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The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Show featuring The Fabulous Ginn Sisters

Friday, December 10, 2010 8:00 PM

Eaglesmith has followed his muse and the music to wherever it takes him since he left the family farm at age 15 to pursue the hitchhiking and freight-hopping trail of a traveling troubadour. As a result he has forged one of the most distinguished and unique independent careers in popular music from the grassroots upwards, marked by a consistent string of critical superlatives for his work. And now after being a leading light in both the new folk and Americana movements, Eaglesmith stays at the cutting edge of the musical zeitgeist to help spark a rock’n’roll renewal. “I still want to be vibrant and I still want to be on fire and I still have passion,” he asserts. “I don’t ever wanna stay in the ghetto.”

His restless and relentless muse has already earned Eaglesmith a singular and impressive legacy of achievements. Over the years the Juno Award-winning artist has had his music used in films by Martin Scorsese, James Caan and Toby Keith, scored a hit #1 on the bluegrass charts (“Thirty Years of Farming,” recorded by James King), and had his songs included in the curriculum at two colleges. His fans are so devoted that he is the host and centerpiece of a number of music festivals in the U.S. and Canada as well as inspiring the Roots on the Rails rolling music fests and hosting a number of its excursions, plus now in 2010 hitting the high seas with the shipboard Fred Eaglesmith Atlantic Adventure. A popular live attraction in clubs and festivals across North America, Eaglesmith also enjoys fervent followings in Europe and Australia.

Yet for all his plaudits and accomplishments, Eaglesmith continues to stay true to his own populist path as an entertainer. “Yes, I get all these accolades and everything. And we’re cooking eggs in the RV when we’re on tour,” he notes with a wry chuckle. “Which to me is really fantastic, because that makes me loosen up and be able to write the songs. What a great place my life is in now. Alan Jackson is singing my song, and we’re going to start staying in RV parks. I love that. As I get more into the mainstream my lifestyle gets more and more away from it.”

And as Eaglesmith and his band tear up the road like a rogue band of musical gypsies, “We’re just turning it up smoking it every night just like 1967, and it’s so much fun,” he says. “There’s no money and everyone is in the recession, so you just go, well, this is the time to make great music. This is what rock’n’roll always was. Rock’n’roll in its purest form is just such a great thing. And there’s something right now that makes it feel really relevant.”

In the end, within what he calls “the weirdest little career that works so well,” the journey is still as important for Eaglesmith as any destinations, if not more so. “No matter where I go in the world there's always 100 or 200 people willing to shell out 20 bucks to see me," says Eaglesmith. “I can drive down some little sheep road in Scotland or Australia for eight hours and there’s people who'll gather up in some shack or some barn or some hall to see my show. It’s the best feeling in the world.”

The Fabulous Ginn Sisters (then ‘The Ginn Sisters’) first made their mark on the Americana scene with their 2006 release “Blood Oranges” which received stellar reviews from regional, national and international media. It was played on Americana, AAA, Folk, Country, Eclectic, and even Bluegrass radio. It reached #2 on the RootsMusic Report, #3 on the FAR Chart and #24 on the Americana Chart. It was the #1 independently released CD on the Americana Chart for 2006. It was in top rotation on a number of national radio, TV-radio and Internet stations, including XM Radio's X Country. They have played in some of the best listening rooms in the country like The Ark, Mountain Stage, The Little Bear, The Bitter End, The Cactus Cafe, Eddies Attic, CSPS, the Focal Point, Swallow Hill, and the Bluebird Café and festivals including Big State, Kerrville, and Flat Rock. They are primarily interested in playing at festivals, music clubs, theatres and listening rooms.

www.fredeaglesmith.com

www.theginnsister.com

Price: $20.00

Tickets go on sale by phone 10/11/2010

Tickets go on sale online 11/10/2010

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