Thursday, June 27th
Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
743 Haywood Rd. Asheville, NC 28806
(828) 575-2737
www.isisasheville.com
$5 at door. General Admission.
Doors 5pm, Show 8pm, 828-575-2737 (for reservations)
Seated concert with limited tables available with dinner reservations. There is also theater style & balcony seating and standing available on a first come first serve basis.
Tickets Available at:
http://isisasheville.com/
Lora-Faye was the grand prize winner of the 2012 Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. Her forthcoming album, Waltzes, was recorded in Asheville at Echo Mountain Recording Studios. The album was produced by Iestyn Polson who has worked with David Gray and Patti Smith among others.
Lora-Faye is a singer and multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of the power of the strange and the idiosyncratic in American rock and folk traditions. With songs that run completely on raw and untethered emotion while retaining an intellectual and political bent, Lora-Faye draws from such disparate sources as Gillian Welch and Jeff
Buckley, Etta James and Anais Mitchell, Harry Smith and Andy Warhol.
In 2012 alone, Lora-Faye’s songwriting won her such accolades as the Grand Prize Award at The Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, Hudson Valley Songfest’s “Best New Artist,” and a winning slot at The New Jersey Folk Festival’s Songwriting Competition. Lora-Faye performs her energetic live show with a constantly evolving band of New Yorkers: a rotating cast of jazz musicians, untrained folkies, opera singers, and everything in between.
Parker Smith and Bandwith. This is a great young band out of Atlanta. They’re a southern rock band in an essential way, though their songs run the gamut from sprawling, fast-paced jams to tight, quiet ballads. Smith’s lyrics, backed by tight guitar and mandolin playing, are poignant and full of yearning: for a cleaner life, a distant woman, fresh ground. It’s honest, heartfelt music that—without taking itself too seriously—contemplates the space between who we are and what we want to be.
