlantic Crossing. Jim's virtuosity shines as he consistently sways audiences with his deft finger work and smooth vocals.
Jim performs his show full time and teaches at guitar workshops and music camps in North America and Europe. While he occasionally collaborates with other bluegrass greats, his solo and Jim Hurst Trio performance are what keeps audiences mesmerized.
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“With his new album ‘The Reservoir’, Kenny Roby seeks some solace between the darkness and the light, gleans lessons learned and transmits them through a set of songs that are taut, tender and flush with both resilience and resolve.”– AMERICAN SONGWRITER (4.5 of 5 Stars)
Alan Lee Edwards has been a songwriter for over 30 years, and became the main singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band Lou Ford. Punks, alt-country fans, and glam rockers alike agreed there was an honesty there, an authenticity not built on outward style but inner substance. The songs spoke mostly of the ebb and flow of personal relationships, and of the existence most of us south of "middle-class" immediately recognized as our own. They had critical respect, too, and from some of the best music magazines in the world -- Uncut and Mojo both talked the band up breathlessly, and they shared space on British "best of" compilation CDs with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson and Paul Simon.
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KEN HESS
Ken Hess originally hailing from Michigan where he honed his vocal skills in award winning competition choirs, He
landed in Atalanta and went to work, singing and writing for college alt-rock bands and getting airplay on college radio.
He has been working as an acoustic entertainer and open mic host for over 30 years, and fronts the Falling Rocks Band in his spare time.
His songs range from melancholy musings on aging to happy idiotic sing alongs about cats. He is currently working on his first solo acoustic endeavor.
SEAN BULOW
Sean Bulow is a singer/songwriter and cover artist from Roswell, Georgia. Influences include many genres from Appalachian, bluegrass and classic rock to 80's pop, Motown and jazz. Over the course of 25 years Sean has performed solo and with various duos and bands, both original and with a focus on covers. His current full length album, Southern Sorrow, is available on Bandcamp.
BEN WADE MARCUM
Ben Wade Marcum is an acoustic singer songwriter from Johns Creek, Georgia.
Influenced by the songwriter styles of Jason Isabel, Amos Lee, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, and the era of the 70’s music, Ben is a blend of soul, blues, and a bit of country. Ben has been songwriting and singing since the young age of 15, and at 19 he was recognized by Creative Loafing Magazine and other local Atlanta musicians as a talented, up and coming singer songwriter. While he has played with several bands throughout his career including his own, Ben Wade Band, Ben is presently performing solo original and cover shows. Ben is currently writing new songs and working on another EP and you can check out his songs and performances at benwadeband.com
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Advanced tickets: $20Day of show: $25THE LIQUORSMITHSAndrew Carl Thams, folk singer-songwriterTHE SILENT COMEDY
Brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman and their band The Silent Comedy know trouble. Facing that trouble head on permeates their work. Rough-hewn, expansive American rock & roll with dirt under its nails and whiskey on its breath, the music of The Silent Comedy channels the iron spine of the blues, Honky-Tonk sweat, and punk swagger into a euphoric declaration that when trouble rears its worrisome head it’s time to crack knuckles, lock arms, and lift our voices high.
The brothers spent their formative years traveling the world with missionary parents before settling in California. In search of catharsis, the teens found solace in songwriting and stage lights. The young band proved capable of raucous shows and word spread. Years of touring followed, performing with Dave Matthews Band, Queens of the Stone Age, Mumford and Sons, Arctic Monkeys, and Vampire Weekend, and festival plays at Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Under The Big Sky, Summer Meltdown and more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITF3owJvwQU
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Reserved: $20 ($24 day of show)Premium: $25 ($29 day of show)The Red Clay Music Foundry invites you to an evening of Mystery, Mentalism, and Magic with Rich Crawford!
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The Piedmont Boys started out in Greenville, SC over a decade ago by frontman Greg Payne. They’ve played thousands of shows, logged thousands of miles, released four albums, toured half the continental U.S., shared stages with everyone from Eric Church to Charlie Robison..hell, they’ve even played rodeos from Oregon to Texas. But wherever they go, the refrain of the fans who come up to them remains the same: “I never liked country music until I heard y’all.”
What these folks must be talking about is the watered-down pop-country stuff you hear on the radio nowadays, because if you don’t like REAL country…Merle, Willie, Waylon, Johnny…you won’t like The Piedmont Boys.
