{"id":32012,"date":"2026-03-12T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=32012"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:06:42","slug":"on-stage-looking-for-cool-shows-go-south-of-the-pa-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=32012","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Looking for cool shows? Go south of the (Pa.) Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/div>\n
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Gary Numan<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cGo West, young man\u201d is a phrase concerning the United States\u2019 westward expansion\u00a0which was first stated by\u00a0John Babsone Lane Soule\u00a0in an 1851 editorial in the\u00a0Terre Haute Express.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If he were to make a similar statement today concerning attractive live music shows in the area this weekend, he would probably say, \u201cGo South, young men and women.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The reason for that would be a number of tasty shows scheduled for locations in Delaware and Maryland \u2013 Arden, Wilmington and Elkton.<\/div>\n
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The highlight of this weekend\u2019s shows will be on March 15 when Gary Numan headlines a show at The Queen (500 North Market Street, Wilmington, www.thequeenwilmington.com<\/a>).<\/div>\n

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Numan formed the band Tubeway Army in 1976 in London and introduced a new sound to the British rock scene.<\/div>\n
He came to prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer for\u00a0Tubeway Army. After adopting a\u00a0punk rock-style they signed a recording contract with\u00a0Beggars Banquet Records\u00a0and released their debut single “That’s Too Bad” in February 1978.<\/div>\n
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Tubeway Army’s eponymous,\u00a0new wave-oriented\u00a0debut studio album, released in November 1978, sold out its limited run and introduced Numan’s fascination with\u00a0dystopian\u00a0science fiction and synthesizers. During the recording of the album Numan found a\u00a0Moog synthesizer\u00a0left behind in the studio and the transition towards an electronic sound began.<\/div>\n
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Following exposure in a television advertisement for\u00a0Lee Cooper\u00a0jeans with the jingle “Don’t Be a Dummy,\u201d Tubeway Army released the single “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” in May 1979.<\/div>\n
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After a modest start at the lower reaches of the\u00a0UK singles chart\u00a0at No.\u00a071, it steadily climbed to No.\u00a01 at the end of June and remained on that position for four consecutive weeks. In July its parent studio album, \u201cReplicas,\u201d\u00a0also reached No.\u00a01 on the albums chart.<\/div>\n
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A key moment came on the Top of the Pops show in May 1979. The show\u2019s steady menu of punk and disco got interrupted by a transmission from the future.<\/div>\n
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A luminous synth riff echoes out, a beat drives on and up steps an otherworldly figure \u2013 part robot, part alien \u2013 to deliver an enigmatic lyric depicting some kind of android existence in a dystopian future.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s Gary Numan fronting Tubeway Army for their breakthrough hit, \u201cAre \u2018Friends\u2019 Electric?.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In September “Cars” reached No.\u00a01 in the UK. The single found success in North American charts where “Cars” spent two weeks at No.\u00a01 on the Canadian\u00a0RPM\u00a0charts and reached No.\u00a09 in the US in 1980.\u00a0“Cars” and the 1979 studio album, \u201cThe Pleasure Principle,\u201d\u00a0were both released under Numan’s own stage name.<\/div>\n
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The album reached No. 1 in the UK and a sell-out tour (The Touring Principle) followed. The concert video\u00a0it spawned is often cited as the first full-length commercial music video release.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Pleasure Principle\u201d\u00a0was a rock album with no guitars. Instead, Numan used synthesizers connected to\u00a0effects units\u00a0to achieve a distorted, phased, metallic tone.<\/div>\n
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Numan, and fellow late 1970s bands OMD and\u00a0the Human League were described as \u201cthe holy trinity of synth-pop.\u201d<\/div>\n
In 1980, Numan topped the UK Albums Chart for a third time with\u00a0\u201cTelekon,\u201d and the singles \u201cWe Are Glass\u201d and “I Die: You Die”, released prior to the album, reaching No.\u00a05 and No.\u00a06 on the UK charts.<\/div>\n
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In April 1981, Numan decided to retire from touring following a series of concerts at\u00a0Wembley Arena Canadian experimental musician Nash the Slash <\/a>as the opening act.<\/div>\n
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Nash the Slash was multi-instrumentalist known primarily for playing the\u00a0electric violin\u00a0and\u00a0mandolin, as well as the synthesizer, keyboards,\u00a0glockenspiel, and other instruments. He performed as a one-man band until his retirement in November 2012. He died of a heart attack in May 2014.<\/div>\n
