Basically the reigning queen of indie-pop at this point (having apparently overthrown Natasha Khan or whatever), multi-instrumentalist songwriter Annie Clark sometimes coughs up tunes that are a touch darker than anything related to her former gigs as guitarist for Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan, which we realize doesn’t exactly narrow things down a whole lot. Rather, consider that the twists and turns in her ambitious chamber pop arrangements led her to essentially recruit Pattern Is Movement to serve as her backing band for the last tour, where they ended up performing material which was recorded with the Midlake guys as the backdrop, both wrinkles in lineup and logistics which are somehow a fitting match for the thick complexity of her layer-cake orchestration.
(If you want free tickets, all you have to do is psychoanalyze her, which is easier than it sounds because our standards for competence on this one are extremely low. You’re welcome.)
Swedish experimental electronic duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums open with tightly woven samples and percussion in the vein of Bjork or The Knife.
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Located across Market Street from the police station, the Old Michie Building was originally anchored by LiveArts.The city’s leading dance club is moving to the original home of the city’s leading theater company. Club 216 is moving from Water Street, a site slated for a high-rise residential condominium project, to the Old Michie Building, which served as the home of LiveArts from 1989 to 2003. “Club 216 is MOVING!!” exclaims an email to members of the private club, known for its frequent drag shows and large gay clientele. “The rumors are true.”
The email indicates that the last weekend at 216 West Water Street is April 3rd & 4th, with the reopening on Market Street two weeks later. The release also remarks that the new location is directly across the street from the Charlottesville Police Station— “The safest place to party will now be even
safer!!”
Blogger Waldo Jaquith notes that the anchor spot in Old Michie— a big windowless box created expressly for LiveArts by developer Gabe Silverman— was only suitable for a very few tenants.
Local alt-folk singer. Also featuring Annie Yoder.
Acoustic set from Surfzilla, Charlottesville’s premiere surf-rock band. (OK, big-Zilla-small-pond, but still…)
Surfzilla - The Joker’s Wild
Surfzilla - The Jester
Surfzilla - GooGoo Muck
Surfzilla - Failsafe
Surfzilla - Cecilia Ann
Surfzilla - Apache
Crozet’s only music venue shut its door February 22 on the corner location whose longest-running business in our memory was a drugstore. Next to try that spot: Mudhouse has a lease, according to an Uncle Charlie’s owner.
Ani DiFranco’s viciously percussive abuse of her acoustic guitar and her no-holds-barred feminist lyrics won over legions of angry young women in the 90’s, and she became one of the first high-profile artists to kick the existing major label infrastructure to the curb with the launch of Righteous Babe Records in 1990 — that’s 17 years before Radiohead, kids. There once was a time when she was slated to mature into a folk icon, but even that will probably end up happening on her terms. That’s OK, though — it would have had to be machine gun folk, and that barely exists elsewhere anyway.
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But Baez has kept herself busy over the years too, with her long histories of art and politics winding their way through Vietnam and Martin Luther King to end up at the Iraq war, a 2003 album which covered Ryan Adams and Natalie Merchant, and Barack Obama — all of those crossing paths every step of the way, of course.
buy tickets onlineIrish folk singer with a long-standing interest in American country
buy tickets onlineClassic British folk-rock singer who sounds a little like Donovan at times and once took guitar lessons from Robert Fripp.
buy tickets onlineFingerstyle guitarist meets former Jimmy Buffett sideman
buy tickets onlineFolk singer-songwriter. Len Jaffe opens.
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buy tickets onlineWith all due respect to Phil Spector, Appalachian old-time band Mando Mafia’s “wall of mandolin” concept is pretty neat. Or nerdy. Or both.
Mando Mafia - Say Old Man, Can You Play The Fiddle?
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The Kings Of Belmont - The Jerk Store [demo]
The Kings Of Belmont - Git R Done
The Kings Of Belmont - South Bound
The Kings Of Belmont - Beg For More
The Kings Of Belmont - Sway
The Kings Of Belmont - Talking To Myself
Earl Knox opens.
Earl Knox - Pretty Little Thief
Hip hop. Also featuring J-Dough, Kev-E Kev, Wolfgang, J-Willz, and Cheno.
The local indie rock trio hits the C-ville Music Showcase.
