Events

On Sunday, February 24, eTown and Hot Rize’s Nick Forster will hold the first ever “Hippie Bluegrass Church” service at eTown Hall. This free / all-ages event will feature a live bluegrass band and a projection of song lyrics to facilitate a community sing-a-long environment. Start the day gathering with friends and other music lovers to sing songs like I’ll Fly Away, A Beautiful Life, I Saw the Light, Angel Band and other staples from the genre.

Born and raised in Sandpoint Idaho, Shook Twins are an Indie folk-pop band hailing from Portland, Oregon. Identical twins, Katelyn and Laurie Shook, and Niko Daoussis form the band’s core. Central to Shook Twins’ sound is their wide range of instrumentation: banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, mandolin, electronic drums, face drum (beatbox), glockenspiel, ukulele, banjo-head drumming and their signature Golden Egg.

Formed in 2000 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Greensky Bluegrass kicked off their career playing living rooms and open mic nights across the Midwest. By 2005, they were touring nationally, and by 2006, they were playing the first in a long series of appearances at the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Bandmates Hoffman, Bruzza, dobro player Anders Beck, banjoist Michael Arlen Bont, and upright bassist Mike Devol spent most of the following decade on the road, fine-tuning a live show modeled not after the toned-down production of traditional bluegrass music, but the full-on spectacle of rock.

As a recording artist, Steve Poltz fronted the semi-legendary Rugburns and is responsible for a critically lauded body of work on his own: One Left Shoe, Chinese Vacation, Answering Machine, The Barn (a children’s album), Tales From The Tavern (a performance DVD), Traveling, Unraveling, Dreamhouse, Noineen Noiny Noin, the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sundance-screened documentary film, Running Wild – The Life of Dayton O. Hyde and most recently his critically acclaimed record Folksinger.

Every 1st Wednesday of the month at eTown Hall – a showcase for songwriters and musicians. Local original music in a curated community experience. Hosted by Theresa Peterson.

Jonathan Wilson’s career is rooted in the Southern California music scene, where crisp instrumental work and fluid melodies rule. A multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Wilson also has made his mark as a producer and sideman by working with musicians as diverse as Roger Waters, Father John Misty, and Erykah Badu. His latest album, Rare Birds, eloquently explores a wide range of emotions, featuring his distinctive vocals and colored by lush instrumentation.

Potions and Poisons is the fourth album of original music from Head for the Hills, the Colorado based post-modern bluegrass outfit of Adam Kinghorn, Joe Lessard, Matt Loewen and Sam Parks. There’s no reinvention of the wheel here–no computer programmed banjo rolls or digitally arpeggiated fiddle lines. Instead we find Head for the Hills at the peak of their powers of musical alchemy, building little worlds of sound from the detritus of bluegrass, jazz, hip hop, folk and soul.

Hanuman Presents… David Newman joins forces with Katie Wise + Bhakti Explosion for an inspired and uplifting kirtan concert that will celebrate hope, peace, and universal love through devotional call and response singing. With their warm sound and east-meets-west grooves, this evening of soulful mantra rock will get your body moving and your spirits soaring. Heart-centered yogis who love to rock ‘n’ roll, David and Katie have headlined some of the biggest sacred music and arts festivals in the US and internationally. Together on tour for the first time, the bhakti-duo and their band promises to deliver an ecstatic evening of joy and jams.

With the Feb. 1, 2019, release of Reed Foehl’s fifth solo album, Lucky Enough, fans will get a dose of powerful medicine, a cathartic collection of 10 songs that Foehl recorded with help from a mighty musical force, The Band of Heathens, produced by Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist at their Finishing School studio in Austin, TX. It’s an album that will undoubtedly solidify his standing as one of the most compelling and vital Americana artists around.

Colorado native Joel Van Horne, aka Covenhoven, has dubbed his new critically acclaimed album the ocean record, because he wrote the songs while touring and exploring the west coast over the past 2 years. Chapter 3 in the Covenhoven story, “A Kind of Revelation” continues his over-arching theme of immersion in a place, and letting that place become the centerpiece of the music. Big Sur, Olympic National Park, and the Oregon coast served as his geographical muse this time around.