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Numan\u2019s option of retirement was short-lived. Departing from the pure\u00a0electropop\u00a0that had been his trademark, Numan began experimenting with\u00a0jazz,\u00a0funk, and ethereal, rhythmic pop. His first studio album after his farewell concerts was\u00a0\u201cDance\u201d\u00a0(1981).<\/div>\n
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Numan\u2019s four decades of achievements include seven Top 10 singles, including \u201cAre \u2018Friends\u2019 Electric?\u201d and the debut solo hit \u201cCars\u201d; eight Top 10 albums, three of which topped the charts; and huge critical acclaim, most notably with the Inspiration Award at the prestigious Ivor Novellos.<\/div>\n
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Numan\u2019s two most recent studio albums were \u201cSavage (Songs From A Broken World)\u201d in 2017 and\u00a0\u201cIntruder,\u201d\u00a0was released on in May 2021.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSavage (Songs From A Broken World)\u201d is an album with a narrative that is set in an apocalyptic, post-global warming Earth in the not-too-distant future. There is no technology left and most of the planet has turned to a desolate desert wasteland.<\/div>\n
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Food is scarce, water even more so and human kindness and decency are just a dim and distant memory. Western and Eastern cultures have merged, more because of the need to simply survive than any feelings of greater tolerance or understanding. It\u2019s a harsh, savage environment, as are the survivors who still roam across it.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI started writing the album in November 2015,\u201d said\u00a0Numan, during a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles\u2019\u00a0San Fernando Valley.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI did a Pledge Campaign. I wanted donors to experience it from Day One \u2013 to see how a song evolved \u2013 to see how the various elements are added. I hadn\u2019t gone into the studio for quite some time before that.\u201d<\/div>\n
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While\u00a0Numan\u00a0was writing the record, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. It made sense to make him and his climate decisions the catalyst for the apocalypse theme of the album.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWith the election, it\u2019s an interesting connection,\u201d said\u00a0Numan. \u201cThe first song I wrote was about how much pressure I was under because my last album did really well. I was doing a lot of touring \u2013 and I was managing myself.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI was dealing with an awful lot of things I wasn\u2019t used to. I wrote 22 bits of music that turned into four or five actual tunes.\u00a0\u00a0I wanted the new album to be good enough. So, that was the first song.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThen, I started to steal ideas from the book I was writing about a post-Apocalyptic future. Then, Trump appeared. I saw that he was against climate change \u2013 calling it a Chinese hoax.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe thing that really got me was the climate change. He was saying things that were very different to what I believed to be true and it worried me.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI had had no intention of doing an album about it but Trump made it all more relevant \u2013 taking ideas from my global warming book.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWithout Trump, the album would have been very different. I realized I needed to tap into this far more than I had anticipated. The project stopped being a purely science-fiction thing.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The desolate future Trump\u2019s actions could create took a central position.<\/div>\n
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According to\u00a0Numan, \u201cThe songs are about the things that people do in such a harsh and terrifying environment. It\u2019s about a desperate need to survive and they do awful things in order to do so, and some are haunted by what they\u2019ve done.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThat desire to be forgiven, along with some discovered remnants of an old religious book, ultimately encourages religion to resurface, and it really goes downhill from there.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Numan\u2019s 19th solo studio album,\u00a0\u201cIntruder,\u201d\u00a0was released in May 2021.<\/div>\n
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According to Numan, who is also a pilot, an aerobatic flying instructor and founder of Numanair, a small charter flight company, \u201c\u2018Intruder\u2019 looks at climate change from the planet\u2019s point of view.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf the Earth could speak, and feel things the way we do, what would it say? How would it feel?<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe songs, for the most part, attempt to be that voice, or at least try to express what I believe the earth must feel at the moment.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe planet sees us as its children now grown into callous selfishness, with a total disregard for its well-being. It feels betrayed, hurt and ravaged.<\/div>\n
