#just heard 'Big Country' by Béla Fleck for the first time

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Y'ever have a song pass directly into your bones?

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Center for the Arts Winter Lineup

The 2017/2018 winter lineup at the Center for the Arts is not to be missed!! Tickets go on sale today, December 6 at noon - get ready to be entertained Jackson Hole!

December 27 || Robert Randolph & the Family Band 

FUNK, Robert Randolph & the Family Band know how to get down!! The renowned pedal steel guitarist, vocalist and songwriter led such a cloistered childhood and adolescence that he heard no secular music while growing up. Which makes it all the more remarkable that the leader of Robert Randolph and the Family Band—whose label debut for Sony Masterworks, Got Soul, will be released on Feb. 17, 2017—is today an inspiration to the likes of Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Derek Trucks, all of whom have played with him and studied his technique. It wasn’t until he was out of his teens that Randolph broke away from the confines of his social and musical conditioning and discovered rock, funk, soul, jazz and the jam band scene, soon forging his own sound by fusing elements of those genres. 

January 10 || An Evening with Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright, one of the great male vocalists, composers, and songwriters of his generation, has released eight studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Robbie Williams Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach. His album “Rufus Does Judy” recorded at Carnegie Hall in 2006 was nominated for a Grammy.

His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London, Toronto and BAM in New York. This summer it will be performed at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and Augsburg Theatre in Germany. In 2015, Deutsche Grammaphon released a studio recording of the opera recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

January 14 || An Evening with Samantha Fish, Marcus King, and Judith Hill

IMPROVISATION, BRILLIANCE, SPONTANEITY, AND COLLABORATION ARE THE ELEMENTS THAT WILL BRING SPARK to our third annual curated singer/songwriter showcase. Experience the music that unfolds when these musical masterminds share the stage and trade songs.

SAMANTHA FISH After launching her recording career in 2009, Samantha Fish quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world. Since then, the charismatic young singer guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer.

MARCUS KING At only 20 years of age, Marcus King’s dazzling musical ability is palatable. Operating within the fiery brand of American roots music that King calls “soul-influenced psychedelic southern rock,” King’s roughhewn vocals and soaring guitar work are making him one of the country’s most sought after live performers.

JUDITH HILL Los Angeles native Judith Hill is a deeply soulful vocalist and powerful songwriter. She has been featured as a backing vocalist for legends Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and the late Michael Jackson including duet with Jackson on the classic ballad, “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You.”

January 18 || The Victor Wooten Trio featuring Dennis Chambers and Bob Franceschini

Five-time GRAMMY award-winning bass player, producer, composer, author, and educator Victor Wooten is coming to Jackson with the Victor Wooten Trio – comprised of Wooten, legendary drummer Dennis Chambers (Bootsy Collins, Santana), and veteran saxophonist Bob Franceschini (Mike Stern, Paul Simon).

“To be in a band, you have to listen to each other. Bands are at their best when every instrument is different, not the same. Everyone takes turns talking. Everyone speaks their voice,” says Wooten. Named “one of the Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone and named one of the “50 Iconic Black Trailblazers,” in the Huffington Post pictured just after President Barack Obama. Wooten first “wowed music heads” nationwide (Kansas City Star) in 1987, as a founding member of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones.

January 26 || The Moth - Mainstage

The Moth returns to The Center Theater for its third annual Mainstage performance. Since its launch in 1997, THE MOTH has presented thousands of stories told live and without notes. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Through ongoing programs in more than 25 cities, The Moth has presented over 20,000 stories to standing-room-only crowds worldwide and it currently produces more than 500 live shows each year. Additionally, The Moth runs storytelling workshops for high school students and adults in underserved communities through their Education and Community Programs. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 44 million times a year, and each week, the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour is heard on over 450 radio stations worldwide. The Moth’s first book, The Moth: 50 True Stories (Hachette) was an international bestseller and its new book All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown from The Moth (Crown) will be released on March 21, 2017.

January 30 || Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Trombone Shorty is the best-known moniker for Troy Andrews. He was born into a well-known New Orleans musical family in 1986. His grandfather, Jessie Hill, was a locally popular R&B recording artist. His older brother, James "12" Andrews, was a successful jazz trumpeter who was also an early mentor. Andrews began playing music at a very early age and was playing professionally at the age of five. He mastered trombone, trumpet, and drums, eventually choosing the trombone as his principal instrument and thus picking up his nickname. So advanced was he that, at the age of eight, a club in the city’s Tremé district, where he was born and raised, was named Trombone Shorts in his honor.

