MIKAELA DAVIS – NEW DATE
Five years since her debut album Delivery, Mikaela Davis has moved away from her hometown of Rochester, shared the stage with the likes of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Christian McBride, Bon Iver, Lake Street Dive and Circles Around the Sun and entered a new decade. But it’s the ever-evolving relationships between her closest friends and bandmates that has propelled the Hudson Valley-based artist onto her latest album And Southern Star––a truly collaborative effort that ruminates on the choices we make, and the people we always come back to.
The band, made up of Davis (harp/vocals), Alex Coté (drums), Cian McCarthy (guitars/vocals), Shane McCarthy (bass/vocals) and Kurt Johnson (steel guitar), have been playing together for over a decade and it’s the first time they’ve appeared on a full length record together. Weaving 60s pop-soaked melodies, psychedelia and driving folk rock, And Southern Star picks apart the reflection we used to recognise, while trying to build a new one. It navigates the periphery of past selves, the coexistence of isolation and excitement in a new environment and the tension of growing away from what we thought we wanted, tackling it with a luscious, kaleidoscopic grace. “I finally feel like this album is more me than anything else that’s been released,” Davis says, adding that producing the album along with her four bandmates allowed them to carve out their own ideas, rather than someone else’s. It’s the band’s collective step into adulthood that has informed much of And Southern Star’s thematic landscape.
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Raina Mullen is a Philadelphia based guitar player and singer in the band “Ghost Light” with Tom Hamilton, Holly Bowling, Dan Africano and Scotty Zwang.
Raina has shared the stage with:American Babies, Bob Weir (Grateful Dead), Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company, The Allman Brothers Band, Tedeschi Trucks Band), Anders Beck and Dave Bruzza (Greensky Bluegrass), Jason Crosby (Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Susan Tedeschi Band), Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Snarky Puppy (Horns), Marco Benevento (Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Bustle in Your Hedgerow, Benevento Russo Duo), Buddy Miller, Larry Campbell (Levon Helm, Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh and Friends), Teresa Williams, Steve Earle, Aron Magner (Disco Biscuits, Billy and The Kids), Holly Bowling, Erik Deutsch (Leftover Salmon), Jackie Greene (Phil Lesh and Friends, Gov’t Mule), Clark Gayton (Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Levon Helm), Kevin Batchelor, Ross James, Jim Lauderdale (Dr. Ralph Stanley, Buddy Miller, and Donna the Buffalo).
Additional Details
Age Restrictions - All Ages
Supporting Acts - Raina Mullen
Door Time - 07:00 PM
Show Time - 08:00 PM