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\u201cDisillusioned and heartbroken, it is now fighting back. Essentially, it considers humankind to be a virus attacking the planet.<\/div>\n
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\u201cClimate change is the undeniable sign of the Earth saying enough is enough and finally doing what it needs to do to get rid of us, and explaining why it feels it has to do it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Numan\u2019s most recent album release is \u201cTelekon (45th Anniversary Expanded Edition).\u201d It was released on December 12, 2025. Black Vinyl Double LP and CD were released on January 30, 2026.<\/div>\n
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\u201cTelekon\u201d was the second solo studio album by Numan. It debuted at the top of the\u00a0UK Albums Chart\u00a0in September 1980, making it his third consecutive No. 1 album.<\/div>\n
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It was also the third and final studio release of what Numan retrospectively termed the “machine” section of his career, following\u00a0Replicas\u00a0and\u00a0The Pleasure Principle\u00a0(both 1979).<\/div>\n
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Numan is currently on his \u2018Telekon\u2019 tour, celebrating 45 years since the release of the LP.\u00a0He also recently confirmed that he had played 1,000 live shows and took to social media to talk about what the milestone meant to him.<\/div>\n
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According to Numan, \u201cPlaying 1,000 shows is quite something, and yet if someone had said it was 5,000 the number would still have felt low, given the extraordinary effort, sacrifice, commitment (and stress) that\u2019s been poured into those shows over the years.<\/div>\n
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\u201cEach tour is a life within a life, a world within a world. Each one a unique adventure. I have been touring my entire adult life, from a nervous, out-of-my-depth, sulky young man to something entirely different today.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s a life like no other, and I feel privileged to have reached the 1,000-show milestone and honored to have shared that journey with so many of you.\u201d<\/div>\n
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On Sunday night, Numan will share that journey with his audience at The Queen.<\/div>\n
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Video link for Gary Numan \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/lHomCiPFknY<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The show at The Queen on March 15 will start at 8 p.m.<\/div>\n
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Tickets are $44.<\/div>\n
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Other upcoming shows at The Queen are CKY on the Main Stage on March 13 and Jenni Schick & The Gourds \/ Kat Rivers & The Second Sight \/ Abby Lee on March 12 and Joy and the Wildfire with Monstera on March 13 at The Crown.<\/div>\n
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Main Stage shows at The Queen later this month will feature Sugar Mountain on March 20, Kenny Vanella and Friends on March 21, Aly & AJ on March 22, GWAR om March 25 and Obey Your Master on March 28.<\/div>\n
Ron Ozer, who is putting on Numan\u2019s show on Sunday, is also the promoter responsible for presenting shows at the Arden Gild Hall and the Elkton Music Hall.<\/div>\n
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A much-anticipated event will take place on March 12 when the Arden Gild Hall (2126 The Hwy, Arden, Delaware, ardenconcerts.com<\/a>) hosts Donna the Buffalo.<\/div>\n
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The group got its start in New York\u2019s Finger Lakes region in the late 1980s with the duo of Tara Nevins (vocals, fiddle, acoustic guitar, accordion, washboard, tambourine) and Jeb Puryear (vocals, electric guitar, occasional pedal steel). For more than two decades, the lineup has also included David McCracken (Hammond organ, Hohner Clavinet, piano).<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe have a pool of drummers and bass players we use,\u201d said Nevins, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon prior to the band\u2019s departure this weekend for shows in Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.<\/div>\n
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\u201cDavid, our keyboard player, has been with us for a long time. We formed the band over 30 years ago in the Ithaca area. Jeb and I are the only original members still left in the band.\u201d<\/div>\n
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With roots in the old-time fiddle and Appalachian music scene, Nevins and Puryear began writing original songs which blended bluegrass, country, jam band, rock, newgrass, zydeco and Americana styles.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe were Americana before it was cool to be Americana,\u201d said Nevins. \u201cWe were Americana before Americana existed.\u201d<\/div>\n
