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Ruthie Foster 4 time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter live on the Hotel Congress Plaza stage
Sunday, September 19 – $40 VIP / $35 Reserved / $30 GA advance, $35 GA day of show – BUY TICKETS
“Her ability to tastefully whip out a bluesy guitar riff upon which she’ll lay a soulful vocal should not be underestimated: She’s taking classic forms and methodically creating something new and inspiring with it all.” -Rolling Stone
In the tightknit musical community of Austin, Texas, it’s tough to get away with posturing. You either bring it, or you don’t. Ruthie Foster definitely brings it; there is something overwhelmingly pure and powerful about her performance. She takes many forms of music – blues, R & B, soul, folk, and all music in between and she breathes “significant and contemporary fire into them, ” making them all her own.
Ruthie has performed with Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers and Susan Tedeschi. She has been nominated for a Best Blues Album Grammy — three times in a row. And those nominations are in addition to the seven Blues Music Awards, three Austin Music Awards, the Grand Prix du Disque award from the Académie Charles-Cros in France, a Living Blues Critics’ Award for Female Blues Artist of the Year, and the title of an “inspiring American Artist” as a United States Artists 2018 Fellow.
Ruthie’s latest Grammy Award nomination was earned for the album Live at the Paramount, released in May of 2020. The collection swings back to the days (and nights) when Lady Ella sang Ellington and Sinatra blasted off with Count Basie and Quincy Jones. Recorded on the night of January 26, 2019 on the 105-year-old stage of Austin’s grand-dame Paramount Theater, it features the Ruthie Foster Big Band: a guitarist, keyboardist, bassist and drummer, plus 10 horn players, three backing vocalists and one conductor. As Ruthie wraps her oh-so-malleable, impeccably nuanced voice around each song, the wisdom of her selections, the strength of each arrangement, their near-seamless flow and the outstanding talent of her band converge into yet another reminder that Foster’s artistry really is in a league of its own.
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Lucy Dacus at 191 Toole with Palehound Riders
Doors 7PM | Showtime 8PM | Ages 21 & up
Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus‘ rich, buttery voice commands both her thoughtful indie rock tunes and more intimate confessionals. Emerging from the thriving indie scene of Richmond, Virginia in the mid-2010s, she broke through the blogosphere and onto major indie outlets with lead single “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” from her debut album No Burden (2016). It showcased the songwriter’s playful and also heartrendingly candid way with words. The critical success of the more dramatic follow-up Historian in 2018 was followed the same year by membership in Boygenius, a trio with similarly lauded indie up-and-comers Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers.
Born and raised in Mechanicsville just outside of Richmond, Dacus grew up singing; her mother was a music teacher. She began writing regularly in her journal in the sixth grade and attended concerts and connected with the Richmond music scene throughout high school. After graduating, she tried studying film at Virginia Commonwealth University with a plan to make music on the side, but soon dropped out to concentrate on writing songs.
Dacus‘ debut was put together relatively last-minute when a friend who worked at Starstruck Studio in Nashville let her know they had an open day. She had assembled a band from area musicians in guitarist Jacob Blizard, bass player Christine Moad, and drummer Hayden Cotcher, and the songs, which had been written solo, were arranged for the quartet in the week leading up to a ten-hour recording session. The friend at the studio, Collin Pastore, engineered and mixed the album, which was co-produced by Dacus, Pastore, and Blizard. Richmond label Egghunt Records took interest in the results, including late 2015’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore,” and released No Burden in early 2016.
The album quickly received buzz in the indie music press, and the band did an Audiotree Live session in March that was released as a digital EP. That June, the 21-year-old Dacus signed with Matador Records, which reissued No Burden in September 2016. She then toured with acts including the Decemberists, Sylvan Esso, and Car Seat Headrest before returning to the studio with the same team to record her second album. Featuring a similar demeanor but fleshier arrangements, Historian saw release in March 2018 and reached number five on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. Later that year, Dacus formed the collaborative indie supergroup Boygenius with fellow singer/songwriters Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, releasing a self-titled EP in October and then embarking on a three-way co-headlining tour.
On Valentine’s Day 2019, Dacus released a cover of Édith Piaf‘s “La Vie en Rose,” the first in a series of holiday-themed original songs and covers that coincided with select occasions throughout the year. They were collected on the EP 2019, issued by Matador that November. During 2020 Dacus started writing and recording her third album. While her previous releases dealt with a more external narrative, this time she looked inward for lyrical inspiration. Released in mid-2021, Home Video combined Dacus‘ impeccably played indie pop with reflective, more personal storytelling.
Please see below for the artist message on the updated COVID-19 precautions for this show.
MESSAGE FROM LUCY DACUS:
- Please note this show is requiring all fans to provide PRINTED proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours of the event OR full vaccination for entry.
- All fans must have received a negative COVID-19 diagnostic test within 48-hours before entry to the facility and provide printed proof of a negative result prior to entering the venue. Or, be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (at least two weeks after final dose) and provide proof of vaccination – either the original vaccination card or a printed copy of the vaccination card.
- Unvaccinated fans under 12 years of age will be required to take a COVID-19 diagnostic test within 48-hours before entry to the facility and will provide printed proof of negative result prior to entering the venue.
- Unvaccinated fans over 12 years old with a valid medical restriction & medical note will be required to take a COVID-19 diagnostic test within 48-hours before entry to the facility, and will provide printed proof of negative result prior to entering the venue
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