Mon 4/20 @ 8PM
Folksinger Jonathan Edwards and duo Brewer & Shipley, who will share a bill at the Kent Stage, are both known primarily for a single hit tune in the very early 1970s: 1971’s “Sunshine” (Edwards) and 1970’s “One Toke Over the Line” (Brewer and Shipley). But there’s much more to each of these acts that a casual radio listener might not know.
Edwards, who launched his career in the folk hothouse of New England and currently lives in Maine, has continued to tour both with and without a band and amass a catalog of a dozen studio albums’ worth of buoyant, warm-hearted music.
After a period of soaring on the strength of their twining vocal harmonies and pointed commentary about the social climate of their era, Michael Brewer & Tom Shipley went their separate ways in the mid ’70s, after “One Toke” and Spiro Agnew calling them a menace to America had taken them as far as possible. By the early ’90s, they were writing, recording and occasionally touring again, made easier by the fact that both live in the same general part of the country (Missouri).
Tickets are $20 in advance, $24 at the door.
thekentstage.com/jonathan-edwards/
Kent, OH 44240