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ADAM KLEIN & THE WILD FIRES
adam-klein.com

Eddie Kesler & 3/4 Time
eddiekesler.com

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Brookshire Amphitheatre
Cabbagetown Park
(near Mollie Street entrance)

FREE SHOW
ALL AGES

ADAM KLEIN

Klein’s literate songwriting and active years of touring pre-pandemic and fatherhood have earned accolades from Americana and folks press, multiple albums on the Euro Americana chart, an official performance at Folk Alliance, and shared stages with a long list of revered songwriters and bands including James McMurtry, Josh Ritter, Steep Canyon Rangers, Shovels & Rope, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck, Okkervil River, and more.

Klein’s records have featured a who’s-who of talented musicians from Athens and beyond, including producer, engineer, drummer, and vocalist Bronson Tew, producer David Barbe, Randall Bramblett, pedal steel maestro John Neff, David Blackmon (Widespread Panic, Jerry Reed), Lera Lynn, and Carlton Owens (Cracker).

Adam Klein is based in Atlanta, Georgia, having gravitated there from Athens. In the early part of this century, Klein spent a couple of years volunteering with the Peace Corps in West Africa. Klein found himself working in the Segou region of Mali, where he absorbed its musical and storytelling traditions. In 2010, he managed to raise enough money to travel to Mali’s capital, Bamako, where he recorded 12 songs, often in one take, with some of the country’s best musicians. The resulting record entitled ‘Dugu Wolo’ was released via Klein’s independent label, Cowboy Angel Music. There are many Western musicians who have recorded with their Malian counterparts, but Klein is probably the first to write and sing in Bambara, the language spoken by six million people. Klein is a versatile character, not only has he released eight albums, but he’s also an actor having appeared in a number of films and television series.

‘Dugu Wolo’ aside, Klein’s previous releases had mainly covered fairly traditional singer-songwriter topics, but with his 2023 album ‘Holidays In The United States‘, he produced a, not always easy to listen to, classic, which details some uncomfortable truths. The album was a reaction to the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and many others, and the general racial injustice which still exists in America. It includes the epic, seven-minute-long ‘I-20’, which ends with Klein singing what seems to be an almost interminable list of people of colour killed by the police or who’ve died as the result of racially motivated crimes. The album ends on an optimistic note with ‘Bright Rails Shine’, a song Klein has called “a hymn to the promise of America”.

‘Holidays In The United States’ provides a twenty-first century template of what protest music should sound like. It will be interesting to see where Klein goes next, hopefully on to bigger and even better things.

courtesy of adam-klein.com &
americana-uk.com/more-people-should-really-know-about-adam-klein

EDDIE KESLER
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Eddie Kesler has been a multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter the majority of his life. He started out as a drummer playing in bands touring up and down the east coast playing stages like the famed CBGBs in New York and The Cannery in Nashville. All along playing guitar, writing songs and eventually taking up the mandolin to play in several popular bluegrass and acoustic bands over the last 20 years. Finally, after culminating a pretty thick songbook spanning many years, Kesler decided it was time to start laying them down in a solo effort he calls Eddie Kesler & 3/4 Time.

He's since released two separate solo albums in his name. The latest, "What's a Song Worth" has climbed up both the Alt Country Twang & RMR Americana and Country charts throughout summer and fall of 2022 to #5 and #6, respectively on the latter. WASW also scored the #1 Roots album for multiple weeks in his home state of Georgia. The album has been spinning on over 150 stations around the USA and worldwide. The single "Meet Me at the Bar" off the album made it to #4 on the independent country charts.

