Katie Powderly & Her Band with special guest Nick Brown
Doors 7PM Show 8PM
Seated show
$12adv $15DOS
Katie is an award-winning songwriter, who has performed live on PBS, NPR affiliates, and has toured from New York to Colorado, Texas to Tennessee.
She has shared bills with Tony Rice, Del McCoury Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Steel Wheels, The Black Lillies, Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim, The David Mayfield Parade, and many others.
Her singing and harmonies have been likened to Gillian Welch (Isthmus, Madison, WI) and Gram Parsons (City Paper, Rochester, NY.)
She was also voted Best Country/Bluegrass Performer in her home city of Madison, Wisconsin in the Madison Area Music Awards.
According to Local Sounds Magazine in Madison, WI, “Katie Powderly released one of the best albums [of the year], but Local Sounds’ Rick Tvedt has also hailed it as one of the best recordings to ever come out of the Madison area.”
The album they’re referring to is Katie’s debut LP, Slips of the Tongue (Red-Winged Blackbird Records), which features a hell of a lineup of supporting musicians, including Josh Oliver (Watchhouse/Mandolin Orange), Bryn Davies (Tony Rice, Guy Clark, Jack White), Tom Pryor (The Black Lillies), and Jill Andrews (the everybodyfields), and was recorded at Butch Vig's famed Smart Studios in Madison, WI, with significant help from Scott Minor (Sparklehorse.)
Katie now resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Maryland after a years-long sojourn across the country.
When she's not performing with her electrified Americana band, The Unconditional Lovers, whose first album will be out in 2024, you can find her playing her songs as a solo artist or duo, or acting as a bluegrass bass sideman for such acts as The David Mayfield Parade and Woody Pines.
She recently stepped away from her role as bluegrass bassist for hard-driving PA bluegrass band, Dead Horse Revival, which features former members of Mountain Ride. While Katie was in the band, Dead Horse Revival recorded and released an EP entitled All Hat No Saddle and won Best Bluegrass Band at the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame Awards.
From the Appalachian mountains of Maryland, Katie Powderly announces her 2nd studio album: a stripped-down, acoustic, bluegrass-adjacent EP entitled "Live by the Song, Die by the Song."
The 10-song collection serves as a portrait of Katie's emotional landscape, informed by a carefree summer spent splashing in the Shenandoah River, falling in and out of love.
Through a series of Appalachian ballads, the EP documents the journey of the artist coming to identify the bouquet of red flags she'd at first perceived as simply roses and their thorns.
“If you devote your life to songs, like I have, music becomes a default way of communicating,” Powderly said.
The EP opens with “Tobacco,” a song that earned Powderly the title of semi-finalist in a national songwriting contest in February, besting musicians from Maine, Colorado, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as performers on “The Voice” and “American Idol.”
"Both “Tobacco” and the album “Live by the Song, Die by the Song” present a refreshing take on the Appalachian ballad, a historically male-dominated genre sung here from a woman’s perspective.
"Celebrating the beauty of simplicity with stripped-down, acoustic instrumentation, the double EP features a blend of acoustic guitar, haunting vocals and occasional touches of mandolin and fiddle, bringing the spirit of the mountains to life. It showcases 10 songs that demonstrate Powderly’s evolution as a songwriter and a reflection of her experiences living in Appalachia."
- Lauren LaRocca, The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, MD)
Nick Brown Duo
Original Slacker Country Folk from Madison, WI
BIO:
Nick Brown is a songwriter, singer, guitar player and electric bass player based in Madison, Wisconsin. A native of Michigan, Brown briefly studied vocal music performance before moving to Austin, Texas, working as a gigging musician by night and as a pool and spa maintenance technician (colloquially referred to as a “pool boy) by day.
Returning to the upper Midwest and settling in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2008, Brown soon after became the bass player for renowned Madison country band The Brown Derby. Working with Brown Derby guitarist Andrew Harrison, Brown released his debut solo album, “Slow Boat” in 2012.
The Nick Brown Band formed for that album release show and has yet to unform, while playing some of the most vaunted venues in Wisconsin and father afield. The band includes a stellar lineup of Madison-based musicians, including Andrew Harrison on electric guitars, Rusty Lee on keyboards, Pat “Log” Logterman on upright bass and Ben Wolf on Drums.
WEBSITE: www.nickbrownband.com
SPOTIFY: Link
ALBUMS
2012: “Slow Boat” LP
2017: “Contender” EP
Forthcoming: “Dubuque Ménage”
PRESS FOR 'CONTENDER'
Isthmus:
"Folk rock musician Nick Brown has the heart of an artist and the head of a journalist. His new record, Contender, ties the two together with lean, clear imagery and fully realized compositions."
Tone Madison:
"The band comes through on this with an apt mix of punch and slyness. Wolf and Logterman give the song a propulsive swing, while Lee and Wolf’s organ chords and synth lines add a cheerful sheen to the verses and a bouncy little hook on the chorus. Between the verses, Harrison’s burly, cutting melodies help to add a bit of suspense to the everyman’s cyclical misadventures."
PRESS FOR ‘SLOW BOAT’
Tone Madison:
“Nick Brown’s first album begins with the somber, arresting ‘Living That Way’ and proceeds to resourcefully bounce in all manner of directions, all the while retaining sparse, dignified arrangements. Brown plays with classic-country tropes on “Light Beer And Heavy Hearts,” goes on a smart-assed journey of disappointment on “Factory Farms,” takes a jaunty gambling trip to Canada on “Hold On Windsor.” Though this naturally makes for a slightly uneven experience, it’s also one of rewarding surprises, and one of the best singer-songwriter records a local artist has released in recent years.”
77 Square:
“Sonically… numbers like the country & western swingers ‘Play That Song,’ sound decades older, coming across like recordings put to tape at Memphis’ famed Sun Studio back in the 1950s.”
The Cap Times:
CT: What’s your favorite cover song to play (if you don’t do covers … why not)?
NB: We don't do covers. We focus exclusively on inferior versions of our own songs.