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Door time: 7:30
Show time: 8:00
Ragged Union
The band’s recipe for tasty contemporary bluegrass contains three main ingredients. Geoff Union’s ‘Outsider Songwriting’ makes use of poetic lyric ideas that stretch beyond the ‘normal’ country themes to include personal, fictional, and even historical, stories, often presented in creative rhyme meter. Ragged Union sets their sometimes obscure-in-a-good-way lyric content to ‘Timeless Melodies’ that are new, yet sound familiar and classic. The songs are further enhanced with ‘Unexpected Arrangements’. Changes in feel, tempo, and time signature, along with rich compositional ideas, and atypical song structure (like putting the bridge at the end of the song) set Ragged Union’s original material apart. All of these concepts come together in an impressively exciting live performance that is equally at home at the festival, concert series, or nightclub.
The band has released four albums, 2015’s Hard Row to Hoe; 2017’s Time Captain, and Live at Leeds (recorded live at the Seven Arts Theatre in Leeds, England) and 2022’s Round Feet, Chrome Smile. A new release is in the works for the winter of 2024-25.
Taarka
Delivering a powerhouse performance of emotive and virtuosic original songs and compositions, Taarka creates “adventurous Americana” with an enchanting and nuanced sound that is influenced by bluegrass, gypsy-jazz, Americana, and world folk. Taarka, a family band of father, mother and son, delivers energy, emotion, and “gravity-defying” performances beautifully interweaving song and captivating instrumental prowess. With 8 CD releases, a nationally released film soundtrack, 20 years touring the US and the world, Taarka weds soul with mastery for an unforgettable experience.
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