Upcoming Concerts
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Friday, May 11, 2012 – 8:00 pm
Special Anniversary Concert Co-Bill featuring
An Evening with John Wort Hannam & Brian Ashley Jones
John Wort Hannam comes from a long line of people who make a living using their hands. He now carries on the tradition making his living writing songs and playing music. Thriving on live performance, John Wort Hannam is truly happy when he is on the road playing and connecting personally with an audience. He tours extensively in Canada and the US. His many appearances have included a 2009 Mainstage performance at the Kerrville Folk Festival, a 2008 performance at Trafalgar Square and the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC in conjunction to one of John’s songs, “Church of the Long Grass” appearing on the prestigious Folkways recording label. He actively tours performing at festivals, clubs, coffeehouses and house concerts across North America. An award winning songwriter, his credits include three-time Grand Prize Winner at the Calgary Folk Festival, 2007 New Folk Winner at Kerrville Folk Festival songwriting competition, and a nominee for the Double Canadian Folk Music Award. John will be joined by Canadian fiddler extraordinaire Scott Duncan. Brian Ashley Jones is a soulful singer, accomplished guitarist, and versatile Americana songwriter whose compositions have been placed in film and television and recorded by a variety of other performing artists. Jones’ songs find influence in the guitar-driven country, blues and bluegrass that he absorbed in his hometown, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Brian performs internationally at festivals and concert series and leads seminars for music education programs, music business conferences, and NSAI chapters around the USA. His 2008 independent release, “Courier“, made the Top 40 of the Roots Music Report, broke the Top 100 of the Americana Music Association’s album chart, and received widespread commercial, college, public, and international radio play. The swampy instrumental “Pull ‘em Up” has been featured in the widely acclaimed PBS television series “Road Trip Nation” and footage of Jones performing “Free To Miss You” live at The Bluebird Cafe has been featured in the British network television show “Amanda Holden’s Fantasy Lives”. Brian Ashley Jones showcased these songs as an official performer at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Best American Roots Guitar Player in the Alternate Root’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards! Brian is join by Tisha Semeral on the upright bass and harmony vocals.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Co-Bill Featuring
Connor Garvey & Barnaby Bright
Connor Garvey returns with his folk-funk guitar and soulful vocals that have critics comparing him to the likes of Josh Ritter and Jason Mraz along with the Brooklyn-based indie folk rock duo Barnaby Bright whose sound incorporates powerful harmonies, unique instrumentation, intelligent lyrics, and genuine warmth on stage. Catch these rising stars now!!
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Friday, July 13, 2012 – 8:00 pm
An Evening with
Buskin & Batteau
Buskin & Batteau have been winning hearts and minds with their soulful acoustic balladry and fun-filled performances for more years than they care to remember. The Washington Post calls this irresistible folk duo “an amalgam of melodic sensual pop, folkie grit, and killer wit.” David Buskin and Robin Batteau have won Emmy and GRAMMY awards, as well as an Oscar nomination during their careers for a long list of records, movies and TV shows.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012 – 7:00 pm
An Evening with
Pierce & Grace Pettis
Award-winning singer-songwriters Pierce Pettis and his daughter Grace Pettis come together to share their talents for an evening of incredible harmonies. Pierce Pettis, adored by both critics and public alike, is one of this generation’s most masterful songwriters. His music is distinguished by his uncanny ability to capture universals in human experience by drawing on the humor and trials in daily life. Pettis’ music can simultaneously pull on our hearts and keep us laughing. The beautiful harmonies, inventive yet subtle percussion, strong guitar, and Pierce’s rich vocals are a constant throughout his body of work. Pettis has appeared nine times on American Public Radio’s Mountain Stage, been featured on National Public Radio’s E-town, Morning Edition and World Cafe … appeared on VH-1, CBS News, and the Nashville Network. During his long career Pierce Pettis has been a writer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama, recorded for Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York, won the prestigious New Folk songwriting competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and was a staff songwriter at Polygram/Universal Music Publishing in Nashville. He has received numerous songwriting awards including a 1999 ASCAP Country Music Award for “You Move Me” –recorded by Garth Brooks. At the age of 18, Grace Pettis moved from the small town of Mentone, Alabama to Austin, Texas, to chase the dream of becoming a professional performing songwriter like her