YEEHAW! Come y’all to the FIRST event back on The Arts Barge since when! We’re lucky to have a full slice of Arkansas, USA. The line-up includes 3 touring acts, Willi Carlisle, Dylan Earl and Jude Brothers, plus York’s own country sons The Wreck Liners. Join us for what will undoubtedly be a beautiful night of authentic Country, Western and Folk, with maybe a touch of the cowboy two-step. A night not to be missed and the first of a series of shows this year on the Arts Barge. Keep y’peepers peeled for what else is coming up!
Willi Carlisle
“Powerful...both down-home and brainy” -Washington Post
“The greatest Americana artist you’ve never heard of. A storytelling titan” -The Guardian
“An Ozarks renaissance folklorist” -SingOut!
“Folk music superman, both scholar and showman” -Trav SD, Chelsea Now NYC
“Carlisle turns the cliché of solo performance on its head” -Cincy City Beat
“Carlisle is superb...Expertly roving between guitar, banjo fiddle, harmonica, and accordion”- Winnipeg Free Press
“An absolute juggernaut...One also gets the impression that if that if he fell into a box of musical instruments, a perfectly fledged folksong would come out...with his sweet and soulful voice”- Canadian Broadcast Company
“picks and bows, stomps and strums...until your heart bleeds” -Minnesota Playlist
Willi Carlisle is a folksinger and storyteller from the Ozark mountains of Arkansas. The Washington Post says he is “powerful,” “both down-home and brainy,” and The Guardian calls him “the greatest Americana artist you’ve never heard of.” A multi-instrumentalist and poet, Willi Carlisle brings exuberant folksongs, stories, and sing-alongs to audiences around the world. Performing with Grammy-Winning talent and featured in places like NPR’s “LGBTQIA+ Playlist” and GemsOnVHS, Willi Carlisle is a folk artist in the tradition of Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. www.willicarlisle.com IG: @willicarlisle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMqgWvlt-0
Jude Brothers
Alternating between banjo, harp, and guitar, Brothers’ emotive performance recalled the likes of Gillian Welch, Joanna Newsom and Karen Dalton.” -Jonny Leather, Mecca Lecca
“-a powerful songwriting force conveying emotive lyricism, freak-folk stylings and sick-ass harp.” -Alex De Vore, Santa Fe Reporter
Jude Brothers is an Arkansas forged and New Mexico moulded folksy leaning singer songwriter with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky. Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling, leaping, pirouetting over a landscape of various string instruments.
www.judebrothersmusic.com IG: @wildsweetjudith https://judebrothersmusic.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxwr0MqqUQ
The Wreck Liners
York’s own Wreck Liners but with a slightly different line up because some of them are away! Formed as the country/folk side project of the punk band Pat Butcher and formerly known as Matt Bakers Country File, Wreck Liners have come into their own and can be heard twiddling away in pubs and clubs around York.