February 6 || On the Road with T Bone Burnett: Stories, Music & Movies

Accompanied by his guitar, film clips and decades’ worth of stories, T Bone covers everything from his early days touring with Bob Dylan and collaborating with some of music’s biggest stars to his love of Americana music and his immensely influential work in film. Programs run 80+ minutes with or without an intermission, including a 30 minute Q & A.T Bone takes audiences on a tour of his work and collaborations with musicians across all genres, including Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Elton John, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, Jack White, Taylor Swift, and Leon Russell, among many others. He is also the musical genius behind numerous films, including the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Inside Llewyn Davis, as well as Cold Mountain; The Hunger Games; Across the Universe; and Crazy Heart. 

March 5 || An Evening with Shovels & Rope

SHOVELS & ROPE ARE AN AMERICAN FOLK duo from Charleston, South Carolina composed of husband and wife Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst. Combining threads from their individual solo careers, Shovels & Rope blends traditional folk, rock and roll, and country rock. The band made their network television debut playing “Birmingham” on The Late Show with David Letterman on January 30, 2013. On September 18, 2013 at the Americana Music Honors & Awards, Shovels & Rope received the Emerging Artist of the Year award as well as Song of the Year for their song, “Birmingham."

March 11 || An Acoustic Evening with Anders Osborne

Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ Anders Osborne is a true musical treasure. He is among the most original and visionary musicians writing and performing today. Guitar Player calls him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer Of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist for the third year in a row, and the Best Songwriter for the second straight year. Osborne also won Song Of The Year for his composition, Louisiana Gold.

Tickets for the Winter season go on sale Wednesday, December 6 at 12pm MST JHCENTERFORTHEARTS.ORG and in person at The Center Box Office. A limited number of discounted ticket packages will be available. Box office processing fees apply to all tickets!

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Live Picks: 2/16-2/22

Brockhampton

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Here are our live picks for the week ahead, starting with the weekend and ending just before the next one!

2/16: Little Big Town & Kacey Musgraves, Allstate Arena

It’s hard for non- or casual country fans to remember that Alabama’s Little Big Town were around before they were singing about girl crushes on the Grammy Awards. Sure, their breakout and by my ears best album Pain Killer skyrocketed them into the mainstream, but they released five albums before then and have been around since the late 90′s. Though live they certainly play hits from Pain Killer and last year’s even more popular The Breakers, they often throw bones to fans that have been with them since even before 2012′s Tornado, especially when playing songs like Southern anthem “Boondocks”.

A woman deserving of a headlining slot, Texas country star Kacey Musgraves is the second of three acts on this tour (she’ll be opening for Harry Styles in June). She’s released two really good studio albums (2015′s Pageant Material landed in our top 40 albums of that year) and one surprisingly good Christmas album, and she’s planning to release a new record, Golden Hour, early this year. Expect to hear plenty of new songs during her set.

Breakout Texas country band Midland opens.

2/17 & 2/18: Oh Sees, Empty Bottle

Music Frozen Dancing, the Empty Bottle’s annual free winter outdoor concert, always seems to nab a great lineup, and this year’s no different, mostly due to the headliners: Oh Sees/OCS (formerly known as Thee Oh Sees and about a million different other names), whose devoted fan base makes sure they sell out every Chicago show. Memory of a Cut Off Head, their latest album as OCS, is a little different from their raucous punk and sounds like the band’s early stages. It’s a 60′s-indebted, mostly acoustic psychedelic collection of songs from founding member John Dwyer and former member Brigid Dawson. (It notably features horn arrangements and saxophone from Mikal Cronin.) Just before Memory but also released in 2017 came their first album as Oh Sees, their supposed new moniker for the near future, Orc, which is more consistent with the pummeling sound they’ve been known for over the past 10 or so years. (It notably features co-production from Cronin buddy Ty Segall). Live, though, they could play literally anything from their 20+ album discography, even new songs, considering the rate at which they put out music. Of their recent records, I’m a fan of 2016′s A Weird Exits as well as 2009′s Help, 2011′s Carrion Crawler/The Dream, 2013′s Floating Coffin, and 2015′s Mutilator Defeated At Last. And for a nice document of what they sound like live, check out their stellar Live in San Francisco album from a couple years back. Like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, they’re simply nonstop in their distorted riffing, chaotic drumming, and yelping.

Co-headlining Music Frozen Dancing are Detroit electropunks ADULT. Rounding out the lineup are Brooklyn rockers B Boys, DJ Taye of local footwork behemoth Teklife, and local hardcore band C.H.E.W.

