2015 SHOWS
MAY 22
PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO
Pharis & Jason have just released their third record as a duet. It's called A Wanderer I'll Stay, and the timing feels perfect. After their second release Long Gone Out West Blues came out in early 2013, they found themselves with a highly acclaimed album, one with a "refreshing veteran spirit", in keeping with their love of songs new and old.
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JUNE 20
CAHALEN MORRISON AND COUNTRY HAMMER
Some dust just won’t wash off. Ask roots country songwriter Cahalen Morrison. His new album, The Flower of Muscle Shoals, with his full band Country Hammer, is caked with the dust of the American Southwest. It’s the dust of a childhood growing up in Northern New Mexico; days spent exploring lost canyons, hiking hillsides covered in cottonwoods, and discovering old ghost towns. It’s also the dust of nostalgia, the kind of reflection of a just-married man looking back towards the inspirations of his youth.
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JULY 16
MARY GAUTHIER
The pain and ache in Mary Gauthier’s music comes from her own life’s jagged edges and gutting experiences, from adoption and isolation to addiction and trauma. As a chronicler of bad luck and hard times, Gauthier has carved out a particular place of emotional honesty and immediacy in the Americana world. Trouble & Love, her first album in four years, tells yet more tales of survival and struggle with new rays of hope and growth piercing the caverns of hurt.
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JULY 28
MANDOLIN ORANGE
Mandolin Orange makes music that WNYC describes as being “laced with bluegrass, country and folk…often wistful and contemplative without being somber, and always firmly grounded in the South.” The duo, comprised of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, have just released Such Jubilee, their second studio album for Yep Roc Records.
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JULY 30 & AUGUST 1
COWBOY JUNKIES
For more than 25 years, Cowboy Junkies have remained true to their unique artistic vision and to the introspective, quiet intensity that is their musical signature, creating a critically acclaimed body of original work that has endeared them to an audience unwavering in its loyalty.
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AUGUST 22
DAVE MCGRAW AND MANDY FER
Internationally-acclaimed songwriters Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer’s latest album, Maritime, captures a moment in time and place from their seaside home. Upon early release in Europe, Maritime charted at #1 on the EuroAmericana Chart for two consecutive months and ranked among the Best Albums of 2014 by The Telegraph, praising it for “...soulful songs, intuitive musicianship, and fine singing.”
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SEPTEMBER 8
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and calling Colorado home, Gregory Alan Isakov has been traveling all his life. Songs that hone a masterful quality beyond his years tell a story of miles and landscapes, and the search for a sense of place. Music has been a stabilizing and constant force. “I’ve always had this sense about music and writing that I sort of have to do it. Like I’ll implode without it. I probably wouldn’t do it if I felt any other way.”
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SEPTEMBER 19
JONATHAN BYRD
Jonathan Byrd is a preacher's son, a Gulf War veteran, and a Kerrville New Folk award winner from seven generations of North Carolinians. A Jonathan Byrd show is musical theater, bringing together the Texas songwriting tradition with southern storytelling and hot guitar picking in the line of North Carolina greats Doc Watson and Tony Rice. A stalwart of modern folk music, Byrd has released five solo albums with a surprising variety of musical directions, and an acoustic collaboration with fellow songwriter Diana Jones. "One of the top 50 songwriters of the past 50 years." - Chicago Tribune.
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OCTOBER 8
GREG BROWN WITH NINA GERBER
Greg Brown was born in the Hacklebarney section of southeastern Iowa and raised by a family that made words and music a way of life. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in that place. He moves audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
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PREVIOUS SHOWS
2014
MARTIN SIMPSON
GILKYSON & GERBER
MORRISON & WEST
HILLFOLK NOIR
SAM BAKER
MATUTO
THE HONEYCUTTERS
SERA CAHOONE
THE STRAY BIRDS
RUTH MOODY
FEARING AND WHITE
MANDOLIN ORANGE
STEVE DAWSON
2013
ARCHIE FISHER
LEO KOTTKE
TONY FURTADO
A.J. CROCE
PHARIS AND JASON
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
PETE ANDERSON BAND
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE
ROSE COUSINS / RACHEL SERMANNI
DAVID FRANCEY
ACROSS THE BORDERLINE
2012
SAM BAKER
MARY GAUTHIER
KELLY JOE PHELPS
ACROSS THE BORDERLINE
LINDA MCRAE