If you don’t like against-the-grain, outlaw brand, whiskey-soaked, blue-collar honky-tonk music, the kind where the volume and the energy are dead ringers for rock & roll but the sound is gritty hard-country, you won’t like The Piedmont Boys.
If you don’t like a live show that’s pedal-to-the-floorboard, rock the place down to the dirt and drain every drop of sweat from every human being in the house, you won’t like The Piedmont Boys.
If you don’t like your Jerry Reed mixed with a little Metallica if you don’t like a band that loves playing live so much that they’ve had one weekend off in seven years, if you don’t like country mixed with bluegrass mixed with southern rock mixed with a little…make that a lot…of Jack Daniels, you won’t like The Piedmont Boys.
If any of that sounds like one hell of a good time, though, y’all come on in. The door’s always open.
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“The best Cajun band in the World!” —Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion
“BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet—they play music that’s honest to the bone!” —Allen Toussaint
BeauSoleil is the biggest brand in Cajun music, 2-time Grammy winners and 11-time Grammy nominees.
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet for the past 37 years. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid audience to its feet. BeauSoleil’s distinctive sound derives from the distilled spirits of New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass, captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, to Carnegie Hall, then all the way across the pond to the Meltdown Festival in England.
For their first studio release in four years, and the 25th in their 37-year career, BeauSoleil teamed up with Nashville-based roots music label Compass Records. The band named the new album From Bamako to Carencro, a title that alludes to the cultural and migratory connection between Bamako, in Mali, West Africa, and Louisiana (symbolized in name by the Lafayette, LA. suburb of Carencro), a connection that draws a sonic bloodline back to BeauSoleil’s roots. On the album’s 11 tracks, the band performs with a resounding authenticity all the while bringing a refreshed playfulness to the genre—the fiddle, flat-picked guitar and accordion carry driving melodies over the two-step and waltz dance beats characteristic of their Cajun and Zydeco music, but not without the country, jazz and blues leanings that informed the genre in the 1920s. They channel the godfathers of other music as well by including a Cajun/La La-style reimagining of James Brown’s classic 1962 Live at the Apollo version of “I’ll Go Crazy” and a swing version of John Coltrane’s tune-de-force “Bessie’s Blues.” Guitarist David Doucet even tucks an occasional Lester Flatt-style bluegrass G-run into his highly melodic guitar solos.
Since becoming the first Cajun band to win a GRAMMY with L’amour Ou La Folie (Traditional Folk Album – 1998) and then a second Grammy in 2010, Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, BeauSoleil has garnered many accolades, including twelve GRAMMY nominations, the latest being their 2009 release Alligator Purse. They are regular guests on Garrison Keillor’s National Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, where Keillor has dubbed them as “the best Cajun band in the world,” and their music is so integral to the Cajun culture that they have been featured on the New Orleans–based hit HBO program Treme. (Look for an on-camera performance from the band this year during the final season of the show). Critics unanimously agree that it is “bon temps, every time they play,” (New York Times).
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BEN DE LA COUR
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” – Carl Jung
There are singer-songwriters, and there are troubadours. Singer-songwriters are sensitive, polished souls, sharing their journal entries with the world… whereas troubadours do their best just to stay out of jail. In the wake of Ben de la Cour’s astonishing new record, Shadow Land, you can add his name to the top of the list of younger troubadours to whom this ever-so-occasionally poisoned chalice is being passed.
Shadow Land shimmers. It’s both terrifying and soothing – suffused with honesty, craft and a rare soul-baring fearlessness but with enough surprises to keep the listener guessing. It gets down and dirty with electric guitar but also features Ben’s diffident fingerpicking in quieter moments. Ultimately, it is a darkly beautiful meditation on what it means to be human. Ben’s voice renders raw emotion with authority as he recounts tales of suspicious characters, lost love, murder, bank robbers, suicide and mental illness against a backdrop of a dark and haunted America. On the brilliant “From Now On” he sings “it’s hard to hold a candle / in a wind so wild and strong.” That one line sums up the troubadour’s life about as well as anything ever said about it before.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSiTT-cG7Y&feature=emb_logoTHE WEEPING WILLOWS
Every song penned by The Weeping Willows is a love song. They’d deny that, of course. These tracks, they’d claim, are works of imagination – tales of cruelty, tragedy, murder and betrayal, all populated by gamblers, sinners, infidels and travelling salesmen (read: wandering musicians). Ask Andy or Laura to define their work and they’d probably hit you with phrases like “cautionary tales”, “murder ballads” or simply “folk songs”, but in truth these are love songs – each and every one of them.
