NIGHT PALACE / K. KID / CICADA RHYTHM
Three outstanding groups hailing from Athens, Georgia join for a triple-bill event rich with talent and creative vision.
THE GREY EAGLE Wednesday August 31, 2022 Asheville, NC ->BUY TICKETS<-
THE EVENING MUSE Thursday, September 1, 2022 Charlotte, NC ->BUY TICKETS<-
TWEED STUDIOS Friday September 2, 2022 Athens, GA ->BUY TICKETS<-
with ADRON! Saturday September 3, 2022 ->BUY TICKETS<-
Americana, dream-pop, modern creative jazz: indeed each band may inhabit distinct musical territories, but what they share tonight speaks the common love-language of music, beauty, and escape.
A musician's dream: you meet, write songs together, perform around the world, and eventually marry… your soulmate. Does this even really happen? Yes, yes it does, and you can hear it in the weave of every CICADA RHYTHM song.
For the uninitiated, the Americana umbrella would certainly serve to shelter the Cicada family's music, but upon further listen you will find a wealth of textures and harmonic twists set this music far above anyone's expectations of the genre. To sweeten the deal, as singers and instrumentalists Andrea and Dave can stand alone or flow together as needed, and onstage you sense they often merge into a spine-tingling single unique voice that lifts you up.
The duo shines in the group's newest record Everywhere I Go, and songs like "American Open Roads" and "Kaleidoscope Rose" invite you to wander through wisteria-choked backyards, gaze at the stars from your front porch, and yes, even dream a dream of your own.
"Regardless of how the influences of folk, jazz and blues intermingled, Cicada Rhythm craft an open-hearted, inventive blend of American musics in deceptively simple songs that are both haunting and playfully jaunty…” - Creative Loafing
Nearing twenty years in existence, KENOSHA KID, or K.KID as it is occasionally stylized, is a musical group led by guitarist Dan Nettles. Based in the humid indie-rock haven of Athens, Georgia, Nettles leads a worldwide host of collaborators in a simple purpose: build a scene, write for people you know, and listen to your creative heart. Certainly the all-instrumental music has deep roots in jazz composition, but it is also fueled by an omnivorous musical appetite and as likely to reference Monk as Willie Nelson, Hendrix as Duke Ellington.
"Nettles’ compositions are melodic and organically unfold through clear forms and solid sounds... a distinct sonic and emotional universe brought into focus by a band that listens as hard as they play…" -Staccatofy
Night Palace's debut album Diving Rings is a shocking alchemy: aching nostalgia meets frothy anticipation of what’s beyond the garden wall. Tantalizing pop melodies take wing with lush instrumentation, weaving a reedy bed for songwriter Avery Draut’s shimmering vocals. It’s hard to believe the album is not a soundtrack to . . . something. You find yourself picturing it: a moonlit-gilded diorama of Draut’s dreams and memories.
Spanning eleven songs and interludes, Diving Rings ebbs and flows through tracks like "Enjoy the Moon!" dubbed by AllMusic, "a song that sounds like a lost Pet Sounds track played by Broadcast;" grounded indie-rock songs "Into the Wake, Mystified" and "Stranger Powers;" and the celeste-gilded folk song "Titania."
Paste Magazine encapsulates the now Athens, Georgia and New York City-based act’s sound: "Diving Rings wraps freak-folk energy in a lush psych-pop package."
"At times like these when it feels like the world is ending, one of the few purely escapist activities we have left is getting lost in music. Avery Leigh’s Night Palace gives us that..." - Audiofemme