JP Harris' Dreadful Wind & Rain with Sophie Mae Wellington

About this event

Rooted in the raw, timeless sounds of Appalachian old-time music, JP Harris and Sophie Mae Wellington bring together fiddle tunes, flat-picked guitar, soulful singing, and deep rhythmic drive. Harris’s fiercely personal approach to traditional music meets Wellington’s adventurous musicianship and Appalachian flatfooting for an evening that feels both deeply rooted and joyfully alive.

ABOUT JP HARRIS

https://www.ilovehonkytonk.com/ Known to many across the honky tonks of America as a craftsman of electrified outlaw country music, JP Harris has recently been singing an older song, calling on the music that changed his life twenty years ago. “Old-time music has been a baseline for me,” Harris says. “And I think in getting a little older, a little more comfortable with myself and trusting my intuitions a little more, I've realized that one thing that's never changed in the tumult of launching and trying to build and maintain a music career all these years, the one consistent love and lover that I've had has been the old-time community.”

With Shaving A Dead Man, JP Harris embraces and exuberates Appalachian old-time music with a history and integrity that confounds the 21st century’s dystopian decline. The repertoire is heirloom, but the performances by Harris, alongside fiddler Chance McCoy (Old Crow Medicine Show), have a subversive power and a healing, analog humanity.

Shaving A Dead Man, out on October 23 on Bloodshot Records, reflects a passionate and personal interpretation of tradition, not some scholarly survey. As with any quality folk music, the collection has a sense of place, specifically the studio where it was recorded in Monroe County, West Virginia.

ABOUT SOPHIE MAE WELLINGTON

https://www.sophiewellington.com/

Sophie Wellington is a Boston-based musician. From old time fiddle tunes to jazz singing, from flat-picking guitar arrangements to Appalachian flatfooting, Sophie brings a unique and spontaneous approach to making music. "Sophie Wellington's dancing reveals a deep knowledge and love of Appalachian music and spot on rhythmic sensibilities, enhanced by a jazz education. Her singular approach to percussive dance opens new possibilities where we thought there were none left!"

-Nic Gareiss