Thu, May 15 | 8 PM (7 PM door)
Adrienne Young Band
Pete McDonald
$10.00 adv / $12.00 dos
Tavern | All ages
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Adrienne Young is a singer and guitarist who makes old-fashioned music sound new. Her songs, played on banjo or with a full band, are winning fans across generations for walking the line between traditional folk and bluegrass. Her group's commitment to evoking the past can be heard in its instrumentation, which ranges from mandolin and fiddle to spoons and a washboard. Fittingly, Plow to the End of the Row—the debut from Adrienne Young & Little Sadie—came with a pack of wildflower seeds. “It was a desire,” she says, “to get people to that humble space where you realize we’re all part this web of miraculous synchronicity and connection, and that there’s nothing you can take away from the picture that will not affect the rest. We are all interconnected.” That last line wouldn’t be a bad mantra for Young, who’s been heavily involved with community food and agriculture issues since she was a teenager. She’s now a spokesperson for Food Routes, an organization dedicated to helping support sustainable, locally grown foods—which are often more healthy, nutritious and environmentally friendly, since they’re fresher, use less pesticides and preservatives, and require much less fuel for transport. When Young is on the road, she makes it a point to educate her fans about sustainable food choices available in their town. “Every time we sit down at the table,” she says, “we make a decision to support a food source and, cumulatively, those choices add up for our families, for our culture, for our health and our planet.”
When artists cram veiled moral messages into their music, the results can be cumbersome, contrived and easily dismissible. Not so with Adrienne Young. Her approach to making music is rife with lessons borrowed from a long-forgotten way of life, and it all seems as natural as the organic garden in her backyard.(Excerpts from Paste Magazine and NPR.org)
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| Adrienne Young Band posted on Thursday April 24, 2008 |
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