The band is also playing a Music Frozen Dancing after party, a ticketed (and already sold out, of course) club show at the Bottle itself. Opening the show are local noise rockers Rash and garage punks Skip Church.

2/18 & 2/19: BROCKHAMPTON, House of Blues

They call themselves the world’s first Internet boy band, but that’s misleading in more ways than one. BROCKHAMPTON aren’t the first boy band to benefit from the viral tendencies of the web, for one. More importantly, they’re not what you think of when you think boy band. A giant hip-hop, pop, and R & B collective, the band is more freewheeling and prolific than heavily and carefully curated, releasing three albums in 2017, culminating in SATURATION III, the most realized of the three that found a way to be experimental, catchy, and cohesive. Their fourth studio album, Team Effort, is set to be released this year, but you can expect them to perform SATURATION songs almost entirely. 

2/20: Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, Riviera

At this point, pretty much anybody who vaguely pays attention to guitar music knows about Robert Plant’s full-fledged transition from classic rocker to old folk fogey--Raising Sand, his collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, won them Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. But lesser known and just as solid are Plant’s two albums with his new-ish band The Sensational Space Shifters, 2014′s Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar and last year’s Carry Fire, which allowed Plant to bend beyond the traditions of rock, bluegrass, or folk, incorporating elements of Arabic and North African influence into his arsenal. Luckily, however, for Zeppelin fans, Plant tends to mix beloved rock radio classics in with his newer material, overall making for a set that exudes old school songwriting, familiarity, and warmth whether you’ve heard the new songs or not.

Sensational Space Shifters band member and English folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman opens with a solo set.

2/21: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, SPACE

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are both prominent musicians in their own name, two of the most proficient banjo players ever, Washburn’s clawhammer composition skills unrivaled, just like Fleck’s technical prowess. Together, the two are more than just husband and wife--they’re natural musical collaborators, having released two albums and an EP of both traditional and original material. They’ll be playing two shows Wednesday at SPACE, but if you miss that, you can catch them at two more shows next Saturday at Old Town School of Folk Music.

2/21: Adam Torres, Empty Bottle

Singer-songwriter and former Southeast Engine member Adam Torres finally released Pearls To Swine two years ago, 10 years after self-releasing cult classic Nostra Nova. He’s a folk singer with an otherworldly voice, his ability to reach high notes and wail with yearning rivaling Jeff Buckley, and his band--consisting of violinist Aisha Burns, bassist/pianist/Molly Burch collaborator Dailey Tolliver, and Swans percussionist Thor Harris. Thankfully, it didn’t take Torres long to reach the follow-up to Pearls; granted, it was a 4-song EP recorded at the same time, entitled I Came To Sing The Song. But it felt different, its songs notably more insular than the expansive, epic Pearls. I can only imagine a Torres live set achieves both ends admirably.

Indie pop band Wild Pink co-headline. Rock band Minor Characters opens.

2/22: Architects, House of Blues

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a tour named after a non-album single, but Brighton metalcore band Architects are doing it anyway. Their “Doomsday” tour, named after, yes, a non-album single that followed their 2016 album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, the heaviest, darkest, and perhaps best album the band has ever released. They know it, too; in recent live sets, the band has heavily favored that record, even in favor of recent beloved releases like Lost Forever // Lost Together and Daybreaker.

Hardcore punks Stick To Your Guns and Counterparts open.

2/22: Shame, Schubas

Songs of Praise is the debut album from London post-punks Shame that came out just a month ago and is already seeming like it’s going to be one of the best debuts of the year. The band tackles serious subjects with dark humor over pummeling guitars and drums and, when they feel like it, melodies that could rival peak Britpop.

Pittsburgh post-punk revivalists The Gotobeds open.

2/22: Four Year Strong, Concord Music Hall

Worcester pop punk band Four Year Strong just released Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Won't, a collection of unplugged rarities. For hardcore fans, it was perhaps welcome. But for casual fans and in comparison to their Go Down in History EP and especially raw 2015 self-titled record, the latter of which was produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, it came across as too soft and tender for a band who proved to be so good at eliciting sore neck headbanging. Lucky for us, live, the band who has been playing 2007 album Rise or Die Trying in full every night should bring the same level of energy they had 10 years younger to a co-headlining set at Concord Music Hall.

Gainesville ska punks Less Than Jake co-headline. Pop punk bands Direct Hit! and Bearings open.