father. While studying Communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Grace was also honing her songwriting skills and playing open mics on the weekends. During those four years, as a volunteer at Blue Rock Studio in Wimberley, TX, Grace was privileged to meet and hear many great artists who came through to play Blue Rock’s renowned concert series. Grace’s own songwriting was improving and it didn’t take long for producer and Blue Rock Studio owner Billy Crockett to take notice. Grace’s debut, self-titled recording was made at Blue Rock, produced by Billy Crockett, and released in the fall of 2009 while Grace was still a student in college. Later that year Grace won NPR’s prestigious Mountain Stage NewSong Sonwriting Contest, and took “best song” in that competition for her “Nine to Five Girl.” Pierce and Grace are the first father-daughter winners of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk song competition, Grace winning in 2011 and Pierce winning the year Grace was born in 1987. Both are accomplished performers in their own right, together they will take you on a journey of artful storytelling and heartfelt emotions.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012 – 7:30 pm
An Evening with Jonathan Byrd
with special guest David Glaser
Jonathan Byrd is a 7th generation North Carolinian who doesn’t sing songs, he sings truth. He’s more than just a singer and songwriter. He’s a poet, a traveling troubadour, and a philosopher of life. He can say more in two words than most other people can say in a novel. A Jonathan Byrd concert is a mesmerizing experience that will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions and leave you wanting to climb back on for another ride as soon as possible. Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and local favorite David Glaser opens the show and will also perform with Jonathan throughout the evening.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012 – 7:00 pm
An Evening with
Maia Sharp, Adrianne Gonzalez & Garrison Starr
Maia Sharp has had her songs recorded by The Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, Keb Mo, Cher, Lisa Loeb, Edwin McCain, David Wilcox, Art Garfunkel, Mindy Smith, Paul Carrack, Amanda Marshall, Kim Richey, Kathy Mattea and more. Many of these artists became fans of Maia through her own albums. Her five solo releases and one collaborative project with Art Garfunkel and Buddy Mondlock for EMI/Blue Note have all been critically acclaimed by press and Triple A Radio. Maia has been all over the US and UK headlining clubs and theaters, opening for (and often sitting in with) Bonnie Raitt, Art Garfunkel, Jonatha Brooke, Patty Griffin, David Wilcox, Pat Benatar, Edwin McCain, Shawn Colvin and Keb’ Mo’ and appearing on Mountain Stage, Acoustic Cafe, World Cafe, NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS Early Morning, the Today Show and many other noteworthy forums. Her latest album, still untitled, will be released by Blix Street Records in May of this year.
Adrianne Gonzalez is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter. Her band, The Rescues is on Universal Records and have toured nationwide, universally loved by radio and press. You’ve heard her music on countless indie films and hit tv shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, One Tree Hill, Ghost Whisperer, In Plain Sight, Guiding Light, Studio 60, Men in Trees, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl and more.
Over the course of 2 decades in the music industry, Garrison Starr has toured with Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan on Lilith Fair and Mary Chapin Carpenter who was also a guest vocalist on two of her albums, Songs From Take-Off to Landing for Virgin Records and the brand new Amateur. Steve Earle is on Garrison’s long list of fans and proved it when he produced two tracks on Songs…. She has managed to find time for side projects including Among the Oak & Ash with Josh Joplin and Plover with Glen Phillips between recording and touring for a steady diet of EP’s and 7 full length records the latest of which is Amateur.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012 – 7:30 pm
An Evening with Johnsmith
At a time when national fame, fortune and reputation are often awarded to performers of pedestrian and limited talents and abilities, it is wholly refreshing to encounter an artist whose work possesses a genius that cannot be denied, ignored or overlooked. Johnsmith is one such artist; a gifted songwriter, moving performer and roaming troubadour.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012 – 7:00 pm
An Evening with Vance Gilbert
Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 1990’s when the buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Eight accomplished albums later, Vance continues to refine his unlikely union of humor, virtuosity, and the unexpected. Whether with classic, or original songwriting or ageless interpretations of covers, his is a presentation steeped in deep humanism and bravery, stunning artistry and soul, and contagious, unbridled joy – inarguably the blue ribbons that tie and seat the seemingly impossible package that is….Vance Gilbert.
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