An Evening of Acoustic Roots Music with
John Reischman & The Jaybirds ( a former Wintergrass performer)
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West (Wintergrass 2012 performers)
Columbia City Theater
Show at 8pm, Tickets $15
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music with two of our most favorite bands! Cahalen & Eli are fresh off a
series of tours in the UK and Europe and have some new music to share.
John Reischman & The Jaybirds are one of the finest bluegrass bands
around and are always a delight to catch live.
John Reischman & The Jaybirds
In a marketplace flooded with virtuosic bluegrass ensembles, John
Reischman & The Jaybirds have found a recipe to stand out from the rest:
they go back to the roots of bluegrass and old-time music for their
inspiration, then spin these roots into a new sound. On their new album,
Vintage & Unique, they cover songs and tunes from Bill Monroe, Hobart
Smith, and Hazel Dickens, but the real gems of the album are the
band’s originals. These songs and tunes are clearly informed by the
tradition, but John Reischman & The Jaybirds have an eclectic creativity
that guides their excursions in acoustic roots music.
Starting from their mutual love of old-time and bluegrass singing,
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West have brought in a myriad of new ideas and
influences, like the wide, empty spaces of Cahalen’s home state of New
Mexico, or Eli’s crooked harmonies and unorthodox syncopations. But more
importantly, they get that the music needs space to breath, space to
think, space to belong. This is rare in the barn-burning speedster world
of today’s bluegrass picking parties, and it transforms their music into
something entirely new and refreshing.
Tags: cahalen & eli, hearth music, morrison & west