Kesler tries to do good things with his music as well. All the proceeds of the albums go to charity. The proceeds from the first release in 2017, "Wingman", goes to the American Heart Association in honor of his late father. The latest release, "What's A Song Worth", all monies goes to NAMI.org for mental heath and suicide awareness.

via eddiekesler.com/musician

SPECIAL GUEST:

Live Painting by

JEREMY RAY

Special performance art by local artist, Jeremy Ray, will accompany the stage show with an unique interpretation of this Spring evening at Brookshire Amphitheatre. Keep following for news about how to obtain prints or bid on the original at our online auction. Exciting stuff! Special reveal at 9pm

www.jeremyrayis.com

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2023 YEAR IN REVIEW

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Cabbagetown Concert Series is a production of the Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association. Please consider supporting the series & performers with your generous gift. Donations are tax deductible. Shows are general admission. Show runs from 7pm to 9pm. Curfew at 9:30. Please respect our residential neighbors.

We kindly request chatty chads & custie chompers party amongst themselves up top, at a fun & respectful distance *behind* the audience, while others enjoy listening to the show in relative peace. Please refrain from smoking within the amphitheatre seating area (partakers can still clearly see & hear the show, you know… just off to the side).

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AUTUMN 2023

Friday, October 13th - Bad Guru, Somatoad
Guest Booking Agent: Daniel Karasek

Thursday, September 21st - Chrome Castle, Nolan Bennett

SPRING 2023

Thursday, March 16th - Slow Parade, Das Kaiser

Thursday, April 20th - Blair Crimmins & the Hookers,
Rae & the Ragdolls, Chickens & Pigs
Guest Booking Agent: Daniel Karasek

Saturday, May 20th - Leah Calvert, Lily Dabbs

Thursday, June 15th - Lesibu Grand, Lemonmnm

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Previous Shows:
(Third Thursdays, unless otherwise specified)

Friday, October 13th, 2023 - Bad Guru, Somatoad (Guest Booking Agent: Daniel Karasek)
September 21`st, 2023 - Chrome Castle, Nolan Bennett

June 15th, 2023 - Lesibu Grand, Lemonmnm
Saturday May 20th, 2023 - Leah Calvert, Lily Dabbs
April 20th, 2023 - Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Rae & the Ragdolls, Chickens & Pigs
(Guest Booking Agent: Daniel Karasek)
March 16th, 2023 - Slow Parade, Das Kaiser

October 20th, 2022: Former Sinners of the Future, Slim Chance & the Convicts
September 15th, 2022: Fatback Deluxe, Cadillac Jones
May 19th, 2022: Jon Byrd, Yes Ma’am
April 21st, 2022: Lynx Deluxe, Sweet Young Twang
March 19th, 2022: Louis Keys, Wasted Potential Brass Band (Celebration of David Chatmon)

October 14th, 2021: Christian Perez, RAH
September 16th, 2021, Rebecca Blouin; [TBA]

October 17th, 2019: Caroline & the Ramblers; [TBA]
September 19th, 2019: Hearthunters; Von Stranz (video: teaser)
June 20th, 2019: W8ing4UFOs; Parsons Rocket Project (video: teaser)
May 16th, 2019: Ross Pead; Daniel "Mudcat" Dudek (video: teaser)
April 18th, 2019: Doug Deluxe and the Rodeo Clowns; Evan Stepp and the Piners (video: teaser)
March 21st, 2019: Wheel Knockers; Moonlight Mechanics

October 18th, 2018: Young Antiques; What The...?
September 20th, 2018: Solo Acts: Joel Burkhart, Michael Goldman, Takiya Mason (video: teaser), & Amber Taylor
June 21st, 2018: Teresa Kay Williams; Three Way Mirror (video: teaser)
May 24th, 2018: Rodeo Twister; Solo Acts: Katie Butler, Jeremy Ray (video: teaser - featured song), & Evan Stepp
April 19th, 2018: Youngest; Josias (video: teaser)
March 15th 2018: Slim Chance & the Convicts (video: full show); The Chumblers (video: full show - featured song)

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Cabbagetown Concert Series took an extended hiatus due to public health concerns and City of Atlanta regulations for Parks. There are no shows from Spring 2020, Fall 2020, or Spring 2021. Please follow @CabbagetownUSA on social medial for news, video links, and band resources from previous seasons!

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