Soul-jazz groove machine delivers feel-good music with roots from Motown to 60s guitar gods

The band features Delvon Lamarr, a self-taught virtuosic musician with perfect pitch who taught himself jazz and has effortlessly been able to play a multitude of instruments. On guitar is the dynamo Jimmy James who eases through Steve Cropper-style chanking guitar, volcanic acid-rock freak-out lead playing, and slinky Grant Green-style jazz. From Reno, Nevada is drummer Dan Weiss (also of the powerhouse soul and funk collective The Sextones). Dan’s smoldering pocket-groove drumming locks in the trio’s explosive chemistry.

Tickets start at $25.

20-time Grammy Award winner & NEA Jazz Master

Pat Metheny is launching a new playing environment called “Side-Eye.” Born into a musical family, Pat was already working with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City by age 15. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional “jazz guitar” sound for a new generation of players. His 20 Grammy Awards range from rock instrumental to jazz solo. Metheny has spent much of his life on tour, often doing more than 100 shows a year.

Tickets start at $90.

Celebrate a critical part of America’s musical heritage with Underground Railroad spirituals

Michelle Mayne-Graves and her Lifeline Quartet perform spirituals from the Civil War era and before, celebrating “code songs” written as reminders and guides for the Underground Railroad. These spirituals include hidden messages about maps, navigational strategies, and timing for slaves to escape toward freedom in the Northern States and Canada. It is marvelous and perhaps miraculous to witness the magnificent music created by an oppressed people during and despite incredible suffering.

In addition to directing choirs, performing spirituals, and helping to coordinate and lead singing groups for veterans, Michelle is a team supervisor and RN case manager for Housing Homeless Veterans at the Veteran’s Administration in Los Angeles.

Tickets start at $27.

Enrich your concert experience by participating in “The Underground Railroad” book club at the Bud Werner Memorial Library on September 21. The Pulitzer Prize winning book has also been adapted to a television series. Register here: https://steamboatlibrary.org/events/book-clubs-adults/book-discussion/underground-railroad/2021-09-21

2-time Grammy-nominated virtuoso mandolinist and singer-songwriter

Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sierra Hull hit more milestones in her first 25 years than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. After making her Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 10, the Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist played Carnegie Hall at age 12, then landed a deal with Rounder Records just a year later. Now 29 years old, Hull’s fourth full-length album for Rounder is the elegantly inventive and endlessly captivating 25 Trips. The 2-time Grammy nominee will appear at Strings for the first time this November.

Dead Horses isn’t a band in the conventional sense. Rather, it’s an intimate, folk-inspired conversation between two close friends: guitarist/singer Sarah Vos and bassist Daniel Wolff. Dead Horses weave together a vibrant patchwork of classic and contemporary influences that span traditional roots, indie-folk, and other experimental musical idioms. Through it all, the union of Sarah’s emotive songwriting with Dan’s intrepid bass playing transcends the singer-songwriter-with-backup-musicians paradigm.

Tickets start at $30.

Hawaiian-born ukulele master has virtually reinvented the four-string instrument

Many call him “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele.” His albums have topped Billboard World Music Charts. He has headlined the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and Sydney Opera House. He performed for Queen Elizabeth II. He is a frequent performer on shows like The Today Show, Good Morning America, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

“I just wanted to play the ukulele my way, which turns out to be very different from what everybody else has done,” says Jake, who started playing the instrument at the age of four and learned the basics from his mother, Carol.

Tickets start at $55.

Brent and his two amazingly talented guests revive a musical tradition with this memorable show

Brent Rowan made his mark as a Nashville studio guitarist and record producer, nominated nine times for Country Music Association awards. In addition to over 15,000 recording sessions, he has played on dozens of film soundtracks and recorded with Chris LeDoux, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Olivia Newton-John, Sting, and Neil Diamond, along with many others.

Tickets start at $75.

RESCHEDULED – This is the new concert date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Existing tickets will be honored on the new date. If you are unable to make the rescheduled date, you may request a credit or refund.

Pioneering singer-songwriter with 3 Grammy awards is still earning accolades after more than 40 years

She has traveled a long road since her 1979 debut, Ramblin’ on My Mind. Over the course of fourteen remarkable albums, three Grammy awards, and countless accolades, including Time’s Songwriter of the Year of 2001, Lucinda Williams is one of our most revered artists, beloved for her singular vocals and extraordinary songs.

Tickets start at $70.

This is the new (2022) date for this performance. If you had tickets to the previous date, they are valid for this new show: hang onto them! We look forward to seeing you at the show. See footnote below for questions about your tickets.*

ABOUT LEFTOVER SALMON – Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-a-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon. Offbeat calls them, “one of the most spirited, jovial bands of the jam band nation.”

“Leftover Salmon has built a fervent audience with an insatiable thirst
for its energetic live performances” -NPR’s Mountain Stage

In their earliest days, Leftover Salmon was a progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix. Unafraid to stir combustible styles into their ever-evolving sound, they became a pioneer of the modern jamband scene. Today, as elder-statesmen of the festival scene, Salmon keeps alive and vital the traditional music of the past– while pushing that sound forward with their own quirks.

Celebrating 30 years, the band now features a lineup that has been together longer than any other in Leftover Salmon history: founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman, banjo-wiz Andy Thorn, bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and keyboardist Erik Deutsch.

Tickets start at $40.

*We hope all previous ticket holders can attend on the new date, but please notify us if you can not. Refunds are offered to all ticket holders for one full week after the rescheduling announcement–or you may choose to receive a credit or to donate the value of your tickets to Strings at this challenging time for arts nonprofits. To let us know your preference, please call or email us:

Strings Box Office (phone calls or emails only, please— no visitors at this time):
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