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Max Hatt / Edda Glass Perform at BPR benefit concert on Saturday, June 9

Join us this Saturday, June 9th at 7:30 PM for the second “Sanctuary Sessions” concert.  The headliners are Jazz Americana duo Max Hatt / Edda Glass. Glass has been praised for her “impeccable vocal command” (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday. Her voice is “one of a kind…you cannot confuse her with another artist” (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt’s equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz and classical with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that’s “subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be” (Nels Cline, Wilco).    

Tickets for the concert, produced by NewSong Music, are available in advance for $15.00 at The Orange Peel website, and will be available at the venue on the day of show for $20.00.

http://theorangepeel.net/event/max-hatt-edda-glass/

100% of the ticket proceeds will benefit Blue Ridge Public Radio, NPR for Western North Carolina.

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The concert will be held in the beautiful and acoustically stunning sanctuary of Central United Methodist Church, located in the heart of downtown Asheville at 27 Church Street.  Doors open at 7:00 PM.  Ample downtown parking is located in the new parking garage located immediately behind the church at 40 Coxe Avenue.   

Also on the bill is Becca Leigh a songwriter based in Charleston, South Carolina. Her songs emerge from a folk tradition, focusing on melody, imagery, and emotion.  In November, 2017 she was selected as a finalist in the New Song Music Competition and performed at the songwriter showcase at Lincoln Center in New York City. 

For a sneak peek, check out the Sanctuary Sessions Spotify playlist featuring all the performers!

The final concert in the series is set for June 16th.

Saturday, June 16
Rose Cousins / Maya de Vitry
Advance tickets: http://theorangepeel.net/event/rose-cousins/

Rose Cousinslives in Halifax, Nova Scotia when she’s not touring internationally. Her 2012 album WE HAVE MADE A SPARK won a JUNO, 3 ECMAs, a CFMA, was long listed for the Polaris Music Prize, and made featured/best of lists in USA Today, NPR and Oprah Magazine. Her music has appeared in several TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy and Nashville. To make her new record NATURAL CONCLUSION, she enlisted GRAMMY award winning producer Joe Henry. The result is what Cousins calls “the most honest and vulnerable thing” she has made to date.

A lover of the strange and beautiful conversation between words and music, Maya de Vitry experiences and embraces being alive through song. She has spent the last six years touring the United States, Canada, and Europe with her celebrated Americana band The Stray Birds.  In her solo work, her lone, dynamic voice, and her muses and meditations, explore a striking new landscape.  Originally from Pennsylvania (and twice a resident of Asheville), Maya makes her home in Nashville, where she has watched more sunsets on the same lake than ever before in her life. 

 

Michelle Keenan is the Associate Director of Development at Blue Ridge Public Radio. She began volunteering for the station in 1996 and has been a full-time staff member since 1998.