Astronomers - The Singularity
Astronomers - Strategem
Astronomers - Shoes
Astronomers - Perpetual Emotion
Astronomers - Or Maybe It’s Nothing
Astronomers - My Hologram
Astronomers - Fermata
Despite their rootsy foundation, Canuck indie-rock trio Plants and Animals started to show their art-rock tendencies on the With/Avec EP in 2007 with an eight-minute-plus tune that eventually morphed into Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman,” and they really started to spread their wings on their full length debut Parc Avenue in early 2008.
Bluesy neo-folkies These United States released a music video for “Get Yourself Home,” from the album Crimes, which was made out of public archival footage from the Great Depression era and released it right before those other United States (that is, the real ones) decided to drunkenly topple over right into another. Obviously, then, they know what they’re doing.
These United States - West Won
These United States - Get Yourself Home
Local indie-pop champs Straight Punch To The Crotch kick things off.
Straight Punch To The Crotch - Robot Baby
Straight Punch To The Crotch - When Animals Attack
Straight Punch To The Crotch - Summer Sun and Firecrackers
Singer-songwriters, including one who won the ain’t-no-joke John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2001.
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Also among those elements: the musical heritage of New Orleans, where she has lived for the past decade — along the way, she has toured with Dr. John and the Neville Brothers, among others, and Allen Toussaint had a guest spot on the song “Now I Know.” Isn’t it nice to see N’awlins repped by somebody other than Lil Wayne?
Theresa Andersson - Birds Fly Away
Theresa Andersson - Na Na Na (Empty Heart)
Also featuring arty folk-rock acoustic guitarist Peter Mulvey, who got his start busking on the Boston subway in the early 90’s, and local guitarist Sam Wilson, whose fancy fretwork livens up a half-dozen other rock, pop, folk. country, and metal projects around town when he’s not busy slinging his own compositions.
Peter Mulvey - On The Way Up
Sam Wilson - A Melody Instead
Sam Wilson - In The Morning
Sam Wilson - Once In Your Life
Sam Wilson - Green Gates
Rootsy Boston singer-songwriter with classical piano chops, a big fat archtop guitar, an ear for old-school jazz, and an aesthetic she used to refer to as “modern vintage.”
Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade - Streetcorner
Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade - Song For A Southern Boy
Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade - Pokey McMumbles
Several members of The Bourbon Specials perform as The Judy Chops to start things off.
Classic folk and country from a pair of chicks that really love them some vocal harmonies and promise “old-time, jug-band, western-swing and other hyphenated musical stylings.”
The Don’t Tell Darlings - Single Girls
Lorie Strother, also known as the “Dreaded Blues Lady,” performs acoustic blues which apparently can be quite terrifying. (Either that, or she’s copped Bob Marley’s look — which, given what Corey Harris has been up to recently, isn’t all that unrealistic.)
Lorie Strother - Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues
Accompanist Stephen Levine, apparently disturbed on the most fundamental levels by the long-standing notion that white dudes can’t really get the blues (really, must we constantly bicker over who is and isn’t qualified?) finally put everybody’s doubts to bed when he took it upon himself to get a fancy degree in how to play Mississippi Delta slide guitar properly.
Your $20 ticket also gets you dinner. Of course, if you can afford a $20 concert ticket, you aren’t allowed to… oh, nevermind.
Sixty-five year old guitarist Juan de Marcos Gonzalez saw his career explode after he agreed to play ball with legendary producer Ry Cooder and a host of his native Cuba’s unsung heroes for 1997’s Buena Vista Social Club, a landmark album full of both of cultural history and remarkable music that deserved far more documentation than it had previously earned.
Gonzalez’s other concurrent group isn’t technically the Social Club lineup, but since taking a bunch of rickety old octogenarians on a world tour is no easy task, it’s about as close as you’re going to get. (Buena Vista and former All-Stars bassist Orlando “Cachaito” Lopez just passed away on February 9.) Several members have been shared between both groups over the years, and the debut album from the All-Stars, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta was culled from the same sessions as the Cooder production and released the same year.