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When the band needed a name for a show at Cabbagetown Caf\u00e9 in Ithaca, \u201cDawn of the Buffalo\u201d was misheard as \u201cDonna the Buffalo\u201d \u2013 and that name stuck.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHow have we evolved over the years \u2013 we\u2019ve gotten better,\u201d said Nevins. \u201cOur music is a mix of styles \u2013 just as it always has been. It\u2019s Americana.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Donna The Buffalo is not just a band. It has become a lifestyle for its members and audiences.<\/div>\n
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The band\u2019s career developed through relentless touring \u2013 more than 100 shows a year — and a grassroots ethos. They released 11 albums including \u201c’Rockin\u2019 in the Weary Land,\u201d which won an Association for Independent Music Award for Best Rock Album in 1999.<\/div>\n
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Since 1989, the roots rockers have played thousands of shows and countless festivals including Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Telluride, Austin City Limits Festival, Merle Fest, and Philadelphia Folk Festival.<\/div>\n
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They\u2019ve opened for The Dead and have toured with Peter Rowan, Del McCoury, Los Lobos, Little Feat, Jim Lauderdale, Rusted Root, and Railroad Earth to name a few. They also toured with Ben & Jerry\u2019s co-founder Ben Cohen to help raise awareness about increased corporate spending in politics.<\/div>\n
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In 1991, the band started the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg, NY. The four-day festival has become an annual destination for over 15,000 music lovers every year and was started as an AIDS benefit. It continues as a benefit for arts and education.<\/div>\n
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To date, the event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and is now one of three Grassroots Festivals along with the bi-annual Shakori Hills Fest in North Carolina and Virginia Key Festival in Florida.<\/div>\n
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In 2016, GrassRoots Culture Camp was introduced in Trumansburg, New York featuring four days of music, art, dance and movement workshops, including nightly dinners and dances.<\/div>\n
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We play a lot of shows every year and we play a lot of festivals \u2013 including our own,\u201d said Nevins.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe have our Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival. And for about 10 years now, we put on the GrassRoots Culture Camp \u2013 a four-day event which has everything from workshops to food.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Donna the Buffalo’s legacy lies in fostering community. Fans are called \u201cThe Herd\u201d \u2013 a name they share with Peter Frampton\u2019s first band when he was a young rocker in London.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Herd\u201d is a self-organized \u201ctribe\u201d that connects at shows, embodying the band’s community-focused lifestyle.<\/div>\n
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Donna The Buffalo has headlined major events like South by Southwest and Telluride, toured domestically and abroad endlessly and been featured in the documentary, \u201cOn The Bus.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe play all kinds of gigs \u2013 festivals, clubs, theaters,\u201d said Nevins. \u201cWe play a lot of theaters and we travel all over.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t started work on an new album yet. It\u2019s hard when you tour a lot. Our last album was \u2018Dance in the Street\u2019 in 2018. We\u2019re probably overdue for doing an album.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Video link for Donna the Buffalo \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/UEkcqzg-L88<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The show in Arden on March 12 will start at 8 p.m.<\/div>\n
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Tickets are $35.<\/div>\n
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The lineup of March and April shows at Arden Gild Hall also features Oneida\/Carlton Melton\/Terry Gross on March 20, Patrick Watson – Uh Oh Tour w\/ La Force on March 21, The Tisburys, Mothman Properties, Ripe Enough on April 10 and \u201cLaurie Kilmartin: An Evening of Comedy\u201d on April 11.<\/div>\n
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On March 14, The Elkton Music Hall (107 North Street, Elkton, Maryland, www.elktonmusichall.com<\/a>) will host a return engagement by Sue Foley.<\/div>\n
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Foley, a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader based in Austin, Texas, visited the area in recent years with concerts at City Winery, World Caf\u00e9 Live and Elkton Music Hall.<\/div>\n
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Her latest release,\u00a0\u201cOne Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar,\u201d was nominated for the 2025 GRAMMY\u00ae Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.<\/div>\n
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On it, Foley delivers a masterclass in acoustic guitar, honoring the trailblazing women who shaped the instrument\u2019s history\u2014from Maybelle Carter and Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Ida Presti and Lydia Mendoza.<\/div>\n
