Evening Star Presents Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart from Ashland City TN west of Nashville will perform at Evening Star on Saturday, Aug. 23rd at 8 p.m.
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart met for the first time 1992 at a songwriters night in Nashville TN. They knew that night it was “one of them things that are just meant to be“. They were married in 1993 while raising two children from Stacey’s first marriage, "When we got married I knew Mark understood he was marrying all three of us”. Stacey waiting tables and Mark playing night after night in and around Nashville from gigs to sessions balancing time to play their own music. It would be quite a balancing act at that time raising a family and trying to make a living along with all the other stuff that came with getting by, “but we managed” Stacey said.
Stacey Earle's first show was on an arena stage in Sydney, playing rhythm guitar in her brother's band, Steve Earle & the Dukes, on "The Hard Way" tour in 1990. Stacey appeared on Steve Earle and The Dukes recordings: The Hard Way 1990, Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator 1991 and Transcendental Blues 2000. "I would learn a lot from him; first of all I was allowed to grow up understanding what a songwriter was. Then "I got a major crash course in touring as a musician". Playing for Steve as a Duke, the first show would be before thousands of fans in a foreign country but was not terrifying, she said. "It was magical". "I knew right there and then I'm supposed to be doing this."
She spent about a year and a half on tour with her brother, and then returned to Nashville to start a career of her own as a country/folk singer/songwriter.
Mark Stuart went to the finest of Music schools. Mark started his schooling listening and admiring his uncle’s guitar playing and his Dads fiddling. Learning and listening to the greats, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, John Fogerty, The Beatles and many more. He would find himself playing in the School of Honky Tonks and Beer Joints in and around Nashville by age 15 in his dads’ band. By managing to stay awake in high school after playing late nights polishing every riff and bend and vocal chord he would go on by age 17 to form his own band make a record and still find the time to play on the road as lead guitar and vocals for acts like Freddy Fender and more, taking him into his 20's. Mark as well spent some time in the Dukes in the 1990s. Like Earle, he recalls it as a time of glamour: appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and MTV. "I had someone tuning my guitar, strapping on my guitar," he said. "Now we carry our stuff three flights up in the Red Roof Inn“.
Opening the show will be Markley and Balmer, a wife-husband duo from Dallas, TX.
Tickets are $20 non-members, $15 SNCA members with ID, $8 kids 6-17, under 6 free.
Tickets:
$20 for adult non-members, $15 for adult SNCA members with ID, and $8 for kids
6-17 (plus tax)
Beginning this year, the Evening Star Series is available for purchase
online.
Simply go to snca.tix.com to
purchase tickets for any show in 2008.
You can also still call into the Center at 706-878-3300 to purchase
seats for upcoming concerts
during box office hours: 9-5 M-F. Visa and Mastercard
accepted by phone.
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Billy Jonas returns to Evening Star, September 20th
 On Saturday, September 20th at 8 p.m., Evening Star will present Billy Jonas, from Asheville, NC. Jonas will be accompanied by Don Porterfield on fretless bass and harmony vocals, and Ashley Farmer on harmony vocals.
A Billy Jonas performance is an explosion of energy. In singalongs, bangalongs, whisperalongs, as well as improvised songs, his primary instrument is the audience. Everyone becomes part of a performance that reaches out and ". . . touches even the most hardened of hearts." (Fayetteville Morning News)
Concerts begin with a simple "tuning" of the audience; from there a whimsical trajectory carries listeners through stories of life, love, and triumph over 'Murphy's Law.' Jonas' original pieces are played on fanciful "industrial re-percussion" instruments made from found objects. He sings in a clear tenor voice; his guitar work is adventurous, alternately percussive and lyrical.
Jonas has shared stages with some of the world's favorite acoustic artists, including Patti Larkin, Ani DiFranco, David Wilcox, Richard Thompson, and Pete Seeger.
His latest CD, "Get Real," for adult/general audiences, is his studio follow-up to "Life So Far". From matters of the heart, to geo-political intrigue, "Get Real" invites the listener to climb into a "percussion-rich" universe full of sonic exploration and emotional adventurousness. "Get Real" is filled with homemade and recycled object instruments, as well as a host of more traditional sounding instruments (guitar, bass, Middle Eastern & African percussion), and LOTS of voices! Evening Star performers Chris Rosser, Joe Ebel and Don Porterfield are all featured on the CD.
In addition to his work with adult/general audiences, Jonas has generated an enthusiastic following for his family show. His CD "What Kind of Cat are You?!" caters to this audience, and received multiple awards including a First Place/Gold from AFIM (American Federation of Independent Musicians), and a Parent's Choice Gold.
Billy Jonas' performances will inspire, inform, and enlighten. His work is born out of respect and reverence, and seeks to honor the creative energy in everyone. Opening the show (and likely joining in with the band) is the wonderfully talented Beth Wood from Arlington, TX.
Tickets are $20 non-members, $15 SNCA members with ID, $8 kids 6-17, under 6 free.
www.billyjonas.com
2008 Evening
Star Calendar of Concerts
Jan. 19 — Gretchen Peters (Zane Williams opens)
Feb. 16 — Cosy Sheridan
March 15 — David Massengill (Dave Potts opens)
April 19 — Double Bill — Tim Grimm / Michael Reno Harrell
May 17 — Susan Werner (Twilight Hotel opens)
June 14 — David Wilcox
Aug. 2 — Pierce Pettis (Luke Brindley opens)
Aug. 23 — Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart (Pat Wictor opens)
Sept. 20 — Billy Jonas(Beth Woods opens)
Oct. 18 — Small Potatoes (Greg Klyma opens)
Nov. 22 — Craif Carothers / John William Davis
 Tickets
available at snca.tix.com
Click here for more details
about the 2008 Evening Star Concert Schedule.
 New Compilation CD!
Copies of Evening Star Compilation, Vol.
II are now available at the Center Gallery and cdbaby.com.
Like the first volume, the CD includes live tracks from previous
radio shows, plus a story by Andy Offutt Irwin. The CD, which is
a fund-raiser for the Center, is available for $20 and once again
we will sell 6 for $100. Additionally, for members only,
if you buy the new CD at the Center Gallery for $20, you may purchase
a copy of Vol I. for only $12. For non-members, Vol I. will be $15
with a purchase of the new one. (Discount applies only to purchases
from the Center Gallery.)
Here is the list of tracks:
1 Jonathan Byrd — The Young Slaver
2 Richard Shindell — Wisteria
3 Annie Gallup — Circle / James
4/5 David Massengill — Intro / Number One In America
6 Jules Shear — Mercy
7 Louise Taylor — Maps Of Venice
8 Chris Rosser — Natural Wonder
9 Susan Werner — Barbed Wire Boys
10 Joe and Tree Brunelle — February Angel
11 Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen — Restless Wind
12 Anais Mitchell — Shenandoah
13 Ray Bonneville — Don’t Look Back
14 Billy Jonas — Zack’s Walk
15 Small Potatoes — Big ‘Ol Prairie Moon
16 Andy Offutt Irwin — Evening Star Theme
17 Andy Offutt Irwin — Story — Francine
Click here for more details.
Evening
Star performers past and present
Reservations recommended for all Evening Star performances.
Call 706-878-3300.
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