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“Psycho cabaret,” whatever the helblinki that means. Also featuring the Detroity grime of The Crueligans.
buy tickets onlineNeighbors keeping you up at night? Pesky baby always demanding attention? Mash your eardrums into a bloody pulp with A Cosmonaut’s Ruin and Horsefang and your problems will be solved. Also featuring Richmond’s Lord By Fire and McLean’s The Osedax, whose MySpace players were running concurrently over here just a moment ago without us even realizing anything was wrong.
A Cosmonaut’s Ruin - Sanctum
A Cosmonaut’s Ruin - Sinking Of Elders
Horsefang - River Of Dead Horses
Horsefang - We Will Use Your Dead As Vessels
Horsefang - Plaguebreaker
Horsefang - Genesis In The Retort
Photo by David Kling_Thing
Local punk rock quartet. Also featuring Ohio Maiden metalheads Lost Hands Found Fingers and the debut of It Came From The Sky, a UVA band made up of former After The Fire and Tyger and the Lamb members whose lone MySpace track is a promising blend of hardcore and ambient post-rock.
Worn In Red - Vital Joys
Worn In Red - When People Have Something To Say
Local roots-rocker guitarist Brian Patrick’s new backing band has serious metal pedigree: former T.O.W. and Thismeansyou guitarist Cory Teitelbaum, on the local hard rock front, and former GWAR bassist Beefkake the Mighty (aka Michael Bishop) on the giant-latex-puppets-that-eat-Jerry-Springer-on-stage front.
The Brian Patrick Band - Tumbleweed
The Brian Patrick Band - Nowhere Left To Fall
The Brian Patrick Band - It Hurts Me More
The Brian Patrick Band - Don’t Believe In Me
The Brian Patrick Band - California
The Brian Patrick Band - Big Muddy
Irish music from the local duo accompanied by the Good Foot Dance Company. Your $20 ticket also gets you dinner.
Latin and Brazilian jazz led by classical guitarist Peter Fields
Jazz fusion led by the local guitar player
The local guitar player feeds guitars, bass guitars, and guitar synths through loop recorders to build up riffs with deeper arrangements than one man should be capable of.
Singer-songwriter Kate Campbell’s last album may have featured appearances by Nanci Griffith and John Prine, but her everyman’s approach to approaching spirituality through folk songs is the real star.
These shows are pretty low-key, so you’ll have to email Len Jaffe at if you want in.
Acoustic guitarist Howie Campbell drops the usual liturgical-rock and instead performs with a jazz band.
Local bassist Dave Bartok with a spicy Latin project
Acoustic guitar trio plays classic folk and rock
Americana featuring members of B.C. and the Guano Boys.
Resident genius Corey Harris has reinvented his blues along a couple different axes over the years, most notably by surrounding it with elements of African folk on 2003’s “Mississippi To Mali,” and his “rasta blues” set he’ll be presenting here follows directly from his last album, 2007’s reggae tinged “Zion Crossroads.”
Corey Harris - Heathen Rage
Corey Harris - Sista Rose [live]
Corey Harris - A Blues
Die-hards can also check out a 7pm set, part of The Big Read presented by the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
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South Carolinian classical guitarist who once studied with Segovia himself
It’s been fifty years since she took the stage at Boston’s legendary Club 47, and folk icon Joan Baez is still celebrating. After more than two decades off the major pop charts, her twenty-fourth studio release, Day After Tomorrow, released in September, has put her back in the limelight.
With a voice that has endured decades of musical variation, a passionate activism that continues to fight for equality and justice, and a spunk that has yet to dim, Baez shows no signs of slowing.
“I’m happy to be be here singing after so many years,” Baez says of her half-century musical reign. “I think it’s a little nuts to be doing it all these years, but what’s even nuttier is that people come to hear it.”
One of the leading voices of the ’60s folk revival, Baez solidified her iconic revolutionary persona while on the front line of numerous political and social issues: walking alongside the (more)
Dr. Dog’s Frank McElroy, left, and Scott McMicken are nicknamed “Thanks” and “Taxi”, respectively. The pop-rockers play Gravity Lounge February 24.Despite the rise of electronic and psychedelic rock, Philadelphia-based pop-rockers Dr. Dog unabashedly look back to the 1960s. Mistake the opening strains of this quinet’s 2008 album, Fate, for a lost Beach Boys record or a never-before-heard Beatles track, and they’ll be pleasantly pleased. Just don’t call them irrelevant or trivial.