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On her Facebook page, Foley posted \u2013 \u201cA guitar can carry a lot of history.<\/div>\n
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The One Guitar Woman project began as a way to honor some of the women who shaped this instrument, many at the cusp of recorded music.<\/div>\n
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Players like Memphis Minnie, Maybelle Carter, Lydia Mendoza and many others who forged their own path with six strings.<\/div>\n
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Every night on this tour I get to tell some of those stories and play the music that grew out of them.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cOne Guitar Woman\u201d\u00a0is a solo acoustic album that is a tribute to female pioneers of guitar. True to the album title,\u00a0Foley\u00a0performs all the songs on one guitar — a nylon-string acoustic guitar, a flamenco Blanca made by master luthier Salvadore Castillo, purchased by Sue on a 2022 excursion to Paracho, Mexico.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe new album is just me honoring my heroes,\u201d said\u00a0Foley, during a phone interview.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of interviews with female artists. It\u2019s really put a lot of wind in my sails.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis album pays tribute to Memphis Minnie, Lydia Mendoza, Maybelle Carter, Ida Presti, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is a lot of diversity. It crosses cultures. It crosses genres \u2013 but everything is blues. The song selection was pretty easy.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI recorded it in 2023 at a studio just outside Austin \u2013 Blue Rock Studio. It was mastered at Abbey Road Studio in London.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The album showcases the dexterity of\u00a0Foley\u2019s acoustic nylon string guitar skills as she expands on her blues playing into other genres like Piedmont fingerpicking, traditional country, flamenco and classical.<\/div>\n
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According to\u00a0Foley, \u201cFrom the time I decided to be a professional guitar player, I\u2019ve always looked for female role models. These are the women who were expressing themselves through the instrument as far back as the 1920\u2019s, at the inception of radio and recorded music. They are the trailblazers and visionaries whose footsteps I walk in.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Raised in Ottawa, Canada, Foley was drawn to the guitar at 13 and performing professionally by 16. After relocating to Austin, Texas in her early 20s, she signed with Antone\u2019s Records\u2014home to legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan\u2014and released her 1992 debut,\u00a0Young Girl Blues, to widespread acclaim.<\/div>\n
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She has since toured internationally and shared stages with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Billy F Gibbons, earning her place among the top tier of modern blues artists.<\/div>\n
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A five-time winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist (2020\u20132025), Foley also holds a Juno Award, the 2024 Maple Blues \u201cBlues With a Feeling\u201d Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous other honors.<\/div>\n
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She is not only a performer but a scholar: her forthcoming book,\u00a0Guitar Women: Conversations with the Heroines of Guitar\u00a0(Sutherland House, 2026), chronicles her interviews with groundbreaking female players. Foley also holds a PhD in Musicology from York University.<\/div>\n
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In May 2024,\u00a0Foley\u00a0was awarded the Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist (Koko Taylor Award) in Memphis — an award she also won consecutively in 2023, 2022 and 2020.<\/div>\n
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She was also recently honored with Guitarist of the Year and Blues Act of the Year at the 2023 Austin Music Awards, and Guitarist of the Year at the 2023 Maple Blues Awards. Her last album, Pinky\u2019s Blues, took home Best Traditional Blues Album at the 2022 Blues Music Awards.<\/div>\n
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Foley\u2019s other \u201cnew\u201d CD, \u201cLive in Austin, Vol. 1,\u201d came out October 2023 on Stony Plain Records.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI had never done an electric live album before,\u201d said\u00a0Foley. \u201cI had been getting requests from fans for a long time. Recorded at the Continental Club in Austin, it has a great vibe.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe knew we had to use the Continental Club. We\u2019re very loyal to Steve (Wertheimer, owner of the Continental Club). \u201cThis is \u2018Vol. 1,\u2019 There will be a \u2018Vol. 2\u2019 with more roots stuff.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Considering\u00a0Foley\u00a0has released 15 albums over the last 30 years, there is no dearth of material from which to choose.<\/div>\n
