Thursday, June 4, 2015

Country A Cappella Band Home Free to Perform at Fargo Theatre

HOME FREE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2015 | 7 P.M. DOORS, 8 P.M. SHOW
FARGO THEATRE
314 BROADWAY N, FARGO, ND 58102
Tickets on-sale Friday, June 12, 2015, 10 a.m.
Reserved seating is $35.50 and a special VIP ticket that includes a pre-show meet-and-greet, photograph, autograph session, crowd-free merchandise shopping, signed copy of the newest album, exclusive show laminate and exclusive show poster for $125.
Additional fees may apply.
Event link:
http://jadepresents.com/home-free-fargo

When country a cappella band, Home Free, was crowned season 4 champions of  NBC’s “The Sing Off,” their victory was by no means the beginnings of a career for the five country stars from Minnesota. Rather, it was a satisfying culmination of nearly a decade of hard work and commitment to a vocal craft growing in popularity.

Founded by brothers Chris and Adam Rupp during their college in years in the early 2000, Home Free had been perfecting their live show for years prior to “The Sing Off.” It was their experience on the road that carried them to a victory, swelling their fan base and bringing them homegrown country style into a national spotlight.

Home Free continues to entertain audiences with their high-energy show peppered with quick-witted humor that meshes Nashville standards with pop hits dipped in country flavor. Their debut Columbia Records release, Crazy Life, is in stores now and features popular covers of “Wake Me Up,” “Ring of Fire” (feat. Avi Kaplan) and “Your Man.”

Tickets are available at JadePresents.com, at the Tickets 300 box office (300 Broadway, Fargo; open Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or by calling (866) 300-8300.

Lucinda Williams to Perform at Fargo Theatre

LUCINDA WILLIAMS
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015 | 7 P.M. DOORS, 8 P.M. SHOW
FARGO THEATRE
314 BROADWAY N, FARGO, ND 58102
Tickets on-sale Friday, June 12, 2015, 11 a.m.
Reserved seating is $39.50.
Additional fees may apply.
Event link:
http://jadepresents.com/lucinda-williams-fargo
As a rule, you can divide music into three categories -- the kind that aims for the head, the kind that aims for the heart and the kind that aims for the hips. Forging two of those connections at once is pretty impressive, but connecting on all three? That’s a rare accomplishment indeed, one that Lucinda Williams manages on her 11th studio album, “Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone.
“Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone”, the first release on Lucinda Williams’ own Highway 20 Records label, is easily the most ambitious creation in a body of work that’s long on ambition. Over the course of two discs, Williams leaves no emotional crevice left unexplored, drinking deeply from a well of inspiration that culminates with an offering that overflows with delta-infused country soul.
Williams has been maneuvering down a path all her own for more than three decades, emerging from Lake Charles, La., (a town with a rich tradition in all of America’s indigenous music, from country to the blues) having been imbued with a “culturally rich, economically poor” worldview. Several years of playing the hardscrabble clubs of her adopted state of Texas gave her a solid enough footing to record a self-titled album that would become a touchstone for the embryonic Americana movement – helping launch a thousand musical ships along the way.
While not a huge commercial success at the time – it went out of print and stayed there for years – “Lucinda Williams” (aka, the Rough Trade album) retained a cult reputation, and finally got the reception it deserved upon its reissue earlier this year. Jim Farber of New York’s Daily News hailed the reissue by saying “Listening again proves it to be that rarest of beasts: a perfect work. There’s not a chord, lyric, beat or inflection that doesn’t pull at the heart or make it soar.” In calling it “a masterpiece,” Blurt magazine dubbed it “a discovery worth making and music that will live in your heart and mind long after the disk stops spinning.”
For much of the next decade, she moved around the country, stopping in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville and turning out work that won immense respect within the industry (winning a Grammy for Mary Chapin Carpenter’s version of “Passionate Kisses”) and a gradually growing cult audience. While her recorded output was sparse for a time, the work that emerged was invariably hailed for its indelible impressionism -- like 1998’s “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” which notched her first Grammy as a performer.
The past decade brought further development, both musically and personally, evidenced on albums like “West” (2007), which All Music Guide called “flawless...destined to become a classic” and “Blessed” (2011), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed “a dynamic, human, album, one that’s easy to fall in love with.” Those albums retained much of Williams’ trademark melancholy and southern Gothic starkness, but also exuded more rays of light and hope -- hues that were no doubt imparted by a more soothing personal life, as well as a more settled creative space.
Those vibes come to the fore once again onDown Where The Spirit Meets The Bone.” While she stays very much rooted in the here and now, Williams also conjures up the spirit of classic ‘70s country soul -- the province of Dan Penn, Bobbie Gentry and Tony Joe White. The resulting warmth of tone gives the album a late-night front-porch vibe -- one that could be accompanied by either a tall glass of lemonade or something a little stronger, all the better to let the sounds envelop the listener like a blanket of dewy air.
“I didn’t set out to do a whole album of country-soul, but once I started working, a stylistic thread kind of emerged,��� she says. “It’s a sound I can relate to, one that’s really immediate and really timeless at the same time -- kind of sad in an indefinable way. It’s like something my dad said to me many years ago, something I wrote down and included in my song “Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)” because it was so profound to me -- ‘the saddest joys are the richest ones.’ I think that fits this album really well.”

Tickets are available at JadePresents.com, at the Tickets 300 box office (300 Broadway, Fargo; open Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or by calling (866) 300-8300.