“We’re trying to write songs that we want to hear,” says vocalist and bassist Toby “Tables” Leaman. “We’re offended when people act like what we’re doing is just rehashing old ground– that would be pointless if that was our intent.”
With his fellow songwriter and guitarist Scott “Taxi” McMicken, Leaman seems to have created something that operates more as a UVA-style secret society than a grungy garage band. Given the name and its Philly base, Dr. Dog has been frequently mistaken for a hip-hop group.
But in 2004, they were brought into mainstream prominence by opening for folk-rockers My Morning Jacket during a 2004 U.S. tour.
As much of the music world experiments with computer-aided rhythms and beats, a growing number of artists– lead by Dr. Dog– turn to the past for inspiration. Think three-part harmonies, low-fi recordings, and nostalgic imagery. Leaman explains how it all happened.
The Hook: Dr. Dog is constantly compared to ’60s groups, like the Beach Boys and the Beatles, and more contemporary bands, like Pavement. How do you feel about those comparisons?
Toby Leaman: It’s better to be compared to great bands (more)
MusicToday got its start selling tickets and merchandise for one particular band.What does LiveNation’s proposed merger with Ticketmaster, announced Tuesday February 10, mean for the Crozet-based ticket and music merch biz that LiveNation already owns?
The deal has immediately raised eyebrows in Washington, as U.S. Senator Chuck Shumer denounced the proposed merger as monopolistic, and there are suggestions that the new president’s Justice Department may want to block it.
LiveNation documents vow “no immediate change to organizational structure or jobs at either company,” but the documents also suggest $40 million in annual synergies from combining the companies.
“I have been trying and mostly consistently failing to put these companies together for many years now,” said Ticketmast chairman Barry Diller in a conference call the morning of the announcement.
Already, strong words of displeasure have rung from (more)
Hook cover band turned major label recording artist Parachute VA released their debut single Tuesday, February 10 via iTunes. “She Is Love” will also be featured in an upcoming television ad for Nivea skin-care products. The Artist Formerly Known As Sparky’s Flaw is set to send their debut album to record stores later this year. –publicity photo
A little more than a year after his last appearance in Charlottesville, country music superstar Keith Urban will make a return to the John Paul Jones Arena on August 27 with Grammy winners Sugarland opening. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 13 at 10am. Cheapest seats will cost $20, a closer look will cost $78. Both featured prominently in Sunday’s Grammys, with Urban performing alongside the likes of Al Green and B.B. King, and Sugarland taking home the Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Group or Duo for their hit “Stay.”
The Falsies bassist Morgan Moran is attacked by zombies in a still from the band’s zombie musical, Eat Me, to premiere Friday, February 13th at iS.It’s a zombie movie musical, and who better to star than local absurdist rockers The Falsies?
The brainchild of award-winning short film director Brian Wimer, Eat Me: The Musical, is the story of one band, one road trip, one funeral– plus Jesus, Satan, Scientology, and, of course, zombies. Think back to the Scooby-Doo cartoons by Hanna-Barbera, and you’ve got Wimer’s vision.
“The animators created a cartoon about drugs masquerading as Shaggy and his friends,” Wimer claims. “I wanted to bring that to the screen.”
Prior to stumbling upon Peter Markush, the cross-dressing frontman for the Falsies, Wimer says he had composed a script for actors, never dreaming of a musical. Although he had success with his short films– having seven rotate through nearly 40 festivals including two victories in Charlottesville’s Adrenaline Film Festival– Wimer had never before embarked upon a feature-length film. But after hearing the varied and diverse lyrics and rhythms of the Falsies’ first album, Wimer knew he wanted to build a script around it.
“They’re pure cinema,” says Wimer. “They do the costumes, cynicism, sarcasm.”
