An evening full of the songs & stories from the life of this late, legendary & iconic Texas singer-songwriter.
Highway Kind: A Birthday Celebration of Townes Van Zandt
Sun 3/9
5:30pm doors/6:30pm show
All Ages | $18 adv./$24 day of
While finding success as a performing singer-songwriter was elusive and fraught with challenges, many of which were his own making – Townes Van Zandt’s songs touched and influenced many and still do to this day. Emmylou Harris, The Cowboy Junkies, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffiths, Steve Earle are just a few of countless artists that have covered Van Zandt’s songs and specifically pointed to him as an inspiration. While not being exactly auto-biographical, Van Zandt’s better-known songs often deal with darkness and feature lonely, troubled characters infused with themes of leaving, life on the road and love left behind. Having toured as a soloist nearly constantly during his career and preferring dive bars to concert halls, Townes was a gifted and able performer, mixing in talking blues, choice upbeat covers and practicing his jokes and one liners with the audiences all along the way. Highway Kind features: Dan Beller-McKenna , pedal steel + dobro, Lindsay Lassonde – voice + upright bass , David Talmage – voice, fiddle + guitar , Seth Warner – voice + guitar, and Paul Wolf – snare drum + percussion.
