Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm
Advance reservations encouraged due to limited seating
John Elliott is a singer/songcyclist grateful to be entering his third decade of criss-crossing the planet playing songs, eating food, and drinking water. He has released many recordings and performed in every type of venue you can imagine since right around 9/11. He remains an independent and unaffiliated artist and he is proud of that fact. He continues to make a living and build an audience the old fashioned way: one new believer at a time. John is on tour in support of his most recent album, a quiet and contemplative piano-based album called After All This Time. Fans have called it “a masterpiece,” “a beautiful record,” and “not as good as the last one.” In an effort to reduce waste, the only accompanying merchandise is a songbook featuring the lyrics, chords, and stories behind the songs.
Armed with George the trusty road cat, a carful of instruments, and all the fight of a rambling, rural-raised, queer femme wanderer, McKain Lakey is one to be reckoned with. Described by What’s Up Magazine as “a time capsule unearthed, fine-tuned and re-imagined”, Lakey draws creative inspiration from far corners of the American music tradition, tracing the lines of musical lineage that connect Old Time to Rockabilly, Country to Cajun to Dixieland. She’s a dedicated student of tradition, but at once unafraid to stare down convention through the modern lens of her lived experience. Her new album, Somewhere, blurs lines of old and new, referencing musical textures of past eras while unabashedly exploring topics of mental health, family separation, rural identity and queer love.