Like any Hollywood picture, there were setbacks, especially for a picture that began shooting in the summer of 2006. So when a Falsies bass player left the band (more)
Dave Matthews Band has often gotten the snub from the Recording Academy over the years, with only two wins out of 13 Grammy nominations over the years. This year, however, bassist Stefan Lessard is particularly peeved at the Academy for their omission of late bandmate LeRoi Moore from this year’s Grammy “In Memoriam” segment. During Sunday night’s Grammy telecast, the normally soft-spoken Lessard posted to his Twitter page, “It just goes to show how full of s*** the Grammys have become.” Minutes later, Lessard posted the more upbeat tweet, “You All make me proud! Truely [sic] kick ass, Roi knew that, he loved you all.” –file photo by H. Mitchell Jarrett
Dr. Dog’s throwback 60’s pop should need no introduction unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years — their fourth album We All Belong was one of the biggest breakout hits of 2007, unexpectedly turning them into the darlings of Philly indie rock almost overnight. Sorry, Man Man.
Drug Rug opens.
At just $10, this is an absolute steal.
buy tickets onlineBruce Molsky plays just about anything that has strings — banjo, guitar, and fiddle among them — and has been using them all to bridge the gaps between old-time music and other forms of American folk. Alex Caton is a fiery local Appalachian fiddler.
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Adam Smith opens with a special acoustic set.
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand - There’s Room In My Will
buy tickets onlineBuzz-bin indie rockers with strong infusions of both heartland Americana and soul. The Other Lives and Dawes open.
Also check out the Delta Spirit’s Daytrotter session.
buy tickets onlineGravity Lounge is in trouble, so some of the musicians who owe it a particular debt of gratitude — among them acoustic duo Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun, folky ensemble Walker’s Run, and teenage siren Carleigh Nesbit — put together a benefit show where all proceeds go right back to the venue in an attempt to keep the doors open and the lights on. You can probably expect a hat of some sort — metaphorical, perhaps — to be passed around in addition to the entry fee.
Jay Pun and Morwenna Lasko - JALD
Walker’s Run - Elzic’s Farewell
Walker’s Run - Moonshiner
Carleigh Nesbit - Three Steps Out The Door
Carleigh Nesbit - River Run Dry
Carleigh Nesbit - Turn On The Heat
Carleigh Nesbit - Your City Skies
Carleigh Nesbit - Three Steps Out The Door [live, with Carl Anderson]
Balkan gypsy music constantly swirls all around and sometimes deep inside the punk rock circus of the Luminescents. Accordion Death Squad opens.
Luminescent Orchestrii - Knockin’
Accordion Death Squad - Di, Margule, Di
Singer-songwriter. Wes Swing opens.
Wes Swing - Lullaby
Wes Swing - In A Station Of The Metro
Solo acoustic singer
Dan Reed - Losing My Fear
Dan Reed - Brave New World
Mahjongg’s indie dance-rock comes from five guys who trade instruments freely and apparently draw their musical inspiration from listening to Kraftwerk and Fela Kuti — quite possibly at the same time.
buy tickets onlineAustralian songwriter Lenka’s ethereal compositions brings to mind Chantal Kreviazuk, Sia Furler, or any of the other pop chicks who wish they were Björk (presumably minus the dementia, but you never know). Rhett Miller proteges The Spring Standards open. And good God, is this ever a bargain.
buy tickets onlineArtsy indie-pop quintet from Ohio focused on shimmering melodies and dueling keys and guitars. Harrisonburg’s Shapiro and local teenager Nicole Tackeff open.
The Young Dubliners play energetic Celtic rock fusion, and they got there well before like-minded peers such as Carbon Leaf and Great Big Sea.
buy tickets onlineRetro pop and a throwback southern bar band. Carl Anderson’s Pine Radio opens.
In Technicolor - Hey! It’s Your Birthday!
In Technicolor - Smile!
In Technicolor - Sunny Day Stars
Chapel Hill six-string picker and Berklee nerd Ari Picker’s Lost In The Trees project — fusion, in the strictest sense of the word — churns out sweeping string quartet sequences layered over a bed of simple folk to produce smart chamber pop where the instrumental passages match the self-reflection and lyrical melancholy pound-for-pound in intrigue.
Lost In The Trees - Walk Around The Lake
Lost In The Trees - Tall Trees
Lost In The Trees - Fireplace
Red Satellites and Blake Hunter open.
These Richmond roots-rockers have always had a twist of country in them, but recently the members have been leaving Virginia and instead making their way to Texas. How’s that for authenticity, then?
Wrinkle Neck Mules - Swagger and Honesty
Wrinkle Neck Mules - Cumberland Sound
Wrinkle Neck Mules - Black Skies For The High And Mighty
Local mountain-rockers 6 Day Bender and teenage rocker Willie DE open.