\u201cThere is a good selection of songs — a career-spanning selection,\u201d said\u00a0Foley, who won the\u00a0Juno Award\u00a0for her CD, \u201cLove Coming Down,\u201d in 2001. \u201cWe go all the way back to \u2018Young Girl Blues\u2019 (Foley\u2019s debut album in 1992). There was a lot of music to choose from.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m usually about new songs. I tend to be really current. My most recent albums were \u2018Pinky\u2019s Blues\u2019 in 2021 and \u2018The Ice Queen\u2019 in 2018.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn my show now, I\u2019m doing a lot from the new album \u2013 almost all of it. Some of the songs sound the way they were recorded over the years, and some have evolved. Also, I\u2019ve aged \u2013 but I still have angst.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Foley\u2019s live shoes are energetic and powerful \u2013 just what you need for a live recording.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe recorded two nights in a row at the Continental — four hours each night,\u201d said\u00a0Foley. \u201cIt\u2019s a 45-minute \u2018best of the best.\u2019<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe were trying a lot of stuff. They were slightly different sets. We rehearsed a bunch of stuff. After listening to what was recorded, we picked what sounded best.\u201d<\/div>\n
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It seems as if\u00a0Foley\u00a0were born to be a musician \u2013 a travelling musician.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy family was very musical,\u201d said\u00a0Foley. \u201cMy father was a guitarist, and my brother also played guitar.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Foley\u00a0became interested in blues music from listening to\u00a0the Rolling Stones and then played her first gig at age 16. After high school graduation, she relocated to\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0where she formed The Sue\u00a0Foley\u00a0Band and toured Canada.<\/div>\n
\u201cI started playing live a lot when I was living in Vancouver,\u201d said\u00a0Foley. \u201cWhen I was 21, I moved to Austin.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Foley\u00a0signed with Antone\u2019s Records in 1992 and recorded her first four albums for the legendary label \u2013 \u201cYoung Girl Blues,\u201d \u201cWithout a Warning,\u201d \u201cBig City Blues\u201d and \u201cWalk in the Sun.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cAntone\u2019s was a big deal at the time,\u201d said\u00a0Foley, who has received several nominations at the\u00a0Blues Music Awards\u00a0in Memphis, Tennessee. \u201cEven in Canada, we were aware of what was going on in Austin.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Over the years,\u00a0Foley\u00a0has also recorded albums for Shanachie, Ruf, Blind Pig and her current label, Stony Plain (the home of her last three releases).<\/div>\n
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On another Facebook post, Foley wrote, \u201cWomen\u2019s History Month Tour\u2026..I\u2019m hitting the road celebrating the pioneers of guitar \u2014 one voice, one instrument, one story at a time. Come out and be part of it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Upcoming shows at the Elkton Music Hall are Stanley Jordan with special guest E. Shawn Qaissaunee on March 12, and Patterson Hood and John Moreland on March 13.<\/div>\n
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Video link for Sue Foley — https:\/\/youtu.be\/hqH0hAbhAmg<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The show on March 14 in Elkton, which has Diamond Jim Greene as the opening act, will start at 8 p.m.<\/div>\n
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Tickets are $30 for general seating and $48 for premium reserved seating.<\/div>\n
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Upcoming shows at the Elkton Music Hall are Stanley Jordan with special guest E. Shawn Qaissaunee on March 12, and Patterson Hood and John Moreland on March 13.<\/div>\n
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Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, www.uptownwestchester.org<\/a>) will host Better Than Bacon on March 12, the Uptown Studio Annual Future Stars Benefit on March 14, Seamus Kennedy\u00a0on March 15\u00a0and Whiskey Rovers on March 17.<\/div>\n
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Kennett Flash (102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, 484-732-8295, http:\/\/www.kennettflash.org<\/a>) is hosting \u201c2026 Kennett Flash Jazz Jam\u201d on March 12, The Baker\u2019s Basement with special guests Strays and Misfits on March 13, Superunknown (Acoustic) on March 14 and Belfast Connection on March 15.<\/div>\n
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On February 26, the Colonial Theatre (227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, thecolonialtheatre.com\/events<\/a>) will host Rick Wakeman & Son on March 13.<\/div>\n
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Jamey\u2019s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985,www.jameyshouseofmusic.com<\/a>) will present Vernon Papers on March 12, Fairfax Road Show and Red Means Run on March 13, the Clarence Spady Band on March 14 and the Blues Muthas with Steve Shanahan on March 15.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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