Guitarist

Singer

Soon before Willie Watson turned 18, he met God in an apple orchard. Or at the very least, he met there a man named Ruby Love, the older friend of a high-school buddy. Also, Love had an enormous Martin guitar and a seemingly bigger understanding of the American folk songbook. Watson, a high-school dropout from upstate New York’s Finger Lakes, was existentially thirsty. Furthermore, he was fast on his way to his first heartbreak and in a first band that didn’t take itself seriously enough. Then, in that magical apple orchard, Watson and Love sang those old songs together: “Worried Man Blues” and “Tennessee Waltz.”

Willie Watson With Special Guest Jack Van Cleaf

Dakota

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Willie Watson

Thrasher Opera House

Since getting their start busking on street corners back in 1998, Old Crow Medicine Show have emerged as one of the most potent and influentialforces in American roots music. Over the last quarter-century, the two-time Grammy Award-winning band has brought their sublimely raucous live show to rapturous audiences around the world and toured with the likes of Willie Nelson and John Prine, all while amassing an acclaimed catalog that includes such standouts as their double platinum hit single “Wagon Wheel.” Arriving as the Nashville-based six-piece gears up to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Jubilee finds Old Crow doubling down on their commitment to creating roots music that bears an undeniable urgency. “In a lot of people’s minds folk music seems to be relegated to a place of supposed purity, but we’ve always wanted our folk music to be the soundtrack to real living rather than something stuck behind the glass in a museum,” says frontman Ketch Secor. “We’d much prefer to smash that glass and take those instruments back to the street corners, maybe break some strings and bleed on them a bit. To us music works best when you sing it loud and hard and lusty until your throat gets sore—it’s meant to hurt when it comes out right.”

Old Crow Medicine Show

F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

Drawing inspiration from the deep history of folk festivals around the world, The Milk Carton Kids invite some of their favorite songwriters to gather in Los Angeles and share their songs and stories. It’s a two-day celebration of intimate songcraft and the city of Los Angeles’ historic role as an epicenter of modern folk music. Additional headliners to be announced soon!

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Los Angeles Folk Festival

The John Anson Ford Theatre

On their whirlwind new album Paint This Town, Old Crow Medicine Show offer up a riveting glimpse into American mythology and the wildly colorful characters who populate it. The most incisive body of work yet from the Nashville-based roots band—a two-time Grammy Award-winning juggernaut whose triumphs include induction into the Grand Ole Opry and double-platinum certification for their iconic hit single “Wagon Wheel”—the album pays homage to everyone from Elvis Presley to Eudora Welty while shedding a bright light on the darker aspects of the country’s legacy. Fueled by Old Crow’s freewheeling collision of Americana, old-time music, folk, and rock & roll, Paint This Town relentlessly pulls off the rare and essential feat of turning razor-sharp commentary into the kind of songs that inspire rapturous singing along.

Willie Watson

Guitarist, Singer

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Oct 6, 2024

Willie Watson With Special Guest Jack Van Cleaf · Dakota

Oct 5, 2024

Willie Watson · Thrasher Opera House

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