Milky Way Over Wimberley by ELI COHEN
FEBRUARY 25th & 26th
WintersNight Showcase
The third annual WintersNight Singer Songwriter Showcase will feature the Red River Songwriters which includes Kelley Mickwee, Josh Grider, Walt Wilkins, Susan Gibson, and Drew Kennedy. Also performing are Friends of the group, Ashton Naylor, Kristie Grider, and Tina Wilkins.
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APRIL 29th
Sarah Jarosz
The seventh full-length album from four-time Grammy Award Winner Sarah Jarosz, Polaroid Lovers, is an album-long meditation on those strangely ephemeral moments that indelibly shape our lives. "What I love about a Polaroid is that it's capturing something so fleeting, but at the same time it makes that moment last forever," says the Texas-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. "It made sense as a title of a record where all the songs are snapshots of impermanence." Thanks to the rarefied alchemy that infuses all of Jarosz's output - Polaroid Lovers performs the much-needed magic of leading us toward a heightened sense of presence, all while casting a lovely spell with her timelessly powerful songs.
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for more info: sarahjarosz.com
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JULY 22nd
John Fullbright
"If you can't say it, you don't have to," sings John Fullbright on "Bearden 1645," the opening track to his new record The Liar.
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The song details the GRAMMY-nominated songwriter finding refuge in playing the piano, starting as a child and still today. For fans, it may feel like a bit of a rebuttal to "Happy", the opener from 2014's "Songs", one of several in his repertoire that speak explicitly about mining one's angst in order to make music. In that way, "Bearden 1645" is also a firm nod to the fourth wall: Fullbright knows you're thinking about his songwriting. He is, too. . .but not quite the way he was before. The public at-large hasn't heard much from him since the critically lauded "Songs", a chasm of eight years that seemed untinkable for someone with so much hype - including a GRAMMY nod, an Americana Music Association Emerging Artist nomination and awards from ASCAP and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame - surrounding his early career. Why did it take so long?
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SEPTEMBER 30th
Tony Kamel (Wood & Wire) and Kym Warner
(The Greencards, Robert Earl Keen) have formed a musical duo after a decade-long friendship and shared musical experiences.
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Both GRAMMY nominated, multi-insturmentalists and vocalists, Tony and Kym have had success with their previous bands, The Greencards and Wood & Wire. The Austin, Texas based duo is receiving high praise for their unique compelling vocal and insturmental arrangements and strong original compositions rooted in the Americana genre with roots heavily planted in bluegrass and the acoustic forms.
with Pat Byrne
An Irish singer/songwriter, Pat Byrne has come a long way since his first deal with Universal. In late 2017, Byrne began his migration to Austin, Texas. In 2019, Pat took the US by storm with breakout performances at the 30A Festival, SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival and the Americana Festival. Being immersed in the Texas music scene, Pat's sophomore US release, Into the Light has an edgier feel underscoring both emotional depth and greater confidence, while blending new influences with his rich Irish heritage.
DECEMBER 1st & 2nd
Kevin Russell and Friends
Kevin Russell is the frontman and multi-instrumentalist of the award-winning, Austin-based 8-piece Swamp-Pop-Soul supergroup, Shinyribs, and a former member of the beloved cult favorite The Gourds. A Beaumont, Texas native, Russell is a natural observer and wordsmith, drawing from the Gulf Coast hotbeds of roots music to shape his clever songwriting, charismatic showmanship, and joyful on-stage antics.
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