Sat 8/22 @ 7:30PM
This Saturday, Riverdog Barn takes a break from its loaded schedule of touring bands, mostly in the country/folk/bluegrass vein, to present, on one stage, more than 100 years of music-making talent by three of Northeast Ohio’s most prolific and talented singer/songwriter/guitarists, in a program called “Songs from the Northcoast.”
It’s hard to believe that any music fan in northeast Ohio isn’t familiar with all three. Folksinger Alex Bevan started performing as a teenager in the late 60s, and never stopped cranking out album after album of his perceptive, humorous, warm-hearted music on topics ranging from the beauty of the NEO landscape to poking funs at himself. Now in his 70s, he’s kept getting better and better as a singer and guitarist and he cranks out memorable tunes constantly.
Versatile Brent Kirby has become a sparkplug in the local music scene over the last 25 years, performing solo, with his own band and with rockers the Jack Fords, displaying his chops at everything from introspective acoustic music to raging rock and roll. He’s also part of the holiday band the Ohio City Singers, and the Gram Parsons tribute band New Soft Show, as well as the drummer for Doug McKean and the Stuntmen. And he’s been a catalyst for the local music scene as n organizer and bookers for festivals and music series.
Finally Don Dixon moved to the area — Canton, to be precisely — from North Carolina, where he’d established a successful producing career working with bands such as R.E.M. and the Smithereens, when he hooked up with (and married) Canton singer/songwriter Marti Jones. Since then he’s continued to do production work out of NE Ohio, while recording and releasing his own material and performing both with and without Jones.
You’re going to hear so much memorable music on this evening. Get tickets HERE.