with special guest the Andrew Wheeler duo The Capitol Region Blues Network presents: ALEXIS P SUTER BAND Artist Website Alexis P. Suter is the owner of that big, booming voice you can hear roaring out of Brooklyn into the heart of North America and beyond. The Alexis P. Suter Band are on the rise as […]
Artist website Lucy Kaplansky is a rare vocal talent, “a truly gifted performer...full of enchanting songs” (New York Times).Blending country, folk and pop styles, she has the unique ability to make every song sound fresh, whether singing her own sweet originals, covering country classics by June Carter Cash and Gram Parsons or singing pop favorites […]
Buy your tickets online! Artist Website Rock and roll doesn’t get any better than Van Morrison. Van the Man has done it all - from classic rockers like Brown Eyed Girl and Domino to legendary tunes like Tupelo Honey and Into The Mystic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has never failed to impress […]
With special guest Alexandra Sauser-Monning After a yearlong hiatus on a friend’s ranch in Marfa, Texas Tift Merritt is back on the road, back with a new album and, thankfully for us, back to The Linda. Artists website The New Yorker has called Merritt “the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that […]
THE AMERICAN ROOTS SERIES AT THE LINDA PRESENTS: Roots Music Festival 2017 Featuring MATUTO also appearing Heavenly Echos, Red Haired Strangers and The Lazy Suns. MATUTO ARTIST WEBSITE Matuto’s songs can sway hips just as easily as spark insights. On stage, instruments (accordion, guitar, bass, drums, cavaquinho, zabumba, and triangle) whirl around the core of Matuto’s […]
With special guest Jim Gaudet Richard Shindell Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York's Hudson Valley, Richard Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what […]
Artist Website The New York Times called Buffalo, NY born Willie Nile "one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene in years." Uncut Magazine called him “A one-man Clash.” His album Streets Of New York was hailed as “a platter for the ages” by Uncut. Rolling Stone listed The Innocent […]
THE AMERICAN ROOTS SERIES AT THE LINDA PRESENTS: BUMPER JACKSONS Hosted by songwriter, roots scholar and multi-instrumentalist Michael Eck ARTIST WEBSITE The Bumper Jacksons are hot and sweet, painting America's story from New Orleans' brothels to Appalachian hollers. Unafraid to scrap together new sounds from forgotten 78's, the Bumper Jacksons boldly and elegantly balance paying […]
Artists Website From the salvaged sounds of American juke joints, back porches, honky tonks and rock clubs, The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz: artist, tinkerer, swamp yankee, one-man band. His is the road-worn voice rising over the grind of a tube-amped dumpster guitar, with wild double pitches of throat singing. From The Suitcase Junket's penchant for thrift and ingenuity comes his version […]
An Evening With Eilen Jewell Artist Website Crafting a unique style that mixes poetic ballads with swinging rockers, Eilen Jewell ranks among the best in the Americana genre today. As the reigning Queen of the Minor Key, Jewell leads a tight quartet who blend influences of surf-noir, early blues, rockabilly, and 1960s era rock and roll. […]
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