The End Of America + Oshima Brothers
BELLOWS FALLS – The End Of America returns to Stage 33 Live on Saturday, November 2, co-headlining with Oshima Brothers. This is the first show of an Eastern US tour by the two bands.The End Of America was voted Favorite New Artist at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and won the Emerging Artist Showcase at Falcon Ridge, returning the next year as that festival’s Most Wanted band. Beck invited them to play his Song Reader album release show. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash tweeted, “they sound great.”Oshima Brothers' acoustic folk-pop has been lauded by NPR’s World Café, and they've racked up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams. Their performances are unexpectedly full-sounding, with dynamic vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, octave bass, loops, percussion, and more... or, when it suits a song, a stripped down, beautifully spare arrangement.Saturday, November 2; door at 6:00 PM, music at 7:00 at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Advance tickets are available online at stage33live.com.Stage 33 Live is an intimate, industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory with 40 chairs. Advance tickets are available online at stage33live.com: $25 best-in-house / $20 darned-good-seats / $15 chair-not-guaranteed. When 40 chairs are spoken for, the $25 and $20 options will be closed. $20 at the door; if any chairs behind the reserved rows are still available on show day, those will be available first-come first-served. 100% of tickets sales support the bands. Attendees are allowed to bring their own portable seating to set up behind the house chairs, or to use in place of the house chair if one was reserved.
After this one, there's a small handful of amazing shows rounding out the year:
England-born, Oxford University-educated Rupert Wates has released nine acclaimed solo CDs. Since relocating to the USA, two tribute albums to his material have been made by musicians in Nashville and Los Angeles, and he's won dozens of songwriting awards. Local favorite Josh Maiocco opens.
The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio burst into the national scene with their 2015 EP,
Still She Will Fly
, and the title track was the year’s #2 single on folk radio. Their 2017 CD,
Singin’
, debuted at #1 and was the #11 folk charting album that year. Local up-and-comer Emily Lyons will open.
“Guitarist John Stowell’s style with standards is a delightful departure from the road well traveled. He transcends the label of jazz guitarist.” -
Los Angeles Times
. “[Draa Hobbs is] one of the most respected guitarists and teachers in New England.” — Eugene Uman, Director of the Vermont Jazz Center
The innovative guitarist and composer brings his fusion of folk, jazz, and world music to take us on an earthy, organic odyssey. Tsukamoto leads concerts internationally, including multiple appearances at the Blue Note in New York City and on Japanese National Television. In 2018, he won second place in the International Finger Style Guitar Championship.
Stage 33 Live is located at 33 Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, VT, and documents live performances and presentations of original material on a simple stage for downstream audiences. Coffee, soda, water, and snacks by donation. Find more information about the nonprofit, all-volunteer Stage 33 Live project, and this and other other upcoming events online at
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