FREE
Every Tuesday evening Isis presents our Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions. The sessions are hosted each week by a local bluegrass musician with friends or a band. Following the host band, Bluegrass musicians from the Asheville area gather on stage to jam in an open session. Occasionally, we feature a touring band that will perform prior to the open session and help co-host the jam. It’s always a great evening of music and community.
7:30-9:30PM: Host Band: Zoe and Cloyd www.zoeandcloyd.com
9:30 – til: Open Jam
Joining Zoe & Cloyd will be Kevin Kehrberg on bass and Bennett Sullivan on banjo. Kevin is a master of the upright bass having performed jazz, bluegrass and old-time music all over the world from Indonesia to Kyrgyzstan, Japan and beyond. He is a much sought after session player and the chair of the music department at Warren Wilson College. Bennett Sullivan is also highly regarded performer and educator, renowned for his skills on banjo and guitar and the originator of the online learning platform, TuneFox. A veteran of countless stages, Bennett has performed with Ben Sollee, Darin & Brooke Aldridge and Maria Muldaur and toured with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell in their Broadway musical production, Bright Star.
Hailing from opposite ends of the Appalachian mountains, Zoe & Cloyd is renowned fiddler and vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist John Cloyd Miller. Their show is as diverse as their upbringing: coming from a lineage of klezmer and jazz musicians, Natalya trained classically in her home state of Massachusetts before moving south in 2004. John, a twelfth generation North Carolinian and grandson of pioneering bluegrass fiddler, Jim Shumate, is a 1st place winner of the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest as well as an Artist Fellowship recipient for songwriting from the North Carolina Arts Council.
As founding members of the acclaimed Americana trio, Red June, and long-time fixtures of the Asheville, NC music scene, the couple shifted focus to Zoe & Cloyd in 2015. Their debut recording, Equinox (2015) as well as their 2017 album, Eyes Brand New, both met with high acclaim and the pair have continued to gain momentum with their brand of “New Appalachian” music at performances and festivals all across the country. Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine agrees, proclaiming Zoe & Cloyd as “a musical collaboration that demands to be heard.” They will be returning to the studio in January 2019 to record their highly anticipated third studio album.
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