PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present folk music duos Sons of Town Hall and Alice Howe & Freebo on Friday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m.
Sons of Town Hall, the transatlantic folk duo of American songwriter-author David Berkeley and British songwriter-producer Ben Parker, is creating a new performance genre. Part live concept album, part performance art, they conjure their mythic universe under the aliases Josiah Chester Jones and George Ulysses Brown, 19th-century vagabonds who travel the world in a handbuilt boat to escape troubled pasts and search for adventure and love.
Designed as a live companion experience to their radio-theater podcast "Madmen Cross The Water," The Sons weave their stories between their songs. Both the concert and the podcast "offer an escape from the everyday" and "temporary relief from the woes of the modern world," event promoters wrote in a news release.
Two uniquely compelling singer-songwriters, Alice Howe & Freebo, have performed as a duo since 2017, weaving rock bass player Freebo's fretless stylings into Alice's vocals. Best known for his 10 years playing bass with Bonnie Raitt, Freebo has toured and recorded with some of the greatest artists of his generation, including John Mayall, Ringo Starr, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, and Dr. John. For the past 25 years, he's been writing and performing his original music.
Alice Howe is a lifelong musician who in 2023 won Best Female Artist at the International Acoustic Music Awards. She recorded her latest album Circumstance at iconic FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Next Stage is at 15 Kimball Hill. Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the door, and $10 for access to the livestream. For information, call 802-387-0102. Advance tickets are available at nextstagearts.org. Next Stage will provide a beer, wine, and cocktail cash bar.
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