$10 // 7pm door // 730pm music
On Saturday 8/19 we welcome Shira Lee and the Space Cowboys from sunny Florida and local favorites Freight for a cosmic night of country music!
Inspired by Folk, Country, Jazz, Blues, World, Alternative, Indie and Americana, Shira Lee & The Space Cowboys are fighting for expansion through sound, to cross the great divide between the mundane and extraordinary. Playing guitar, dulcimer, ukelele, & banjo, Shira Lee uses songwriting and storytelling to traverse life's experiences & connect with the great spirit, in hopes that this "on the road" sound resonates with others & their life journeys.
Formed in Ithaca, NY in early 2020, Freight is a new songwriting collaboration between JP Payton (JP and the Easytigers) and Liam Lawson (The Auroras). Groove-centric and playfully syncopated, the band's primary sound is a danceable variety of folk-rock, replete with electric organ fuzz, telecaster twang, and no-nonsense steel-string chug. Payton's confessional songwriting draws from the country music tradition; his lyrics explore the interior dynamics of close relationships, the connections between people and the places they live, and the pains of growing up and old. As the name suggests, Freight is a balance between momentum and substance, funk and storytelling, with its spiritual home waiting somewhere just a little farther down the highway.