How are they love songs, you ask? Because The Weeping Willows are lovers – they are devoted to each other and to the life of the artist in seemingly equal measure. Have you seen them perform together? Have you seen the knowing glances they exchange as they harmonise their eerie, at times surreal lyrics over Andy’s patient, timeless ¾ strum? Think back to those performances, those moments of chemistry in its purist form, then try to convince yourself that The Weeping Willows were not singing a love song. Every note plucked or sung by Andy and Laura is a work of love. Every dark hour spent huddled together refining their sound in the dimly-lit backroom of their home on the Southern outskirts of Melbourne is a labour of love.
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The Spirit of Rush: Artist Bio
The Spirit of Rush is Georgia's premier Rush tribute band, bringing the music of Rush to life with accuracy and passion. Spanning the eras of the prog trio's catalog, TSOR astounds fans of all ages with soaring musicianship and unwavering dedication.
The Spirit of Rush formed in 2013 after playing together at a jam session in Roswell, GA. The crowd went wild and the four members decided they must play together again. The rest is history. The band brings not only the familiar sounds of hit songs, but also deep tracks for the longtime fans. Combined, the four members of the band have thousands of hours of professional live performance experience. Due to the complexity of Rush’s music, The Spirit of Rush spent months honing the set list before taking their performance to the public. The band has a loyal and devoted fan base as well as a mission to keep the spirit of Rush music alive!
“The Spirit of Rush absolutely nails every aspect of Rush's sound and it's next best thing to the holy trio themselves coming out of retirement.”(Daniel Graham, vocalist, Great Wide Nothing)
“The best show of the year. We’ve never seen a band get a standing ovation here!”(Jason S., Manager, Rosati’s, Cumming, GA)
The Spirit of Rush is:
Vicki Hudson: Lead vocals
Reese Boyd: Guitar, synth pedals
Ed Shelton: Bass, keyboards, synth pedals
Casey Shelton: Drums, percussion
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN1PmEOaLvQ
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The best of the Beatles & sounds of the 60s!!
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BUFFALO ROSE NEWS!-Buffalo Rose released a new album, co-written and recorded with Tom Paxton - 'Rabbit’, on 2/22/22. - The second single off the EP, "I Give You The Morning", written by the incomparable Tom Paxton and featuring his vocals; The song hit #1 on the FolkRadio.org charts, the album at #6, and the band ranked #7, tied with Joan Baez. https://spoti.fi/3BccH1K- The 18th Annual International Music Awards, (IAMA), have just recently announced Buffalo Rose as First Prize winners in the Best Group/Duo category. This news was followed by the IAMA announcing Buffalo Rose as the Overall Grand Prize winner for 2022. https://inacoustic.com/winners/- Buffalo Rose has been selected as 2022 Official Showcase Artists at both SXSW in March and Folk Alliance International (FAI) in May. FAI will feature Buffalo Rose as 2022 Official Showcase Artists joining the lineup alongside Steve Poltz, Diana Jones, Livingston Taylor, Big Little Lions, Peter Mulvey, and more, in May 2022.
Listening to Buffalo Rose is like driving on the open road with the windows down, letting the breezes of various musical styles wash over you. Buffalo Rose commandeers the shimmering and electrifying riffs of the mandolin, (Bryce Rabideau), the cascading guitar arpeggios of folk and bluegrass, (Shane McLaughlin), the ringing purity of the dobro, (Malcolm Inglis), and the steady percussive thrum of upright bass, (Jason Rafalak), providing an effervescent blanket of sound under and around which the ethereal harmonies of Lucy Clabby, Margot Jezerc, and McLaughlin float. There’s a singular beauty in every Buffalo Rose song, whether the group is covering Madonna’s “Borderline” or delivering their stirring original material.
The members of the band met four years ago in the Pittsburgh area. “All of us were active in the Pittsburgh music scene,” says McLaughlin. Each of them was playing different kinds of music, from folk to punk. They formed in 2016 when former member Mariko Reid got together with Clabby, Inglis and McLaughlin to record McLaughlin’s tune “Momma Have Mercy.” Before long the three had met up with Rabideau and Rafalak, and the band’s first EP, Red Wagon, debuted in November 2016.
"I Give You the Morning" video: https://bit.ly/3MtUmTl
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