6 Day Bender - Kick Out The Fire
6 Day Bender - Devil Lets You Dance
Willie DE - Faces In The Sky
Versatile jazz guitarist Frank Vignola was a hired gun for Madonna and Ringo Starr in the 80’s before branching out into his own jazz game, which encompasses everything from Django swing to Wes hard bop and all sorts of Metheny fusions in between. He’s also written tons of instructional materials over the years, and even his last proper album was published through Mel Bay, a company perhaps better known for educational products than its records.
Local Chapman Stick master Greg Howard opens with jazz standards and a whole slew of head-improv-head originals.
buy tickets onlineNutty fringe instruments like ukulele, kazoo, and washboard converge on every set of showboating contemporary roots music (”oldturnative,” as they like to call it) delivered by The Wiyos, who play all of the above along with the usual spate of folk instruments and three-part harmonies. Or as Asylum Street Spankers equally raucous frontman Wammo put it, “The Wiyos are way too good to open for my band ever again.”
The Wiyos - Dying Crapshooters Blues [live]
The Wiyos - Smokejumper [live]
The Wiyos - Strawberry Wine
The Wiyos - Jack and Boon
Americana singer Trent Wagler opens with roots music rooted in rock and gospel.
buy tickets onlineMulti-instrumentalist Matty Metcalfe reps New Orleans with flavors derived from Professor Longhair, Allan Toussaint, and the Meters, among others.
Matty Metcalfe - Big Chief
Matty Metcalfe - Chez Seychelles
Matty Metcalfe - Happy Two-Step
The local pianist and guitarist team up for a jazz set
Olivarez Trio - Choti
Olivarez Trio - Adieu, Bienville
Olivarez Trio - Chez Drennon
Harp for brunch. Well, no, pancakes or whatever for brunch as usual, with harp during brunch. Hopefully you had a good night and desperately need to replenish your nutrients by this point.
Folk guitarist, Dave Matthews bud, and political activist Vusi Mahlasela spent his earliest days as a musician teaching himself how to play on an instrument built from a can and fishing line, but by the 90’s he had emerged one of the most powerful cultural voices against apartheid in South Africa, a struggle documented in the acclaimed 2002 music documentary Amandla!.
Rootsy bluegrass and Americana quartet featuring members of Terri Allard’s backing band
The Buzzard Hollow Boys - Mission To Moscow
Eric Lindell is a New Orleans blues guitarist who sometimes channels Van Morrison for the “swamp pop” runs he slides in right alongside the folk and R&B. He’ll be bringing along sax player and former C-ville resident Jimmy Carpenter, who will in turn be bringing copies of Toiling In Obscurity, a new album that started with demos he first recorded with local guitarist Charlie Pastorfield a while back. Local blues wunderkind Eli Cook opens, of course.
buy tickets onlineJazzy Dublin-rooted trio White Rocket will bring along keys, drums, a trumpet, copies of their new album Diatribe, and the desperate hope that they won’t spark one in you with the show.
Also featuring quasi-Brazilian punk rock quartet Batata Doce.
Throwback 50’s and 60’s tunes and a five-piece indie folk band.
Award-winning local folk songstress Sarah White teams up with King Wilkie guitarist Ted Pitney for a quick regional duo tour with just one show in C-ville.
Sarah White and Ted Pitney - Apple In B Major
Sarah White and Ted Pitney - Half A Smile
Sarah White and Ted Pitney - Ply Me
Sarah White and Ted Pitney - Sweetheart
Sarah White and Ted Pitney - Where You’re Going
Also featuring D.C. Americana singer Justin Jones and southern-frield alt-folk Hook foodie Ned Oldham, who will get a little help from local multi-instrumentalist Matty Metcalfe on some nifty material derived from nursery rhymes.
Virtuoso banjo (and entirely-competent-slide-guitar) player Tony Furtado has played alongside Alison Krauss, counts Ry Cooder as a significant inspiration, and broke away from his progressive bluegrass thing a few years ago in order to start a band with Buckethead. Box, your days are numbered.
Local pop-rock songwriter Kathryn Caine opens.
Kathryn Caine - The Rope
Kathryn Caine - If You Were To Wake Up
